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1798 Belfast Walking Tour Journeying through Ireland's hidden and illustrious past. 📚🎓 Tickets in the link below!
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27/10/2024
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

🚨 Join this fabulous special ....🕑 Starts 11.30am📍St George's Church. High Street. 📢 In the footsteps of those Belf...
01/08/2024

🚨 Join this fabulous special ....

🕑 Starts 11.30am

📍St George's Church. High Street.

📢 In the footsteps of those Belfast radical Presbyterians….



▪️Show up & pay on arrival or book👇🏻

: It is new strung and shall be heard

The #1798 Walking Tour The 1st Society of United Irishmen founded in Belfast, Ireland. They would change Irish history forever.

🚨 Join this fabulous special .... (3rd August & 10th August)🕑 Starts 11.30am📍St George's Church. High Street. 📢 In ...
01/08/2024

🚨 Join this fabulous special .... (3rd August & 10th August)

🕑 Starts 11.30am

📍St George's Church. High Street.

📢 In the footsteps of those Belfast radical Presbyterians….



▪️Show up & pay on arrival or book on link below…

: It is new strung and shall be heard”

The #1798 Walking Tour The 1st Society of United Irishmen founded in Belfast, Ireland. They would change Irish history forever.

24/07/2024

🟩 The English had put down the #1798 rising with extreme viciousness, brutality and oppression to break the spirit of the Irish nation, that they should never dare to dream of liberty and self-determination again.

They even banned the colour green which was a symbol of the United Irish movement of ‘98.
Irish newspapers had to publish notices stating that for HM subjects to wear green as an emblem of political affection to Irelands independence was prohibited and that to do so would lead to imprisonment, transportation, the rope or the bayonet’

(“For they're hanging men and women for
The wearing of the green”..)

Then they annexed Ireland to England in a corrupt and undemocratic ‘Act of Union’ via bribery in 1801, so that the Irish would no longer even have a country to fight for again.

In desperation, one young man emerged, he’d contacted the leaders still at large, and planned to fight back in another strike for freedom for his country. Entering into alliance with the Napoleon’s minister , he planned for another rising…..

🟩 The first republican blow for self determination against this 1801 ‘Act of Union’ with Britain was struck by the young Protestant patriot, the bold Robert Emmet…today in 1803. 💚



(Narration Ronnie Drew)

18/07/2024

Belfast's very own radical Presbyterian rebel patriot is hanged.......

Mary Ann McCracken has left us a description of the last few minutes with her beloved brother Henry Joy's life....

'About 5 p.m he was ordered to the place of ex*****on, the old market-house, the ground of which had been given to the town by his great-great-grandfather. I took his arm, and we walked together to the place of ex*****on, where I was told it was the Generals orders I should leave..'

With his death only moments away, Major Fox tried yet again to have Harry McCracken become informer, but once again he refused!...... and John Smith, himself only a boy at the time, recalls Harry's :
"....calm, serene countenance, on which the prospect of death seems to shed the radiance of glory.......the brave young fellow stood for a moment beneath the gallows, his eyes following the retreating figure of his devoted sister. He then turned his gaze upon the crowd and seemed as if he would address them.
Hoarse orders were given by the officers, the troops moved about, the people murmured, a horrible confusion ensued and in a minute or so the manly, handsome figure on which the impression of nobility was stamped, was dangling at a ropes end. The body was soon cut down and the only favour extended to it was the freedom from mutilation" {beheading}

Young Henry Joy has no statue or memorial at the sight of his ex*****on on High St....lets change that...join our campaign.

06/06/2024
19/05/2024

FOUR times Ulster Protestants changed their minds! From my chat with the brilliant - see you at ‘I Can’t Believe it’s Not Ireland’ everywhere in 2024 - tickets at paddycullivan.com.

15/04/2024
Great day out at Forest walking/hike tour. From lofty heights of now demolished big house at Belvoir (now a carpark) t...
15/04/2024

Great day out at Forest walking/hike tour. From lofty heights of now demolished big house at Belvoir (now a carpark) to the graves of Norman Knights, United Irishmen at the old & new grave 9pyards around an Bhréadach.
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12/03/2024

🔲 Final winter .
This coming Saturday 16th March @ 11.30am to 2pm. (Next one April)

▪️ We go on a journey of radical politics during the time of the Irish spreading from the Belfast dissenters throughout Ireland leading to rebellion in 1798.

▪️Meet @ St.Georges Church. High St. 'Blefuscu'.

The burial place of Henry Joy McCracken...it all starts there.



🟩Pay on arrival..or online..👇
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06/03/2024

⚫️ Make an afternoon of it folks for this historical event this Friday 8th March
It will be one to witness for posterity, so be there and join me beforehand if you wish.

⚫️ Meeting at 12noon St George's Church..top Of High Street...finish 1.30pm..ish at City Hall Belfast for the unveilings.
(Cost/ £10 pay on arrival)

"The radical Winnie & Mary Ann"

🔳We will cover the ideas of both of these fabulous women and how they shaped the future from 1798 to 1916!

☑️ DM please to confirm large party.(numbers are limited)

18/03/2023

“Unite the whole people of Ireland, abolish the memory if all past dissensions and substitute the common name of Irishman…in place of the denomination of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter” - Wolfe Tone 🍀💚

Lá Fhéile Pádraiga sona d

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🟩 The English had put down the #1798 rising with extreme viciousness, brutality and oppression to break the spirit of the Irish nation, that they should never dare to dream of liberty and self-determination again. They even banned the colour green which was a symbol of the United Irish movement of ‘98. Irish newspapers had to publish notices stating that for HM subjects to wear green as an emblem of political affection to Irelands independence was prohibited and that to do so would lead to imprisonment, transportation, the rope or the bayonet’ (“For they're hanging men and women for The wearing of the green”..) #NapperTandy Then they annexed Ireland to England in a corrupt and undemocratic ‘Act of Union’ via bribery in 1801, so that the Irish would no longer even have a country to fight for again. In desperation, one young man emerged, he’d contacted the leaders still at large, and planned to fight back in another strike for freedom for his country. Entering into alliance with the Napoleon’s minister #Tallyrand, he planned for another rising….. 🟩 The first republican blow for self determination against this 1801 ‘Act of Union’ with Britain was struck by the young Protestant patriot, the bold Robert Emmet…today in 1803. 💚 #enlightenment #Democracy (Narration Ronnie Drew)

Belfast's very own radical Presbyterian rebel patriot is hanged....... Mary Ann McCracken has left us a description of the last few minutes with her beloved brother Henry Joy's life.... 'About 5 p.m he was ordered to the place of execution, the old market-house, the ground of which had been given to the town by his great-great-grandfather. I took his arm, and we walked together to the place of execution, where I was told it was the Generals orders I should leave..' With his death only moments away, Major Fox tried yet again to have Harry McCracken become informer, but once again he refused!... .... and John Smith, himself only a boy at the time, recalls Harry's : "....calm, serene countenance, on which the prospect of death seems to shed the radiance of glory.......the brave young fellow stood for a moment beneath the gallows, his eyes following the retreating figure of his devoted sister. He then turned his gaze upon the crowd and seemed as if he would address them. Hoarse orders were given by the officers, the troops moved about, the people murmured, a horrible confusion ensued and in a minute or so the manly, handsome figure on which the impression of nobility was stamped, was dangling at a ropes end. The body was soon cut down and the only favour extended to it was the freedom from mutilation" {beheading} Young Henry Joy has no statue or memorial at the sight of his execution on High St....lets change that...join our campaign.

FOUR times Ulster Protestants changed their minds! From my chat with the brilliant @Seanofthesouth - see you at ‘I Can’t Believe it’s Not Ireland’ everywhere in 2024 - tickets at paddycullivan.com.

“Unite the whole people of Ireland, abolish the memory if all past dissensions and substitute the common name of Irishman…in place of the denomination of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter” - Wolfe Tone 🍀💚 Lá Fhéile Pádraiga sona d

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The Exchange/Assembly Rooms witnessed some key moments in Belfast’s illustrious history! #belfast #belfastcity #irishhistory#unitedirishmen #1798

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