1795 RARE IRISH-AMERICANA. The Book that Connects the American Revolution to the Irish Rebellion.

Here is a rare one. By descent through the Kern family, we have the single most important published document linking the activities of the American Revolutionary War participants to interest in supporting and sustaining the Irish in their similar battle for liberty, ultimately resulting in the Irish Rebellion of 1798.  During the early part of the 1790's a group of influential Irishmen, think The Sons of Liberty but with Irish accents, began an organization called The Society of United Irishmen. It was a secret organization, requiring an oath, an allegiance first and foremost to achieving liberty [both political and religious] from England.  By 1794, they had significantly radicalized and had also begun to swear the overthrow of the government. It was "united" because dissenters, largely Presbyterians, worked together with Catholics regardless of religious differences. It was an uneasy alliance at times, but sustained through the Rebellion. One of the main agitators of the group was Wo