P. J. Smith, Dalkey, Cath. Nat. Repealer.
George E. Stephens, Blackhall Place, Prot. Cons.
Henry H. Stewart, M.D., Eccles Street, Prot. Cons.
L. J. O’Shea, J.P., Margaret Place, Cath. Rep.
Alfred Webb, Abbey Street, Nat., “Quaker.”
[144] “This association has never proposed to itself the position and duties of such a great popular organization as must eventually take up and carry out to the victorious end the national question. It has rather proposed to itself the less ambitious though not less arduous task of preparing the ground for such a comprehensive organization.”—First Report of the Irish Home Government Association. Dublin: Falconer, Upper Sackville Street. 1871.
[145] Every year nearly the same five or six men have been returned at the head of the paper; Isaac Butt always first, next to him either O’Neill Daunt or John Martin; the others almost invariably being Rev. Professor Galbraith, A. M. Sullivan, J. P. Ronayne, and Mitchell Henry.—[Mr. Ronayne, we regret to say, died while this article was in our hands.—Ed. C. W.]