But Trinity College offered the Regent House.

The conveniences here were in all ways inferior; but Trinity was the nearest place to the old Parliament House; much more than that, it was the most historic institution in Ireland.
Its political associations of the past and the present were strangely blended and Redmond liked it none the less for that.

He decided to press for acceptance of this offer.
Then across the current of all our thought came the news of the Battle of Messines.

Troops had been massing for some time on the sector of line which the Irish Divisions had now held since the previous October; and the day was plainly in sight which had been expected since spring, when they were to try and carry positions in front of which so much blood had been vainly shed.

On June 7th, at the clearing of light, all was in readiness: the Ulstermen and ours still in the centre of the attack from Spanbroekmolen to Wytschaete.