The old temper of bickering had revived, especially between some of our party and those who disagreed with them.

One was glad to get back to France for Christmas, even in that grim winter.
When I was invalided back in February, I found that things had not stood still in Ireland.

Redmond's suggested palliative had been applied, and the deported persons were let back home for Christmas.

But this produced little easing of the situation, and within a few weeks Government rearrested several of them.
One, however, Count Plunkett, was still in Ireland when a vacancy occurred in Roscommon.

He was not in himself a likely man to appeal to that constituency.