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Title: An olive branch in Ireland, and its history
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: O'Brien, William, 1852-1928
Subjects: Land tenure -- Ireland Irish question Home rule -- Ireland Ireland -- Politics and government 1837-1901 Ireland -- Politics and government 1901-1910
Publisher: London : Macmillan
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Board of Erin was secured for his most active ally,Mr. J. Devlin, M.P., a young man full of ambition andorganizing gifts, who achieved a very considerable success onthe platform by means of a rich and inexhaustible flow ofeloquence of the kind depicted by a great Frenchman as pouring a deluge of words over a desert of ideas. As Mr.Devlin was at the same time Secretary of the United IrishLeague, the Board of Erin was soon enabled to spread itsnetwork of organized lodges all over Ulster and over thegreater part of Connaught as well and to meet the branches ofthe United Irish League on at least equal terms at the Con-ventions for the selection of Parliamentary candidates, andeventually acquired an actual majority of the Standing Com-mittee, who controlled the organization and funds of theUnited Irish League.^ This was the body—an imperium 1 It was proved in Court in the case of Crean v. Devlin and another, afterthe National Convention of 1909, that the following members of the Standing
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/ 1/ ..^1 /■,,(■, huh; COLONEL NUGENT EVERARU.H.^L Lieutenant for Co. Meatli. \ XIX THE IRISH COUNCIL BILL 421 in imperio of the worst kind, since it was both occult andirresponsible—which made the first display of its sovereignstrength at the National Convention of 1907, at which Mr.Birrells Irish Council Bill met its humiliating doom. The Bill was full of defects, but few which were notremediable in Committee and none which contravened theconditions agreed to at the historic breakfast - party inDowning Street of being consistent with and leading upto the larger policy. The elective principle was to prevailin the constitution of the Irish Council ; the French systemof Departmental Commissions, with a Minister (placatinglycalled Chairman) at the head of each, would have suppliedthe practical materials for a Ministry responsible to thepeoples elected representatives. The Council was to be pro-vided with the full imperial costs,—the dearest in the world—of the departments they

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