46Paul Bew, Enigma: a new life of Charles Stewart Parnell (Dublin, 2011), pp. 49–51.
47Hansard, 4th Series, 89, 711–728, 21 Feb. 1901.
48Ibid, 89, 728–746, 21 Feb. 1901. Russell had shocked Ulster’s landed establishment during the 1900 General Election campaign with a speech at Clogher that raised the cry for compulsory purchase; a demand soon echoed by other unionist candidates. Andrew Gailey, Ireland and the Death of Kindness: The experience of constructive unionism 1890–1905 (Cork, 1987), p.154.
49I.D.I., 21 May, 12 Jun. 1901.
50The figure was given by A.J. Balfour: Hansard 90, 866, 7 March 1901.
51Quoted in I.D.I., 2 Mar. 1901.
52Quoted in I.D.I., 2 Apr. 1901.
53Hansard, 90, 853–867, 7 Mar. 1901.
54I.D.I., 8 Mar. 1901.
55Manchester Guardian, 8 Mar. 1901.
56‘Parliamentary Portraits: Mr John Redmond MP’ by ‘an old Parliamentary hand’, Western Daily Mercury, 6 May 1901, in Newscuttings of 1901, RP Ms. 7429.
57Daily Mail, 2 Dec. 1905.
58I.D.I., 15 Mar. 1901.
59Healy, Letters and Leaders, I, p. 454.
60See Anon: ‘Character Sketch: Mr John Redmond. MP, Leader of the Irish Party’, Review of Reviews (Nov. 1901), pp. 476–82, in RP Ms. 7429.
61I.D.I., 22 Apr. 1901.
62Quoted in I.D.I., 10 May 1901.
63Redmond to O’Callaghan, 26 Apr. 1901, RP Ms. 15,213 (3).
64Healy, Letters and Leaders, I, p.456.
65I.D.I., 23 Sep. 1901.
66Ibid., 14 Mar. 1901; Redmond to O’Brien, 17 May 1901, OBP Ms. 10,496 (4).
67Redmond to O’Brien, 17 May 1901, OBP Ms. 10,496 (4).
68Quoted in I.D.I., 10 Aug. 1901.
69Ibid., 19 Aug. 1901.
70I.D.I., 19 Aug. 1901. This sum (which reached £10,576 by the end of 1901) was part of more than £30,000 contributed by Irish supporters since the June 1900 Convention, as Redmond told a Waterford meeting in late September 1901. The other elements were £10,000 for the 1900 election fund, £6,000 to cover the expenses of delegates to the two Conventions and over £5,000 paid directly to the UIL Directory in Dublin. Such a large total sum was, Redmond held, a sure sign of the restoration of faith in the party.
71Healy, Letters and Leaders, I, p. 454; Redmond to O’Brien, 10 Sep. 1901, OBP Ms. 10,496 (5).
72Redmond to Dillon, 19 Jun. 1901, RP Ms. 15,182 (3); J.F.X. O’Brien to W. O’Brien, 11 Jun. 1901, J.F.X. O’Brien Papers, Ms. 13,427.
73Redmond to O’Brien, 11 Jul., 10 Sep. 1901, OBP Ms. 10,496 (5).
74Redmond to O’Brien, 17 Oct. 1901, OBP Ms. 10,496 (5).
75McHugh had been imprisoned for contempt of court, having made allegations in his newspaper of jury-packing at the Connaught Assizes. O’Donnell had caused a minor sensation at the start of the 1901 session when he had attempted to address the House in Irish.
76Redmond to Dillon, 12 Nov. 1901, DP Ms. 6747/19.
77Redmond to Dillon, undated, posted 30 Nov. 1901, DP Ms. 6747/20. A week later, the Clan men had not come to see Redmond, although he was ‘getting messages of a conciliatory character all the time… I don’t think they can continue a policy of attack’. Redmond to Dillon, 6 Dec. 1901, DP Ms. 6747/21.
78I.D.I., 18, 19, 23, 27 Nov., 6 Dec. 1901.
79F.J., 30 Jun. 1902.
80NAI CBS 3/716, 27255A/S. A Dublin Castle intelligence officer, Major Gosselin, commented on the departure of Devlin and Willie Redmond for the US in January 1902: ‘We will have some tall talk when William commences’. NAI CBS 3/716, 26133/S.
81In the 1900 General Election, the Labour Representation Committee had sponsored fifteen candidates, two of whom had won seats: James Keir Hardie in Wales and Richard Bell in Derby. Hardie would become the first leader of the Labour Party after the 1906 General Election, in which it won twenty-nine seats.
82F.J., 24 Sep 1901. In the election, in north-east Lanarkshire, most Irish votes went to the Labour candidate, allowing the Tory candidate to defeat the Liberal Cecil Harmsworth by 904 votes, to the fury of the Liberals. Daily Chronicle, 27 Sep. 1901.