🔲 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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@1798walkingtour
Thomas McCabe also owned the land were St Malachy’s college On the Antrim Road is situated. It was called “Vicinage”
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@1798walkingtour
Northern Ireland mention that of that other radical Presbyterian republican John Mitchell?
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@1798walkingtour
Excellent- the storming is a myth, the whole story is told by Drennan to his sister Martha McTier in 1806. No other account exists. At the meet after a few subscribers- McCabe got up and penned-
May G- eternally damn the soul of the man who subscribes the first guinea'”.
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@GerryAdamsSF
What a beautiful and diverse people we are It saddens me to see the values and principles of these republican men and women sacrificed on the alter of Woke populist and Nationalist politics of the 21st century The world seems to have lost its way but these people didn’t ☘️
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