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    Henry Joy McCracken (31 August 1767 – 17 July 1798) was an Irish republican executed in Belfast for his part in leading United Irishmen in the Rebellion...
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    Letter to Henry Joy McCracken 2 June 1797. McNeill (1960), p. 142. McWilliams (2021), p. 132 Gray (2020), pp. 11-12 Letter Henry Joy McCracken, October...
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    1721) June 29 – Catharina Mulder, Dutch orangist (b. 1723) July 17 – Henry Joy McCracken, Irish republican July 21 – François Sébastien Charles Joseph de...
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  • dancer, choreographer, composer, and playwright (died 1820) 1767 – Henry Joy McCracken, Irish businessman and activist, founded the Society of United Irishmen...
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  • Henry Joy may refer to: Henry Joy McCracken (1767–1798), Irish republican Henry Bourne Joy (1864–1936), American entrepreneur & activist Henry L. Joy...
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  • of PC World Harry McCracken (footballer), Northern Irish footballer Henry Joy McCracken (1767–1798), Irish rebel Henry Noble McCracken (1880-1970), American...
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  • Rebellion of 1798 between British troops and Irish insurgents led by Henry Joy McCracken. The British won the battle, beating off a rebel attack on Antrim...
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    largest woollen warehouse in Belfast, was in the Second Church; Henry Joy McCracken, born into the town's leading fortunes in shipping and linen-manufacture...
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  • active in the Society of the United Irishmen and was hanged with Henry Joy McCracken for leading rebels at the Battle of Antrim. The Society of United...
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    the United Irishmen. In the Rebellion of 1798 he fought alongside Henry Joy McCracken at the Battle of Antrim. In 1803 he attempted to renew the insurrection...
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    Courthouse (now the Town Hall) and in 1798 United Irish founder Henry Joy McCracken was captured on the outskirts of the town while trying to escape...
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    1881-82 when he signed the Kilmainham Treaty with William Gladstone. Henry Joy McCracken, 1796 Rev. Sinclair Kelburn, 1797 Oliver Bond, 1798 (Bond, a native...
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    Irish Rebellion of 1798 (category Henry Benedict Stuart)
    colonels turned to the young Henry Joy McCracken. Fearful that the "hope of a union with the south" was otherwise lost, McCracken proclaimed the First Year...
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    Henry Joy McCracken was tried on Ann Street. When the Crown Prosecutor offered him his life in exchange for the names of the other rebel leaders, McCraken...
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  • participated. In 1792, founding Belfast Reading Society members Henry Joy McCracken and Dr. James McDonnel called on the Harpers Assembly in Belfast to revive...
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    republicans throughout the province. In 1798 the United Irishmen, led by Henry Joy McCracken, launched a rebellion in Ulster, mostly supported by Presbyterians...
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  • Henry Joy McCracken's GFC Moneymore (Irish: CLG Mhic Reachtáin, Muine Mór) is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Moneymore, County Londonderry...
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    meeting place for Henry Joy McCracken and the United Irishmen when they were planning the 1798 Rising. The story goes that McCracken hid behind the bar...
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    open the Defenders to trusted republicans. Although James Hope and Henry Joy McCracken did much to reach out to the Defenders in Armagh, recognising the...
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  • aristocrats. The key founders included Wolfe Tone, Thomas Russell, Henry Joy McCracken, James Napper Tandy, and Samuel Neilson. By 1797, the Society of...
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    other members of the movement's Ulster executive, Samuel Neilson, Henry Joy McCracken and Robert Simms, took the celebrated pledge "never to desist in...
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  • players of the clàrsach. It is organised by Dr. James McDonnell, Robert Bradshaw and Henry Joy McCracken in the Assembly Rooms, Belfast, and Edward Bunting...
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    spirit of her previous mistress Mary Ann McCracken (1770–1866). McCracken was the devoted sister of Henry Joy McCracken, the United Irish leader executed in...
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  • Jimmy McGovern's 2021 prison drama Time, and an unnamed character in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Harden's stage credits include Henry Joy McCracken in Stewart...
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    Joseph Holt Henry Joy McCracken John Moore John Murphy Wolfe Tone French leaders Jean Joseph Amable Humbert Jean-Baptiste-François Bompart Henry O'Keane British...
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    produced the Northern Patriot, the journal of the commemorative Henry Joy McCracken Literary Society. But after just four issues, she was dismissed....
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    Francis Joy, founder of The Belfast News Letter, and his grandson Henry Joy McCracken, after whom the pub is named. An Entry just off Ann Street. Castle Arcade...
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    Institution (RBAI) Mary Ann McCracken (1766–1866), United Irishwoman, social activist, abolitionist, sister of Henry Joy McCracken hanged 1798. (Statue at...
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    graveyard in Henry Place houses the graves of many people prominent in Belfast's history, most notably United Irishman Henry Joy McCracken The area is...
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    to Kilmainham Gaol, sharing a cell with prominent United Irishman Henry Joy McCracken. According to the 1911 census for Ireland, Crawford was living in...
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