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| | John Redmond - Politics.ie Wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | John wanted to take his father's seat, but party leader, Charles Stewart Parnell, had already guaranteed that the next seat to become available would go to Timothy Michael Healy, who was in prison at the time. |
 | | Redmond's own brother Willie, also an MP, signed up for the army, despite being in his fifties, Willie Redmond was killed in action in 1917, his Westminster seat in CLare being won by Éamon de Valera in the subsequent by-election. |
 | | Redmond was succeeded as leader of the party by John Dillon, who himself lost his seat in the election. |
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