On May 11th Mr.
Dillon--who had been in Dublin during the rebellion--moved the adjournment of the House to demand that Government should state whether they intended to have more executions upon the finding of secret tribunals, and to continue the searches and wholesale arrests which were going on through the country.

The list of executions had now reached fourteen, and no word of evidence had been published.

Also the Prime Minister stated that he heard for the first time of the shooting of Mr.
Sheehy-Skeffington and others by Captain Bowen Colthurst.
Unquestionably, discussion was urgently needed, and Mr.Dillon was fully justified in emphasizing the mischief done in Ireland by alienating men's minds.

But Mr.Dillon spoke as one who felt to the uttermost the passion of resentment which he depicted, and in his indignation against charges which had been brought against the insurgents, he was led to praise their conduct almost to the disparagement of soldiers in the field.

Even in print the speech seethes with growing passion; and its delivery, I am told, accentuated its bitterness and its anti-English tone.
It would be futile to deny that this utterance had a great effect in Ireland and in England, or to conceal Redmond's view that the effect was most lamentable.