The declared dream of Grattan was, as we have seen, to transform a Protestant colony into an Irish nation.

Wolfe Tone confessed the same inspiration; Emmet's speech from the dock was that and nothing else.

It was the whole of Davis in thought, and of O'Connell in action.

Isaac Butt yielded to its fascination, and found for it the watchword, Home Rule.

It was formulated by Parnell in a speech the capital passage of which forms the inscription on his monument.