Henry Joy McCracken
(1767-1798)

Died aged c. 31

Henry Joy McCracken (31 August 1767 – 17 July 1798) was an Irish republican, a leading member of the Society of the United Irishmen and a commander of their forces in the field in the Rebellion of 1798. In pursuit of an independent and democratic Irish republic, he sought to ally the disaffected Presbyterians organised in the Society with the Catholic Defenders, and in 1798 to lead their combined forces in Antrim against the British Crown. Following the defeat and dispersal of the rebels under his command, McCracken was court-martialled and executed in Belfast.

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Henry Joy McCracken 1767-1798 United Irishman born in a house near this site

37 High Street, Belfast, United Kingdom where they was born (1767)

Henry Joy McCracken radical Belfast Presbyterian hanged at Cornmarket for leading the United Irishmen at the Battle of Antrim 7th June 1798. "Faithful to the last"

Masonic Hall, Rosemary Street, Belfast, United Kingdom where they hanged near (1798)