Keep, in short, the Irish members at Westminster, and you ensure the supremacy in Ireland of professional politicians.

By a curious fatality the Gladstonian policy which weakens England ruins Ireland.

Let no one fancy that this is the delusion of an English Unionist.

Sir Gavan Duffy is an Irish Nationalist of a far higher type than the men who have drawn money from the Clan-na-Gael.

In '48 he was a rebel, but if he was disloyal to England, he was always careful of the honour and character of Ireland.