Nevertheless, to describe it as “one of the most remarkable documents that have appeared anywhere in our time”, as the first leader on page 10 does, may be indulging in hyperbole, but it is a remarkable, and somewhat inflammatory letter, including an appeal to the nation to sign up to the signatories’ pledge. It is a document that really shows how passions were running high over the likely governmental solution to the Irish question back then, and would continue to do so until the outbreak of war five months later.