SWEENEY, John. Liberty Tree.

ANTI TYTHES AT A NUMEROUS MEETING OF THE PATRIOTS OF IMOKILLY

Now First Published, Dublin, 1972. Quarto. pp. 6. Cream paper. Loose sheets as issued. In very good condition. Printed in an edition of 35 copies for John Sweeney’s spiritual heirs. 30 copies are for sale. Long title: At a Numerous Meeting of the Patriots of Imokilly, and other Places adjacent thereto held on the Night of Friday 13th of October 1797 on Liberty Green. Tiberius Gracchus Hibernicus in the Chair. ‘Resolved that the Tythe of Potatoes now being demanded in parts of this Nation, & being the chief support of the poor of other this Country, we solemnly pledge ourselves to each other not to pay the same and to do all in our power to hinder and obstruct same, the sd. Tythe of being paid’.

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