You must be for the troops or against them.

In these days the official attitude of those who signed the dissenting manifesto was that Ireland should be neutral.

But at such a crisis, as Mr.Dillon said in a telling phrase, a man who calls himself a neutral "is either an enemy or a coward." It became only too clear later that we had to do with a body of men who were enemies and were certainly not cowards.

Their number at this moment was difficult to determine.

What immediately revealed itself was that the vast majority of the Volunteers, when choice was forced on them, adhered to Redmond.
The case of my own constituency, Galway City, may be given as typical, though rather of the towns than of the country.