The reply of the Government to the result of the North Roscommon election had been the re-arrest and deportation of some of the released prisoners, to whom a number of others, some of them prominent Gaelic leaguers, were added; the Chief Secretary defended this action by saying that he had decided "although there can be no charge and although there can be no trial" that it was better for these men to be out of Ireland than to be in it.
"The Evolution of Sinn Fein"
Robert Mitchell Henry
Most comfortable was it, an expression of human commiseration extended to him, of special virtue also, he believed, to succour souls against leaguers of darkness.
"The Unknown Sea"
Clemence Housman
The very Corn Law leaguers in the North used to leave your 'Seagulls' to fly where they could, and clap hands over mysteries of iniquity.
"The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)"
Frederic G. Kenyon