John Morley: “Ireland on the contrary, suffering a worse misfortune than absentee landlords, was governed by an absentee parliament.”

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.

How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?

I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.

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