Aed Ruadh / Red Hugh O Donnell 1591 - 1595 AD Aed Dubh / Black Hugh O Niaill
1591 AD The English authorities in the Dublin Castle (The Devil's 1/2 Acre) under the direction of Elizabeth 1st the Welsh Tudor English Queen, hung 70 Irish men and Irish women at Ennis / Innis in Co. Clare in the north - west of the Munster Province, where they had previously constructed a jail and appointed Patrick Morgan as their English jailer.
The English authorities in the Dublin Castle (The Devil's 1/2 Acre)
"planted" English Ascendancy Episcopalians in to
the O Mahon's Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch kingdom of
Orghialla in
Co. Monaghan
/
Moynihan in
Southern Ulster.
November:
Brian O Rourke /
The O Rourke from the Heremonian
Dal Cuinn
Ui Briuin Breifne
Sept who had his kingdom of West Breifne in Co. Leitrim in
Northern Connacht was arraigned for "High Treason"at Middlesex in
England, were he
refused to
recognize Elizabeth 1st
the
Welsh Tudor English Queen or the English court or
even plead for mercy, and in
December
he was
executed by hanging by the
notorious Myler Mac Grath who was now also the Church of England Bishop of
Cashel, who had tried to also make him give up his
Irish Catholic faith. Like so many other
sons of the Irish Chiefs, his son,
Brian
Oge - the Younger
O Rourke had been
taken as a child from the Connacht Province to England by
Sir
John Perrot,
along with the young Mac William Burke the English
appointed Earl of Clann Rickarde, to be
reared for an English purpose. Blood will out and
they would both
fight on opposing sides in the forthcoming
Battle of Kinsale between the Irish
Septs and the English
Military forces in Co. Cork in
Southern Munster, as after
Brian O Rourke
Mor - the Greater had been
previously driven
out of his Ui Briuin Breifne territory there, his son
Brian
Oge
-
the Younger
O Rourke
had
endeavoured to hold onto his father's territory and tried at first to
accommodate
the English, but as usual it was all futile, so he turned against the
English, and took up the
Irish cause
with a vengeance.
1592 AD Magauran / Mag Shamhrain from Co. Cavan in the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Breifne O Reilly kingdom of East Breifne in Southern Ulster, who was the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Catholic Archbishop of Armagh, sought help from the Pope and Philip 11 of Spain to try and bring an end to the never - ending ongoing ethnic and sectarian persecution carried out under Elizabeth 1st the Welsh Tudor English Queen on the Irish Catholic population.
Brian Mac Dermott the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ai Ui Maolruanaidh Mac Diarmada Chief and Prince / Tanaiste / heir apparent of Moylurg in Connacht Province, died.
April:
The "aged"
Aed Dubh / Black Hugh
O Donnell / The O Donnell
abdicated his position, and his "young" son,
Aed Ruadh / Red Hugh
O Donnell
became The
O Donnell,
under the Irish Brehon Law, after he was crowned on the
Heremonian Dal Cuinn
"northern"
Ui Niaill Cenel Conaill
Inauguration Stone
at
Carrig - na - Duin,
and he set
himself up in their Donegal Castle
and
August: The "young" Aed Ruadh / Red Hugh O Donnell / The O Donnell now in his own right from the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel Conaill Sept was forced to also submit to the English Lord Deputy in Ireland, in his role as The O Donnell and was then taken prisoner once again by the English authorities in the Dublin Castle (The Devil's 1/2 Acre) and was this time imprisoned in England.
Elizabeth 1st the Welsh Tudor English Queen's authorities in the Dublin Castle (The Devil's 1/2 Acre) in the The English Pale surrounding Dublin in Ireland, gave over the All Hallows ground there, which had been previously the land of the Knight Templars prior to the confiscation of all the property of the Catholic Church in Ireland, for the building of the Ascendacy Episcopalian institution of Trinity College, which was to be mainly constructed from Portland Stone and founded on the main Ascendancy principle of no Catholic Irish or Catholic Anglo - Irish allowed to be educated there.
The original Anglo - Norman / Anglo - Irish Barrys / de Barri and the Anglo Norman Anglo - Irish Roches / de Roiste who had their confiscated Estates in Co. Cork in Southern Munster by now had become completely Gaelicized (More Irish then the Irish) and many of the Old English / Anglo - Irish bound together now more than ever in a common cause sent their children to be reared by the Mere Irish.
Donough O Brien
the
English
fourth Earl of Thomond, in
Co. Clare
in the north - west of the Munster Province,
who was now only an
Irish man in name, assisted
Sir Richard Bingham the
English Governor
of Connacht, to quell the
Anglo - Irish
Burkes / de Burghos in the
Connacht Province.
December 25th:
The "young" Aed Ruadh / Red Hugh
O Donnell
/The
O Donnell now in his own right who had been imprisoned
by the English in Bermingham
prison in England,
escaped and returned to
Ireland.
Sir
John Perrot,
the English Deputy Governor in Ireland, who had carried out
Elizabeth 1st
the
Welsh Tudor English Queen's instructions to the letter, and who was possibly her
illegitimate half - brother, quarrelled with her, for which she was to
execute
him this
year also in the Tower of
London.
1593 AD
125.Turlough
Luineach O
Niall who had previously been assisted by the English
authorities in Ireland to become the
The O Niall
in the Ulster Province,
abdicated,
Grace O
Malley
the Heremonian Ui Briuin
Ui Maille Pirate Queen from
Co. Mayo in the mid - west of the
Connacht Province, was invited by
Elizabeth
1st to England, where
she saw herself as her
equal, and
remonstrated to her that she did not actually do anything physical herself, and she
also gave up her son
Toby Burke to be reared by her, "As he had Saxon blood,"
and he was then reared in England as an AScendancy Episcopalian for an English purpose and later was to become the
English Viscount of
Mayo in
Co. Mayo in the mid - west of
Connacht.
Trinity College
was opened in
Dublin for
Ascendancy Episcopalians
only,
and it wasn't until
200
years later in 1792 AD that an Irish
or Anglo - Irish
Catholic was allowed to enter the
College to receive a degree,
and then not until
1873 AD that an
Irish
Catholic was entitled to full
rights and endowments in the
College, after the Scotsman, William Gladstone had become the Prime
Minister of Britain and under his direction the Catholic Irish were
to finally, in 1869 AD,
be allowed, under
English Law, to
legally exist in their own Country of Ireland, although they were the
majority
of the population, despite all of the terrible etnic and sectarian persecutions, confiscations and
plantations carried out over the Centuries against them.
Aed Ruadh / Red Hugh O Donnell /The O Donnell the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel Conaill Chieftain, allied with both his Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain kinsman, 126.Aed Dubh / Black Hugh O Niall who was now The O Niall in his own right and Aed / Hugh Maguire /The Maguire his Heremonian Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch cousin, and a 9 Year War of resistance would soon be begun against Elizabeth 1st the Welsh Tudor English Queen's continuing ethnic and sectarian oppression in Ireland.
In the meantime, Donnell Cam O Sullivan who was now the Heberian Eoghanacht Chief of Beare Haven and Bantry in Co. Cork in Southern Munster, became The O Sullivan Beare, and his uncle, Sir Owen Sullivan was given Whiddy Island and part of Bantry, while his other uncle, Philip O Sullivan who was now the Prince / Tanaiste / heir apparent retained Ardea Castle on the River Kenmare, but Sir Owen O Sullivan also died this year, and his ambitious son, also to be Sir Owen Oge - the Younger O Sullivan succeeded to his position as the Lord of Bantry until 1603 AD, with his eye always firmly fixed on the position of The O Sullivan Beare for himself also.
Brian
Oge
- the Younger
O Rourke
from
the Heremonian Dal Cuinn
Ui Briuin Breifne
kingdom of West Breifne
who had his kingdom and territory in
Co. Leitrim in
Northern Connacht
went on the attack against the continuing English
oppression, and he besieged
Sir
Richard Bingham
the officious English Governor in
Connacht
at
Ballymote Castle with his
Irish forces, and burnt it and
13 of the
villages surrounding it down.
1594
AD As
it was the official policy of Elizabeth 1st
the
Welsh Tudor English Queen in England,
to obliterate all Irishness,
so
that,
"No
Irishmen was to know his grandfather,"
Sir
James Ware
who
was Irish
born and therefore Anglo - Irish became an
Irish
patriot and
to this end he employed the scribe
O
Flaherty for
7
years to write down
the
"History of Ireland"
and to this end
also, during this period the
Irish Catholics and
Anglo -
Irish united to assist the
Anglo -
Irish Catholic Priest,
Luke Wadding in
Rome, to keep the
"History of
Ireland"
for future generations, from being totally obliterated
by Elizabeth 1st.
John Rothe
/ Rut (red)
built the merchant's house, known as
Rothe House in
Kilkenny in
Co. Kilkenny / Ossory in
the south - west of Southern Leinster
this year.
1595 AD Aed Ruadh / Red Hugh O Donnell / The O Donnell, while besieging the Connacht Province this year, with his followers including 3,000 mercenaries / bonaghts, used the ford across the River Shannon further to the north at Shannon Bridge in Co. Offaly in the mid - west of Southern Leinster where he came under attack from the English Military forces and some of his men were killed.
126.Aed Dubh / Black Hugh O Niall was ordered by the English authorities in the Dublin Castle in his capacity as the English second Earl of Tyrone to attack the young Aed Ruadh / Red Hugh O Donnell, which he did reluctantly, but also continued to build up his own forces awaiting his opportunity to also use his title as The O Niaill to assist the Irish.
Elizabeth 1st
the
Welsh Tudor English Queen now
also styled herself the
Duchess of Ulster, claiming descent
from
the Mortimers, and the original Anglo - Norman
de Courcy control of that region
in
Ulidia / Ulaid as well as
Co.
Antrim and
Co.
Down there in the
Ulster Province
and she confiscated 210,000
acres there in
Ulster
for the transplanting of
English
Ascendancy Episcopalian planters, and to carry out
further ethnic and sectarian cleansing of the
Catholic
Irish, and with all of this
ongoing aggression against "All things
Irish
and
Catholic," the
Ulster
Irish Chiefs
were now even more desperate
to survive, and they offered the
Crown of
Ireland to
Phillip II
the King of Spain,
to assist them to drive the English
out of Ireland for
good.
125.Turlough
Luineach
O Niall,
died, who had previously been the unpopular
The O Niall
with English assistance, who
was a son of
124.Art
O Niall, who had been a brother to
124.Conn
Bacach O Niall
who was also
previously The O Niall who had
become the unpopular
English appointed
first Earl of
Tyrone as they had both been sons of 123.Conn
Mor
- the Greater
O
Niall.
126.Aed
Dubh
/ Black
Hugh
O Niall,
the son of 125.Ferdoragh O Niall, the oldest son of
124.Conn Bacach O Niall, was to also be the English appointed third Baron
of
Dungannon
in the
Ulster
Province
who
had also been appointed the
English second Earl of Tyrone,
by
Elizabeth 1st
the
Welsh Tudor English Queen, following on from his grandfather,
125.Conn
Bacach O Niall,
believing him to
be well and truly in her corner. He had been English reared for an English purpose, and was previously loyal to her cause
until he had become more aware of his
Irish
heritage and what was really going on in Ireland.
In her service,
126.Aed Dubh / Black
Hugh
O
Niall had previously put down an Irish Uprising in the
Munster
Province, and
also another Irish Uprising in
Co. Monaghan in
Southern Ulster, and because of this she
was to allow him
600 paid men each year
to serve her purposes in Ireland, and from that time on he
had begun to build
up a well trained
Irish force in Ulster,
teaching them the art of warfare, and dressed them all in red uniforms, and obtained
an amount of lead shot to
produce
ammunition by pretending to
roof his Dungannon Castle. Also
unbeknown
to her by now he
had been
inaugurated by the Heremonian
Dal Cuinn "northern"
Ui Niaill
Cenel nEogain Sept as
The O
Niall in his own right on their Inauguration Stone the
Rath of Tullyhogue
in
Co. Tyrone
in
Ulster.
He had previously
been married to the half - sister of the "young"
Aed Ruadh / Red
Hugh
O Donnell / The O Donnell, which had further re - united the
2
main Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern"
Ui Niaill
Ulster
Septs once again, which would have certainly
brought about a greater commitment to his
Gaelic
Milesian
heritage and he now had 1,000
pikemen, 4,000 musketeers and
1.000 cavalry
July:
126.Aed
Dubh / Black Hugh
O Niall
/The O
Niall now assumed the
role of the outright
Irish Chieftain
in the Ulster Province, when
all of the Irish Chiefs
met with him west of
Loch Neagh,
where he claimed his Irish title through
Gaelic
ritual, and
this was to also make him eligible
to now also gain the
High Kingship of Ireland,
and to this end he began to spread
Irish resistance
also
into the
Munster Province
and the
Connacht
Province and
now
openly declared his
Gaelic interest and that he was against
the ongoing English
ethnic and
sectarian oppression that was constantly being carried out under the
orders of Elizabeth 1st
the
Welsh Tudor English Queen,
and because of his public stand he was now declared a traitor to the English cause.
Together with
Aed Ruadh /
Red Hugh
O Donnell / The O Donnell
his previous young brother - in - law who had his kingdom in Co. Donegal
/ Tyrconnell
in the west of Ulster,
he began an all out War against the
English
Military forces of
Elizabeth 1st for the
next
9 years
beginning with a skirmish at Clontibret. The
O Donnells captured Sligo in the north of the
Connacht Province securing the north - west
approach to Ulster, but a
Truce was then called
during which time he sought assistance from Spain, which was not forthcoming so
he
moved his Family and valuables for safety onto a
Crannog Fort to the
east of
Hamilton's Bawn /
Monellan in
Co. Armagh
in the south - east of
Ulster.
In the meantime, his cousin and ally
Aed
/ Hugh Maguire
/ The Maguire
the
Heremonian
Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch
Chieftain
of Co. Fermanagh
also defeated the
English Military forces there at the
Ford of Biscuits
near
Enniskillen.
October 5th:
126.Aed Dubh / Black Hugh
O Niall / The O Niall now personally appealed directly to
King
Philip
11 of Spain,
through Don
Carillo, to assist the
Irish forces to drive the
English and their ongoing ethnic and
sectarian persecution out of
Ireland once and for all.
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