All my opinions have been overborne.

My suggestions have been rejected, and my profound conviction is that if we had had the power and the responsibility for the Government of our country during the past two years, recent occurrences in Ireland would never have taken place." I think that view was at that moment very generally shared in England.
The British Press had shown by their attitude towards the events in Dublin how deeply Redmond had made his mark.

Almost without exception Unionist papers refrained from any attempt to identify Nationalist Ireland generally with the rising: they did full justice to the valour and the sufferings of Irish troops--who, indeed, at that very moment were passing through a cruel ordeal.

In that Easter week the Sixteenth Division was subjected to two attacks with poison gas of a concentration and violence till then unknown, and under weather conditions which prolonged the ordeal beyond endurance.

The 48th and 49th Brigades had very terrible losses.