The future in Ireland belongs to no old fidelity: it may belong to any new courage.
Assuredly we must not seem to suggest that, in an autonomous Ireland, public life will be all nougat, velvet, and soft music.

There will be conflicts, and vehement conflicts, for that is the way of the twentieth century, and they will no doubt centre, for the most part, about taxation and education.

But the political forces of the country will have moved into totally new formations.

One foresees plainly a vertical section of parties into Agrarian and Urban, a cross section into Labour and Capitalistic.

Each of these economic groupings is indefinitely criss-crossed by an indefinite number of antagonisms, spiritual and material.