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                                                                                                                                                  1798 AD - 1 (January - June)

                                                                                                                                             " Advancing the Immoral Union." 

1798 AD James Meany, a United Irishman, who was known as the "Bold Captain," was one of those who were now on the run from the British Imperial Ascendancy Government's Dublin Castle (The Devil's 1/2 Acre) authorities, and he hid out in the Mac Egans / Ui Aodhagain castle, where he was to be eventually betrayed to the British Government's Dublin Castle authorities. (A Mac Egan family member has since purchased  the castle in more modern times in anticipation of restoring it.)

    In anticipation of the French coming into Ireland to assist the Irish population in their struggle against the continuing British Imperial Ascendancy Governmant's ethnic, religious and economic oppression, the Keelogue Batteries were constructed at this time on Incherky, and also a Martello Tower later on in the River Shannon near Meelick in Co. Galway in Southern Connacht in case they should sail up the River Shannon. 

    There was conflict this year at Goresbridge, and Castlecomer in Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of Southern Leinster was also captured.

     Ireland over the Centuries had been deprived of most of her" leaders" one way or another by the English / British Conservative Ascendancy Governments, and especially many hundreds of thousands of her individual "fighting men" during the constant oppressions carried out by those in authority in the British Government in England and those they also had in authority in the Dublin Castle (The Devil's 1/2 acre) in Ireland as these Irish leaders had been, either systematically "eliminated," or forced into "exile" to fight other wars in other places against their Imperial forces, and by this period in time many thousands of Irishmen willing to give their all had perished fighting against their ongoing Imperialism, in either America, England, France, Scotland or Spain.  

    Napoleon Bonaparte was by now preparing to invade England, but he had spread his military forces too far, and due to the ongoing crisis in "Egypt" he had decided to change his plans and go there instead, but Theobold Wolfe Tone the dedicated Irish Republican was not one to be put off, so Napoleon finally agreed to send a small force of men to Ireland to support the United Irishmen who were now under serious "repression" by the British Imperial Ascendancy Tory Government, as he was well aware that this would also create a "diversion". In the meantime the population in Ireland who were well and truly under "seige" was to only be able to rebel against the "immediate oppression" as it occurred and as a result the insurgency in the Ulster Province for instance was to only last for 3 days, until it was to be put down by General Cornwallis, who had since replaced Jeffreys Pratt / Lord Camden, as the new British Imperial Tory Conservative Government Viceroy in Ireland.

March: Thomas Pelham who was still the British Chief Secretary in Ireland, was too ill to carry out his official duties and these were now carried out by Robert Stewart / Lord Castlereagh, who had gone over to the other side, and nearly all of the remaining United Irishmen Society "leaders" who were situated in Dublin were "arrested," except for Lord Edward Fitz Gerald who had managed to escape their trap, and was able to hide out for a further 2 months, while the United Irishmen Society leaders who had recently been taken had been surprised during a "meeting" held to discuss their options, by the R.I.C. police in Bridge Street near the River Liffey in Dublin, where their records were also confiscated. The British Imperial Government's Dublin Castle (The Devil's 1/2 Acre) authorities now brought in "Martial Law" on the Irish population. "Burnings, and floggings" of 500 to 999 lashes were being carried out on "individuals" indiscriminately and randomly on persons within the Irish population by the "British Military" forces, on any one that they unfortunately ran into, with "Pitch Capping" also used as another of their "tortures," by placing a paper bag full of pitch on their heads, and then setting it on fire, along with another "gruesome torture" known as "half - hanging," where they used a rope, which was eventually only released when the unfortunate victim became "unconscious." The British Imperial Government's Dublin Castle (The Devil's 1/2 Acre) authorities had by this period in time been carrying out this particular "terror campaign" now since 1796 AD for a particular purpose to"induce" the population in Ireland to eventually "agree" to the introduction of the Immoral Union,  and by now the general population of Ireland had "no where to turn" for any protection or justice, and they were naturally in total panic, which was to cause further local individual "risings" in Co. Antrim and in Co. Down in the east of the Ulster Province, in Co. Waterford in the south - east of the Munster Province, and also nearby in Co. Wexford in the south - east of Southern Leinster. At Hackets Town to the north - east of the Wicklow Mountains just over the Co. Carlow border in Southern Leinster 2 "battles" were to also occur there as the Irish population in that region tried to stave off an "assault" by the British Imperial Government's Dublin Castle (The Devil's 1/2 Acre) Military forces, and the remaining United Irishmen "leaders" who were to carry on, by now realized that they could no longer wait for assistance from France, and that they would have to make their own moves, or there would be "no one left" among them at all to defend the members of the Irish population who ere being terrorized. 

April:  Sir Ralph Abercromby who had shown a spark of humanity towards the Irish population, was now "replaced" by William Pitt - the Younger who was to show his true intentions more vividly by now appointing the nororious General Lake as the British Commander - in - Chief, who had already shown his willingness and ferocity to carry out the British Imperial Conservative Tory Ascendancy Government's policies towards the general Irish population in the Ulster Province, and within one month due to his vicious appalling conduct he was to ensure that there were "now to be rebellions" breaking out throughout the whole of Ireland, by the growing number of killings, the cruelties, the terror and the use of British Martial Law that he was to brutally impose on all of the Irish population during his tenure. 

      Fate had by this time also previously intervened in the British Imperial Conservative Ascendancy Government's ongoing oppression in Ireland, due to the external pressure that had allowed the Catholic Irish to become "lawyers," and Daniel O Connell who would become known as " The Liberator," who was now an Irish Catholic lawyer, was this month admitted to the Irish Bar , which had come about because of the previous "small reforms" that had been brought in under the duress of the "American" and "French Revolutions", and he was now personally, as an individual of great capacity, to have a great impact on the future situation of the "majority" of the population in Ireland operating as a barrister. He would now be able to "defend" many of the individual oppressive Irish Catholic cases that were to be constantly brought against them or anyone else in Ireland who were also treated in a similar "imperialistic" way. 

May 19th: Lord Edward Fitzgerald the United Irishman leader had put together a "National Directory" of all the members of the United Irishmen Society, including those in the Connacht Province, and those in Co. Cork in Southern Munster, where there where 90,000 members alone, but his whereabouts was to be "betrayed" by Francis Higgins - the Sham Squire who when he later died and was buried at Kilbarrack Church / Cill Bearog in Dublin the population on later learning of his previous betrayal were to "totally destroy" his grave for what he had done. Lord Edward Fitz Gerald had previously been able to escape from the British Imperial Government's Dublin Castle (The Devil's 1/2 Acre) authorities, but on this date he was to be killed while they were trying to arrest him at Oliver Bond's house in Dublin, and his body was later interred in St. Werburgh's Church in Dublin. The remaining United Irishmen Society members who were among his group were then "arrested," including Thomas Addis Emmet their Secretary, and Arthur O Connor who was at this time in England, while Oliver Bond, who was also one of the "leaders" of the United Irishman Society, would eventually also die in prison while waiting to be hung, and together with his two compratiots the Sheares brothers their remains were to be interred in St. Michan's Church in Dublin.         

May 23rd: This had been the original date set aside for the United Irishmen Societies' scheduled "uprising" against the British Imperial  Ascendancy Government's authorities in Ireland, and with no other options now left to halt the ongoing oppression being continually carried out by the British Imperial Conservative Tory Government against the Irish population, those among them, who were now left, decided to push on with their Irish Uprising, regardless of the fact that they now had no real well known "leaders" left among them. In utter "desperation" of what was occurring there were now to also be "concurrent Irish risings" carried out  over the next 8 weeks in Co. Antrim and Co. Down in the east of the Ulster Province, and in Co. Carlow, Co. Dublin, Co. Kildare and Co. Meath and in the east of Co. Wexford in the Leinster Province, which were then to continue on for another 6 months.    

May 26th: The "intermittent Irish uprisings" in the east of Co. Wexford in the south - east of Southern Leinster was now handed over to the local Land Lord's personal "Yeomanry" / Private Miltia to deal with as well as the British Imperial Military forces and this was to "create" even more devestating "atrociates" on the general Irish population in that particular area once again, which once again suited William Pitt's agenda of ravaging terror.

May 27th:  Father John Murphy, a Catholic priest in Co. Wexford decided that he just could not sit back and allow the surrounding Irish population there to take any more of the "never - ending terror " that was being handed out by the British Imperial Ascendancy Government forces and especially the Land Lords' private "Yeomanry," who were from North Cork in Co. Cork in Southern Munster, and so the Irish population there who were now pushed to the limit of as much as they could bear finally turned on their "aggressors" and openly declared the Republican Government of Ireland. Father Murphy was now hoping that the rest of the aggrieved population in Ireland would also join in against the terrible things that were being done to them as a whole by the British Imperial Ascendancy Government and he also had the further belief that there would be "assistance" forthcoming from France, so he combined the threatened population throughout the region who then hung out the Green Flag of Ireland, and as a group they rallied around it and were then able to "defeat" the Militia from North Cork, and they also not only gained a victory on Oulart Hill at the crossroads there in Co. Wexford, but also gained control over the City of Wexford itself, and they then continued with some hope to also gain control at Enniscorthy.

June: The "refusal to grant any further reform" in Ireland initially to the Irish Catholics, was really all about the agenda of William Pitt - the Younger the British Imperial Conservative Tory Ascendancy Prime Minister and he now began "in earnest" his moves to bring about his Immoral Union of both the Parliaments in England and Ireland, and along with General Cornwallis and Robert Stewart he considered that the time was now ripe to play his "ace card" and offer the Catholics Emancipation in Ireland to "encourage" them further to accept his proposal to bring on the Immoral Union, who were by now totally under "bloody all out siege" in their own Country. Once again John "Black Jack" Fitz Gibbon, his main Ascendancy "Placeman," in Ireland, who led the Ascendancy in Ireland, although he also personally supported the Immoral Union, still would not ware any Irish Catholic "representation" especially in the Ascendancy Anglo Parliament especially in his own financial interests, while the other members of the Ascendancy in Ireland, such as John Beresford the Ascendancy Church of England / Ireland Bishop in Armagh, who was also the "richest" man in Ireland,) Parnell the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Foster the Speaker in the Ascendancy Anglo House of Commons in Ireland were at this time against the Immoral Union in any form with England.   

June 5th: Beauchamp Bagenal Harvey an Ascendancy Church of England / Ireland Land Lord who was also a United Irishman, who operated his confiscated Estate from out of Bargy Castle at Rosslare in Co. Wexford in the south - east of Southern Leinster, had now taken over the command of the 20,000 Irish people there who had joined in against the "ongoing terror"being inflicted on the population there by the British Imperial Government's Militia and the Land Lords "Yeomany," and he laid siege to Wexford City, which he captured, and boltstered by their success they then moved on to New Ross also in Co. Wexford, which was on the way up to Dublin, were the battle was to last for 10 hours against 1,400 well armed British Imperial Military forces, until his group was "defeated" and 1,000 of his Irish supporters were killed outright, including Father Murphy himself. Further British Imperial Government Militia were now sent over from England to take on the Irish population, while other local individual affected Irish groups now also rose up in the middle of Ireland to try and also "defend" themselves against the "ongoing terrorizing acts" that were being carried out in their particular areas, to keep up the momentum, but as they had no "real leaders" they were not able to "combine their forces" and were also to be defeated.   

June 7th: Henry Joy Mac Cracken, who was a Presbyterian United Irishman from Belfast in Co. Antrim in the north - east of the Ulster Province, who had also been involved in the "rebellion" in Co. Wexford in the south - east of Southern Leinster was now to carry the rebellion back up in to Ulster were he was to lead 3,000 United Irishmen there who were on this particular day attempting to lay siege to Antrim itself, but they too were to be "defeated" by General Nugent who was also acting for the British Imperial Ascendancy Government there and they were driven off and he was later "captured and hung" from the belfry in the front of the old Market House in Belfast after he too was to be "betrayed," while James Quigley a local Ulster priest was also "hung" on the same day at Maidstone.  

June 13th: The United Irishmen Society forces on this date were to "defeat" the British Imperial Government forces at Saintfield / Tamhnach Naomh (The Field of Saints) just out of Belfast in Co. Antrim in the Ulster Province, under Henry Monroe, who then tried to take Ballynahinch in Co. Down in the south - east of Ulster, as the numbers in his group had since grown to 7,000 followers, but he too was "captured" and then "executed" at Lisburn, along with many of the other United Irishmen "leaders" there who were all mostly non - Catholic who really were only asking for a "better way of life for all" of the population in Ireland. James Porter who was another non - Catholic minister was also "hung" in Co. Down, and "detention" and "sentencing" became the order of the day, with William Orr another United Irishman leader also "hung" at Carrickfergus in Co. Antrim.  

June 21st:  Meanwhile in Co. Wexford in the south - east of Southern Leinster the "Battle of Vinegar Hill" occurred that was now bought on by the "bloody massacre" of captured Irish prisoners there, where 15,000 Irish men, women and children had fled for protection, for even though the Wexford area "had not" originally been a stronghold of the United Irishmen Society, the British Imperial Ascendancy overnment Militias had carried out "floggings" there anyway, and all those there who were now subject also to the "ongoing reign of terror" in that particular region had gathered together on the hill to escape the intermittent violence and cruelties being inflicted on them in the surrounding regions and 4,000 of the Irish population were to be slain there before they finished. Thomas "Fireball" Mac Namara from Co. Clare in the north - west of the Munster Province who was a "renowned duelist" had also joined in with the Irish population there, and was able to survive there and be later severely wounded at Arklow in Co. Wicklow also in the south - east of Southern Leinster where a monument has now been erected to all of those "innocent Irish people who were "murdered" there. The town of Tinahely was also destroyed there. A "statue" of Billy Byrne of Heremonian Cu Corb descent, the "leader" of the insurgents there, has since also been erected in Wicklow in the market place containing the names also of the other Irish "leaders" there and Thomas Moore who was the Irish Rebel President of Connacht was interred near what is now the "monument" to the United Irishmen at Castlebar, which is the main town in Co. Mayo in the mid - west of the Connacht Province.

      The "Orange Society / Order" had by now grown "quite strong" and in "opposition" to the position of their "educated" fellow Ulstermen in the United Irishmen Society, was also quite capable of continuing to "reinforce" their strong "sectarian views" or "seige mentality" further against the Catholic Irish in Ireland.

      Dunmoe Castle at Navan / An Naimh (The Cave) in Co. Meath in the south - east of Northern Leinster was burnt down, which saw the United Irishmen there and the Irish Catholics combine to fight the Land Lords' private armies of "Yeomanry" who were mostly non - Catholics who had been originally set up by an Officer Land Lord who held 40,000 acres there in his own right.   

      Beauchamp Bagenal Harvey the United Irishman leader, together with his deputy, John Colclough had escaped the wrath of the British Imperial Militia in Co. Wexford and the terrible atrocities that were still being carried out there and had taken "refuge" in a cave on the Saltee Islands also part of Co. Wexford in the south - east of Southern Leinster, which was 5 mile off of the south coast beyond Ballytiegue Bay and Forlorn Point, but he too was to be arrested there, and taken into Wexford, were he was "hung" on the Wexford Bridge and then "beheaded," and his head was put on display at the Sessions House. His "body" had also been "thrown" into the River, where it was recovered by the local population there, who later interred it at Mayglass Church in Co. Wexford. The insatiably ferocious British Imperial Ascendancy Government's General Lake had since retaliated with even "further great cruelty," and even Sir Edward Crosbie a Land Lord and M.P. was to be "hung " as a traitor, and the United Irishmen Societies' rebellion was by now slowly coming to an "end" as nearly 50,000 Irish men, women and children were to be "slaughtered" all up by the British Imperial Ascendancy Tory Government forces on this occassion backed up by the Land Lords's "Yeomanry," while at Carlow in Co. Carlow in Southern Leinster the streets had "run red with the blood" of the Irish population there. The agenda been accomplished.

June: General Cornwallis was now the British Viceroy in Ireland and also their British Military Commander - in - Chief.

     The "Orange Society / Order," which was hard - line anti - Catholic, at this time had been "allowed to grow" much stronger previously under the disposition of the anti - Catholc Lord Camden, but General Cornwallis was to treat them differently and they took his more relaxed attitude towards the "majority" of the Irish population to mean a "betrayal" of the Ascendancy cause, as they did also to Robert Stewart who also made "overtures" now to the Irish Catholics in the same vein and this increased their "siege mentality" even further.

    The non - Catholic "emigration" of all the other religious sects and non - Conformists, except for the Ascendancy Church of England / Ireland adherents was to now "increase substantially" due to the continuing overiding Ascendancy "persecution" of individual "religious freedoms and the economic oppression" carried out by the British Imperial Conservative Ascendancy Tory Government on the whole population of Ireland regardless.

    The Catholic Irish "majority" who were originally the "Mere Irish" with their history of a different Celtic Culture with nearly 4,000 years of previous commitment to their "individual Septs'' territories, found it "much harder to leave" the shores of Ireland, as it was for them really going into "exile", that was second only to death, and besides the Ascendancy Imperial Government in England were to forbid the Irish Catholics to go to "America" until after 1815.   

      

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