st john s graveyard

Last resting place of John Redmond, who became leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party at Westminister in 1900. He brought the Party together after it was fragmented by the scandal of Charles Stewart Parnell and his affair with Kitty O' Shea. Parnell was a charismatic leader who fought the cause of the Irish tenant farmer and Home Rule for Ireland through the Parliament at Westminister. He died in 1891, leaving a nation bitterly divided after his controversial downfall. Redmond actively recruited Irishmen for the British army during the Great War, believing that this show of loyalty would win support from the English Parliament for the Home Rule cause when the war was ended. This policy had its detractors and less parliamentary forces pushed events in a different direction. When the Rising of 1916 occurred and the leaders were executed, Redmond's rationale became academic. He died in 1918 and is buried in the family tomb.