In Ireland there was fierce denunciation.

A Convention was called for May 21st.

The crowd was so great that many of us could not make our way into the Mansion House; and Redmond opened the proceedings by moving the rejection of the Bill.

In the interval since the debate he had been confronted with a definite refusal to concede the amendments for which he asked.
These were mainly two, of principle: for the objection taken to the finance of the Bill was a detail, though of the first importance.

The Bill proposed to hand over the five great departments of Irish administration to the control of an Irish Council.