1798 Belfast Walking Tour

13/11/2024

30/10/2024

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"Equality - It is new strung and shall be heard" Join public historian Sean Napier on this epic journey through Dublin of the 1790's.

30/10/2024

🚨 Dublin date announced... "The #1798 UnitedIrishmen Dublin Walking Tour"
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📅Saturday 30th November.
📍College Green (Outside Bank of Ireland)
⏲️12.30pm to 2.30pm.
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27/10/2024

We're delighted that Seán Napier will be with us here in Crumlin next month to give a talk on all things 1798. No need to book tickets, you can just pay in at the door. Bígí linn! 1798 Belfast Walking Tour

27/10/2024

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27/10/2024

🔲"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".

- 'The Memory of the Dead', by John Kells Ingram, 1843, he aimed these comments deliberately at the vainglorious Daniel O'Connell.

🔲 We look behind the myth at the reality of O’Connell which reveals a very different picture. As a trainee barrister in Dublin he joined the 'Lawyers Artillery Corps,' a British militia that hunted down the United Irishmen in 1798 and Robert Emmet and his followers in 1803.
During Emmet’s rebellion, O’Connell was actually on duty and took part in searches. He abhorred the Republicanism of the French Revolution and the UnitedIrish movement in particular.
To guests in his lavish house in Merrion Square in 1842 he opined that Emmet...“deserved to be hanged”!

⚖️'So... 'fill your glass with us'...with more home truths at the upcoming.....
'1798 Dublin Walking Tour'...(x3 places left)




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16/08/2024

Today in our series, we will be exploring Robert Joy, who was Mary Ann’s uncle and brother to Henry and Ann Joy. Robert Joy, like his brother Henry, was heavily involved in the Charitable Society’s work. When the money was almost raised, and a design of the building had to be agreed upon it was Robert Joy’s vision which was adopted by the Board rather than some of the best and brightest in the 18th Century field of architecture in London, Liverpool and Edinburgh. His design included a spire, rather than a dome, which was to symbolise a beacon for those who needed the institution’s help.

In 1780 Thomas McCabe, Robert Joy, and Nicholas Grimshaw (whose family had brought cotton to Ireland) established a small cotton industry at the Poor House. They organised the set-up of handlooms or ‘spinning jennys’ whereby women and children could be trained in the skill of cotton spinning with a view to assisting their escape from the cycle of poverty which so many were trapped in. This venture marked the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in Belfast because thereafter, McCabe, along with Robert Joy and John McCracken went on to set up their own cotton mill on Belfast’s Rosemary Lane and elsewhere.

Robert Joy's patriotism and public spirit were exercised his involvement with the Volunteer movement from 1778. Robert was the prime mover in the establishment of the Volunteers in Belfast, and in 1781 he oversaw arranging accommodation in Belfast for those who attended the Belfast Volunteer review.

1798 Belfast Walking Tour Reclaim the Enlightenment