Too Much Hope

This work charts the change in nationalist politics over the course of seven pivotal years in Irish history, from 1910 to 1917, providing a new and much-needed perspective on the events beyond the Easter Rising. Written in the present tense, it conveys the immediacy of the political drama of those tumultuous years. It looks especially at John Redmond, leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party and a politician left behind by the tide of history.