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
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
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 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.