🌑 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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@1798walkingtour
My ancestor was executed in 1798 for sheltering rebels in his house in New Ross.
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@1798walkingtour
'Who fears to speak of 'Ninety-eight'?
Who blushes at the name?
When cowards mock the patriot's fate
Who hangs his head for shame?'
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