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#YoungIrelanders

The first unveiling of the Irish Tricolour by Thomas Francis Meagher at 33 the Mall in Waterford city took place on 7th March 1848. Meagher was an Irish nationalist and leader of the Young Irelanders in the Rebellion of 1848.

#Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishTricolour #ThomasFrancisMeagher #Waterford #YoungIrelanders #OnThisDay

Photograph of 33 the Mall in Waterford city flying the Irish Tricolour.

Bothwell in the central highlands of #Tasmania - home to the exiled John Mitchel and John Martin in the early 1850s #YoungIrelanders #Bothwell

Castle Inn Bothwell - Mitchel briefly lodged here

Old General Store - Martin and Mitchel lived above it for some time

Memorial Garden in ‘Croakers Lane’ with a ‘Newry Link’. The police post where Mitchel returned his ticket of leave before escaping to the US in 1853 was here

Nant Cottage , 3 miles outside Bothwell on a sheep farm - Mitchel and a Martin lived here after they were joined by Jenny Mitchel and children

Many thanks to Liz and Rob Virtue for the tour of historic Glen Derwent - previously Elwin’s Hotel, home to the exiled William Smith O’Brien 1850-3 #Tasmania #NewNorfolk #YoungIrelanders

Rob and Liz standing on the steps of Glen Derwent House (c.1818)

The restored Georgian sitting room of Glen Derwent - where Smith O’Brien took his breakfast?

View of the house - the gardens are also home to a flock of peacocks

Rob shows us the first sandstone house, built by ‘First Fleeter’ James Cullen and his wife Elizabeth (just returned from Norfolk Island) in 1808

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