For another, and perhaps a greater, no cause ever had a missionary better adapted to the temperament of the British democracy.

The dignity and beauty of Redmond's eloquence, the weight which he could give to an argument, his extraordinary gift for simplifying an issue and grouping thoughts in large bold masses--all these things carried audiences with them.
III Between 1908 and 1910 we were still, though with rapidly increasing success, trying to get a hearing for the Irish question--trying to push it once more to the front.

The change of leadership from Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman to Mr.Asquith had damped Liberal enthusiasm.

We got solid work done for Ireland in the University Act of 1908, though Redmond would have preferred a university of the residential type, like that in which he had himself been an undergraduate.

A highly contentious measure was also carried in the Land Act of 1909.