Louvain to him was more than a mere name.

All the Catholic in him, and all the Irish Catholic, for Ireland's association with Louvain was long and intimate, rose up in fury; he went through Ireland carrying the fiery cross.
Everywhere we went we had friendly and even enthusiastic audiences; the only place where I met any suggestion of hostility was at Killarney, and there it took the form of avoiding our meeting.

We were cheered and encouraged--but we did not get many recruits, so to say, on the nail.
Yet they came, generally dribbling in afterwards.

From one small meeting in county Waterford we came away badly disappointed, having thought an effect was made, yet we did not take a single man.

I heard later that within the next fortnight thirty men from that parish had come in by ones and twos to sign on--but at a town several miles away.