John Morley: “What the occasion now required was that passion should burn low, and reasoned persuasion hold up the guiding lamp.”

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

The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.

The plan for Ireland ought to be produced by the government of the day.

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