Healy's caustic wit remarked that "Home Rule was put into cold storage."[7] Then came the great overthrow of the Unionists in 1906.

Home Rule, except by its absence from Liberal election addresses, contributed nothing at all to that resounding Liberal victory.

The battle of "terminological inexactitudes" rang with cries of Chinese "slavery," Tariff Reform, Church Schools, Labour Dispute Bills, and so forth; but on Ireland silence reigned on the platforms of the victors.

The event was to give the successors of Mr.Gladstone a House of Commons in complete subjection to them.

For the first time since 1885 they had a majority independent of the Nationalists, a majority, if ever there was one, "large enough to coerce the House of Lords," as they would have done in 1893, according to Lord Morley, if they had had the power.