Herself--Ireland . uld have been such enthusiasmfor the Empire that any number of recruits wouldhave come in, and Sinn Fein would have becomeless influential than ever. But the Party leaders continued to assist inrecruiting, didnt they? Some of them did. Mr. Redmond made aspeech to the Volunteers at Woodenbridge infavour of recruiting; the Sinn Feiners admittedat this time that they could not complain of hisadvising Irishmen to enlist, but they put forwardthe theory that the Volunteers had offered to de-fend the shores of Ireland, and that men who hadmade certain sacrifices should not be speci
Herself--Ireland . uld have been such enthusiasmfor the Empire that any number of recruits wouldhave come in, and Sinn Fein would have becomeless influential than ever. But the Party leaders continued to assist inrecruiting, didnt they? Some of them did. Mr. Redmond made aspeech to the Volunteers at Woodenbridge infavour of recruiting; the Sinn Feiners admittedat this time that they could not complain of hisadvising Irishmen to enlist, but they put forwardthe theory that the Volunteers had offered to de-fend the shores of Ireland, and that men who hadmade certain sacrifices should not be speciallyselected for opprobrium because they did not gofurther; moreover, men were on parade and couldnot express their opinions; it was not fair tolecture them in this position. But the real bit-terness was because the Bill was not signed andit was believed that it would be torn up as soonas the recruits had been collected. And so England again lost the confidence ofIreland. I was at this time sitting regularly on the. Kit (French Pochette) or Dancing MastersFiddle }W Ierrv, of I)ii!)lin. Late Eigliteciitli Century THE REBELLION OF 1916 43 provisional Committee and was in almost dailyprivate conversation with the men who have sincebeen executed for rebellion. With the possibleexception of one or two of the extremists, I donot believe even now, looking back with the experi-ence of late events, there was a man who thoughtof rebellion, though some may have had indefinitenational aspirations in the far future. They wereall Home Rulers, angry at being cheated out oftheir rights; many of them distrustful of , and all of them by this time intenselydistrustful of English promises. Distrust of Eng-lish good faith is the basis of Irish disloyalty. What a wonderfully descriptive phrase, * Dis-trust of English good faith, is the basis of Irishdisloyalty. Before the war began, like most other people,I foresaw the difficulties that were bound to ariseowing to the existence of two host
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