#OTD in 1764 – Birth of United Irishmen Leader, James Hope, in Templepatrick, Co Antrim.

25/08/2023.Reading time 4 minutes.

James “Jemmy” Hope fought in the 1798 and 1803 rebellions against British rule in Ireland and born to a Presbyterian family originally of Covenanter stock. He was apprenticed as a linen weaver but attended night school in his spare time. Influenced by the American Revolution, he joined the Irish Volunteers, but upon the demise of […]

#OTD in 1798 – Death of James Dickey, an Ulster Presbyterian barrister of the Society of the United Irishmen.

26/06/2023.Reading time 4 minutes.

Dickey was captured by the Sutherland fencibles on the Divis Mountain where he hid out. He was court-martialled and hanged at Corn Market, Belfast. Famously; before his hanging Dickey refused to wear a black hood saying to the hangman, “Sir, don’t cover my face!” According to local legend he shouted, “Don’t think gentlemen, I am […]

#OTD in 1795 – Death of Reverend William Jackson of the United Irishmen Society.

30/04/2023.Reading time 2 minutes.

Reverend William Jackson returns from France, unaware that his travelling companion, John Cockayne, is a spy; Jackson is arrested and found guilty of high treason; he commits suicide in the dock by taking poison. Jackson had liaised between France and United Irishmen leaders in an effort to get support for an Irish rebellion. Betrayed by […]

#OTD in 1771 – Birth in Dublin of Thomas Reynolds, United Irishman whose information enabled authorities to arrest Leinster Committee in 1798.

09/03/2023.Reading time 1 minute.

Thomas Reynolds was a United Irishman whose information enabled authorities to arrest Leinster Committee in 1798. It was as a direct result of a crucial meeting at Frescati on 24 February 1798, that Lord Edward Fitzgerald’s revolutionary plans were betrayed by Thomas Reynolds. By March 1798, the United Irishmen had been infiltrated by spies. At […]

#OTD in Irish History | 28 December:

28/12/2022.Reading time 8 minutes.

In the Liturgical Calendar, today is the Feast of the Holy Innocents and, in Irish folklore, it was very unlucky to start something new. It was also believed that whichever day of the week the feast fell, that day would be unlucky throughout the following year. 1673 – Birth of Marmaduke Coghill (in Dublin), lawyer, […]

#OTD in 1809 – Opening of Nelson’s Pillar in the middle of O’Connell Street (formerly Sackville Street) in Dublin.

21/10/2022.Reading time 5 minutes.

It was built in 1808–1809, and was among the first and grandest monuments erected in memory of Nelson in the ‘THEN’ United Kingdom. It surprisingly survived until March 1966, when it was destroyed by a bomb planted by Irish republicans. Today the Spire of Dublin stands on its former ground. It was opened to the […]

#OTD in 1798 – French fleet intercepted off Donegal and Wolfe Tone is captured when the Hoche strikes its colours.

12/10/2022.Reading time 2 minutes.

“To unite Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter under the common name of Irishmen in order break the connection with England, the never-failing source of all our political evils, that was my aim”.” –Theobald Wolfe Tone Theobald Wolfe Tone was one of the founders of the United Irishmen. In efforts to free Ireland from English rule, he […]

#OTD in 1764 – Birth of United Irishmen Leader, James Hope, in Templepatrick, Co Antrim.

25/08/2022.Reading time 4 minutes.

#OTD in 1798 – Death of James Dickey, an Ulster Presbyterian barrister of the Society of the United Irishmen.

26/06/2022.Reading time 4 minutes.

#OTD in 1795 – Death of Reverend William Jackson of the United Irishmen Society.

30/04/2022.Reading time 2 minutes.

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#OTD in 1809 – Opening of Nelson’s Pillar in the middle of O’Connell Street (formerly Sackville Street) in Dublin.

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