1771 - 1776 AD
Irish Patriot Party - American Revolution
1771
AD February:
The
Ascendancy Anglo
Parliament in Ireland, re - assembled, this time with the
British
Imperial
Conservative Tory Ascendancy Government in under
Lord North,
firmly in control of the Anglo -
House of
Commons in Ireland due to their new introduced "Placemen," and
John Ponsonby was to resign as
their Speaker.
Benjamin Franklin
was visiting
Dublin from
America, and he put forward the suggestion that in
the future Ireland
and
America
should co - operate to
receive, "A
more equitable
treatment from the British Imperial Government."
1772 AD November: Lord Townshend, who was the British Government's Tory Lord Lieutenant in Ireland, left to return to England in the knowledge that he was sure that the Ascendancy Anglo- Parliament House of Commons in Ireland was now, once again, firmly under the control of the British Imperial Tory Ascendancy Government, due to his own previous ground work, and that of the new batch of British "Undertakers / Placemen" in the Anglo - Parliament in Ireland itself and he was to then be replaced by Harcourt as the British Imperial Ascendancy Tory Viceroy in Ireland. By this period in time there was a much clearer dividing line, as the British "Undertakers / Placemen" who were in reality in Ireland on their way out, and it was clear to all the Irish and the Anglo - Irish no matter what religion, that the oppression from the British Imperial Government in England was still the main cause and the main item of contention on their common agenda, and that they were coming to realise that division on religious grounds was "not good" for the National Irish cause. The Irish Patriots, who would shortly be formed ""officially under the real leadership of Henry Grattan, were to eventually confront the British Tory Imperial Government's Dublin Castle authorities stranglehold on Ireland with the conduct of regular elections, and with the British Imperial Tory Government now under Lord North and German George 111 also now in conflict with their colony in America, the same thoughts occurred to the Irish Patriots, regarding their Constitutional Rights in Ireland, and this simple fact was also to be further awakened throughout all of the Irish population.
Jenkin Conway's
kinsman,
Conway Blennerhassett,
who
was originally from Cumberland in England, tried to do away with the
long running
Irish
Lammas Fair (Puck Fair)
in Co. Kerry
in the south - west
of the Munster Province,
some of his descendants would later on shorten their name to Hasset in
Co. Kerry in Southern Munster
similar to the native Irish
"Heberian
Dal gCais Sept of Hasset
/ Ua hAiseadha in nearby
Co. Clare in Northern
Munster.
1773 AD Previously, in 1768 AD Art O Leary / Ua Laoghaire from the Gaelic Ithian Corca Laoidhe Sept in Co. Cork who were pre- dominant in the "Wild Geese" and arts had married the widow, Eileen O Connell from Macroom also in Co. Cork in Southern Munster, who was to be Daniel O Connell - the Liberator's aunt, and on May 4th, Art O Leary, who was now 26 years of age, had since returned to Ireland, after serving in the Hungarian Army, where he was given a bay horse in appreciation by the Empress Maria Theresa, which he had brought back with him to Ireland, but under the British Imperial Conservative Government's Irish Penal Laws, no Irishman was allowed to own a horse of more then 5 pounds value. Abraham Morris the English High Sheriff of Cork, confronted Art O Leary and offered him the legislated 5 pounds for the horse, and he refused, so he was then declared an "outlaw," and had to go on the run, from the British authorities until he was shot dead by a soldier at Carriganimmy / Carraig an Ime in Co. Cork, and his body was interred in the Kilcrea Abbey on the main road to Macroom outside of Cork City, and there would eventually be repercussions from the Irish later on for this particular atrocious deed.
November: With the National Debt in Ireland now running at just under 1,000,000 pounds, twice that of 10 years previously in 1763 AD, Harcourt the British Imperial Government's Tory Viceroy in Ireland, put forward that there should be a tax of 2 shillings on every pound that was continually being forwarded over to England to the many "Absentee - Land Lords," but it too was to be defeated, especially by these "Absentee" votes allowed, and the further suspicion that he might also try and introduce a tax on all of the other foreign confiscated Land Lords Estates in Ireland.
Another Bounty was put on "exported" grain to once again encourage the growing of corn in Ireland on the confiscated Land Lords' Estates.
An "Ascendancy Society" was now formed to
educate the poorer
Irish
Catholics and bring them up as
non
- Catholics, in what were
called Charter Schools.
Castle Archdale was constructed this year at Irvinstown in Co. Fermanagh in the south - west of the Ulster Province were the original Irvine / Ervine family who were from Scotland had their Castle, now known as Nescarne Castle, which still exists.
1774 AD
John
Hely
came out in favour of Catholic
Emancipation, and the
Another 30,000 non - Catholics
left the
Ulster Province
this year, bringing
the total to 250,000
altogether who had migrated from there, which included also their women, making up
two fifths of the
immigrants to America, who when they
reached their destination there were to basically remain in separate communities
there in America, while
100,000 Catholic
Irish had also left from the south of
Ireland in the
same period, but they were mostly
men only.
Henry Flood
the "unofficial" leader of the
Irish
Patriots
t this time in the Ascendancy Anglo Parliament in Ireland, decided it was
now time for him to work in with the
British
Imperial
Conservative
Tory Government
authorities in
the
Dublin Castle known as the Devil's 1/2 Acre, and he informed his colleagues
in the "unofficial" Irish Patriots that this would be a means of obtaining further reforms for
Ireland generally.
Oliver Goldsmith
who was a highly respected Anglo - Irish
poet and novelist,
died this
year, who had
been born at
Arnagowna
in
Elphin
in
Co. Roscommon in the east of the
Connacht Province
in 1728 AD,
and grew up at
Lissoy
/ Auburn near
Uisneach
in
Co. Westmeath
and was later educated in Edgeworthstown /
Mostrim
in
Co. Longford also in
Northern Leinster and he was well known for
having written
"The Vicar of Wakefield," and the
poems "The Traveller, The Deserted Village,
1775 AD Lord Audley leased his confiscated Estates in Skibbereen and Skull in Co. Cork in Southern Munster to middlemen, for 99 years for 527 pounds a year.
The Battle of
Ballyragget"" occurred in
Co. Kilkenny
in the south - west of
Southern
Leinster,
were there was the largest assembly involving the
"Whiteboys" of 300 horsemen and
200 on foot.
April: The British Imperial Tory Government's Militia clashed with the American Colony troops at Lexington there in America, and the "American War of Independence" was begun to rid themselves of the nefarious tax and the ongoing oppression of Lord North, German George 111 and those in political authority in England, and this was to make a great difference to what would occur in the future in Ireland, and when the American markets closed those in authority in Ireland who were now also threatened with bankruptcy, realised that those in authority in England could just as easily introduce a similar tax into Ireland, Despite this imminent threat, one of the unforseen positive consequences of the Anglo - American turmoil was to be an increase in trade from England, and also Lord North the British Tory Imperial Prime Minister, now and even more " very worried man," did not want any trouble at this time in Ireland, as he needed to make use of the Irish forces that he had previously secured to be used as Imperial "cannon fodder."
August 6th: Daniel O Connell / Ua Conaill who was descended from the Heberian Eoghanacht Ui Fidgeinti Sept and who was destined to become the first Irish Catholic M.P, who would be known as "The Liberator," was born this year at Carhair House in Cahirciveen on the Co. Kerry coast to the east of the Mac Gilly Cuddies (Kerry Mountains) in the south - west of the Munster Province, where his family in order to survive in Ireland had been involved in "smuggling," which gave them opportunities that were not usually available to the Mere Irish in Ireland under the oppressive British Imperial Ascendancy Irish Penal Laws. Morgan O Connell, his father, had fostered him out for 4 years with another Irish Family, and he was then sent to Derrynane to the care of Maurice O Connell, his uncle, who had no children of his own, while another uncle, Daniel O Connell had gone over to France to also join the Irish Wild Geese in 1761 AD. Maurice O Connell, his uncle, adopted him and in time he was to inherit his territory at Derrynane, and when he was to turn 13 Y.O. he was sent with his brother, Maurice, to be educated at a Catholic school at Cobh near Cork, which was to be the first Catholic Seminary to be opened by a Catholic priest in Ireland since the Irish Penal Laws had been imposed. The next year they were sent off to Liege in France and then to St. Omer's also in France from 1791 - 1792 AD and then to Donay, but because of the disruptions caused by the French Revolution they were to return to Ireland in 1794 AD and became students at Lincoln's Inn. (There still at Caher Daniel / The Fort of Daniel, are the 2 ruined churches of Cil Crohane, containing a cell of St. Crohan, and also the Derrynane Abbey were Daniel O Connor was to live and were he was to marry his cousin, Mary O Connell). During his lifetime, he would be capable of drawing crowds of up to 500,000 - 750,000 people to his Irish political meetings, while trying to bring about Catholic Emancipation (the right to vote and be represented in an actual Irish Parliament, which was to create great fear among the previous overall control of the long running Ascendancy in Ireland.
October: Lord North had Harcourt, the British Imperial Government's Viceroy in Ireland, re - assemble the Ascendancy Anglo Parliament in Ireland for the purposes of condemning the "American Rebels," but those in the political opposition outsmarted him by putting forward a conciliation motion instead, and left out the condemnation of the "American Rebels," but despite this positive motion, their amendment was still defeated by the British Imperial Government's "Placemen," and the original condemnation motion was then passed as per his instructions.
October: Henry Flood, who was previously the "unofficial" leader of the "unofficial" Irish Patriots in the opposition in Ireland, and who was also anti - Catholic, was the son of a judge, and was also a lawyer in his own right, and he now took up his newly appointed British Imperial Tory position, as one of their new "Placemen" in a non - job, as Vice - Treasurer in Ireland, at 3,500 pounds a year, which was actually a bribe to win him over to the British Imperial Conservative Tory Government's side. As he had now been bought off by the British Imperial Government the rest of the "unofficial" Irish Patriots believed his actions on this occassion showed his real colours. Henry Grattan, who was politically of Irish Patriot persuasion also, at this time was a young barrister of great eloquence, and under the patronage of Lord Charlemont he was to enter the Anglo House of Commons in Ireland only 3 months later on, and due to his outstanding qualities of leadership he soon gathered up the remnants of the "unofficial" Irish Patriots. Henry Flood was then in a state of shock and disbelief, that Henry Grattan could replace him so easily, and Henry Grattan, who previously had great respect for Henry Flood's original patriotic sympathies, was now to comment that, "There he stands with a metaphor in his mouth and a bribe in his pocket." The British Imperial Tory Government now demanded that Ireland send 4,000 Irishmen to fight against the "American Rebels," for which they would pay their costs, which was opposed now by these newly led Irish Patriots who were in the political opposition in Ireland, but they were once again defeated by the numbers of the British Imperial Government "Placemen" installed in the Ascendancy Anglo Parliament in Ireland.
Sir
William Chambers constructed one of the finest buildings in
Ireland, at
Cloonbannin
in Co. Cork
in Southern Munster, where it became known as
"The
Casino."
1776 AD February: The Ascendancy Anglo - Parliament in Ireland, now endeavouring to make some sort of a stand for National Irish "rights," placed an embargo on the export of any Irish provisions, which was not popular, as it only restricted trade further, while in the meantime, two of the Money Bills sent over for confirmation from the Anglo Parliament in Ireland to the British Imperial Tory Government to be passed, were also altered there and then defeated, and in another act of retaliation the British Imperial Tory Government then also suspended the Irish linen and timber trade
March: Harcourt the British Tory Viceroy in Ireland, dissolved the Anglo Parliament in Ireland again, to try and seek out new "Undertakers / Placemen" to bolster and act on behalf of the British Imperial Tory Government in the Boroughs in Ireland, by handing out British Imperial Government honours, and all up he was to be responsible for the granting of 22 new English Peerages, with 17 of these in just one day, creating a further 7 English Barons into English Viscounts, and 5 English Viscounts into English Earls and he also increased the Irish "Pension Allotment Fund," while he was at it by 22,000 pounds, as he desperately sought out 138 new British Imperial Conservative Tory Government "Placemen," who could be easily bought and placed in the Ascendancy Anglo Parliament in Ireland, who would then act only on their instructions from the British Imperial Tory Government in England.
June:
Harcourt the British Tory Viceroy
in Ireland then brought
his newly constructed Ascendancy
Anglo Parliament in Ireland
together for only a very brief session, possibly
to see if the "Placemen" would perform as he had expected them to do.
October: Harcourt the British Imperial Ascendancy Tory Viceroy in Ireland, assembled the the Ascendancy Anglo Parliament in Ireland once again, endeavouring to continue on with the British Imperial Tory Government's overall authority over their opposition in the Ascendancy Anglo Parliament in Ireland.
November:
Harcourt
the British Tory Viceroy in
Ireland
resigned his
position as he was not
doing as well as the British Imperial Ascendancy
Government was expecting him to do.
December:
John Hobart
the
English Earl of Buckinghamshire
was appointed to replace Harcourt as the new British
Imperial
Ascendancy Viceroy in Ireland.
The Catholic Irish
although they were still the "majority" of the
Irish population, being
75% , were
by now only holding onto
5% of their
Irish land, in
spite of the
Irish Penal Laws,
and the
many previous "foreign
plantations" as the population in Ireland was now 25 % non -
Catholic, but most of these were by now also "discriminated against"
and disenfranchised also by the British
Imperial
Conservative Government,
as they continued on with their
Irish "mercantile oppression" and although being 25% of the population, only a very small percentage of these
were made up of the
"Ruling
Class" in the
the Ascendancy
Church of England / Ireland
minority, who were nevertheless, always "protected" by
British Imperial Ascendancy Government Militia and their Irish
Penal Laws.
A company of
Irish
Volunteers were put
together in
Co. Wexford in the south - east of
Southern Leinster, on the basis of
protecting the "coastline" of
Ireland against attack,
while other Irish groups were also forming throughout the
Country, and
the numbers in the
United Irishmen Society
were also growing due to the continuing opposition to
the British Imperial Ascendancy
Government's
negative hold over Ireland, as the
real issues
were always being
pushed forward by the continual commercial, ethnic, and religious
oppression, and because of this ongoing situation, the
United Irishmen
Society were
also able to
swear in another 6,000 members in
Co. Antrim
in the north - east of the Ulster Province alone,
where they
now had a total of
117,000
members in the whole of
Ulster
and nearby in
Co. Louth in the north - east
of Northern
Leinster.
Frederick Hervey, the flamboyant Ascendancy Church of England Bishop in Derry, constructed the Battery Road at Downhill in Co. Derry in the north - east of the Ulster Province.