Ní fhéadfadh an tsochaí “normálachas” a
bhaint amach gan an tírghrá sin a chuir béim ar oilithreacht speisialta na hÉireann, agus, más ea, b’ionann fuascailt na faidhbe agus:
*“a succession of nationalistic movements, rising and falling, each dissolving into a period of reaction, of provincialism, yet each for all that leaving the nation a little more sturdy, a little more normal, a little less provincial than before.