🟢 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… Tweet added by The 1798 Belfast & Dublin Walking Tours @1798walkingtour

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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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BubbyGee

@bubby_gee

9 months

@1798walkingtour Read a very good book by Ken Dawson about Nielsen…‘The Belfast Jacobin.’

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The 1798 Belfast & Dublin Walking Tours

@1798walkingtour

9 months

@bubby_gee It's excellent.

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SharonG

@SharonG_71

1 year

@1798walkingtour Thank you @1798walkingtour for sharing this hidden history.

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Claudette Preisinger

@claudetterose27

1 year

@1798walkingtour @GerryAdamsSF Nice story, but sad....

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Kevin McNamara

@KevinMc1746

1 year

@1798walkingtour Northmen, Southmen comrades all.

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🇮🇪🕊Carpenters Christ🕊🇺🇲

@loughaune

1 year

@1798walkingtour @GerryAdamsSF Some Day I will have the Pristine Humbling Honor to give my life for the Future of Humanity. 2 bad my native Country Irieland seems 2 Outright Reject Me. Seems they want to Evict me out of History. That will not End well for Ireland. Seems the Irish are Incapable of Listening☘️

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Alan Field

@Alan__Field

1 year

@1798walkingtour And you nor anyone else in Sinn Fein could lace his boots.

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