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for support), [for the first time] at a great Gaelic League
meeting in the Rotunda gave his [support] adherence to the Irish lan-
-guage movement and confessed that there could be no
Irish nation without it. He spoke badly but plainly, and
had obviously made up his mind that he could not get on
without [the] making friends with the Irish language [movement] people.
Indeed the ultra – nationalist movement was heavily [capp] handicapped
by remaining aloof in an indefensible and illogical situation. From
this forward the extremists who did not care one jot[?] about
the language paid it at least his [service] homage, and an ever - in-
creasing number [crowd] of the Ultra-Nationalists [took it] especially the
young men gradually I am glad to say took these professions at their face value and
adopted them in all seriousness. They were a great assistance
to us, and as they had no arriere pensée but were
quite sincere, they proved a great strengthening to the
movement.

The Boer war had already [botún?] though nobody