John Morley: “Instead of compulsory attendance being universal, that principle could only be applied where a school board was found…”

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

I don't myself believe in artful diplomacy; I have no gift for it.

But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.

To stint Ireland in power which might be necessary or desirable for the management of matters purely Irish, would be a great error; and if she was so stinted, the end that any such measure might contemplate could not be attained.