As in every sphere of activity which he entered, he assumed his duties in the College with eager enthusiasm, and was very proud of being identified from the first with the National University. But if my husband ceased to be a Member of Parliament, it does not mean that he became merely a Professor. He was a leading spirit in every live movement, and by speech and article kept in the political current. When the great labour strike occurred in Dublin in 1913, he was chairman of the Peace Committee which endeavoured to establish better feeling between the employers and employees. He was also a member of the Education Commission appointed by Mr. Birrell to enquire into the grievances of Irish teachers. As for his work in literature in 1910, he published a volume of essays entitled _The Day’s Burden_, the best known and most characteristic of his writings. In 1911 he wrote a pamphlet on _Home Rule Finance_, and in the same year he translated and edited Luther Kneller’s _Christianity and the Leaders of Modern Science_. In 1911 he also edited and wrote a brilliant introduction to M. Halévy’s _Life of Nietzsche_, translated by Mr. Hone. In 1912 he wrote _The Open Secret of Ireland_, putting the case of Ireland in his own inimitable way. In 1912 he was one of the first prominent men identified with the foundation of the National Volunteers. A passage taken from an article written for the _Daily News_ on the Volunteers has now a poignant interest-- “The impulse behind the new departure is not that of the swashbuckler or the fire-eater. Ancient Pistol has no share in it. In no country is the red barbarism of war as a solvent of differences more fully recognised than in Ireland. In no other is the wastage of the public substance on vast armaments more strongly condemned on grounds alike of conscience and intelligence. If Ireland has a distinguished military tradition, she has another tradition to which she holds more proudly, that of peace and culture. In her golden age she, unique in Europe, wrought out the ideal of the civilisation-state as contrasted with the brute-force state. She never oppressed or sought to destroy another nation. What she proposes to herself now is not to browbeat or dragoon or diminish by violence the civil or religious liberty of any man--but simply to safeguard her own.” It is this man who speaks thus proudly of Ireland’s noble tradition of peace and culture, this man to whom war was “red barbarism,” who found it necessary to quit his own assured path “of peace and culture” and, with only the qualification of courage, assume the profession of a soldier. In 1914 he edited a book on _Irish Orators and Irish Oratory_. Many have held his introduction to this his finest piece of writing.