“Hanbury was civil & quiet & didn’t say much. When we were going home he asked me was I was Socialist & when I said I didn’t know what I was since reading Three Roads to Freedom he said wasn’t it a splendid book. Paine came up thro’ Mr W. saying he had read his Rights of Man but couldn’t see what basis there was to the idea of national right unless it is allowed to come from God. Katie as usual took little part.”
WEEK 88: (14th – 20th July 1918)
“There were a few flags out along Lower Newtown, but when we went up Newtown Rd among all the Unionist houses we only saw one all the way. D. and Tony & Louis & I went out as far as Power’s Nursery hill & sat on the wall there & saw thousands of motors & other vehicles go by picnickers I suppose. It was a fine warm day but cloudy. Tony is a model at rolling the pram. We spent the afternoon picking fruit & weeding, & got a short game of casino after tea. I moved to Suirview in the motor as it was taking Tony to the station.”
WEEK 33: (13th – 19th May 1918)
“I visited the carstand Powers a.d. and found that Juley had been away in Wales visiting a sick brother. She had a lot of political talk in trains and things. I went to the election committee in the evening, Whittle, 5 male heads of wards, & Miss Skeffington & me. J. K. Walsh, W. Doyle, D. Grant, J. Wylie & I can’t remember the other.”