1581 - 1585 AD  --   The Fitz Gerald Dynasty Ends

1581 AD 123.Conor O Brien the English appointed third Earl of Thomond, a son of Donough - the Fat O Brien the previous second English appointed Earl of Thomond, died at 45 years of age, and his body was interred in the Ennis Abbey in Co. Clare in the north - west of the Munster Province and 124.Donough O Brien, his eldest son, became the next English fourth Earl of Thomond who had been educated in England as an Ascendancy Episcopalian for an English purpose and this was to mean that both he and his father were to do nothing in support of the Dalcassian people in the kingdom of Thomond / Northern Munster, as they continued on only acting as "lackeys" for the English authorities in the Dublin Castle (The Devil's 1/2 acre).

      Elizabeth 1st the Welsh Tudor English Queen now instructed Captain Malby her English President / Governor in the Connacht Province to divide Co. Clare into English Baronies, and the town of Ennis was chosen to carry out the English Assizes once again against the Gaelic Milesian Irish Heberian Dal gCais Septs not only there but also in the north - west of there, and he was also to destroy the Moygara Castle with the assistance of Scottish mercenaries in the kingdom and territory of the Heberian Cianacht O Garas, the Kings of Moygara and Coolavin in Co. Sligo in the mid - west of Connacht. Malby's son, much later on in the early 17th Century AD would be killed in a battle at Aughrim there in Co. Galway in Southern Connacht by Donnell Cam O Sullivan who would then be the Heberian Eoghanacht CHaisil King of Beare Haven whose kingdom and territory would be in Co. Cork in Southern Munster, from which he would by then be also driven out of by the continuing English ethnic and sectarian onslaught on the Munster Province at that particular time, and 1,000 members of the Clann O Sullivan, then including men, women and children, would be on their way up to the Ulster Province in the north of Ireland, while trying desperately to escape the English savagery and their unbelievable inhumane brutality being carried out at that time also on the Irish Families and Anglo - Irish / Old English population there in the Munster Province. At that particular period in time Donnell Cam O Sullivan during the long march to the north with his 1,000 followers would be hoping to escape the incessant slaughter ,and join up with, and receive, the protection of 126.Aedh Dubh / Black Hugh O Niall who would by then be the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain King who after finding out his true Irish heritage would be carrying out the Sixth Irish Rebellion and the last of that period against the never ending ethnic and sectarian agrivations of Elizabeth 1st the Welsh Tudor English Queen, throughout Ireland.

       Donough Beg - the Small O Brian had taken part in the recent Irish Rebellion under Mac William Burke the Anglo - Norman Earl of Clann Rickarde, and was being held captive by Cruise O Brien who was now the English appointed Sheriff of Co. Clare, who delivered him up in Quin to Sir John Perrot the English Lord Deputy (who was an illegitimate half - brother to Elizabeth 1st) as he was a son of Henry V111, who was naturally therefore inflicted with his decadant outlook also, and at first with pure English saveragy he half - hung the unfortunate Donough Beg - the Small O Brian and then crushed and mangled his body with blows from a heavy axe, and with most of the bones in his body by then completely broken he had him dragged up to the steps alive into the open tower in Quin Abbey and then tied him on the roof for the birds to finish him off.

     Edmund Campion / champion, who had been born in 1540 AD, died this year, whose family had originally settled in the Midlands, and he was a Catholic Jesuit and martyr who had since been arrested at Lyford in Berkshire in England and imprisoned in the Tower of London by the English were he was examined in the presence of Elizabeth 1st herself the Welsh Tudor Queen of England who absolutely  hated the Jesuits and the Franciscans with a vengeance and she put him on the rack 3 times to try and make him deny his Catholic faith and acknowledge her as the Supreme religious leader. His family initially had been of Norman French origins, and would permantly settle in Meath in the south of Northern Leinster in the 17th Century AD. Because of his strong commitment to his Catholic faith he would later be canonized as St. Edmund. 

   Dermot O Hurley from the Heberian Dal gCais Ui Bloid Sept was appointed the Catholic Archbishop of Cashel in Co. Tipperary in the Munster Province by Pope Gregory X111.

1582 AD Felix O Hara, from the Heberian Cianacht Sept, who was a Franciscan friar, was hung and quartered by the English authorities under the direction of Elizabeth 1st the Welsh Tudor English Queen.

      Maolin Mac Brody from the Heberian Eoghanacht Chaisil Sept, who was a son of Conor Mac Brody the son of Dermod Mac Brody the son of John Mac Brody the Professor of History to the Heberian Dal gCais mBriain Ui Bloid O Briens, died, and his brother, Giolla Bride Mac Brody became his successor. 

    Mac William Burke / de Burgh the Anglo - Norman English second Earl of Clann Rickarde, died, who during his lifetime had been the husband of 4 legal wives, while Turlough O Donnell had been married 10 times, and John the Lord of Leitrim had produced a son from his own sister, and also during this particular period of untold ethnic and sectarian misery, "Bottle" Smith was the Official Poisoner for Elizabeth 1st's English Government authorities in the Dublin Castle (The Devil's 1/2 acre).

    Gerald Fitz Gerald the Anglo - Norman sixteenth Earl of Desmond had been forced to hide out in the caves in Co. Kerry in the south - west of the Munster Province, where he was to be eventually betrayed by his own kinsman, Edmond Fitz Gerald who was from Killmallock / Cill Mocheallog overlooking Loch Coumshingunn in Co. Waterford in the Golden Vale situated in the south - east of Munster, and this would ensure that Edmond Fitz Gerald would be the last of the White Knights from his male line after he was to receive 1,000 pounds from Elizabeth 1st the Welsh Tudor English Queen for betraying his kinsman, and as a result of this disgrace his descendants were to change their name to Fitz Gibbon.

1583 AD November: The last effectual leader of the Fitz Geralds was to be killed this month and the remaining Fitz Gerald / Gherardini Anglo - Irish Catholic kinsmen were to then slowly be forced to submit in the final stages of the overall English Elizabethan 1st extermination of this tried and tested family who had served England so well over the previous Centuries in Ireland, while also remaining true to themselves and their Catholic beliefs, and in the future, in the Tower of London, 32 names of members of the Fitz Gerald family would be found on a parchment, as either being "Executed or Attainted" (Off with their heads.) The now "aged" Gerald Fitz Gerald the sixteenth and last CatholicAnglo - Norman Earl of Desmond, who had been previously imprisoned in English jails for over 25 years, was now hiding out in what he thought was his area of strongest support in the woods of Glenaginty above Tralee in Co. Kerry in the south - west of the Munster Province where he was constantly in fear of his life. Needing supplies to survive he had sent out a party to obtain provisions, but unfortunately those he had sent out were to not only pick on O Moriarty's / Ua Muircheartaigh cattle, but also insulted his family, and because of this O Moriarty swore personal revenge on the Earl of Desmond himsdelf and obtained English Militia to seek him out, and a member of the O Kelly Family was also involved to track him down. They followed his cattle's trail to Glean na Geenty / Gleanaguanta (The Glen of Gentiles), which was 5 mile to the east of Tralee on the Co. Kerry / Co. Cork border were they took him prisoner and sent him onto Thomas Butler the English tenth Earl of Ormonde who not only hung him, but also cut off his head and sent it over to Elizabeth 1st the Welsh Tudor English Queen, who rewarded them all with gold, and put his head on display on the London Bridge. When the local people in Ireland came across his headless body they hid it to save him from further desecration and buried him at Kilananina / Coill an Anma (The Wood of the Soul) in what is now known as "Desmond's Grave" there, near the altar, where there is an ancient church where only those of Desmond blood were interred, which included many of the Fitz Geralds, the Gaelic Ithian O Flynns, the Gaelic Milesian Irian O Loughlins, the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch O Egans and one O Rahilly. The last of the Irish Septs there were to submit as this particular Desmond Rebellion against the never - ending ethnic and sectarian oppression of Elizabeth 1st was bought to an end, while the westerly winds near Tralee are now known as "Desmond's Howl." (His tracker O Kelly was to also meet an unfortunate end when he was to be eventually hung for highway robbery at Tyburn).

      Elizabeth 1st the Welsh Tudor English Queen's advisors, Burghley, Walsingham, Sir Humphrey Gilbert and his half - brother Sir Walter Raleigh drew up plans to remove the Mere Irish and introduce further English Ascendancy Episcopalian "planters" into the Munster Province, while Gerald Fitz Gerald's castle and Estates were all confiscated by Elizabeth 1st and given over to Sir Edward Denny, but later on in the 17th Century AD the castle there was to be taken over by the Irish Confederacy for 2 years until Murrough O Brien - of the Burnings, who at that time was to be the English appointed Earl of Inchiquin, who had also been Ascendancy Episcopalian reared in England for an English purpose, was by then fighting on the side of the English Puritan Parliament to try and capture the castle, which was to force the Irish Septs in the region to burn the castle along with the town) In the meantime, Elizabeth 1st had Gerald Fitz Gerald's son, the young Earl of Desmond, taken to England and put in the Tower of London also, where he too was to be Episcopalian reared and then shown later to the people in England as a stunted individual with an enfeebled mind.  

      The Dingle / Daingean area in Co. Kerry in the south - west of the Munster Province had been the original territory of the O Cush / Mac Coise / Ui Cuis Kings before the Anglo - Normans came into Ireland, but by this period in time it was held by the Anglo - Norman Husseys / de Hosey under the previous protection of the Fitz Geralds, but Elizabeth 1st gave it over also to Thomas Butler the tenth English Earl of Ormonde who had previously put the whole of the Irish and Anglo - Irish / Old English population in that particular region to the sword. (The Anglo - Irish / Old English in the area there were also seen by the English authorities in the Dublin Castle (The Devil's 1/2 Acre) as not to be trusted, as they were now considered "More Irish than the Irish)."

       The Heberian Eoghanacht Raithlind Cenel Aodha O Mahonys of Micheltown, who were descended initially from 110.Cian the Heberian Eoghanacht Raithlind Prince / Tanaiste and 106.Sadbh the daughter of *105.Brian Boru who had been the Heberian Dal gCais 175th King of Ireland had turned Ascendancy Episcopalians also to try and "survive" and hold onto their kingdom and territory there, but although they had conformed to suite at this earlier time they too had their territory there confiscated by Elizabeth 1st and given over to the Kingstons who were English Ascendancy Episcopalian "planter" Land Lords, but despite this loss of their territory at this time Fate would intervene in the 19th Century due to the continuing ethnic and sectarian oppression still occurring at that later time by the English authorities in the Dublin Castle (The Devil's 12 Acre) they would produce the first Fenian in John O Mahony. At this earlier period, Elizabeth 1st the Welsh Tudor English Queen also appointed another English President in the Connacht Province who changed all of the Irish land titles to English titles to suite her ongoing agenda.  

     Edgeworth was now put in as the Ascendancy Episcopalian Bishop of Down and Connor in the south - east of the Ulster Province who was to become the ancestor of Maria Edgeworth, who would be the future author of "Castle Rackrent," which was to outline the ongoing terrible treatment carried out by this new breed of Ascendancy Land Lord's on their Irish and Anglo - Irish / Old English tenants, and his initial appointment saw the beginning of the Edgeworth prominence in Ireland, and the setting up of Edgeworth town / Meathus Truim in the Gaelic Milesian Irian O Farrell's territory in Co. Longford in the north - west of Northern Leinster.

1584 AD June 19th: Dermott O Hurley / Diarmait Ua hUrthuile the Heberian Dal gCais Ui Bloid Catholic Archbishop of Cashel in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster Province for the past two years, was also physically tortured at this time and then executed by the English Military forces outside of Dublin for also refusing to acknowledge Elizabeth 1st as the Supreme head of religion and the English Ascendancy Episcopalian rights in Ireland, and being true to their previous acts of inhumane savagery they came up with another horrific torture by first putting his feet into tin boots, which they then filled with oil and locking him in stocks, they then lit a fire under them until all of the flesh peeled off of his feet and ankles, before they hung him also, and his remains were to be later interred in St. Kevin's Church in Dublin.   

      Elizabeth 1st  the Welsh Tudor English Queen granted Sir Walter Raleigh another 42,000 acres of the Fitz Gerald Desmond territory in the south of the Munster Province, and another castle was built at Lisdoonvarna in Co. Clare in the north - west of the Munster Province, against the Irish Septs there.

   Donough Mac Namara, the son of Teague Mac Namara, from the Heberian Dal gCais Ui Caisin Clan Culien, who was a son of Cuvea Mac Namara the son of Cumara Mac Namara the son of John Mac Namara. died, and was succeeded by his brother, John Mac Namara.  

1585 AD 126.Aedh Dubh / Black Hugh O Niall, the son of 125.Ferdoragh O Niall whose father had been 124.Conn Bacach O Niall /The O Niall from the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain Sept, was to become the English second Earl of Tyrone in the Ulster Province when recognized by the English Ascendancy Parliament. (He had been another Irish youngster taken as a child to England and reared for an English purpose by Sir Phillip Sidney's father for 8 years). He had since been given Scottish bodyguards and English Gall servants, to serve the agendas and cause of Elizabeth 1st the Welsh Tudor English Queen, in Ireland, and at this time due to his special upbringing he still could not understand why the Mere Irish and the Anglo - Irish / Old English would not accept the English ways.

     All of the Irish Chiefs were required by Sir John Perrot and the English authorities in the Dublin Castle (The Devil's 1/2 Acre), who were acting for Elizabeth 1st the Welsh Tudor English Queen, to attend a Parliament in Dublin by proclamation, and Ireland was then divided into Counties by these English authorities, and the English Shire system was extended, with 27 of these Counties to send selected members to the next English Ascendancy Parliament in Dublin and from out of the whole 32 Counties the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Breifne kingdom in Co. Cavan / Cabhan (The Hollow) which was the O Reilly kingdom of East Breifne was added to the Ulster Province, while that of their kinsmen Co. Leitrim the O Rourke kingdom of West Breifne was left in the Connacht Province.

     Dingle in Co. Kerry in the south - west of the Munster Province was granted a charter as a town, and the English Military forces who were involved in the massacre there at Smerwick under Lord Grey / de Wilton Elizabeth 1st's the Welsh Tudor English Queen's appointed English Lord Deputy in Ireland, were "planted" there, and she also gave 300 pounds for a wall to be built around the town to keep the Irish Septs out of there.  

    The Irish and Anglo - Irish / Old English territories in the Connacht Province were now also confiscated by Elizabeth 1st the Welsh Tudor English Queen, and the Irish Septs and Anglo - Irish / Old English there, under English Law, became tenants on their own land, having to now pay rents and charges, as all Irish landholdings there were now abolished.  

April 26th: Sir John Perrot, Elizabeth 1st's appointed English Lord Deputy in Ireland convened an English Ascendancy Parliament in Dublin, and also divided the Ulster Province into 9 Counties, and Tir Conaill / Tyrconnell (The Land of 91.Conall Gulban) where the Dun na Gall (Fort of the Strangers) which was previously a fortress of the Danes was located, in the kingdom and territory of the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel Conaill O Donnells became known as Co. Donegal.

     Sir William Petty introduced into Ireland "Quit Rent" of one penny per acre or 10 shillings per quarter on every 120 acres  to be paid to Elizabeth 1st the Welsh Tudor English Queen forever, but after the English came to realise how much of the Irish Catholic land was still in Irish and Anglo - Irish / Old English hands under Petty's Survey, further wholesale land confiscations were carried out and the Irish territory that was then also confiscated there was given over to English "planters."  

August 17th:  Sir Richard Bingham, Elizabeth 1st's English appointed Governor in the Connacht Province, that also geographically still took in Co. Clare in the north - west of the Munster Province, on the western side of the River Shannon, introduced the Composition of Connaught, were he imposed new English Taxes as a fixed rent there, whereby ten shillings was to be paid for every 120 acres held to Elizabeth 1st the Welsh Tudor English Queen, and the Heberian Dal gCais Ui Caisin Mac Namaras in Co. Clare said enough was enough and they objected to this further outrage, and Mahon O Brian, the Heberian Dal gCais Ui Bloid Ui Turlough Ui mBriain Chief of Cloon Dovan in Kilkeady, 6 miles to the north - east of Corofin in Co. Clare, refused outright to co - operate in another of these English penalties on the kingdom of Thomond / Northern Munster. Sir Richard Bingham, a real nasty who was known as "The Fiend of the Sickle," was then to attack Mahon O Brian's castle with firearms and cannon for 3 weeks, until he was finally able to kill him with a rifle shot, and all of the survivors in the castle then surrendered and he executed every single one of them, and destroyed the castle as a warning to any of the other Irish Septs there who might have "survived" and meant to resist these further English impositions. (John Mac Namara was to survive and soon signed the Composition). In Co. Sligo in the north - west of Connacht the Composition was signed between Sir John Perrot for Elizabeth 1st and the Irish Chiefs there.

     Eugene O Hart the Catholic Bishop of Achrony, still somehow surviving took part in the Catholic Synod held in the Ulster Province this year to bring in the results from the Council of Trent.

    Grace / Grannia O Malley the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ui Maille Pirate Queen who had her territory in Co. Mayo in the mid - west of the Connacht Province was also taken prisoner by Sir Richard Bingham at this time, who proceeded to construct a special gallows where he intended to hang her, but instead for some reason changed his mind and let her go.

    An ordinance was enacted by the English authorities in another session they held at Ennis in Co. Clare in the north - west of the Munster Province, that any surviving Irish Chief of each Irish Sept there should be stript of their titles and tributes, except for John Mac Namara the Chief of West Clan Culien who outright refused to sign up to these particular further forced English regulations.

      The English authorities in the Dublin Castle (The Devil's 1/2 acre) under the direction of Elizabeth 1st the Welsh Tudor English Queen, now also took objection at this time to the long hair worn by the Irish Families, their women drinking alcohol and kissing each other when they met, their easy method of divorce, and their probationary marriages, the women keeping their own names, or naming their babies after their father's family line.

      Because of the position of their respective territories in proximity to The English Pale surrounding Dublin, during this period, the Heremonian Ui Laoghaire Ui Lughaidh Cu Cu Corb O Brennans, the O Hughes / Au hAodha,, the O Dunnes the Kings of Iregan, the Gaelic Milesian Irian O Mores, the Heremonian Ui Laoghaire Ui Lughaidh Cu Corb O Phelans / Au Faolain and O Delaneys / Au Dubhshlaine and the Gaelic Milesian Irian O Lalors / Au Leathlobair were to be cleared out of Cloneagh in Co. Laois in the mid - west of Southern Leinster, twice. (In an earlier age St. Fintan had founded a school there, and Rory O More and James Fintan Lalor were to become their 2 most famous sons in Ireland in the future and Peter Lalor in Australia).  

     The Mac Carthys who were the Heberian Eoghanacht Chaisil Chieftains constructed Ballynacarriga Castle in Co. Cork in Southern Munster to try and keep control over the pass there. 

     William Oge - the Younger Mac Eniry / Kynery from the Heberian Eoghanacht Ui Fidgeinti Ui Cairbre Aebda Sept of Bally Audley in Co. Limerick in the north - west of the Munster Province was slain at Aherb.

     Philip Mac Dermod O Kennedy the Heberian Dal gCais Ui Bloid Ui Turlough King of North - Eastern Munster / Ormond in Co. Tipperary, retired. 

     Teague O Roddy / Tadhg Ua Rodaigh from Fenagh in Co. Leitrim in Northern Connacht, who was an Irish historian, in fear of what was to come under Elizabeth 1st the Welsh Tudor English Queen collected many ancient Irish manuscripts, including 30 books on the Irish Brehon Law.

1585 - 1592 AD Brian Mac Dermott was the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ai Mac Diarmada Chief and Prince / Tanaiste of Moylurg who had his castle on Mac Dermott's Rock on an island in Loch Ce near Boyle in Co. Roscommon in the Connacht Province after he had succeeded his father, Rory Mac Dermott the son of Teague Mac Dermott the son of Rory Og - the Younger Mac Dermott.

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