he did not neglect his Manchester power base; he was elected an Alderman of the city (with Labour help) in November 1910. While supporting the Irish Nationalists in the division lobby, he generally concerned himself with constituency matters, asking a number of oral questions and putting down questions requiring a written answer. The majority of these related to the Old Age Pension problems of individual constituents and cases arising out of the operation of Irish land reform. His one recorded intervention in a debate was to mount a defence of trade union political levies. (The Liberal government, with Labour Party and Irish support, were determined to reverse the decision enshrined in the infamous Osborne Judgement.) In the course of his speech he referred (though not by name) to his experience with the Manchester Corporation Tramways. In 1912, he was chosen to serve on a House of Commons Select Committee to enquire into the impact of motor buses and similar vehicles upon London street accidents. Perhaps he considered that extra-parliamentary activities were more to his liking. He addressed meetings in Chorley and Leyland, for example, about the interests of Roman Catholic voters in 1913, and participated in a large meeting in support of Home Rule in Manchester in the same year. The First World War John Redmond pledged complete support to Asquith's government at the outbreak of war, even offering the use of the Irish Volunteers in the defence of the country. Boyle, and the majority of the Irish Nationalist M.P.'s, agreed with this position. They argued that the cause was right and just; Belgium was a small country like Ireland, and also Roman Catholic. It was felt that such support in the war would guarantee Home Rule when peace came. On 25 January 1915, Daniel Boyle declared that the Irish were "at one with the Empire." His son in law was gazetted a second lieutenant in the 10th (Pals battalion) Royal Dublin Fusiliers on 22 February 1916, and Boyle placed himself at the head of the Manchester Committee (along with Sir David McCabe) for the Irish Flag Day (in aid of Irish soldiers). However, things were starting to change. On a personal level, he began to base himself more in London, and resigned from Manchester City Council on 8 February 1917. At the national level, the Easter Rising, and the British response to it, changed Irish politics forever. Sinn Féin