1721 - 1730 AD         

                                                                                                                                   Total Ascendancy Control over Ireland

1721 AD The Wars of Thomond, that had been originally composed in 1459 AD by John Mac Raith / Grath, were now brought up to date by Andrew Mac Curtin for the Mac Namaras / Mheic Con na Mara from the Heberian Dal gCais Ui Caisin Clann Cuilean Sept, who had acted as the Lord Marshalls for the Heberian Dal gCais Ui mBriain O Brians / O Briens the previous leading Heberian Dal gCais Ui Bloid Ui Turlough Sept in the kingdom of Thomond / Tuaisceart Mhumhain / Northern Munster.

1722 AD William Connolly, the Speaker in the Ascendancy Anglo Parliament's House of Commons in Ireland, at this time had become one of the richest Land Lords in Ireland, and he lived at Castletown in Co. Kildare in Central Southern Leinster, were he had finished building a magnificent mansion known as Castletown House.  

      Frederic Le Poer Trench, who was of French Huguenot origins, was now the English Earl of Clan Carty in Southern Munster, as by now the previous leading Gaelic Milesian Heberian Eoghanacht Chaisil Sept of the The Mac Carthy Mor had been completely done away with by the Ascendancy English Government.

     John Toland / Ua Tuathalain (1670 - 1722 AD), who had written controversially about politics, religion and history, and had been born near Muff / Ma (The Plain) in Co. Donegal in the north - west of the Ulster Province, died, this year who had left Ireland in 1687 AD and then returned, and his controversial books were to be burnt. 

1723 AD  Dermott O Connor, endeavouring to try and keep the Irish spirit alive, translated Father Geoffrey Keating's, "History of Ireland" into English, and then printed it for all to read, while 2 of the poets of Ireland, O Brian and O Donnell, together with all the other Irish Bards of Ireland, hoping to also do the same, joined the "Contention of Irish Poets."  

    Vanessa / Esther Van Homrigh, who had been smitten with Jonathon Swift, wrote to "Stella" (Esther Johnson) inquiring whether she and Jonathon Swift were married, and because of this he never spoke to her again, and in fact never married, and Stella left Dublin altogether.

      With the constant British Conservative Government's attempts to stop all economic industry in Ireland, together with Irish trade, the people of Ireland, whether from the Ascendancy Church of England / Ireland, Presbyterian, Non - Conformist or Catholic, were by now all in the same boat and were drawn even closer together at this time into a common Irish cause, to survive and to try and alleviate the dreadful distress, that was occurring on the overall population in Ireland, Lord Molesworth personally tried to bring forth in the Parliament, reforms of freedom of religion, schools of husbandry, relief of the poor and that the Ascendancy Anglo Parliament in Ireland should, in reality, truly represent all of the Irish population including the Irish "majority". The most positive aspect of all of this ongoing distress and suffering in Ireland, was to continue to bring about an increase in further friendly collaboration between the Catholic Irish, the general run of the Church of England / Ireland adherents, the Presbyterians, and the non - Conformist population in Ireland, while a move was also made, to unite the Dissenters in the Ulster Province and the Catholic Irish there to the benefit of all.

September: The Duke of Grafton, was appointed the English Lord Lieutenant in Ireland, by the British Ascendancy Conservative Government, and more warning bells of reality were to ring out when he immediately stated that, "Too many people from within the Irish population had been appointed to high office in Ireland."

     William Wood, who was from Wolverhampton in England, was this month awarded a patent to coin money for Ireland, by paying a bribe of 10,000 pounds to the Duchess of Kendal, who at this time, was German George 1st's Hanoverian mistress.                 

      Vanessa,(Esther Van Homrigh, (1690 - 1723 AD) who died this year, had been the daughter of the Dutchman, who had originally provisioned the troops in Ireland for William of Orange, and subsequently gained Celbridge / Cill Droiched (The Bridge of the Abbey) on the banks of the River Liffey in Co. Kildare in Central Southern Leinster, and she changed her will leaving everything now to Bishop Berkely, and her previous amour Jonathon Swift / Cadenus, the Ascendancy Church of England Dean of St. Patrick's Church in Dublin, decided it was now time to go on a tour of the Munster Province, which may have given him a better view of what misery was really occurring within the general population in Ireland.

1724 AD February: By now the repression of the British Ascendancy Conservative Parliament had made things so bad economically in Ireland, that the Ascendancy Anglo Parliament in Ireland was forced to put forward a motion, that the British Parliament had no right to legislate for Ireland, and the Duke of Grafton was to be eventually replaced as the British appointed Lord Deputy in Ireland by Carteret.

     Jonathon Swift, the Ascendancy Episcopalian Dean of St. Patrick's in Dublin, began the publication of his Drapier's Letters, attacking the terrible prevailing conditions in Ireland under the Ascendancy Conservative Government's rule.

      Thomas Lindsay, the Ascendancy Church of England / Ireland Archbishop in Armagh in the south - east of the Ulster Province, died, and Hugh Boulton, an Ascendancy Episcopalian Church of England Bishop from Bristol in England, was appointed to replace him instead of William King the Anglo Ascendancy Church of England / Ireland Archbishop in Dublin who was known to be an avid Irish supporter and this direct English appointment also did not go down too well with many of the Church of England / Ireland adherents in Ireland.

November: Hugh Boulton, arrived in Ireland, to also take up this position as the Ascendancy Church of England Bishop in Armagh, and also immediately expressed the opinion, that the general population in Ireland must be subordinated to the interests of Britain, and began appointing further Englishmen to all of the influential positions at every opportunity, and this was to lead onto him eventually also gaining control over the Ascendancy Anglo House of Lords in Ireland.  

1725 AD September: Carteret, who was now the British Lord Lieutenant in Ireland, advised the Anglo Parliament in Ireland that William Wood's patent, to coin money for Ireland, was no longer valid, which was a small victory for them against the overall authority of German George 1st and those in control in the British Ascendancy Conservative Parliament in Westminster in England.

     Jonathon Swift, the Ascendancy Episcopalian Dean of St. Patrick's Church in Dublin, was now also continuing to pursue the line, at this time, that Ireland was actually a separate Nation as the continuing repression, of the Ascendancy British Parliament, was still going a long way to ensuring that Irish Nationalism, among the Church of England / Ireland adherents in the Irish population, the Presbyterians and the other Dissenters was still on the increase, and while all of this economic repression was continuing on, more "Anti - Catholic Irish Penal Laws," were introduced into Ireland, and the Ascendancy Parliament then passed an Act, "To remove from the Catholics any rights they still had, at all, to have the right to vote."

1726 AD The Quakers / Society of Friends, opened a school at Ballitore in Co. Kildare in Central Southern Leinster, where the future Statesman, Edmund Burke, who had a Catholic Irish mother and wife, and who was to become a historical standout Anglo - Irish man, was to be educated there from 1741-1744 AD. His most famous statement was, "That all that is needed for the triumph of evil, is that good men do nothing."

      Eogan O Rahilly / Eogan Ua Raithile (1670 AD - 1726 AD) who was the most famed Irish poet of the 18th Century AD, who had been attached to the Heberian Eoghanacht Chaisil Mac Carthys of Blarney from Co. Kerry in the south of the Munster Province, died who was orinally from a branch of the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain in the Ulster Province.)-

    Teague Durnin / Tadhg Ua Duirnin the literary priest, died this year, who was to be the last official head of the Bardic school at Blarney in Southern Munster.

1727 AD George Ludwig 1st the German Hanoverian King of England, died, and the Anglo Parliament in Ireland was dissolved, but in December a new Ascendancy Anglo Parliament was back in, with no opposition at all and was basically the same Ascendancy Government who would continue on in the same manner. 

     The First Indemnity Act was brought in for non - Conformists in England only. 

1727 - 1730 AD. During the following 3 year  period, to add to the woes of the general population in Ireland, there was to be one bad agricultural Season after another occurring.

1728 AD The Conservative Ascendancy Whig Government under Sir Robert Walpole, now began to realise that they had created a further problem for themselves, by their continuing widespread oppression in Ireland, and they came to the conclusion that they must put a stop to any further chance of the Irish Catholics, the Ascendancy Church of England / Ireland adherents, the Presbyterians and the other Dissenters getting on together, and towards this end they decided to pass another Anti - Catholic Penal Law," To deprive Catholics totally, and any other Church of England / Ireland adherents and non - Conformists with Catholic views, the right to vote," and to further this end, they introduced increased confiscation, forfeiture and re-grant of their individual lands, if they did have such a liberal view.

      At this time, because of a previous special arrangement, originally made with William of Orange's Dutch General, de Ginkel during the Williamite Invasion of Ireland, and the following siege there, certain of the Catholic Irish in Co. Galway in Southern Connacht were still allowed to hold onto their land there.  

      Aodh Buidhe - of the Yellow Hair Mac Curtin / Mheic Cruitin and Conor O Begley / Ui Beaglaoich, published an Irish Grammar Dictionary in Paris this year.-

    Oliver Goldsmith, who was educated at Trinity College, and became a famous Anglo - Irish poet and novelist, was born on 10th November at Pallas / Bally Mahon in Co. Longford in the north - west of Northern Leinster, which was the original territory of the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch O Mahon's / Ui Maithain, on the River Inny there.

    Richard Boyle, a son of Henry Boyle the first English Earl of Shannon, following on from his father, was to become the second Earl of Shannon, and then Baron Carleton, when he later became an English Peer and was to be a definite "survivor." 

    The "Convention of Pardo," ended the War between Britain and Spain, this year.

    Stella / Esther Johnson (1681 AD - 1728 AD), died, who had been illegitimately related to Jonathon Swift  the Ascendancy Episcopalian Dean of St. Patrick's Church in Dublin.

1729 AD The new Ascendancy Anglo Parliament in Ireland, began operating at College Green in the Bank of Ireland building in Dublin, which was to be added to over the next 70 years, and it really brought in the era of total Ascendancy control in Dublin, while the Ascendancy British Conservative Parliament in England passed another Act, "To ensure Irish dependency, by abolishing the Irish Lords' right of appeal, and over riding those rights under English Common Law." (Which also bought up the rights of the Catholic Irish.) William Connolly, the Speaker in the Ascendancy Anglo Parliament in Ireland, who was the richest man in Ireland, died, this year, and he was replaced by Sir Ralph Gore, who was a personal appointment by Carteret the British Whig Government's previously appointed Lord Lieutenant in Ireland, to carry out their bidding, but he did not take up his position straight away and this gave those who were in opposition to the British Whig Government in England, in the Anglo Government in Ireland, the opportunity to increase their own numbers for a change. 

    Loan Duties, were now also introduced into Ireland, to meet the Government's interest on the increasing Irish National Debt, that was always added to under the auspices of the German Georges, by the increasing English "foreign" Pensions granted to their hangers on, and their other payments to the on going list of their Placemen / "survivors" in the Anglo Parliament in Ireland who did their bidding as required.

    The previous migration from out of Ireland, which was by now at it's peak, was to begin to decline.

1729 AD Edmund Burke the Statesman was born who had a Catholic mother and a Catholic wife and would continue to make a stand against the continuing Ascendancy oppression.

1730 AD Sir Thomas Vesey, who had been the Ascendancy Church of England / Ireland Bishop in Ossory from 1714 AD in Co. Kildare in the south - west of Southern Leinster, died this year.

      Carteret, the British Ascendancy's Conservative Whig Government's Lord Lieutenant in Ireland, was this year recalled to England, and was to be replaced by Lord Dorset, who did not live in Ireland, but only turned up when the Ascendancy Anglo Parliament in Ireland was to be in session, but he was to appoint his own personal "Placeman," Henry Boyle the English Earl of Cork, a hard - line anti - Catholic, as the unopposed Speaker of the Anglo House of Commons in Ireland and not long after this, he made him the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and this was to allow him to dominate the Ascendancy Anglo House of Commons in Ireland for the next 20 years, setting back any further chance of reform in Ireland. 

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