For support there was sent to him his brother, then a youth of twenty-one, and feeling ran so strong against the two that the Prime Minister of New South Wales (Sir Henry Parkes) proposed their expulsion from the colony.

Nevertheless, Redmond made good.

"The Irish working-men stood by me," he said, "and in fact saved the situation." Fifteen thousand pounds were collected before they left the island continent.
It indicates well the changed conditions to remember that when in 1906 Mr.Hazleton and the late T.M.Kettle were selected to go on a far less arduous and difficult mission to America, there was much talk about the astonishing youth of our representatives.

Yet both were then older than John Redmond was in 1882--to say nothing of his brother, who must have been the most exuberantly youthful spokesman that a serious cause ever found.
The Redmonds' stay in Australia, which lasted over a year, determined one important matter for both young men; they found their wives in the colony whose Prime Minister proposed to expel them.

John Redmond married Miss Joanna Dalton and his brother her near kinswoman, Miss Eleanor Dalton.