He was right, and within six months it cost him the chairmanship of his County Council.  Others paid the same penalty, I am sure, without grudging it, for most of us were prouder of that action than of any other in our political lives.  It may be well to set down the names of the local representatives and Labour men who voted as Redmond would have advised on that first crucial division.

They were:  W. Broderick, Youghal Urban Council; J.J.  Coen, Westmeath
County Council; D. Condren, Wicklow County Council; J. Dooly, Kings
County County Council; Captain Doran, Louth County Council; T. Fallon,
Leitrim County Council; J. Fitzgibbon, Roscommon County Council; Captain
Gwynn, Irish Party; T. Halligan, Meath County Council; W. Kavanagh,
Carlow County Council; J. McCarron, Labour; M. McDonogh, Galway Urban
Council; J. McDonnell, Galway County Council; C. McKay, Labour; J.
Murphy, Labour; J. O’Dowd, Sligo County Council; C.P.  O’Neill, Pembroke
Urban Council; Dr. O’Sullivan, Mayor of Waterford; T. Power, Waterford
County Council; Sir S.B.  Quin, Mayor of Limerick; D. Reilly, Cavan
County Council; M. Slattery, Tipperary (S.  Riding); H.T.  Whitley,
Labour.[15]

In so far as we were led by anyone, Mr. Clancy, fulfilling in public what he had privately spoken, was our leader and spokesman.

We were along with the Southern Unionists and our natural allies, Lords Granard and MacDonnell and Sir Bertram Windle.  Archbishop Bernard and Dr. Mahaffy voted with us in that pinch, so that both the late Provost of Trinity and the present one did their part to secure an agreement.

In the other list, the Archbishop of Armagh and the Moderator were grouped with the Archbishop of Cashel and the Bishops of Raphoe and Down and Connor; the Lord Mayor of Cork and Lord Mayor of Belfast were together; Mr. Devlin was with Mr. Barrie.  This list represented no unity except a common refusal to agree to any compromise.  Those who voted in it followed one or other of two trains of cogent reasoning; but the reasonings led to opposite conclusions.  These men were beyond doubt as honest in their convictions as those who went the other way; but they took the easier course, whether they were Nationalist or Unionist:  they swam with the tide.

The troubles which Nationalists brought on themselves by supporting Lord Midleton were answered by the troubles which his group met for supporting Nationalist demands.  The men who refused to make the compromise possible have the laugh of us.  Neither section of us who voted for agreement achieved anything by facing the risk of unpopularity.  We had followed Redmond’s policy and we shared Redmond’s fate.  We had done our best to help the British Government and that Government itself defeated us.