[PAY NO RENTS] A broadside poster printed one side only: 'Pay No Rents / No Annuities / Irish Land has been / Paid for / 50 times over / In this attitude you will have / the support of the /...

[PAY NO RENTS] A broadside poster printed one side only: 'Pay No Rents / No Annuities / Irish Land has been / Paid for / 50 times over / In this attitude you will have / the support of the / DEFENCE / COMMITTEE.' No printer, no date, no publisher, but evidently late 1920s or early 1930s (before De Valera's abolition of the Land Annuities in 1932). 30.8 x 50.1cm. Almost certainly issued by one of the groups on the fringes of the Republican movement, very possibly the Donegal land agitation organised by Peadar O'Donnell, which withheld rents and brought pressure on De Valera to tackle the annuities issue (see his memoir 'There Will Be Another Day'). Small stain on one margin, otherwise a very good copy. A rare and interesting poster.

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