She wants her house to herself, and the stranger out of her house.
While he is, in his heart, perfectly aware of this, John Bull (for the reasons given by Richard Cox), is quite determined that nothing shall get him out of the house.

"Separation is unthinkable," say English Ministers.

The task of Ireland is to-day what it always has been--to get the stranger out of the house.

It is no shame to Ireland or her sons, that up to this they have failed in each attempt.

Those attempts are pillars of fire in her history, beacons of light in the desert of sin, where the Irish Israel still wanders in search of the promised land.