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New Zealand Tablet, 23 March 1922, Page 7

* The only claim I ever heard from a Land League platform to the “constitutional” character now hysterically arrogated to themselves by Parliamentarians of the later school was one which used to cause Parnell and ourselves a good deal of merry comment. The speaker was P. J. Sheridan, of Tobercurry, and his words were: “We’ll give the landlords what, fliey got from the French Revolution, ami that is twelve feet of rope hut always in a strictly constitutional manner He had a firm faith that, with this blessed qualification, any programme, no matter how bloodthirsty, was as “constitutional” as Blackstone. It was of Sheridan the remark was made by Pat Egan: “Sheridan would be quite happy to be hanged if he could read the report of the execution in the Freeman the next morning.”