Mr. Redmond and Mr. O'Brien both addressed meetings in County
Limerick last Sunday. Speaking at a largely attended demonstration in Limerick, Mr. Redmond said that so far as the Nationalists of Ireland were concerned Devolution was as dead as a doornail. Mr. Redmond declared that with prudence they could extract "full Home-rule" from the present Constitutional crisis, basing his opinion on Mr. Asquith's solemn declaration on the eve of the General Election, and prophesied that in three months' time the Irish Party would be engaged in discussing the details of a scheme of Home-rule agreed to by both parties in England to modify or destroy the power of the House of Lords. Meantime at Kilmallock Mr. O'Brien said that if the Liberals and Tories struck up a rational compromise at the Conference, Mr. Redmond's threat to hurl the Government from power would be received with roars of laughter from both sides of the Rouse of Commons. But if the Radicals wrecked the Con- ference, they and the Redmondites and the Socialists would go band-in-hand together to an ignominious overthrow at the polls. He exhorted them to go back to the programme of 1903, and thus remove the last obstacle to the Catholic majority and the Protestant minority in Ireland working hand-in-hand for the happiness of their common native land A great national Conference would then draw up a projeCt of
self-government in the spirit of the Land Conference, and all English and Irish parties would hail a national and Imperial settlement.
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