Advocate (Burnie, Tas) 9th Feb, 1946 p 4
For 40 years the Irish inhabitants of Turk and Turbot Islands, off the Galway coast, have refused to pay rates and taxes to the County Council. When the council summons servers and bailiffs land at Turk and Turbot, 200 islanders just put to sea in fishing boats.
The islanders owe the council £12,000, but when the bailiffs landed recently they
discovered that the islanders had evacuated to sea the previous night. During the British administration of Galway the Navy sent a gunboat to collect the taxes without result. The islanders are self-supporting, and declare that they will proclaim the islands a republic.
The Burren and Beyond 