"Which regiment ?" Often he might not realize that a brigade was made up of regiments, but if he knew and answered, for instance, "The Dublins," he was more likely than not to be shipped off to the Curragh, where the reserve of the regular battalions was kept, instead of to Buttevant, where our Dublins were in training.
Still, with all our troubles, things were marching ahead in that April of 1915; recruits were coming in to the tune of 1,500 a week.

Then came a political crisis and the formation of a Coalition Government.

Redmond was asked to take a post in it.

The letter in which the invitation was conveyed made it clear that the post could not be an Irish office.
Redmond refused.

He said to me afterwards that under no conditions did he think he could have accepted.