In the end they will find out that they are Irish.

Some day a last insult, a particularly barefaced robbery, or an intolerable oppression, will awake them.

Then they'll turn on the people that betrayed them.

They will discover that Ireland--their Ireland--isn't meant to be a cabbage-garden for Manchester, nor yet a _creche_ for sucking priests.

Ah! it will be good to be alive when they find themselves.