John Redmond (1856-1918) was an Irish nationalist politician, known for leading the Irish Parliamentary Party from 1900 until his death in 1918. Born to a prominent Catholic gentry family in County Wexford, Redmond entered politics as a supporter of Charles Stewart Parnell. In 1881, he was first elected as MP and he led fundraising missions for the Party in Australia and the United States. Following the fall of Parnell, Redmond became leader of the Parnellite wing of the Irish Parliamentary Party and in 1900 orchestrated the reunification of the Parliamentary Party. In the 1910 general elections, Redmond won a blocking minority of up to 74 seats, gaining significant leverage for a Third Home Rule Bill, which was passed by the House of Commons in 1912. He seized control of the Irish Volunteers, a nationalist militia set up to counter Edward Carson’s Ulster Volunteers and by the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 sided with the British war effort in a hope to secure Home Rule. The 1916 Easter Rising and rising fatigue with the war led to the political demise of the IPP, who by 1917 found themselves quickly supplanted by Sinn Féin as the main nationalist party in Ireland. Redmond died in March 1918 and within a year of his demise came the collapse of the Irish Parliamentary Party.