This point had become in their minds important even more as a symbol of the close union between the two kingdoms than by reason of the economic advantages which they attributed to it.
Once the sticking-point was passed, the divided Nationalists recombined, and we were all at one in our mutual felicitations on the harmony which prevailed at the close.

But as one of our rank and file said in my ear, "If we had not given the vote we did, where would be all this talk of harmony?
And mind you now, it was not easy to give it." He was right, and within six months it cost him the chairmanship of his County Council.

Others paid the same penalty, I am sure, without grudging it, for most of us were prouder of that action than of any other in our political lives.

It may be well to set down the names of the local representatives and Labour men who voted as Redmond would have advised on that first crucial division.
They were: W.Broderick, Youghal Urban Council; J.J.Coen, Westmeath County Council; D.Condren, Wicklow County Council; J.Dooly, Kings County County Council; Captain Doran, Louth County Council; T.Fallon, Leitrim County Council; J.Fitzgibbon, Roscommon County Council; Captain Gwynn, Irish Party; T.Halligan, Meath County Council; W.Kavanagh, Carlow County Council; J.McCarron, Labour; M.McDonogh, Galway Urban Council; J.McDonnell, Galway County Council; C.McKay, Labour; J.
Murphy, Labour; J.O'Dowd, Sligo County Council; C.P.

O'Neill, Pembroke Urban Council; Dr.O'Sullivan, Mayor of Waterford; T.Power, Waterford County Council; Sir S.B.Quin, Mayor of Limerick; D.Reilly, Cavan County Council; M.Slattery, Tipperary (S.Riding); H.T.