@1798walkingtour @Seanofthesouth Annandale is called after his mum, Anna’s Dale

@lorrainemills3 @Seanofthesouth Yes.

@1798walkingtour @Seanofthesouth How is he a direct descendant of the Great O'Neill? What's the connection?

@gatekeeper1 @Seanofthesouth Sarah MacDonnell was his Great granny from the Stafford side great grand daughter of Hugh The Great O'Neill via the Magennis line.

@1798walkingtour @Seanofthesouth He was Old English, not Anglo-Irish, on the Wesley/Colley side, from a long line of 'Irish papists', as his family are described during the Cromwellian years.

@dramdarcy @Seanofthesouth There ya go...👍...

@1798walkingtour @Seanofthesouth I had no idea of the connection to O’Neill! I’ve been writing a bit about Wellington and it is interesting to to see how omitted he is from our historical narrative as an Irishman.

@1798walkingtour Great man.

@1798walkingtour @Seanofthesouth “Being “Anglo-Irish” sorta allows England to claim him, but he wasn’t English and that term never really existed at the time.” The term is ‘British’, meaning from the United Kingdoms of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The English never claimed him, but the British do.

@1798walkingtour @IrishmanUnited @Seanofthesouth Ask India if Wellington was a great man or a great soldier.

@1798walkingtour @Seanofthesouth My grandfather knew a Waterloo Veteran in his village of Athea Co. Limerick who said his Irish accent was so strong that many of his English troops had difficulty understanding him.

@1798walkingtour @Seanofthesouth Then he was a traitor to Irish ppl

@1798walkingtour @Seanofthesouth Aaccording to evidence given by ‘government reporters’, Frederick Bond Hughes and Charles Ross, during O’Connell’s trial for conspiracy and misdemeanour in the Dublin Court of Queen’s Bench, 18-19 January 1844, O’Connell made the remark in a banquet speech following the ...

@1798walkingtour @Seanofthesouth So Wellesley is a relation of King Charles III via his own descent from Hugh O'Neill? Cool

@1798walkingtour @Seanofthesouth Great stuff

@1798walkingtour @Seanofthesouth He dismissed Ireland as a “nation of scoundrels”. His biographer Lawrence James wrote of him: “Neither he nor his kin ever considered themselves as Irish. ..." It's like classifying Rudyard Kipling as indian.

@1798walkingtour @Seanofthesouth Is he not a son of Trim!? I know the Dubs like to claim everything.

@1798walkingtour @Seanofthesouth I stayed in Wellington's old HQ in Hastings, opposite St Clement's church, this past weekend during the Jack in the Green festival. It's now a holiday let above an antiques dealership.

@1798walkingtour @Seanofthesouth A shaper of history..Waterloo had such big impact on the direction of Europe at the time and the brother Governor of India...