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As part of the programme to commemorate 1798 Bob Armstrong, Secretary of the Abbey Historical Society and Archie Reid, Secretary of Ballyclare and District Historical Society took a group of fifty on a one day tour of sites in County Antrim associated with the rising. The climax was the laying of flowers by the Lady Mayoress of Newtownabbey on the grave of Jemmy Hope who was one of the leaders.