Mr.Larkin had, by this time, gone to America.

His chief colleague, Mr.James Connolly, who was the brain of the Irish Labour Movement, presided, and at the close declared that the meeting had been held under the protection of an armed company of the Citizen Army posted in the windows and on the roof of Liberty Hall.

Had the police or military attempted to disperse the meeting, he said, "those rifles would not have been silent." Ulster was not the only place where armed men thought themselves entitled to resist coercion.
Dublin was the more dangerous because the war, which created so much employment in Great Britain, brought no new trade to Ireland, outside of Belfast.

Agriculture prospered, but the towns knew only a rise of prices.

Redmond began with high hopes, which Mr.Lloyd George fostered, of rapidly-developing munition works, which would at the close of hostilities leave the foundation for industrial communities.