They have preferred to keep Ulster dead to fine ideas rather than risk the appearance of a few unsettling ideas among the rest." It has not been, one likes to think, a death, consummated and final, but rather an interruption of consciousness from which recovery is possible.
Drugged with a poisonous essence, distilled from history for him by his exploiters, the Orangeman of the people has lived in a world of phantoms.

In politics he has never in his whole career spoken for himself.

The Catholic peasant comes to articulate, personal speech in Davitt; the national aristocracy in Parnell.

The industrial worker discovers within his own camp a multitude of captains.

Even landlordism, although it has produced no leader, has produced many able spokesmen.
Every other section in Ireland enriches public life with an interpreter of its mind sprung from its own ranks.