Parnell insisted that the Irish party should be independent of all English attachments and permanently in opposition till Ireland received its rights.

With that view he and his friends took up their station on the Speaker's left below the gangway, where they held it continuously for thirty-nine years.
Mr.William Redmond was no supporter of the new policy.

As the little group which Parnell headed grew more and more insistent in their obstruction, the member for Wexford spoke less and less.

His interventions were rare and dignified.

In the debate on the Address in the new Parliament of 1880 he acted as a lieutenant to Mr.Shaw.Yet he was on very friendly terms with Parnell--almost a neighbour of his, for the Parnell property, lying about the Vale of Ovoca, touched the border of Wexford.
Mr.William Redmond's career in that Parliament was soon ended.