They were not, like Ulster Unionists, "entrenched in a ring-fence," but the scattered few, who had suffered most and who might naturally have entertained most bitterness.

Yet Lord Midleton's speech had been instinct with an admirable spirit.

The speech of the Archbishop of Dublin had touched him deeply.
"Between these men and us there never again can be the differences of the past.

They have put behind them all bitter memories.

They have agreed to the framework of a Bill better than any offered to us in 1886, 1893 or 1914." As for us Nationalists--he emphasized that each man came here free, untrammelled.
"I speak only for myself.