John Morley: “The labourers, having little heart in work for which they had no wage, and weakened by want of food, did badly what they…”

He was a soldier of infinite personal courage and daring; of striking military energy, initiative, and resource; a high, pure, and single character, dwelling much in the region of the unseen.

There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.

This was a complete falsification of a whole set of our national promises.

But they were barren of any institutions by which the country could be governed and kept in prosperity for the future.”(166) This is a statement of the case that biographer and historian alike should ponder.