That is the key to Redmond's attitude throughout the war--perhaps also to Sir Edward Carson's.
II The response from Nationalist Ireland had not long to be waited for--although the inquest on the victims of the Bachelor's Walk tragedy was in progress on the very day when Redmond's speech appeared in the Press.

Waterford Corporation instantly endorsed their member's utterance, and throughout the week similar resolutions were passed all over the country, Unionist members of these bodies joining in to second the proposals.

In Cork, the City Council had before it a resolution condemning the Government for its attempt to disarm the Irish Volunteers, and calling for stringent penalties on the offenders in the Bachelor's Walk affair: the resolution was withdrawn and one of hearty support to Redmond's attitude adopted.
Yet Irish opinion did not go so far as Mr.William O'Brien, who proposed the complete dropping of the Home Rule Bill till after the war, in order to bring about a genuine national unity.

The action of the Offaly corps of Volunteers, for instance, was typical.

They agreed to offer their services gladly on two conditions: first, that the Home Rule Bill should go on the Statute Book; secondly, that the Volunteers should be subsidized and equipped by Government.
But it was assumed in Ireland that no question arose about the safety of the Bill, and people gave themselves to the new emotion.