1646 - 1648 AD
1646 AD - 1660 AD The first exile of Clarendon.
1646 AD. March
11th:
Sir
William Penn arrived from
England into
Ireland at
the mouth of the River Shannon
between Co. Clare
in the north - west of the Munster
Province and Co. Kerry in the south
- west of Munster with a fleet of ships
representing the English Puritan Parliament, as the
Irish
Confederacy
Government
forces were finally able to take
the
Bunratty Castle in
Co. Clare
that was
still being held by the
English forces there as
The Mac Carthy Mor the
Heberian Eoganacht Chaisil Lord
of Muskerry in
Co. Kerry in the south - west of
Munster arrived to carry out the task with
3,000
men, including
300 horsemen, who had surrounded the castle and began the siege.
During the conflict
Lt. Col.
Mac Adam, the English
Puritan
Parliamentary army commander
there had been killed, and his
men then surrendered, and were allowed to leave and board
their ships to go to
Co. Cork in
Southern Munster and the
English standards
taken were
paraded throughout
Limerick City down to
St. Mary's Cathedral to celebrate
the victory on this occasion by the Irish Confederacy
Government.
March: Once more acting under the orders of Charles 1st the second Stuart English King, James "Black Tom" Butler the English first Marquis of Ormonde concluded another partial truce with the Irish Confederacy Government to supply Charles 1st with 10,000 fighting Irish troops for service in England to support him there and in return for their service the Court of Wards was to be abolished, and an Oath of Allegiance would be invoked instead of one of Religious Supremacy, with Irish Catholics allowed to take up civil and military offices, and be educated, but there would still be no concessions in regard to the Catholic Church. This new Truce was announced in James "Black Tom" Butler's stronghold in Kilkenny City in Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of Southern Leinster and also in some other towns, but the majority of the Irish Catholics themselves were still against these moderate terms as their normal religious rights were still not to be recognized under this particular partial agreement.
The
Mac Carthy's
Blarney Castle in
Co. Cork
in Southern Munster was now secured by
Lord
Broghill for the
English Puritan Parliament.
June 4th:
127.Eoghan Ruadh
/ Owen Roe
O Niall
the
Irish Confederacy Govermnet's
commander in the
Ulster Province
was to
defeat the
Scottish
Puritan Parliamentary Army under
Robert Munroe at
Benburb on the River
Blackwater in
Co. Tyrone in
Central Southern Ulster, situated seven mile
from
Armagh, as up until this time
127.Eoghan Roe O Niall had been taking all before him
and all of Robert Munroe's artillery, stores and
half of his men, and
31 of his colours were captured
and although 3,000
of Robert Munro's men were
killed
during this action the
Irish Confederacy
Government's forces only lost
40 of their men, with
another
250 wounded, 127.Eoghan Ruadh O Niall
then went on
to capture the Rock of Dunamaise
in
Co. Laois in the mid - north - west of
Southern Leinster, which had
been the original stronghold of 113.Diarmait
Mac Murrogh
na Gall - of the Foreigners
who had brought the English Galls
into Ireland in
the first place in 1167 AD.
126.Murrough
O Brien
an Toitean
-
of the Burnings,
the Ascendancy English
Episcopalian
reared
sixth Baron of Inchiquin, who was now fighting on
the side of the English
Puritan Parliament ravaged the
Munster
Province killing
3,000 of his own
Irish
people who had fled to the Cashel
Cathedral
in Co. Tipperary for refuge, while
Lord
Taafe fighting on behalf of the
Irish
Confederacy
Government tried to intercept him,
but lost nearly half of his men during the conflict, near the town of
Mallow
in Co. Cork in
Southern Munster.
August:
Pope Innocent X 's
representative Archbishop
Rinuccini also came out against
the
Irish Confederacy Government's
new partial Treaty that had been recently
concluded with the strong anti - Catholic James
Butler the
English first Marquis of Ormonde for
Charles 1st the Stuart English King, at a
Synod being held at
Waterford
in
Co. Waterford
in the south - east of the
Munster
Province where he threatened
excommunication against the
members of the Irish Confederacy's
Supreme Council for
failing to secure
any religious rights for
the
Catholic Church, as this proposal had
been one of their original main basic aims, under their
Oath of Association when the
Irish
Confederacy
Government had been initially set up.
September:
127.Eogan
Roe
O Niall
also came out in support of the position taken by
Archbishop Rinuccini on the
Irish
Confederacy Treaty and he went to
Kilkenny City in Co.
Kilkenny in the south - west of
Southern
Leinster were he deposed and
imprisoned the members of the Irish Confederacy
Supreme Council
for making such a
deficient Treaty
in the first place,
without the provision of any religious rights for the Catholic Church, and he
assumed the position as their
President,
and then appointed a new
Supreme Council
and he was
also joined by
General Thomas Preston
the
Anglo - Irish Catholic
commander, who
this time was in
agreement with his overall position. They now prepared to renew the fighting against the
Ascendancy Royalists and
the English Puritan Parliamentarian forces and
November:
127.Eogan Roe
O Niall
now withdrew
after a further disagreement with
General Thomas Preston
over the Irish Confederacy
Government's
new
position, who a few
weeks later on had decided to support the aims of the original
Treaty, and had also joined up with
James "Black Tom" Butler
the first Marquis of Ormonde to attack the
English Puritan Parliamentary forces
who were still
under the leadership of Robert Munroe
in the
Ulster
Province, and then fearing
he might be excommunicated for doing so he
changed his mind, and decided to support the recent
Irish Confederacy
Government's
decision again, but by now
the new Irish Confederacy
Government
had lost their chance to capture
the English Government's
Dublin Castle
(The Devil's 1/2 acre).
The
O Briens,
who were originally descended from
124.Donough
- the Fat
O Brien, were now
English Earls of Thomond, and by
this time
headed by a totally evolved
Englishman, known as
126.Henry
O Brien, who
had an
English mother and
who had also been Ascendancy Episcopalian Church of
England reared and
was the English seventh Earl of Thomond after
being also educated in
England for an English purpose and he too was to also contribute
to the
English
foreign
non - Catholic
"plantations"
in Ireland, and his
descendents would continue to be only
English "lackeys" or their agents, completely
lost to their Heberian Dal
gCais Irish heritage
and to their own
Irish
Dalcassian
people in Thomond /
Northern Munster who
they were previously committed to support under the Irish
Brehon Law and who were by now totally leaderless.
1647 AD January:
Pope Innocent X's representative, Archbishop Rinuccini
decided to
release the original
Supreme Council
of the Irish Confederacy
Government
and called a General Assembly
of the Irish Confederacy Government
leaders who then rejected the
previous
Treaty
agreed to by them that did not contain any rights for the Catholic Church
in Ireland and they confirmed that any future Treaties must
contain religious rights for the Catholic
Church and its clergy and
General
Thomas Preston the Anglo - Irish commander acting for the Irish Confederacy
Government
now decided he would
take Dublin
Castle himself, but he was to be defeated
by
Michael Jones
the English
Puritan Parliamentary
commander at
Dungan Hill,
Murrough O Brien
an Toitean
-
of the Burnings
now also
acting for the English Puritan Parliament was still
continuing to carry out
attacks against his own Irish people, all over the
Munster Province,
destroying Waterford, Cahir
in
Co. Tipperary
and
captured
Cashel
were everyone fled up onto the
Cashel Cathedral
where he demanded 3,000 pounds and a months pay for
his army. James
"Black Tom" Butler
the
Royalist
first Marquis of
Ormonde
who was still
acting for Charles 1st the Stuart English King
was now to
maintain an uneasy truce with the
Irish Confederacy Government until April,
but he was well aware that he could not continue to hold onto the City of
Dublin forever
April: The
English Puritan
Parliament forces began to
arrive into Ireland
from
England.
The
English Civil War
in
England between the Royalist supporters acting for James 1st and the
English Puritan Parliament was to be bought to an
end, and
Oliver
Cromwell who was to be
Ireland's
"Greatest
Scourge " was coming as the
English Protector, while General
Michael
Jones had already arrived into
Dublin with
an English
Puritan Parliament army
made up of 2,000 Roundheads
and would be followed by the unappeasable
Oliver Cromwell himself who was to
eventually arrive at
Ringsend in
Dublin with another
15,000 English Military
force with his
Mid - June:
James "Black Tom" Butler
the English
Royalist
first Marquis of
Ormonde agreed
to surrender up
Dublin Castle to the
English Puritan Parliament together
with all of the English Royalist
garrisons rather then allow any chance of Irish Catholic
Emancipation rights in
Ireland.
July 27th:
James "Black Tom" Butler
the first English Marquis of Ormonde
after giving over the
Dublin
Castle
to
Oliver Cromwell's forces went over to
England were he was allowed to
visit with
Charles 1st the
Stuart
English King who was now in really big trouble, and he advised him of the
continuing negotiations that he was still having with his only hope for any
chance of success now, the
Irish
Confederacy
Government, in anticipation of regaining Charles 1st's original position in the
scheme of things, but it was all too late, as the cat was by now well and truly out of the bag..
September: 126.Murrough O Brien an Toitean - of the Burnings sacked the Rock of Cashel in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster Province, the ancient fortress of his Heberian Dal g Cais Ui mBriain ancestors of the Kings of Munster, and the religious seat given over to the Catholic Church by his own direct ancestor 108.Murtough O Brian who had been the 180th King of Ireland, but having been reared as an Ascendancy Episcopalian in England, for an English purpose, he was devoid of any contact with his own Irish Heberian Dal gCais people and of his real Irish heritage and would not have had any idea of what he was destroying.
November 13th: Lord
Taafe
with
8,000 of his men
fighting for the Irish
Confederacy Government went into battle against
126.Murrough O Brien
-
of the Burnings, who was still acting
for the English Puritan Parliament, at
Knocknanuss Hill in
Co. Cork in Southern
Munster, 3 mile
east of Kanturk, where
126.Murrough - of the Burnings was able to defeat
him, giving him now his greatest ambition, the complete control over nearly all of
the
Munster Province.
The
Irish Confederacy
Supreme
Council held another meeting where they appointed a new
Irish
Supreme Council made up mostly of
the Old English / Anglo - Irish, and
127.Eogan
Roe
O Niall
who was
now
their overall commander, then
destroyed the
Maynooth Castle,
originally constructed there by the
Fitz Geralds in Co.
Kildare in Central Southern Leinster,
which was still under the control of the
English Puritan Parliamentary forces.
Alasdair Mac Donnell / Mac Donald
the
Heremonian Dal Cuinn Colla Uais
Catholic Earl of Antrim, who had been a strong supporter of
Charles 1st the
Stuart English King,
died in his own territory in the north - east of the Ulster
Province.
November 13th: 126.Murrough O Brien an Toitean - of the Burnings had originally been the leader of the English Royalist Military forces for Charles 1st the Stuart English King in the Munster Province, but had then been denied total Royalist control there in Munster and had then switched to the English Puritan Parliament to gain the position that he considered was his hereditary right and he had then continued to kill and expel the Irish Catholics from the towns throughout Munster, and defeated the Irish Confederacy Government forces under Lord Taaffe and 121.Sir Alexander / Alastrum Mor Mac Donnell, the Catholic son of 122.Sir James Mac Donnell of Eanagh and Ballybannagh, at the Battle of Knocknaness for which the English Puritan Parliament gave him 1,000 pounds.
1648 AD Because of his previous compliance to the English
Puritan Parliament, James "Black Tom" Butler
the Royalist first Marquis of
Ormonde was reappointed as the English Lord Lieutenant
in Ireland for only one
year.
March:
James "Black Tom" Butler
the Royalist
first Marquis of Ormonde went to
Catholic France were he joined up with the
English Catholic Queen of Charles
1st and
Charles the
Prince of
Wales, who would become Charles 11 the third Stuart
King of England, and his brother,
James the Duke of York who would also eventually become James 11 the
Catholic King of England, who were both now in
exile in fear of
their lives.
April:
126.Murrough O Brien
an Toitean
- of the Burnings was very upset by the treatment
that was now being meted out to him also by theEnglish
Puritan Parliament
and he
openly declared himself a Royalist, and once again, for the English Crown and
Charles 1st the Stuart English King,
but the Ascendancy Church of England Episcopalians in
the
Munster
Province
by now only supported the English Puritan Parliament
and
they would not join in with him. Meanwhile, also upset by the events that were
now occurring in
Scotland the
Lowland Presbyterians in
the
Ulster
Province were suspicious of
George Monck, who was now
the English
Puritan Parliament's
Military commander,
who had since been released from prison by them to take command there, and
he seized their garrison.
May:
126.Murrough O Brien an Toitean
-
of the Burnings achieved a "personal
truce"
with his previous sworn enemies the
Irish
Confederacy Government, which the
Pope Innocent X's ambassador,
Archbishop
Rinuccini, denounced, and also stated that he would
excommunicate any one who
followed it, so the
Irish Confederacy
Supreme Council
went over his head and appealed directly to
Rome and they also dismissed
127.Eoghan
Roe
O Niall
who commanded the
Irish
Confederacy
Government forces in
the
Ulster Province, as he
had once again
also
supported the position
taken by
Archbishop Rinuccini on this issue.
Despite
his dismissal 127.Eoghan Roe O Niaill
continued on with his own personal efforts anyway, against the English forces, attacking
James "Black Tom" Butler's stronghold in
Kilkenny City in
Co. Kilkenny
in the south - west of
Southern
Leinster
and also the
Munster
Province controlled by
126.Murrough O Brien
-
of the Burnings,
but was
unsuccessful, and was forced to negotiate a
truce with him also, who was
himself then forced to retreat there from the
advancing English Puritan Parliamentary forces of the belligerent
Oliver Cromwell. The opportunities and
resistance of the
Irish Confederacy
Government
to the ongoing inroads of the English Puritan Parliament
forces in Ireland was by now not only lost, but
also coming to an
inevitable end, so the Papal Legate,
Archbishop Rinuccini
retired to
Co. Galway
in
Southern Connacht
for his own personal protection.
September:
James "Black Tom" Butler,
the Royalist English
first Marquis of Ormonde,
who was by now realising what he could have achieved, if he had been at all "tolerant" to other people's beliefs, could now finally see which way the wind was
really blowing,
and was
in the City of
Cork in Co. Cork in
Southern Munster trying to
arrange a permanent "peace deal"
not only with the
Irish Confederacy
Government, but also with
126.Murrough
an Toitean O Brien an Toitean -
of the
Burnings.
13,000 wooden Oak poles from the Oak trees in Co. Clare in the north - west of the Munster Province were to be taken away to be used in the Amsterdam Palace.