Raymond Le Gros, 2-3
Rebellion, Redmond’s attitude to, 3
Rebellion of 1916, 218-219, 221, 227;
  denounced by Redmond, 223-224;
  suppression of, 224-229;
  Government’s fomentation of disaffection, 227-229;
  comparison with South African Rebellion (1914), 225
Recruiting, see under Army
Redmond, John Edward, 4
Redmond, John—­
  Ancestry and family of, 2-4
  Career—­
    education, 5;
    clerkship in the House, 6;
    returned for New Ross, 8;
    Parliamentary debut, 9-11;
    Australian and American mission, 14;
    marriage, 14;
    second American mission, 17;
    imprisoned (1888), 17;
    chosen leader of Parnellites, 19;
    returned for Waterford, 19;
    attitude to Roman Catholic Church, 20: 
    widowed, 20;
    second marriage, 21-22;
    work with Plunkett, 23-24;
    on Commission on Financial Relations, 24;
    Chairman of United Irish Party, 25, 58;
    his inner cabinet, 25, 58, 100;
    attitude to Irish Council Bill, 31-33;
    campaign for Home Rule (1907), 34-35;
    House of Lords controversy, 45-46, 57;
    “Dollar Dictator,” 48;
    the Nottingham Meeting (1912), 73;
    Home Rule campaign (1912) following Carson, 84;
    on proposed exclusion of Ulster, 85-86;
    attitude to National Volunteers, 92;
    speeches on the Ulster position, 98, 99, 102, 109-111;
    the Ulster gun-running, 114;
    relations with National Volunteers thereafter, 114 ff.;
    the Speaker’s Conference, 121-122;
    speech on outbreak of War, 132 ff.;
    offers the Volunteers for national defence, 134ff;
    Recruiting manifesto, 151;
    refuses office in Coalition Government, 192;
    interview with Kitchener on recruiting, 198, 205;
    Conference at Viceregal Lodge, 198-199;
    visits Irish troops at the Front, 201-202;
    opposes Conscription for Ireland, 208 ff.
    letter to Asquith, 208
    Rebellion of 1916, 219 ff. 
    Government breach of faith, 238-240;
    moves vote of censure, 243;
    criticizes Lloyd George, 245;
    renewed opposition to conscription, 248;
    the Smuts dinner, 257;
    the Convention, 258, 261-263;
    death of his brother, 256;
    death of Pat O’Brien, 267;
    in the Convention, 278-279;
    relations with Nationalist representatives, 283-284;
    speech in Belfast, 289 ff.;
    at Westminster, 304;
    speech on vote of thanks to the Forces, 305-306;
    Meetings of Committee of Nine, 307 ff.;
    ill-health, 257, 282, 312, 322;
    attitude to Lord Midleton’s proposals, 316, 318-321;
    tables motion conditionally accepting, 321;
    withdraws owing to Nationalist opposition, 322-323;
    illness, 325;
    operation, 328;
    death, 329
  Characteristics—­
    Ambition, lack of, 40, 336