Since she had lost caste by taking up the cause of 'Independent Ireland' the ape had been discarded, and the same result achieved by occasional bickerings with the police.

She was an able public speaker, and could convince her audiences for a time of the reasonableness of opinions which next morning appeared to be the outcome of delirium.

She wrote, not, like Mary O'Dwyer, verse in which any sentiment may be excused, but incisive and vigorous prose.

Occasionally even the Castle officials got glimmerings of the meaning of one of her articles, and suppressed the whole issue of the _Croppy_ in which it appeared.
Near her sat a much less remarkable person--Thomas Grealy, historian and archaeologist.

He had been engaged for many years on a history of Ireland, but no volume of it had as yet appeared.