Editing Wolfe Tone (section)

=== First resolutions ===
Calling themselves, at his suggestion, the [[Society of the United Irishmen]], and approving Tone's draft resolutions, his hosts declared that "we have no national government — we are ruled by Englishmen, and the servants of Englishmen". The sole constitutional remedy was "an equal representation of all the people in parliament"—"a complete and radical reform". Others were urged to follow their example: to "form similar Societies in every quarter of the kingdom for the promotion of Constitutional knowledge, the abolition of bigotry in religion and policies, and the equal distribution of the Rights of Man through all Sects and Denominations of Irishmen".<ref name=":0222">{{Citation |last=Napper Tandy |first=James |title=The Society of United Irishmen of Dublin . . [who] have taken as their Declaration that of a similar society in Belfast |date=1791-11-09 |url=https://www.marxists.org/history/england/britdem/events/irishmen.htm |access-date=2023-12-20 |publisher=The Morning Post, 15th December 1791 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":142">{{Cite book |last=Altholz |first=Josef L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zsnwc3fadxAC |title=Selected Documents in Irish History |publisher=M E Sharpe |year=2000 |isbn=0415127769 |location=New York |pages=70}}</ref>

Summarised by [[James Napper Tandy]] as "all Irishmen citizens, all citizens Irishmen", the same resolutions were carried three weeks later at a meeting in Dublin.<ref name=":1222"/>{{rp|53}} Present were [[John Keogh]], [[John Sweetman (United Irishman)|John Sweetman]] and other leading members of the city's [[Catholic Committee (Ireland)|Catholic Committee]].<ref name=":2" />{{rp|418}}