John Redmond in 1914: "Irish nationalists can never be the assenting parties to the mutilation of the Irish nation. The two nation theory is to us an abomination and a blasphemy."
Cannot really see why it should be such an abomination, they were never a united nation prior to the arrival of the Normans, they were a collection of small kingdoms. The USA at that time was and still is a Federal Union of individual sovereign states, the Dominion of Canada a Confederation of Provinces and Australia a Commonwealth of States.
John Redmond and the Easter Rising: Many in the south of Ireland were initially angry with the rebels, but the executions caused widespread resentment. Fatally for his political ambitions, Redmond supported the British government. Many of his supporters turned to a new anti-British political party called Sinn Féin.
Redmond foresaw anarchy "when every blackguard who wants to commit an outrage will simply call himself a Sinn Féiner and thereby get the sympathy of the unthinking crowd".
Here he is describing the "Men of the Gun" who have been a bane and a brake on progress in Ireland since seven men decided to have a go one Easter one hundred years ago. The excuse always used is their ludicrous claims of having a mandate for violence on behalf of the "Irish people" based on the illegal territorial claim that up until 1998 was enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic of Ireland.