1558 - 1560 AD
1558 AD Mary 1st the Welsh Tudor Catholic English Queen together with her husband Phillip 11 the King of Spain made a combined attack on France where they were defeated, and she lost the previous English held territory there at Calais, and shortly after this she was to die suddenly and things were to go from bad to worse for Ireland once again as her half - sister, Elizabeth 1st became the Welsh Tudor Queen of England. who was the 25 year old second daughter of Henry VIII and Ann Boleyn who he had previously beheaded. Although Henry V111 had previously had her declared illegitimate and illegal she would now become the overall ruler in England until 1603 AD and also create 6 Rebellions in Ireland against her terrible ethnic and religious sectarian "Slash and Burn" rule and would fell all of the Irish forests to build her fleet of ships.
123.Conor
O Brien,
the nephew of
122.Donnell
O Brian, and the son of
the late
122.Donough
-
the Fat
O Brien
who
had previously been the appointed English second Earl of Thomond, was
now created the
English third Earl
of Thomond, who from
now on like his father before him only acted as an English lackey
for the
English authorities in the
Dublin Castle
(The Devil' 1/2 acre) and he was even given
English Militia to protect him
and he took no further part in the struggle by his own
Dalcassian / Dal
gCais people to oust the ongoing ethnic and religious oppression in
Ireland.
Elizabeth
1st the
Welsh Tudor English Queen had sent her favourite, Sir
Walter Deveroux the
English
Earl of Essex to
Ireland to increase the pressure on the
Irish
Septs
and he arrived with an English Militia into
Co. Clare in the north -
west of the Munster Province were
he secured the Heberian Dal gCais Ui mBriain
O Brian castles
at
Bunratty,
Clare and
Clonroad in
Ennis
as
122.Donnell O Brian
the Dalcassian
nominated
leader as the
Tanaiste / Prince
of
Northern Munster
/
Thomond also offered no resistance
against him and went instead, for his own personal protection, to the north -
west to the
The Maguire the Heremonian
Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn
Colla Da Crioch
Chieftain, who had his territory at
Belcoo
in
Co. Fermanagh
in the south - west of the
Ulster Province.
(Later on 122.Donnell
O Brian,
although he was the nominated future leader / Tanaiste of the
Dal
gCais Sept, was to also be eventually knighted as
Sir
Donnell O Brien
for his services to the English
cause). This would leave the
Dalcassian
Septs in
Co.
Clare
totally
leaderless, as they had recognised him as their Prince
/ heir apparent to become the
future
King of
Northern Munster, but he too was
to completely sell out his own
Irish
people, his Heberian Dal gCais
ancestors, and Ireland
as a whole, to become just another "survivor" and English
"puppet." After
1,500 years the
Irish
Heberian Dal gCais
kingdom of Thomond
/ Northern Munster
was done away with in one foul swoop, which had initially originated from
85.Cormac Cas
- of the Curly Hair, the second son of
84.Ailill
/ Oilioll
Oluimm the Heberian
1st King
of Munster. (Sir
Donnell
O Brien would
now go on to found the
English
Episcopalian
O
Briens at Ennistymon
in Co. Clare).
The
Dalcassian
Septs
were now
in a really desperate situation, and
rebellion broke out
among them,
when
the 2 sons of
121.Murrough O Brian, the two brothers,
122.Donough
O Brien and
122.Teague O Brien,
called for assistance from their Anglo - Norman kinsman,
Fitz Gerald
the
English Earl of Desmond who had his
stronghold at the old
Carrigafoyle
Castle,
which previously had belonged to the Gaelic
Milesian Irian
O
Connor Kerry
who had their kngdom and territory at
Bally
Longford in
Co. Kerry
in the south - west of the
Munster Province.
Donnell
Mac Carthy / The Mac Carthy Mor the
Heberian
Eoghanacht Chaisil Chieftain, descended from
85.Eoghan
Mor - the Greater, the oldest
son of
84.Ailill
/ Oilioll
Oluimm the
1st King
of Munster,
125.Fearadorach
/ an Fear Dorcha O Niall,
died, who had been appointed by the English the first English Baron of
Dungannon, who was the illegitimate older son of
124.Conn
Bacach
O Niall
the
Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill
Cenel nEogain Chieftain who had p[reviously been the
The
O Niall
who
had also become the English
first Earl
of Tyrone in the Ulster Province.
(125.Fearadorach O Niaill's
mother had been the blacksmith’s wife).
125.Fearadorach O Niaill had married Judith the
daughter of Cu Connacht
Magennis from the
Gaelic Milesiasn
Irian Sept in
Iveagh in Ulster
Province and produced
126.Brian O Niall who became
the second English Baron of Dungannon who was to be slain in
1561 AD, and
126.Aed Dubh
/ Black Hugh O Niall
who
had been reared in England for an English Purpose and who was to also be the English
third Earl of Dungannon
and later on the
second English Earl of Tyrone.
Despite his previous strong English
upbringing by the English,
126.Aed Dubh
/ Black Hugh O Niall would eventually ally with
his brother - in - law, the young Aed
Ruadh
/ Red Hugh
O Donnell
who would become
The O Donnell
later on in his own right, and both
would try and drive the
English out of
Ireland
altogether,
after 126.Aed Dubh / Black Hugh O Niall would eventually come to realise his real Irish heritage and
what was really going on in Ireland
under Elizabeth 1st,
and he too would eventually attain the position of the
The O Niall,
and possibly come close to the Kingship of Ireland.
Conor an Chuam O Kennedy was
now
John Mac Coghlan, the son of Art Mac Coughlan, the son of Cormac Mac Coughlan, the Prince / Tanaiste of Delvin in Co. Offaly, was to attend Sir John Perrot's Parliament.
1559 AD Sir Henry Sidney, Elizabeth 1st's English Lord Deputy in Ireland, set about with a vengeance devastating the Munster Province, and also some parts of the Leinster Province, and the Connacht Province.
The territories of the Heberian Eoghanacht Mac Ellicott's / Mac Gillycuddys / O Sullivans in Listowel and Tralee were confiscated by the English in Co. Kerry in Desmond / Southern Munster.
122.Conor
O Brien
the English appointed third Earl of Thomond
in Co. Clare,
who was
supported by English Militia attacked
122,Donough
O Brian, the
son of
121.Murrough
O Brian), at his
Inchiquin
Castle near
Corofin in
Co. Clare in the north - west of the Munster
Province, but his kinsman
the Anglo - Norman
Fitz Gerald the
English Earl of
Desmond was to arrive in time to save him so
122.Conor O Brian then went to get
Mac William
/ Burke
/ de Burgh
the Anglo - Norman
Earl of Clann
Rickarde to join in with him against
122.Donough O Brian, and with their combined forces they went into battle against
him
and his brother
122.Teague O Brian, at
Spancilhill near Clooney - Quin above the town of
Ennis. They were eventually defeated in what was to be a terrible bloody
battle, and many of the
Dalcassians
who were now in a quandary, on both sides, as to who was right and who was wrong, were to
die there, which once again only served the English purpose.
Not long after this 122.Conor O Brien the English third Earl of Thomond supported by English Militia decided to raid the country outside of Co. Clare, but quickly returned when he was advised that 122.Donnell O Brian had also returned from the north from the protection of The Maguire who had his kingdom and territory to the north - west in Co. Fermanagh in the south - west of the Ulster Province, and was now combined with 122.Donough O Brian and 122.Teague O Brian from Inchiquin Castle in Co. Clare who had begun to carry out raids already throughout Co. Clare itself. They attacked the Mac Namara’s Heberian Dal gCais Ui Caisin Clan Cuilen Rossroe Castle at Six Mile Bridge as they acted as the O Brian Lord Marshalls, and as this was where122.Conor O Brien the English third Earl was residing, they also burnt the town there and killed over 100 of his men. Although they had by now been fairly successful, they also found themselves under attack from all sides, and in desperation crossed over the River Fergus were they obtained galloglasses / mercenaries from the Heremonian Ui Conaire Muscraige O Sheehys and the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain Mac Sweeneys. 122.Conor O Brien the English third Earl of Thomond who was also supported by English Military artillery bombarded the Ballyalla Castle, and the Heberian Dal gCais Septs in Co. Clare now became even further split between these two Heberian Ui mBriain Dalcassian forces who they had previously regarded as their leaders. 122.Conor O Brien was now able to hold onto the town of Ennis and the territory to the east in Co. Clare as far as the River Shannon, which was in the Mac Namara's territory. 122.Donough O Brian and 122.Teague O Brian, the sons of 121.Murrough - the Tannist O Brian, held onto the west of Co. Clare, and all of this internal Heberian Dal gCais confusion among the Heberian Dal gCais Septs there, once again, only contributed further to the cause of the English, to divide and conquer and the further decline of the Gaelic Septs as a whole.
124.Conn Bacach O Niall, the son of 123.Conn Mor O Niall, the previous overall leader of the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain Sept, had previously submitted to Henry V111 and agreed to take up English customs and their language, and this meant that under English serfdom his eldest son would now assume the English title after him and also the leadership of the O Nialls of Ulster Province, which actually went against the Irish Brehon Law of election within 4 generations of an outstanding leader. 125.Shane O Niaill - the Proud, his younger legitimate son, had been elected as the Tanaiste / heir apparent under the Irish Brehon Law by the Cenel nEogain Septs, 125.Fearadorach O Niall the oldest son, whose mother was the blacksmith's wife, was proclaimed illegitimate and killed, and his father, 124.Conn Bacach O Niall, who had taken up the English title of the first Earl of Tyrone, was driven out of Tir Eogain / Tyrone and died soon after in the confines of The English Pale surrounding Dublin, whch at this time only had an English Military force of 2,000 men. 125.Shane O Niall - the Proud, was to become The O Niall in his own right and 15,000 Scottish - Irish mercenaries / galloglasses were to be brought over from Kintyre and Islay, and included among these were the Campbells, the Mac Leans, the Mac Leods and the Mac Kays, while 125.Shane O Niall also armed all of the Irish Septs within his territory and he refused to speak English and became a standout champion for the cause of the Irish Septs there in Ulster against Elizabeth 1st's continual ethnic and religious oppression, spurning all English titles, and became "England's Greatest Fear." 124.Conn Bacach O Niaill his father, had been a brother to 124.Art O Niall the father of 125.Turlough Luineach O Niall who was also to become The O Niall in the future, as an English "puppet" for the Dublin Castle (The Devil's 1/2 acre).125.Shane O Niall - the Proud was to be the last true Irish Chieftain under the Irish Brehon Law from his particular Cenel nEogain Sept. and he had his fortress situated to the south of the River Laggan at Newtownbreda in Co. Down on the Co. Antrim border in the Ulster Province. 125.Shane O Niall as The O Niall then destroyed the castle at Newry in Co. Down in Ulster, but he was still being impeded in his attempts to drive out the English Military forces there in Ulster by Sir Henry Sidney, Elizabeth 1st's Lord Deputy in Ireland, (Meanwhile in Southern Leinster, Owen Rory O More the Gaelic Milesian Irian Chief had also defeated Sir Walter Deveroux the English Earl of Essex who was Elizabeth 1st's favourite, in a battle at Cloneagh in his Sept's territory in Co. Laois in the mid - west of Southern Leinster).
125.Shane O Niaill / The O Niall who was now the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niall Cenel Eogain King of Ulster finally defeated his main opposition in the Ulster Province, Calvagh O Donnell / The O Donnell the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel Conaill King and took him prisoner to gain overall Irish authority in the Ulster Province.
The English
Bagenals
/ Bagnalls took up residence at
what is now
Bagenalstown
/
Muine Bheag on confiscated Estates in
Co. Carlow on the
Barrow River in
Southern Leinster, near
the boundary of
Co. Kilkenny
in the south - west of
Southern Leinster,
where members of their family would eventually play a big part in the Irish Catholic cause in
Ireland
in the
future.
During this period Peter Lombard who was the Catholic Primate of Ireland had to reside in Rome for his own safety, while the Catholic Bishop of Derry was able to continue to ride around the Ulster Province despite the constant threat to his life from the English authorities in the Dublin Castle (The Devil's 1/2 Acre.)
Elizabeth 1st the Welsh Tudor English Queen re - established the
Ascendancy of the Episcopalian Church of
England by restoring the prayer book of 1552 AD and her Religious Supremacy, not only in England, but also
in Ireland,
which the
Irish simply ignored
and her only chance of gaining religious Supremacy in Ireland was
just like her father had done by carrying out wide spread genocide
as
Irish roots were too strong, and their Celtic culture too deep rooted, so
coercion and genocide became the order of the day as this was the only way
Elizabeth 1st knew for
the people of Ireland. Her policy of surrender and
regrant also only brought about decay, as the Irish Brehon Law
was concerned with people, not things!! and
during her long running oppressive reign she too was always backed up by those who lived in fear of
having to return their ill - gotten gains and confiscated land holdings to their rightful owners, both
in England and Ireland. Coupled with continuing outright oppression, based on both
ethnicity and sectarianism, she was to
bring about
6
individual Irish Rebellions
against her rule in
Ireland, known as the
Elizabethan Wars. A couple
of positive results of this, was that it was to increase the
number of fast Irish
light horsemen /
marchi
who were also to gain a better knowledge of their own countryside, and it was to also
bind the total
Irish
population both Irish and Anglo
- Norman / Old English much closer
together. She was to use only
English
public servants to try and govern
Ireland,
together with an English Military force, and also put immense pressure on
those who held to their
Catholic faith, who were always kept strong by
Jesuit
and
Franciscan friars, who Elizabeth 1st came to detest for their resistance to her ongoing repression.
1560 AD
Elizabeth 1st the Welsh Tudor Queen of England had English Acts of
Religious Supremacy and Uniformity over the Catholic religion of the people of
Ireland passed, and further moves were
begun to extend the English
Episcopalian Ascendancy influence of the Church of England throughout
Ireland, and
she decreed that all
Catholic Bishops
and clergy were to leave
Ireland
under pain of death, but despite this threat hundreds still remained to
minister to the Irish Septs and Anglo
-
Norman
/ Old English
and t