There was a recommendation also that Sir Francis Hopwood should be Secretary to the Convention.

Both these proposals were welcomed, and we dispersed feeling that we had done a good day's work.
There was, however, one set-off to it.

When the Selection Committee had done its work, its members went off singly, and outside the gate of College a small group of ardent patriots were waiting, who mobbed Redmond on the way to his hotel.

They were young, no doubt; but the Republican party claimed specially the youth of Ireland; and these lads expressed with a simple eloquence very much what was said by older and more articulate voices, uttering the same thought in print.

It is worth while to illustrate here the attitude taken towards Redmond by much of Nationalist Ireland, for it profoundly influenced Redmond's attitude and action in the Convention.