One finds the same difficulty in discussing Irish politics in terms of the three hallucinations specified that one finds in discussing, say, Rugby football with a Dresden-china fellow-citizen.

It is better not to make the attempt, but to substitute a plain statement of obvious facts.
In the first place, even if any policy of oppression were in our minds, it is not in our power.

The overlordship of the Imperial Parliament remains in any scheme of Home Rule unimpaired, and any man damnified because of his religion can appeal in last resort to the Imperial Army and Navy.

Shankhill Road is mathematically safe.

After all there are in England some forty millions of Protestants who, whatever their religious temperature may be, will certainly decline to see Protestantism penalised.