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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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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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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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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of the United Irishmen leader, Henry Joy McCracken. He was born in Belfast, son of Henry Joy and grandson of Francis Joy; his mother was Barbara Dunbar...
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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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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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Belfast medicine"), and the siblings Mary Ann, and Henry Joy, McCracken. In 1788, the McCrackens were to attempt a school of their own for the poor,...
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also involved in cotton manufacture with the Joy and McCracken families. Along with the Joys and the McCrackens, he was also a member of the First Presbyterian...
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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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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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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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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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currently home to Henry's Pub (formerly McCracken's) – named after Henry Joy McCracken, an Irish Presbyterian and a leading member in the north of Ireland...
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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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after the initial rising in the south, Graham received orders from Henry Joy McCracken who in the confusion had taken command in County Antrim: "Army of...
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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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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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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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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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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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Francis Needham were to assault Vinegar Hill, while the fourth column, led by Henry Johnson, was to capture the rebel-town of Enniscorthy and a nearby bridge...
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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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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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of the National Literary Club, a clandestine IRB group, and the Henry Joy McCracken Literary Society alongside Alice Milligan and Anna Johnston (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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Protestant background, such as Wolfe Tone, Edward FitzGerald and Henry Joy McCracken. In collaboration with the French Republic, they sought to set up...
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execution in July 1798, Henry Joy McCracken passed through his cell window a ring taken from his hand to his sister Mary Ann McCracken inscribed on the inside...
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