1787 - 1790 AD

                                                                                                                                                    Tithes - Mad George 111 - French Revolution

1787 AD The "tenants" of the Land Lords who had their confiscated Estates in Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of Southern Leinster were the "first ones" to present a "petition" against the devastating compulsory "Tithes" that they were forced to pay to the Ascendancy Church of England / Ireland regardless of their religious faith. 

     John Dunne was to become the Catholic Bishop of Ossory in Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of  Southern Leinster until 1789 AD.

1788 AD Saville's Relief Act was passed allowing Irish Catholics up to 999 years / or for 5 lives, to "inherit and bequeath," the same as what was previously only allowed for non - Catholics.

1788 AD German George 111 the Hanoverian King of Britain had by now gone totally off the rails, and his second son, George Augustus Frederick the German Prince of Wales was a candidate to become the Regent, and if he did there was a possibility that he would get rid of William Pitt - the Younger the ultra - Conservative British Imperial Prime Minister and put in his ally Charles Fox, but William Pitt - the Younger was ahead of the game and had the British Parliament define what the Prince could and could not do, even though Charles Fox pushed for his right to use his own personal authority, and it all now remained up in the air as each of them had to await the outcome of German George 111's  sanity.    

    Christopher Emmet, died at 27 years of age, and Robert Emmet his 10 year old brother who would grow up to play a major part in Irish Nationality was greatly effected by a poem that his older brother had written about the eventual downfall of the insatiable British Imperial Empire..  

1789 AD James Lanigan / Ua Lonagain was to become the Catholic Bishop of Ossory in Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of Southern Leinster until 1812 AD.

February 5th: The Ascendancy Anglo Parliament  in Ireland met, and Henry Grattan the leader of the Irish Patriot Party "Opposition" came out in support of the view of Charles Fox on the overall authority of the German Prince of Wales, who they believed should rule in his own right and called on George Augustus Frederick the Prince of Wales to assume the Regency in Ireland, which was further confirmed in the Ascendancy Anglo House of Lords  in Ireland, but the British Imperial Tory Lord Lieutenant in Ireland "refused" to inform the German Prince of Wales of their decision, as it was against the wishes of the British Imperial Government's Dublin Castle authorities who took their orders directly from William Pitt - the Younger. This was to allow them time until German George 111 was able to regain his "sanity" and the British Imperial Conservative Tory Government then continued on under William Pitt - the Younger, but the decision by the two Parliaments in Ireland had threatened the "unity" of the British Monarchy. 

      Many of the M.P.s in the Ascendancy Anglo Parliament  in Ireland lived on Merrion's Square and St. Stephen's Green in Dublin, and among these was John "Black Jack" Fitzgibbon the hard - line anti - Catholic, who would later also become the English Earl of Clare, and who was the British Imperial Conservative Government's leading "Placeman" in Ireland, and they were so sure of him that they appointed him the British Lord Chancellor in Ireland, as the first person born in Ireland to be so in the last 60 years, as his main job, during his long period in office on their behalf, was to carry out the policies of the British Imperial Tory Government "only," as they were also well aware that as a strong hard - line anti - Catholic he would "stop at nothing" to maintain the Ascendancy in Ireland. He was to continue to carry all of this out "against the interests of Ireland itself," especially under William Pitt - the Younger who was also able to survive in Government in England for a 18 years while Henry Grattan, the Patriot Party leader in the "Opposition" in Ireland, continued to stay allied with Charles Fox the British Opposition leader in England, in anticipation of William Pitt - the Younger one day being "removed" from his high position.

      Terrified as to the Ascendancy's continuing hold over property rights in Ireland, John "Black Jack"" Fitz Gibbon the anti - Catholic hard - liner and British Imperial Tory Government "Placeman" put the following argument to the Ascendancy Anglo Parliament at College Green in Dublin, during his opposition to the leader of the Irish Patriot Party's Henry Grattan's reform proposals to give the Catholic Irish the right to vote'/ Catholic Emancipation.

      "I wish to remind the gentlemen of Ireland that the only "security" by which they held their property, the only security they have for the present Constitution in Church and State, is the connection of the Parliament in Ireland with it's "dependence," upon the Crown of England, for if they are not duped into idle and fantastical speculations under the pretence of asserting National dignity and Independence, they will feel the effects to their sorrow. For give me leave to say sir, that when we speak of the people of Ireland, it is a "melancholy truth" that we do not speak of the great body (majority) of the people. This is a subject on which it is painful to me to be obliged to touch in the Assembly, but when I see the right honourable member (Henry Grattan ) driving the gentlemen of Ireland to the "verge of a precipice" it is time to speak out. Sir, the ancient nobility of this Kingdom has been "harshly treated." The Act by which most of us hold our Estates was an "Act of violence," an Act "subverting" the first principle of the Common Law in England and Ireland. I speak of the Act of Settlement and that gentlemen may know the extent, I will tell them that "every acre of land," which pays quitrent to the Crown is held by Title derived under the Act of Settlement. So I trust gentlemen, will deem it worthy of consideration how far "it may be prudent to pursue" the successive claims of dignified independence made for Ireland by the right honourable gentleman. If the address of both houses can convert the Prince of Wales with Royal power in this Country, the same address could convey the same power to Louis V1, or to His Holiness the Pope, or to the honourable mover of this resolution. We are committing ourselves against the law and against the Constitution, and in such a contest Ireland (the Ascendancy) must fall." 

      During this year Fermoy on the River Blackwater in Co. Cork in Southern Munster was purchased by Anderson, a Scotsman, who eventually re - sold it to the British Imperial Government to be used as a British Army base for their barracks in Ireland, and near there also is the Gallery Grave of Labba Callee (Hog's Bed) and Carrigabrick Castle, Cragg Castle and Licklash Castle on the banks, and also Castle Hyde to be the future home of Douglas Hyde a non - Catholic who was to become the "1st Anglo - Irish President of Ireland" after the Irish population would regain 26 of the 32 Counties of Ireland back from the British Imperial Empire in 1921 AD  

 July: Saw the outbreak of the "French Revolution," following on from the "American Revolution," and it stirred the blood of many throughout the World, with numerous newspapers printing the contents of "Tom Payne's" the, "Rights of Man" and the new "French Republic" also offered to help any small Nation against "Imperialism," and one of those greatly effected by all of this was Theobold Wolfe Tone, a French Huguenot lawyer, who because he was non - Catholic had been able to be educated at Trinity College in Dublin, who was to assist to found The United Irishmen Society and generate the cause of Irish Republicanism.

     Father Mathew, "The Apostle of Temperance" was born this year at Cashel in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster Province, and he was to bring a new way of life and hope to many, who had been the depressed victims of the terrible ethnic, commercial and sectarian terror carried out for "Centuries" in Ireland by the English and British Ascendancies, through his "Temperance League" in the future. 

    The Royal Canal was under construction for 100 miles running through Mullingar from out of Dublin in the north - east of Southern Leinster to Richmond Harbour near Cloon Dara on the River Shannon in Co. Longford in the north - west of Northern Leinster.

   The "Book of Dimna" containing the Gospels in Latin from the Roscrea Abbey, which had been composed in the 7th Century AD, was found by boys hunting rabbits on Devil's Bit Mountain also in Co. Tipperary, where it was carefully preserved and concealed and it is now in Trinity College.

1790 AD Many "discoveries" of the Catholic Irish who had somehow continued to hold onto their land were made by "friendly" non - Catholics who were actually trying to assist them to retain their land in Ireland. 

    Many Catholic "priests" were now accepted as respected pillars of their society, and the Catholic colleges of St. Patrick's in Co Carlow in the south of Southern Leinster, which is the oldest seminary, and another at Maynooth were begun.

  Intermarriage between non - Catholics and Irish Catholics was finally "officially" allowed together with the right for Irish Catholics to become "lawyers," which was to be the catalyst for opening the door to real "reform" in Ireland and Daniel O Connell, who in the future would be known as - the Liberator, and who was previously taught at the Irish Hedge Schools was sent off to Louvain in France to his other uncle, Daniel O Connell who had served with the "Wild Geese" there, by his other uncle, Maurice O Connell to receive a more formal education, together with his younger brother also a Maurice O Connell. 

   Many Catholic Irish families now found that they had to leave their homes in the north of Co. Armagh and the south of Co. Derry in the Ulster Province due to the "lack of opportunity" that now existed for them there, and also due to the ongoing "sectarian religious intolerance" there, and the "higher rent" increases they were being specifically forced to pay because of their commitment to their faith as this last "imposition especially," that was being imposed by the ever - greedy sectarian Land Lords on their various confiscated Estates there, also made many of the non - Catholics from the Ulster Province begin to migrate to "North America," while those in the south left fto go to the "West Indies." During this decade 447,000  people from out of the present population in Ireland went to "America," with two thirds of these being from Ulster alone, while at the same time many of the Frenchmen who had been interred in prison during the 7 Years War with England had decided to stay on in Ireland.   

     The Whig Club in Ireland was set up under the leadership of Henry Grattan and the Irish Patriots in anticipation of bringing about further Parliamentary "reforms" in Ireland, but there was no intention provided to include any provision for the Catholic Irish to receive the right to vote (Catholic Emancipation).

     The Irish Volunteers were now mostly from the "lower economic ranks" of society and had broken off their ties with the Ascendancy aristocracy, and their Gentry, with the non - Catholic Irish Volunteers in the Ulster Province now very strong and the Republican Presbyterians and the Catholic Irish were now "co - operating" and were on very"friendly terms," which was becoming a "great  worry" to the British Imperial Ascendancy Government's authorities in the Dublin Castle (The Devil's 1/2 acre) and the demand for the" repeal of the anti - Irish Catholic Laws" was increasing, with the demand forn "complete religious equality" for all. The Catholic Irish at this time, were not as Republican minded as the Presbyterians were, due to the "terrible treatment" meted out during the French Revolution to the Catholic clergy in France by the revolutionaries there, but there was one "area of exception" to this as a Republican attitude was rife in the more populated Dublin area in the north - east of Southern Leinster were there was a strong "democratic Irish and Anglo - Irish" element ready to ally with the "well educated" Presbyterians.

      Robert Stewart, who was the nephew of Lord Camden, who was to become a future British Imperial Viceroy who would also be appointed to control Ireland for the British Imperial Conservative Ascendancy Government won the election for a seat in Co. Down in the south - east of the Ulster Province against the Ascendancy establishment nomination there, but unfortunately he too was soon to become a fervent British Imperial Government supporter, and later on as the British Chief Secretary in Ireland, for William Pitt - the Younger, he would also be a major player in bringing about the future debauched "Immoral Union" of the British Ascendancy Parliament in England and the Ascendancy Anglo Parliament  in Ireland in 1800 AD.

     The "first" Mail Coach began linking Belfast in the north - east of the Ulster Province down to Dublin in the north - east of Southern Leinster.

     Frederick Hervey the flamboyant Earl of Bristol and the Ascendancy Church of England / Ireland Bishop in Derry, whose daughter was Lady Erne, returned once again to Ireland for brief periods and then left again for 13 years and never came back again, and although he travelled all over Europe he would not go to France, but used Rome instead as his headquarters, while the English Earl of Tyrone who was now the head of the Beresfords desperately wanted him to die out of the road so he could put in one of his "own" relatives.

    The Duke of Rutland at this time was still the appointed British Imperial Ascendancy Lord Lieutenant in Ireland).

   Thomas Mac Coghlan from the Heberian Dal gCais Clan Conor, died leaving no legitimate heir.

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