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| | Original Declaration of the United Irishmen |
 | | Impressed with these sentiments, we have agreed to form an association to be called "The Society of United Irishmen", and we do pledge ourselves to our country, and mutually to each other, that we will steadily support and endeavour, by all due means, to carry into effect the following resolutions: |
 | | United Irish catechism reported from the Cloyne are of County Cork in December 1797. |
 | | Satisfied, as we are, that the intestine divisions among Irishmen have too often given encouragement and impunity to profligate, audacious and corrupt administrations, in measure which, but for these divisions, they durst not have attempted, we submit our resolutions to the nation as the basis of our political faith. |
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