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Continuing to pursue Irish affairs in parliament, he vehemently condemns British mishandling of Irish affairs, threathening in two long dramatic speeches in April "to fight you if you enforce [[conscription]] on us". Later that year expressing disillusionment at Britain's and the Irish Party's failure to implement All-Ireland Home Rule, with William O'Brien he and the AfIL MPs. recognising the futility of contesting the December [[Irish (UK) general election, 1918|general elections]] upholding AfIL principles, withdraw and issue a manifesto stepping down in favour of [[Arthur Griffith]]'s non-physical force [[Sinn Féin]] movement. Terence McSwiney follows unopposed as mid-Cork MP..

D.D. compelled under duress, his army service and repute as a "Cork-[[Orangeman]]" the possible motives, to abandon his home, Rockhurst, Victoria Road, Cork, -- it <br>pre-empts his and his endangered school-going family's emigration to England.

==Final stand for labour==