Ulster—­
  Administrative autonomy proposal, 85, 86
  Arms importation by, 81, 94;
  Larne gun-running, 112-114
  Asquith’s moratorium concession to, 149
  Belfast Convention (1916), 235
  Churchill’s speech (1912), 62
  Convention, the (1917), representatives at, 271-272, 285;
    their attitude and procedure, 281, 299
  County option proposals, 77, 85, 99 ff.;
    difficulties of the scheme, 101
  Covenant, the, 72;
    military covenanters, 83
  Exclusion proposals, 68, 78, 84, 233-234;
    embodied in the Bill, 99;
    time limit discussions, 101-103;
    Council of 1916 accepts exclusion proposals, 235
  Favouritism applied to, 95, 120, 123, 125, 164, 169, 170, 174
  Friendly relations with Nationalists, 51
  Home Rule, resistance to, 65, 67 ff.;
    Parliamentary majority for, 77;
    distribution of Home Rulers, 101
  Inseparability of, 69, 76-77, 84
  Lloyd George’s scheme, 234
  Protestant ascendency, 86, 96, 101
  Provisional Government formed, 80, 83
Rebellion preparations of, 148
  Redmond’s efforts to conciliate, 76-77, 109-110, 114
  War, attitude on outbreak of, 130
    mistrustful of Irish Volunteers, 142
United Irish League, 58, 259, 261
University Act (1908), 41

Vatican Decrees, 49

Wallace, Col., 299
Walsh, Abp., 257
War—­
  Outbreak, 126 ff. 
  Redmond’s policy regarding, 132, 216;
    Nationalist criticism of, 276-277 (see also Army, recruiting)
  Ulster’s attitude, 130, 142
Ward, Col.  John, 108
Waterford, 19
Wexford, 3
What the Irish Regiments have done quoted, 202
White, Capt., J.R., 90-91
Whitley, H.T., 320
Wicklow surroundings, 37-39
Wimborne, Lord, 198, 199, 205
Windle, Sir B., 282, 330
Wyndham, G., 27-29

              Shall a man understand,
    He shall know bitterness because his kind,
    Being perplexed of mind,
    Hold issues even that are nothing mated. 
    And he shall give
    Counsel out of his wisdom that none shall hear
    And steadfast in vain persuasion must he live,
    And unabated
    Shall his temptation be.

JOHN DRINKWATER, in Abraham Lincoln.