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Precisely the same denunciations of the Castle were going on

in Mr. Birrell's time, although Mr. Birrell tolerated every kind of sedition on the principle that you must not sit on the safety-valve. We understand all about the safety-valve. But the only sound answer is that the policy of not sitting on it has been tried—fully tried—and failed disastrously. The result was the Dublin Rebellion of 1916.