But on July 15th Mr.Lawrence Kettle, brother to Professor Kettle, who had from the first been a prominent official of the Volunteers, was returning in his motor from the electric works at the Pigeon House; he was stopped by the police and his car searched for arms.

Such an occurrence in Ulster would have been held to justify immediate rebellion, and would have been carefully avoided.

In Dublin there was no such avoidance of provocation.
Yet the avoidance of anything which might precipitate strife was indeed in these days most desirable.

June 28th saw the murder of the Archduke at Sarajevo.

The European sky grew rapidly overcast.