Excerpt from John Redmond, the Man and the Demand: A Biographical Study in Irish Politics The present volume is the outcome first of a sincere study of the Irish problem and a wish to emphasize the points of agreement rather than accentuate the differences that separate the English and the Irish. We are rapidly approaching the last phase of Irish politics. And if an apology for the biographical form of the study is asked for, it is because it was thought the best answer to Lord Beaconsfield's demand fifty years ago - "We want a man who will tell us what the Irish problem really is." That man to-day is Mr. John Redmond, than whom few could be more typical of that Irish demand which has become almost synonymous with politics. It is in no sense an inspired or an official work, for the simple reason that it was undertaken as a study rather than as a biography, that it is intended more as a personification of the Irish problem than as a personal character sketch. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.