In a series of speeches at chosen centres, delivered before great audiences, he laid down once more the national demand as he conceived it; and in each speech he dealt with a different aspect of the case for Home Rule.
A formal outcome of this campaign was the re-establishment of national unity.

Mr.O'Brien and Mr.Healy returned to the Irish party for a brief period.

But the more important result was the re-establishment of Redmond's personal position.

He had made an effort which would have been great for any man, but for him was a victory over his own temperament.
That temperament had in it, negatively, a great lack of personal ambition and, positively, a strong love for a quiet life.

He did his work in Parliament regularly and conscientiously, always there day in and day out; and it was work of a very exacting kind.