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Henry Joy McCracken (1767-1798) : United Irishmen

09/04/2017

Henry Joy McCracken (1767-1798) : United Irishmen The United Irishmen was a society dedicated originally to the reform of the Irish constitution, including granting the franchise to Catholics, and later to republican revolution. It was founded in Belfast in November 1791 by a small group of young radicals, most of them Protestant, including Theobald Wolfe Tone, William Drennan, Thomas Russell and Samuel McTier. It soon extended to Dublin and remained an active though small part of political life until…

Clonard Monastery and Church: City of Belfast

01/03/2013

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The Redemptorists are a congregation of priests and brothers living in a monastic community. They were founded in 1732 in the Kingdom of Naples at a village called Scala on the Amalfi Coast by a Neapolitan priest Alphonsus Maria de Liguori (1696-1787). Shocked by the ignorance and spiritual neglect of the local herdsmen and their families, despite their proximity to the great city of Naples, Alphonsus resolved to minister to them and other ‘most abandoned souls’. For fifty years…