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◾️ Before leaving Belfast in January 1846, Frederick Douglass uttered the heartfelt words..
.. "Wherever else I feel myself to be a stranger, I will remember I have a home in Belfast."
It was Thomas McCabe, the Presbyterian radical, abolitionist and United Irishman who kept
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🟩 While in Ireland, Frederick Douglass wrote:
🟩 "One of the most pleasing features of my visit, thus far, has been a total absence of all manifestations of prejudice against me, on account of my colour. The change of circumstances in this is particularly striking... I find
◾️ Before leaving Belfast in January 1846, Frederick Douglass uttered the heartfelt words..
.. "Wherever else I feel myself to be a stranger, I will remember I have a home in Belfast."
It was Thomas McCabe, the Presbyterian radical, abolitionist and United Irishman who kept
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◾️The Shaftesbury family ended up owning the bed & banks of Lough Neagh in the 1600's, after doing a deal with Ulster's very own murder machine Sir Arthur Chichester. The Shaftesburys have been shafting & extracting the wealth of the lough ever since.
To begin with, Chichester
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🟩 The Bold Robert Emmet was sentenced to death today 220 years ago for High Treason. No appeal or plea for mercy was allowed.
◾️His defence barrister was the informer Leonard McNally who was in the pay of the Crown, he made sure Emmet was convicted and hanged!
🟩 But it was
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◾️(The Irish Times, June 1985)
Joe Biden listed Wolfe Tone as the historical figure he most admired. Biden said this of the leading UnitedIrishman...
"Tone was hero in the truest sense. As a young Protestant barrister , a life of wealth and fine dining was his for the asking.
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#FrederickDouglass
statue unveiled today...the first in Ireland. 💚
#Equality
🟩 The
#UnitedIrishmen
are smiling down on Belfast today.
#McCabe
#Russell
#Neilson
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🟢 " In 1603, two dynasties fell.
Elizabeth 1 died childless: the Tudors lost the
Crown. And Hugh O'Neill surrendered to the English: over 1000 years of Gaelic monarchy ended.
O'Neill died in despair in 1616.
But history had not abandoned him.
He left a daughter, Sorcha O'Neill,
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🟢 "We have no national government; we are ruled by Englishmen, and the servants of Englishmen, whose object is the interest of another country, whose instrument is corruption; whose strength is the weakness of Ireland.” -
Theobald Wolfe Tone
First statement at the founding &
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🟩 During, before and after the 1798 rebellion in Ireland, the Crown declared 'Martial Law' and began
#torturing
and hanging innocent civilians.
In Ulster, the Yeomanry and Orange militias were let loose upon the countryside, spreading horror via burnings and merciless floggings.
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◾️ After a month on the run young Henry Joy McCracken was captured whilst trying to escape to America.
He was tried for treason here at the Assembly Rooms and hanged on High Street at Cornmarket, Belfast on 17th July, 1798.
“Of my death, tell Russell I have done my duty.”
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◾️Opening soon.....
🟩 'Sugarhouse Entry' contained the most famously radical of all the drinking establishments in Belfast of the 1790's, called Peggy Barclays.
(Dr Franklin Tavern)
'It had plenty of rooms where one could eat, drink and be merry...the fertile oyster beds of
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🟩 Very special visitor today as I welcomed members of Wolfe Tone's extended family from the United States on our
#1798WalkingTour
...say hello to William Tone and crew from Florida..what a day!
@Seanofthesouth
@ColmDore
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🟩 225th Anniversary of hanging of United Irish leader and patriot priest 'Father John Murphy'
Beforehand, when on the run, his Protestant neighbour hid him on their little farm and refused to give him up when quizzed by the Yeos on his whereabouts.
🟩 Later when captured, with
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🟢 The story of Henry Joy McCracken ends where it began in High Street, Belfast in July 1798.
He stood upon the gallows in full view of the house he was born in fifty feet away.
The first 'martyr' of those times was young William Orr' hanged at Carrickfergus, he announced from
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"An Ulster man I am proud to be,
From the Antrim glens I come.
Although I labour by the sea,
I have followed fife & drum.
I have heard the martial tramp of men;
I’ve seen them fight and die.
Ah! lads I well remember when
I followed Henry Joy"
H.J. McCracken
Hanged today 1798.
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🟩 Seamus Heaney's
'Requiem for the Croppies’ is a tribute to the
#UnitedIrish
movement.
In particular the events during and after the 'Battle of Vinegar Hill'... today, 1798.
🟩 The Poem was published in his second poetry collection 'Door into the Dark' in 1969, but it was
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🟢 Today in Knockbreda I was at the grave of one of Belfast's finest enlightened Presbyterians.
He was one of citys most distinguished citizens, meet Robert Shipboy MacAdam (1808-1895) who was not just a successful industrialist, but one who contributed immeasurably to cultural
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#UnitedIrishman
William Orr, was executed on 14th October 1797, at the ‘Three Sisters Gallows’ outside Carrickfergus on the shores of Belfast Lough.
"I die no traitor: I am persecuted for a persecuted country.
Great Jehovah receive my soul. I die in the true faith of a
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🌑 The young charismatic leader of the Ulster UnitedIrishmen Henry Joy McCracken would be hanged at the old Market House in Belfast 225 years ago this July.
His comrade in arms James (Jemmy) Hope said of him...
"when all our leaders deserted us, Henry Joy McCracken stood alone,
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Today 1798 Cpt. James Dickey who mastermind the Battle of Randalstown was hanged at Cornmarket, High Street, Belfast.
The young Presbyterian barrister from Crumlin, Antrim was a leading
#UnitedIrishman
.
He was captured by the Sutherland Fencibles on the Divis Mountain where he'd
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🟩
#TomPaine
#RightsofMan
🟩
#1798
. Fantastic turnout today at the unveiling of a superb sculpture remembering Rostrevor's very own
#UnitedIrishman
Tom Dunn who espoused the writings & ideas of Thomas Paine.
🟩 Dunn was sentenced to 250 lashes of the cat-‘o-nine-tails at the
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🇺🇲 We mention Benjamin Franklin's tour of Ireland in 1771, he was absolutely astounded & shocked at the level of poverty he witnessed there.
Franklin feared the colonies would suffer the same plight of Irish exploitation.
Within four years America declared war on British tyranny!
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"The suspicion that England governs Ireland for the purpose of keeping her low, to prevent her being it's rival in trade and manufactures, it will always operate to hold Ireland in a state of sentimental hostility with England"
- Tom Paine 1787
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🟢Dubliner Arthur Wellesley is also a direct descendent of Aodh Mór Ó Néill - Hugh The Great O'Neill..!
The Duke of Wellington who was born today in 1769 praised his fellow Irishman Wolfe Tone for his bravery and daring during the 1798 rebellion, describing Tone as follows:
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🟩 Irish neutrality is a foreign policy tradition stretching back over centuries
First advocated by Theobald Wolfe Tone, leader of the United Irishmen during a time of potential war between Britain and Spain in the late 1700s.
The United Irish movement in the 1790s sought to
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🟢 Whilst in Kilmainham Gaol Henry Joy McCracken was still highlighting the horrors visited upon the civilian population in Ulster particularly the plight of rural Catholics'.
Writing to his brother John McCracken in 1797 (who's buried at Knockbreda) remained aloof from all
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Presbyterian towns like Newtownards, Larne and Ballymena became brief centres of the newly declared independence for the people of Ireland from the Crown and the new Irish Republic during the
#1798
rebellion.
#UnitedIrishmen
#Democracy
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🚨 225th Anniversary 🚨
🟩 Great day out...and perhaps for the first time in over a 100 years or more we had a small gathering to commemorate the
#225th
Anniversary one of Belfast's most illustrious & bravest of sons, leader of the United Irishmen in Ulster, Henry Joy McCracken
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Dreadfully sad news. We've lost our mentor and the man who give us the courage and inspiration to start our 1798 walking tour.
We will miss his brilliance terribly.
Renowned historian Dr Éamon Phoenix has sadly died at the age of 69. The academic, author and archivist of The Irish News, died peacefully at his Belfast home following a short illness.
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🟩 "To unite the whole people of Ireland, to abolish the memory of all past dissensions, and to substitute the common name of Irishman in place of the denominations of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter -
these were my means."
- Wolfe Tone
💚
#HappyNewYear2022
💚
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UnitedIrishmen Henry Joy McCracken attended the Third Presbyterian Church in Rosemary Street Belfast.
His Minister was the Rev. Sinclaire Kelburn, known as the 'Minister with the Musket'..(who'd also helped establish the radical newspaper the Northern Star in 1792)
Interned with
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⚫️ Ulsterman Watty Graham, was a Presbyterian church elder & leading United Irishman who fought tyranny & died in the
#1798
rebellion.
Today he is honoured at Croke Park
@WattyGrahamsGAA
👏 👏
Come on the United Irishmen!!!
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🔲 It was Belfast's very own Thomas McCabe who would prevent the slave trade getting a commercial foothold in Ireland.
This Presbyterian radical and republican espoused ideals of abolitionism and equality for all. McCabe would later be a shining star of the Belfast UnitedIrish
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🟩 In the aftermath of the 'Battle of Ballynahinch'...
The sad story of a young Presbyterian rebel & United Irishman William Coulter in June of 1798.
The Yeomen pursued the fleeing insurgents all over the county of Down for days, many were caught, brutalized and hanged for
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🟩 Today Jun 21st 1798,
Wexford: Battle of Vinegar Hill.
#225thAnniversary
The United Irish movement are defeated by 13,000 Crown forces. 1000's are killed, two large rebel columns escape...but not for long...
The British plan, as formulated by the infamous butchering General
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🟢 225th Anniversary: 1798
◾️The UnitedIrish march from Movilla down North Street in Newtownards today June 10th, -its “Pike Sunday”!
◾️The Co.Down Insurgents attack the garrison, which abandons the town hall there and flee to Belfast.
◾️The Ards Peninsula & North Down were
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🟩 One of the most endearing and favourable comments relating to the activities of Wolfe Tone, came from fellow Dubliner and Irishman Arthur Wellesley......the Duke of Wellington.
He praised Tones exploits of bravery and daring describing him as follows:
"Wolfe Tone was a most
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🟩 Henry Joy McCracken parts with his loving sister Mary Ann at the gallows on High Street today
#1798
.
(Michael O'Neill painter)
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🟢 In June of 1795, Wolfe Tone leaves Belfast, destined for Philadelphia.
Beforehand a large of gathering of Irish Protestantsq had gathered on top of Cave Hill, overlooking Belfast. They swore, .....
“never to desist in our efforts until we had subverted the authority of England
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🟢 A very close friend of Wolfe Tone, who called him 'The
Jacobin' successful businessman Samuel Neilson was a founding member of the Belfast 'Society of United Irishmen' & Editor-in-Chief/Journalist of the Northern Star newspaper.
This brilliant Presbyterian radical and
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🚨 What a day!!..what a tour..met GGGrand nephew of
#HenryJoyMcCracken
....Jack loves his proud Presbyterian history..!....he's 90!
#enlightenment
is happening!
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◾️ “..a million of swords will not do them (the Irish) so much harm as a winter of famine”....
..“ploughing and breaking up the barbarous Irish nation then sowing the soil with seeds of civility”..
- Arthur Chichester
(There are many streets & locations named after this
OTD 1601 Chichester getting his murder on-reported raids across Lough Neagh 'in which journeys we have killed above 100 people of all sorts, besides such as were burnt, how many I know not. We spare none of what quality or sex soever, & it hath bred much terror'
#nineyearswar
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'Until... on Vinegar Hill... the final conclave.
Terraced thousands died, shaking scythes at cannon.
The hillside blushed, soaked in our broken wave.
They buried us without shroud or coffin
And in August... the barley grew up out of our grave.' 💚
#TheUnitedIrishmen
🟩
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These wonderful paintings in Belfast city centre depict the history of the 'Society of United Irishmen' 1798.
Yet they're hidden away & impossible to showcase. You can see why folks.
Let's find them a new home!
(Artwork by local painter Michael O'Neill)
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Merry Christmas
Nollaig Shona dhuit
From 1798 Walking Tour...
#Belfast
#Dublin
#enlightenment
Thanks for all your support in 2023....roll on 2024.!
"Equality - It is new strung and shall he heard" 💚
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◾️Theobald Wolfe Tones body was brought back to rest in the family plot in Bodenstown Co. Kildare.
In the years after the patriot's death, his grave fell into disrepair until a young man from Cork came to its rescue and in the process produced a ballad still sung to this day.
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🟢 Informers & Spies were the curse of the UnitedIrish movement from the 1790's onwards in Ireland.
These set of miscreants lured their victims to their doom. They would eat, drink and talk with them even mind their children.
They were also neighbours and friends, yet slowly but
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🟩Douglass founded a newspaper called the 'The North Star' in 1847, an anti-slavery paper which just like the Belfast UnitedIrishmen's 1792 newspaper 'The Northern Star' battled for the rights of the oppressed and subordinated culture in Ireland at the time against exploitation
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🎂Happy Birthday to one of Belfast's most illustrious and revolutionary sons.
💚Henry Joy McCracken 💚
Commander in Chief of the Army of Ulster.
The Society of United Irishmen
"Faithful To The Last"
📗 Patriot, Presbyterian, Radical🟩
#Enlightenment
#Equality
#1798
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🟩 Standing at Belfast harbour, aged 88 handing out
#abolitionist
anti-slavery leaflets to Irish emigrants to the USA, to fighting for womans rights & equality in a male dominated society.
🟩 Mary Ann was unquestionably a woman well ahead of her time and one of our greatest
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🌑 23rd May 1798 Belfast republican and
United Irishman Samuel Neilson has devised the signal for the beginning of the island wide rising; mail coaches would be stopped and burned today leaving Dublin at various points along their routes.
The Dublin-Belfast coach was the first.
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💚 "Let no man write my epitaph... When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then shall my character be vindicated, then may my epitaph be written" -
🟩 Today
#UnitedIrishman
, the bold Robert Emmet leads the 1803 rebellion against the Crown in Ireland. 🟩
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🟩 With no rising in sight in Ulster in 1798, despite the signals coming from Dublin, one man seized the initiative and assembled the United Irish forces to assert Ireland’s right to independence & sovereignty.
🟩 That man was Henry Joy McCracken, a young Belfast industrialist
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🟩 Two iconic radical Belfast women who sought
#equality
and played their part in changing the course of Irish history. Stretching from
#1798
to
#1916
.💚
#UpNaMn
á
Absolutely chuffed!
Well done all involved at council.
PLANNING COMMITTEE: Green light for the installation of two bronze statues on the grounds of Belfast City Hall, to commemorate Winifred Carney & Mary Ann McCracken
#BuildingBelfast
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'....as far back as the 1790s, liberal Presbyterians formed the United Irishmen, and later members of the same church were instrumental in saving the Irish language. Then in the late 1800s and early 1900s, a West Cork Protestant called Sam Maguire....'
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🟩 Trinity is renaming the Berkeley Library. I think this would be a good moment for them finally to celebrate one of their most accomplished graduates, a brilliant thinker as well as a man of action, the founder of Irish Republicanism, someone who was inclusive long before his
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🟢Requiem for the Croppies🟢
'The pockets of our greatcoats full of barley -
No kitchens on the run, no striking camp-
We moved quick and sudden in our own country.
The priest lay behind ditches with the tramp.
A people, hardly marching - on the hike-
We found new tactics
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#1798WalkingTour
How brilliant is this..
#rebellious
after talk in Henry Joy's McCracken's back garden. Catholic, Protestant & Dissenter together ! 💚
#WinecellerEntry
#WhitesTavern
#LoveBelfast
#Epic
#JimmyHope
#WolfeTone
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What a day ..great turnout!..discussing those brilliant
#radical
Presbyterians of
#1798
!
#Unitedirishmen
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🟩 At the age of just 22, Thomas Shipboy McAdam founded the 'Ulster Gaelic Society', Cuideacht Gaoidhilge Uladh - the first of its kind in Ireland - he collected and preserved large numbers of Irish manuscripts, as well as publishing a Gaelic dictionary that he'd compiled with
🟢 Today in Knockbreda I was at the grave of one of Belfast's finest enlightened Presbyterians.
He was one of citys most distinguished citizens, meet Robert Shipboy MacAdam (1808-1895) who was not just a successful industrialist, but one who contributed immeasurably to cultural
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Despite the long list of places named for Chichester, there are no streets in Belfast named after Ireland's first democrats: the Republicans who, in that city, blocked slave shipping (Thomas McCabe), sought equality for women (Thomas Russell), opposed sectarian laws (Wolfe Tone).
◾️ “..a million of swords will not do them (the Irish) so much harm as a winter of famine”....
..“ploughing and breaking up the barbarous Irish nation then sowing the soil with seeds of civility”..
- Arthur Chichester
(There are many streets & locations named after this
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"Army of Ulster, to-morrow we march on Antrim - drive the garrison of Randalstown before you, and haste to form a junction with the Commander-in-Chief''.
1st year of liberty, 6th day of June, 1798''.
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🔲 'When Gladstone decided, some time in 1885, that the only way to achieve ‘social order’ and peace in Ireland was to concede Home Rule, he was disappointed to find that among his most implacable and vociferous opponents in the commons were the Irish Presbyterians.
In vain he
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🟢 Another brilliant radical Presbyterian of 1798, known as the "Minister with the Musket" ... the Rev. Sinclaire Kelburn.
He would give rousing republican speeches from his pulpit with his trusty musket at his side.
The McCrackens were part of his congregation.... his close
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🟩 Leading light of the northern UnitedIrish movement and Co.Down leader was Thomas Russell, "The Man From God Knows Where" he was horribly
portrayed in caricature form by the Crown as a short, hunchback like scruffy individual. When in reality he was dashingly handsome.
◾️The
🟩 Visited the grave of leading
#patriot
&
#UnitedIrishmen
Thomas Russell, hanged in Downpatrick 1803, he's buried in Down Parish Churchyard where Mary Ann McCracken arranged for a simple memorial.
All it says is.."The Grave of Russell 1803"💚
'The Man From God Knows Where'!
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🟢 The story of Henry Joy McCracken ends where it began in High Street, Belfast in July 1798.
He stood upon the gallows in full view of the house he was born in fifty feet away.
The first 'martyr' of those times was young William Orr' hanged at Carrickfergus, he announced from
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💚 Standing in Belfast harbour aged 88 handing out abolitionist leaflets to Irish emigrants to the USA, to fighting for female equality in a male dominated society- Mary Ann McCracken was unquestionably a woman ahead of her time and one of greatest unsung heroes of Belfast city.
Long past time for Belfast statuary to include Mary Ann McCracken!
This - from sculptor Steve Finney - illustrates her tireless opposition to slavery.
A remarkably relevant figure of resistance - she sought to lift up Ireland's subordinated culture & educate the disadvantaged.
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⬛️ February 1796, Wolfe Tone is alone in France waiting for his meeting with Lazare Carnot in Paris, the Minister for War for France.
Tone writes in his diary how he misses his friends, Russell and the Belfast republicans. He pens this tribute to them....
"The Dissenters of the
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“Tomorrow we march on Antrim – drive the garrison of Randalstown before you, and hasten to form a junction with the Commander in Chief,
Henry Joy McCracken
The First Year of Liberty”!
#1798
#UnitedIrish
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🟩 Buried at Knockbreda is William Simms, a member of the committee that founded the first 'Society of United Irishmen' in Belfast, October 1791; his brother Robert was its first secretary and both were among the twelve shareholders of its newspaper, the radical Northern Star
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#June
1798
#UnitedIrishmen
#BattleOfAntrim
.
It was led by one of Belfast's most illustrious sons, Henry Joy McCracken.
#RememberOrr
#Presbyterians
#Enlightenment
#Democracy
"When pike and sword in deadly feud, flashed in the noontide sun,
And Antrim's peaceful town beheld
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The "Last Rose of Summer" by Irish poet Thomas Moore is set to a traditional tune called "Aisling an Óigfhear" transcribed & saved by Edward Bunting performed by harper 97y/o Denis Hempson at the Harp Festival in the Assembly Rooms organised by the Belfasts UnitedIrishmen in 1792
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☘️ May we wish you all a very ☘️ Happy St Patricks Days☘️
"Unite the whole people of Ireland, abolish the memory of all past dissensions and substitute the common name of Irishman...in place of the denominations of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter"
- Wolfe Tone ☘️ 💚
Lá
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⚫️
#Today
1803, Thomas Russell, founding member of the "Society of The United Irishmen", was hanged & beheaded and thrown into an unmarked grave by the Crown in Downpatrick, Co. Down.
'The man from God knows where...'
Mary Ann McCracken loved Russell and protected his memory
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Washington supported Irish independence
"May the generous Sons of Saint Patrick expel all the venomous reptiles of Britain.” he toasted to his Irish soldiers.
Celebrating 17th March 1780 with them...
"as an act of solidarity with the Irish in their fight for independence" ☘️ 🇺🇸
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🟩 🚨 Announcement 🚨🟩
Coming soon
#Sundays
our new
#SouthBelfast
#1798Knockbreda
Cemetery Tour
Built in 1737 it holds the graves of many Belfast's
#UnitedIrishmen
Join us as we delve into the buried secrets of the areas illustrious & hidden rebellious past
#Epic
🟩
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2/2 The late Éamonn MacThomáis talks about St.Stephen's Green in his excellent 1970's TV series on Dublin.
◾️Developers have since demolished the home & birthplace of young Robert Emmet and many others beside from that period, systematically eradicating our 1798 history of
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🟩 St Marys Church, 1st Mass was celebrated in May 1784 by Fr. Hugh O'Donnell, the first PP of Belfast.
In the opening ceremony, a company of the mainly Presbyterian 'Belfast Irish Volunteers' lined the chapel yard and escorted Fr. O'Donnell into the building and held mass.
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🚨 'Dublin, Here We Come.... Ok..its happening we're starting our new 'Dublin
#1798
UnitedIrishmen Walking Tour' on 20th August....👇...at College Green where Tone and Russell first met.
🟩 Both men came to radical Belfast in 1791 and changed the course of Irish history.
Some
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🔲 Robert Emmet..... the 'Darling of Erin'.
◾️This is the death mask of the Irish patriot Robert Emmet. After he was hanged and beheaded in Dublin, his friend James Petrie went to the Kilmainham jail where the body was left and made this mask.....he awaits his epitaph.
🔲 Fuair
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⬛️ The rise of the northern
#UnitedIrishmen
and how their enlightened Presbyterian ideals made Belfast the...'Athens of the North' ..the birthplace of republicanism in Ireland.
⬛️ It was these radical Belfast republicans who would greatly influence Wolfe Tone’s thinking.
⬛️
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🟩 Absolutely wonderful day in Dublin for our first inaugural
1798 Walking Tour.
Finishing at 'Tailors Hall' where Wolfe Tone worked as Secretary of the Catholic Committee.
Nice to catch up with the brilliant
@paddycullivan
for a swift Argentinian breakfast briefing
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#1798
@ColmDore
in full spiel outside Henry Joy McCracken's front door in Rosemary Street discussing the
#Masonic
link to the
#UnitedIrishmen
, .....meanwhile
@Seanofthesouth
strikes his
#Washington
pose crossing the Delaware River discussing 'Tom Paine and "The Rights of Man"!
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⚫️ This location, in the Battle of Carraig Na gCat, Sligo in 1798, is where Irish & French armies were pinned down by a British cannon on top of this hill.
Captain Bartholomew Teeling, a native of
#Lisburn
in Co. Antrim, rode his horse through enemy lines and shot the gunner
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👏💚👏💚👏💚
'Who fears to speak of Ninety-Eight?
Who blushes at the name?
When cowards mock the patriots' fate,
Who hangs his head in shame?
He's all the knave, or half a slave,
Who slights his country thus;
But a true man, like you, man,
Will fill your glass with us.'
Day 3 at Ballinamuck - what a fantastic event - especially moving yesterday was the presence of two Irish wolfhounds at the battlefield re-enactment. The passion and patriotism of the organisers and local people has been something to behold. See you 2.30pm for my Wolfe Tone show!
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🟢 "The majority of the men in the Scottish Highland regiments who were sent to Ireland in 1798 were Gaelic-speaking Scots...it's said that many of them first learnt English while they were in Ireland! and when they spoke it afterwards it was with an Irish accent." - Alan
Today 1798 Cpt. James Dickey who mastermind the Battle of Randalstown was hanged at Cornmarket, High Street, Belfast.
The young Presbyterian barrister from Crumlin, Antrim was a leading
#UnitedIrishman
.
He was captured by the Sutherland Fencibles on the Divis Mountain where he'd
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🟩 One of the most endearing and favourable comments relating to the activities of Wolfe Tone of that time, comes from a fellow Irishman Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington (who's mother Anna hailed from Belvoir in South Belfast)
🟩Praising Tones exploits of bravery and
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🌑 "Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come"
The 'Society of United Irishmen' concur....💚
🌑 Henry Joy McCracken
🌑 Theobald Wolfe Tone
🌑 Samuel Neilson
#Democracy
#Equality
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A truly amazing woman...
#MaryAnnMcCracken
is of such massive significance to our
#Belfast
history.
#equality
#Unitedirishmen
#radicals
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🟩 Elizabeth's courtiers disrespected Aodh Mór Ó Néill, amid their purported peace moves, inviting him to sit at the head of a table, as though it were their gift.
He replied that he was 'The Ó Néill,' so wherever he sat was the head of the table.
Hear more - join our Belfast
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2/2 O'Neill was a bit of chancer..a brilliant one tbh.
He was knighted an Earl..a Lord ...and was brought up in the English Court to be one of 'them'....seems he had the last laugh in the long run.
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🔲
#SaveTheAssemblyRooms
It was Belfast's very own Thomas McCabe who would prevent the slave trade getting a commercial foothold in Ireland.
This enlightened Presbyterian radical and republican thinker espoused the ideals of
#abolitionism
and
#Equality
for all.
McCabe and his
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◾️ Theobald Wolfe Tone loved his visit to Lough Neagh. He went to Rams Island, just across Lough from where you are on 11th June 1795, a few days before leaving for America.
It would be the last time he would be with his closest friends....
“But the most agreeable day we passed
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One of Belfasts greatest and most radically
#enlightened
Presbyterians : Samuel Neilson.
A devoted United Irishman till the end.....until death in Poughkeepsie, New York. USA. 1803.
Letter to Archibald Hamilton Rowan (from Killyleagh castle family) shortly before Neilson’s
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🟢 The unveiling of a statue of abolitionist and campaigner, Frederick Douglass.
Date: Monday, 31 July 2023
Time: 11am
📍Location: Rosemary/Lombard St.
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🟩 It's time we honoured these unsung heroes of Belfast......
💚
#MaryAnnMcCracken
💚
#HenryJoyMcCracken
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🟩 The young charismatic leader of the UnitedIrishmen Henry Joy McCracken was hanged at the corner of High Street and Cornmarket 225 years ago today...the 17th July, 1798.
#democracy
#enlightenment
#SelfDetermination
#equality
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