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1798 Saintfield Walking Tour @1798saintfield.bsky.social · Sep 21

Brilliant craic today on our 1st Anniversary 1798 Walking Tour of Saintfield. Really enjoyed the interactions with this group of United Irishmen & women! #visitmourne

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History Lab Plus @historylabplus.bsky.social · Sep 11

As part of our Network Northern Ireland 2025 event @mauricejcasey.com will be hosting our latest History Open Mic Night w/ special guests at The Pavillion pub in Belfast. Open to all.

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1798 Saintfield Walking Tour @1798saintfield.bsky.social · Sep 4

💚 Thanks to everyone who’s walked with us this past year – you’ve kept Saintfield’s 1798 story alive!

🔁 Share this thread to spread the word & join us Sept 21st for our 1st anniversary tour 🎉

#Saintfield #1798Rebellion #visitmourne
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1798 Saintfield Walking Tour @1798saintfield.bsky.social · Sep 4

🙏 Huge thanks for all your support & the amazing reviews on TripAdvisor & Google!
⭐ Read them here: tinyurl.com/1798Saintfie...

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https://tinyurl.com/1798FiveStarRe…

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1798 Saintfield Walking Tour @1798saintfield.bsky.social · Sep 4

Since then, it’s been a joy meeting history buffs, curious wanderers & visitors from near and far. 💚

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1798 Saintfield Walking Tour @1798saintfield.bsky.social · Sep 4

🥳 We’re celebrating 1 year of the 1798 Saintfield Walking Tour!
From battlefields to hidden history, we’ve loved sharing Saintfield’s story in the 1798 Rebellion with you all. Here’s to the past, the present & many more walks ahead 👣

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1798 Saintfield Walking Tour @1798saintfield.bsky.social · Aug 29

In the @PlayhouseDerry doing some research. Really looking forward to seeing this & will be watching out for any references to 1798.

1798 Saintfield Walking Tour @1798saintfield.bsky.social · Aug 24

We had great craic today with this bunch of United Irishmen & women in the late summer, Saintfield sun. We also had our own Betsy Gray & the most distant visitor to date, OM, all the way from Stratford in London! #VisitMourne Our next tour is in September & 🎟️ 👉🏼 tinyurl.com/1798Saintfie...

1798 Saintfield Walking Tour @1798saintfield.bsky.social · Aug 23

I suspect it will require a revolution.

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1798 Saintfield Walking Tour @1798saintfield.bsky.social · Aug 20

This one. ~~Yes~~

1798 Saintfield Walking Tour @1798saintfield.bsky.social · Aug 17

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1798 Saintfield Walking Tour @1798saintfield.bsky.social · Aug 13

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · Aug 13

There's a REALLY quick and easy survey for the public consultation on the Basic Income for the Arts scheme - it only takes a few seconds, anyone can fill it in, and it could make a huge difference to arts workers in Ireland. Take a few ticks to places a few ticks here: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

Screenshot of the first two questions in the survey - there's only six to answer.

#SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art

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1798 Saintfield Walking Tour @1798saintfield.bsky.social · Aug 10

The 1798 Rebellion tour is running less than a year, but is already rated by travellers as the #1 thing to do in Saintfield. Join us on Sunday 24th August to hear about the history of revolution here. tinyurl.com/1798Saintfie...

1798 Saintfield Walking Tour @1798saintfield.bsky.social · Jul 27

Many thanks for the share @bi99le5.bsky.social. The tour is proving to be popular and well-received: www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_R...

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1798 Saintfield Walking Tour @1798saintfield.bsky.social · Jul 27

Many thanks to Wexford blacksmith Finin Christie for making this replica pike & to local Permaculture farmer & environmental educator, Phillip Allen for fashioning the 10 yr old hazel rod for the shaft! We’ve tix left for our next tour on Sun 24th Aug, so grab one here: tinyurl.com/1798Saintfie...

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Claire Mitchell @clairemitchell.bsky.social · Jul 20

This is a brilliant tour for any 1798 heads, or anyone just interested in the history of Saintfield. A full review would ruin all the little surprises Mark, the tour guide, has built in. It’s really worth your time.

1798 Saintfield Walking Tour @1798saintfield.bsky.social · Jul 20

Really enjoyed today’s walk with this band of United Irishmen & women! Delighted to have @clairemitchell.bsky.social with us & share her Ghost Limb story. Grab a copy of her book here: www.beyondthepalebooks.com/shopnewbooks...

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1798 Saintfield Walking Tour @1798saintfield.bsky.social · Jul 20

Really enjoyed today’s walk with this band of United Irishmen & women! Delighted to have @clairemitchell.bsky.social with us & share her Ghost Limb story. Grab a copy of her book here: www.beyondthepalebooks.com/shopnewbooks...

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1798 Saintfield Walking Tour @1798saintfield.bsky.social · Jun 27

Take 10 minutes out of your evening to read about the Great Hunger in Newtownards. A superb short film 👏👏👏. Ad Prof Kinealy’s research has shown ( www.qu.edu/faculty-and-...), the situation in Down was much worse during the famine than is usually acknowledged.

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1798 Saintfield Walking Tour @1798saintfield.bsky.social · May 25

We’ve sold out our Saintfield 1798 Anniversary Walking Tour for the evening of June 9th. However, if you want to join us on the afternoon of Sunday 8th, grab the last few tickets here to see where rebels rose, pikes clashed and history was made. 🎟️👉 tinyurl.com/1798Saintfie...

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1798 Saintfield Walking Tour @1798saintfield.bsky.social · May 2

*Pikes, Plots & Presbyterians*
Step into 1798 on May 18th with the Saintfield Walking Tour to see where rebels rose, pikes clashed, and history was made.
Frenetic, fiery and full of surprises, walk the Revolution with 🎟️👉 www.1798Saintfield.com

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · Apr 26

(Sorry for briefly spamming my own prints on here, but unfortunately it's still necessary to make some sort of tenuous living from drawing due to a significant delay in successfully wooing a wealthy bachelor farmer and being whisked off in his John Deere to a life of diamond-encrusted wellies)

Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · Feb 18

A cost-of-living crisis isn't the easiest time to sell art, but: www.ciaraioch.com is where you can support my work, with each archival-quality print on textured heavy paper being produced here in Ireland, shipping internationally in eco-friendly packaging, with free mini-treats in every order 🎁

Collage of different prints from my online store

Close up of the Irish Aquatic Life print

Linocut print of Men Of The Blaskets, with small flowers beside it

Imbolc print next to purple flowers

#speirgorm #speirghorm #art #traditionalart #artist

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1798 Saintfield Walking Tour @1798saintfield.bsky.social · Apr 20

and who, after unfurling the standard of rebellion in their own countries, may come hither to revolutionize ours.” By August 1798, 4 pieces of legislation called the Alien & Sedition acts came into force and anyone who was deemed a danger was deported. tinyurl.com/1798Acts 2/2

Those “Wild Irishmen” and the Alien and Sedition Acts - Mathew Carey

Those “Wild Irishmen” and the Alien and Sedition Acts

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1798 Saintfield Walking Tour @1798saintfield.bsky.social · Apr 20

Did you know that the 1798 Alien & Sedition Act currently in the news in the USA has a United Irishmen connection? At the time thousands emigrated to the USA but the Irish were described as a “mass of vicious and disorganizing characters who can not live peaceably at home.. 1/2

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1798 Saintfield Walking Tour @1798saintfield.bsky.social · Apr 18

I’d appreciate a share on this one 🙏. I’m trying to find the lyrics of “The Ballad of Samuel Jamison”. They were published by Hugh Shields in 1972 in an article called ‘Some songs and ballads in use in the province of Ulster’ in Ulster Folklife Volume 18 (pp 34-65). Haven’t been able to get a copy.