Recruiting began to get on a better basis.

The appointment of Sir Hedley Le Bas in charge of this propaganda brought about a healthy change in methods.

Appeals were used devised for Ireland, and not, as heretofore, simple replicas of the English article.

Heart-breaking instances of stupidity were still of daily occurrence, but imagination and insight began to have some play; and there was no longer the complete separation which had existed between the effort of Redmond and his colleagues and the effort of men like Lord Meath.

In January Willie Redmond was posted to his battalion, the 6th Royal Irish, at Fermoy, where the 47th Brigade had its headquarters.