Sinn Féin referendum
Sinn Féin.
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| Summary: | Poster concerning a referendum calling for support of Ireland's claim for independence which Sinn Féin proposes to put forward at the Paris Peace Conference. The notice reads: "The supreme council of Sinn Féín has decided to take a PLEBISCITE or REFERENDUM on the subject of IRISH INDEPENDENCE for the purpose of organising the largest possible volume of Irish Opinion in support of Ireland's claim for independence and at the same time to prepare a REGISTER OF VOTERS for an Irish Constituent Assembly. In each Chapel District Canvassers will be appointed by the Sinn Fein Clubs and these canvasers are to request every man and woman of 18 years and upwards to sign the following appeal: - "We appeal to the Peace Congress to secure the establisment of Ireland as an Independent State." And to subscribe as far as their means will allow to the NATIONAL ELECTION FUND for which a Collection will be made at the same time. Irish people, you are now at this critical period in our Nation's history called upon to make a United Effort to secure for Yourselves and Your Posterity the great blessing of an Independent Ireland, free from all Foreign Oppression and from the huge and ever-increasing burden of taxation, which for the year ending March 1917 amounted to £24,000,000 and for the year ending March 1918 is estimated to reach £30,000,000, almost entirely due to England's War. Now that a GENERAL ELECTION is probably near at hand it behoves each and every one of us to be up and doing, and to show by our moral and financial support that we mean to take advantage for the present unrivalled opportunity of gaining our long-sought freedom, it is NOW OR NEVER, when the fate of some many small nations is to be decided that we should exert all out energies to free ourselves from the clutches of John Bull, the self-styled protector of small nationalities. Báil ó Dhia ar an obair". |
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| Language: | English |
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[Listowel, Co. Kerry]:
Cuthbertson [Machine Printer, William St., Listowel];
1918.
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| Notes: | This item is held in the Department of Ephemera. Physical description: 1 sheet [pasted on board] ; 50 x 35 cm. more |
As a digital copy of this item is available, the original will not be issued.
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EPH E248 |
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Ephemera |
Reproduction rights owned by the National Library of Ireland.
