Especially an alienation began between him and the Catholic hierarchy.

It was impossible that the clergy should be well disposed towards proposals which, as Mr.Healy put it, would make Cardinal Logue a foreigner in his own cathedral at Armagh.
Yet upon the whole the shake to Redmond's power was less than might have been expected--largely, no doubt, because the offer was repelled.

Sir Edward Carson described it as "sentence of death with stay of execution for six years." With a great advocate's instinct, he fastened on the point in the Government's proposal which was least defensible.
In my opinion these modifications of the Bill were never adequately discussed in the meetings of the Irish party.

All was done between the Government and Redmond's inner cabinet, consisting of Redmond himself, Mr.Dillon, Mr.Devlin and Mr.T.P.

O'Connor.