For other people named William Redmond, see William Redmond (disambiguation).
Willie Redmond
Redmond in 1912
Member of Parliament
In office 1883–1885, 1885–1892, 1892–1917
Personal details
Born
(1861-04-13)13 April 1861 Ballytrent, County Wexford, Ireland
Died
7 June 1917(1917-06-07) (aged 56) Messines, Belgium
Relations
William Redmond (father), John Redmond (brother)
Military service
Allegiance
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Branch/service
British Army
Years of service
1879–1881, 1915-1917
Rank
Major
Commands
Royal Irish Regiment
Battles/wars
World War I
Western Front
Battle of Messines (1917) (DOW)
William Hoey Kearney Redmond (13 April 1861 – 7 June 1917) was an Irish nationalist politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP). He was also a lawyer and soldier [1] who was killed in action in World War I.
^Denman, Terence in: McGuire, James and Quinn, James (eds): Dictionary of Irish Biography From the Earliest Times to the Year 2002; Royal Irish Academy Vol. 8, Redmond, William Hoey Kearney ("Willie") pp.422-23; Cambridge University Press (2009) ISBN 978-0-521-19983-4
commemorated in Redmond Square near Wexford railway station. He had a brother and two sisters. WillieRedmond's five-years elder brother was John Redmond who became...
for home rule. John Redmond was the brother of WillieRedmond, MP for Wexford and East Clare, and the father of William Redmond a TD for Waterford, whose...
His nephew William Archer Redmond (1825–1880) sat as an MP in Isaac Butt's Home Rule Party from 1872 until 1880. WillieRedmond sat as an MP for Wexford...
William O'Brien, 1881 James Joseph O'Kelly, 1881 John Dillon, 1882 WillieRedmond, 1882 Joe Brady, (Phoenix Park Murders) 1883 Daniel Curley, (Phoenix...
politician Billy Redmond or William T. Redmond, (1853–1894), St. Louis Red Stockings shortstop WillieRedmond or William Hoey Kearney Redmond (1861–1917),...
HMS Dreadnought in the Mediterranean. Irish nationalist Member of Parliament (MP) WillieRedmond and Liberal MP Charles Conybeare both questioned Battenberg's appointment...
multiple war graves can also be found. Saint Peter Church Grave of Major WillieRedmond, killed during the Battle of Messines (1917) Entrance to the Locre No...
seat which had been held until the election by the Nationalist MP WillieRedmond. Redmond had sided with the Parnellite minority when the Irish Parliamentary...
Joseph Devlin, supported Redmond's decision. Redmond's own son, William Redmond, enlisted, as did his brother Major WillieRedmond MP, despite being aged...
party lieutenants, William O'Brien, John Dillon, Michael Davitt and WillieRedmond, who had also conducted a bitter verbal offensive. They were imprisoned...
William O'Brien, James O'Kelly, Charles Stewart Parnell, Douglas Pyne, WillieRedmond, and Timothy Sullivan. The act was the first of over a hundred such...
Hayes and James Ryan, and a smaller number, including Tom Kettle and WillieRedmond, fought for the British in World War I. Many UCD staff, students and...
his party lieutenants, William O'Brien, John Dillon, Michael Davitt, WillieRedmond, went into a bitter verbal offensive and were imprisoned in October...
with Redmond's decision and recruited to support the British and Allied war effort. Five other MPs, J. L. Esmonde, Stephen Gwynn, WillieRedmond, William...
Parnell and his party lieutenants, William O'Brien, John Dillon and WillieRedmond went into a bitter verbal offensive against the Act and were imprisoned...
of ex-Wales international Willie Davies and developed into a specialist number eight. A Cambridge University blue, Redmond was selected by England during...
not be coerced". On 11 June, four days after the death of Redmond's brother Major WillieRedmond during the Battle of Messines, the composition of the convention...
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British Army