He said: "I'm thinking of saying something.

Do you think I ought to ?" Mr.
Hayden answered, "That depends on what you are going to say." Redmond said: "I'm going to tell them they can take all their troops out of Ireland and we will defend the country ourselves." "In that case," said Mr.Hayden, "you should certainly speak." Redmond leant over to Mr.T.P.
O'Connor, who sat immediately below him, and consulted him also.

Mr.
O'Connor was against it.

Though the war had no more enthusiastic supporter, he thought the risk too great.

It was just a week and a day since Redmond had moved an adjournment to consider the occasion when Government forces were turned out to disarm Irish Volunteers, and when troops fired without order on a Dublin crowd.