Fave anecdote from the period that the United Irishmen were being established in 1791 is the one about how the first time Wolfe Tone and Thomas Russell went to church in Belfast the reverend got up there and instantly starting railing about how everyone there was going to hell forever and ever if they ever smuggled anything and everyone there was used to it because that's just what church was like in Belfast and presumably didn't react except for Tone and Russell who were from Dublin and Cork respectively and who were sitting there like hey. hey w. what the hell
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#OTD in 1798 – United Irish Rebellion begins in Wexford and in Leinster.
The short-lived, brutal 1798 Rebellion instigated by the United Irishmen commences when on the night of the 23rd May, the mail coaches leaving Dublin were seized – as a signal to those United Irishmen outside the capital that the time of the uprising had arrived.
Founded in 1791, The United Irishmen had been inspired by the French Revolution. Led by Theobald Wolfe Tone, Thomas Russell, Henry Joy…
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Illustrations from Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur by William Russell Flint (1911)
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I hate to be that person but are we ready for the new wave of fans this movie will bring? I’m not talking about the people that will start watching f1 because of it, but the ones that will be launching themselves on the social media platforms with new usernames and profile pictures thinking they are better than you and that they know everything about f1 like the kids that watched Hamilton once and were convinced they knew everything there’s to know about American history
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Top 10 favorite comic book Robin designs:
Tim Drake, "One Year Later"
Dick Grayson, Dan Mora's World's Finest
Tom Wayne, Robin 3000
Damian Wayne, grey suit by Gleb Melnikov
Duke Thomas, We Are Robin
Jason Todd, by Dexter Soy
Matt McGinnis, Batman Beyond
Jarro, Scott Snyder's Justice League of America
Talia Kane, Earth 11
Jason Todd, Original suit and with red hair
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There Will Be Blood - 2007 - Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
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Thomas Russell kept a journal which I would love to read but the only way I've found to access it is by buying a weirdly expensive copy of an edition published by the Irish Academic Press in 1991. unfair
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#OTD in 1764 – Birth of United Irishmen Leader, James Hope, in Templepatrick, Co Antrim.
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 that organisation and further influenced by the French Revolution,…
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Illustration from Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur by W. Russell Flint (1910)
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Bellah's Masterlist 🪻
Hey babes! I'm back again, and with another masterlist for now 🤍
You can leave your requests here, and i'll try my best to respond to all of them!
Love ya xoxo
*Smut
Tom Holland 🍵
You can leave the glasses on
Needy*
Only you, my girl. Only you babe
The hot interviewer
Late night notification*
Photobooth
Bed Chem*
Peter Parker🕸️
Don't Tell 'Em
Princess Leia Situation
Don't you know*know*
April’s Fool
Nathan Drake 🗺️
Fill Up the Room
Money make her smile*
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“glad to be back with my pal” 🥺
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Love when my favorite actors are unproblematic. Makes me feel superior in a way
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