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                                                                                                                                                                    1798 AD - July - December

                                                                                                                                       United Irishmen Society ends -  Immoral Union begins.

1798 AD William Pitt - the Younger the British Imperial Conservative Tory Ascendancy Prime Minister and his Ascendancy Government now had 40,000 British Militia in Ireland to further ensure there would be no further "resistance" to their plans for bringing about the Immoral Union of Ireland with England, and to this end also he was now pushing the pertinent line of the Ascendancy that it was necessary to bring it about if the Ascendancy was to keep their "overall control " in Ireland as before, then this would depend on the Immoral Union of the Anglo Ascendancy Parliament in Ireland with that of the Ascendancy Westminster Imperial Parliament in England, where there were "safety in numbers," as there was "no chance" of any Catholic Irish representation "ever" occurring there.

      During this time Daniel O Connell - the Liberator was called to the Bar. (In the future he would become the first Catholic M.P in Ireland, representing Co. Clare / "The Banner County" in the north - east of the Munster Province, which was to then lead onto further Catholic Emancipation and the words of John Beresford the Ascendancy Church of England / Ireland Bishop in Armagh, who was still the "richest" man in Ireland, was to come to fruition in the future when he was to state to the Ascendancy that," If you give the Catholics any rights at all they will want the same rights as us."

      The "surviving" members of the United Irishmen Society now included in their Oath, "To be true to the Catholic religion and assist the French when they land," and at the same time, to give them "further encouragement, one of the exiled United Irishmen leaders, Napper Tandy, landed at Co. Donegal in the far north - west of the Ulster Province with a small contingent of French soldiers also given to him by Napoleon Bonaparte.

August 14th: Theobold Wolfe Tone the founder of the United Irishmen Society who was the overall Irish Republican leader, now also realised he would have to"push on" regardless, as his followers back in Ireland were being picked off one by one, by the British Imperial Conservative AScendancy Government, so he set sail from Brest with 3,000 French troops also given to him by Napoleon Bonaparte.

August 22nd: The United Irishmen forces who were under General Joseph Holt a non - Catholic farmer from Wicklow in Co. Wicklow in Southern Leinster and Michael Dwyer the Wicklow Chieftain were hoping for further French assistance when Humbert, the French General, with 1,100 French troops arrived in Kilcummin Bay in Co. Mayo in the mid - west of the Connacht Province, but Humbert too had left his run too late, as by now there were not many free United Irishmen left there to assist him, so he occupied the town of Killala in the north of Co. Mayo, and the ships that had brought his particular French contingent to Ireland then "returned" to France. At Killala he was to be eventually joined by a "few thousand" United Irishmen from throughout the "rural" areas there, who although keen to stand up to the British Conservative Imperial  Ascendancy Government.s oppression there, had "no experience or training" in any type of warfare, but they were willing to fight for the cause of bringing about "reform" for the Irish population, and to this end he had also brought with him arms and ammunition for their use,but his combined forces where to be driven out of Killala with "great slaughter" by the British Huguenot General Trench, and Father Conroy, the Catholic priest there, was summarily "executed" for giving him assistance. Despite this immediate crushing setback the Irish population there were to continue on with the "resistance" and were able to regain Killala, and the French General, Humbert along with his men and his Irish force was then able to "capture" the town of Ballina also in Co. Mayo, and then pushed on to take the main town of Castlebar from the clutches of the resolute and ferocious British Imperial Government's Military commander, General Lake despite his continuing savagery.

September 4th: Humbert the French General with his men and combined Irish forces was also able to capture Ballysadare / Baile Easa Daire (The Town of the Waterfall of the Oak Tree) nearby in Co. Sligo in the north - west, although there had also been "no" United Irishmen Society Uprisings previously in the Connacht Province as the Irish population there could now see some signs of hope.

September 8th: Humbert the French General with his men and his combined Irish forces also "defeated" the British Imperial Government's Military forces under Colonel Vereker at the Collooney Gap on the Owen More River, but as they then came under further attack there he pushed on "eastwards" instead towards Dromahair.

September 23rd: The town of Killala in Co. Mayo was once again "retaken"by the British Military forces, and this then brought about the actual "end" of any further "revolt" occurring there in the Connacht Province, and the Land Lords' "Yeomanry" and the British Military forces then took out a "brutal revenge" on the Irish population throughout that region for their previous "defeat" at Castlebar in Co. Mayo.

October: Humbert the French General was eventually forced to "surrender" his forces at Ballinamuck in Co. Longford in the north - west of Northern Leinster by General Cornwallis the British Military commander, after previously marching overland for 150 miles, and although "Napper" Tandy had also arrived with his small French force, on seeing the way it was going he soon left again, and all up 30,000 people from the overall population in Ireland would be "massacred" during the United Irishmen Societies' Uprising, which would now be utilized to only foster further "sectarian hatred. "

     Theobold Wolfe Tone, the Irish Republican leader after previously being personally in "exile" in Paris for two years while trying to gain substantial assistance from Napoleon Bonaparte,  returned to Ireland with his particular French contingent via Loch Swilly in Co. Donegal in the north - west of the Ulster Province where his French force was to be intercepted and "defeated" during a sea battle off of the Irish coast by the British Imperial Government's Navy ships and he was "arrested" and placed in the Buncrana Castle previously built by Sir John Vaughan, and was then sent down to Dublin in chains on horseback and paraded through the City of Dublin for all to see and was then condemned by the Dublin Castle (The Devil,s 1/2 Acre) authorities to be "hung" as a "common criminal."

November 19th: Theobold Wolfe Tone, the Irish Republican leader, wanted to die an "honourable" death as a combatant, by firing squad, but the powers that be in the British Imperial Government's Dublin Castle (The Devil's 1/2 Acre) refused his request, so he decided that it would be better all round for the cause of Irish Freedom if he was to defeat the British Imperial Government's intention of "executing" him as a common criminal, and he was to commit "suicide" and to this end his brother smuggled a razor in to his cell and he "cut" his own throat. Theobold Wolfe Tone did not die immediately and unfortunately he was to linger on for a few more days while in terrible agony until he finally gave up the ghost, and it is believed that his body was interred at Bodenstown in Co. Kildare in Central Southern Leinster, where his father had already been interred, which is now a place of "eternal remembrance" to all Irish Republicans today.

      General Joseph Holt, the United Irishmen non - Catholic leader would take over command of the remaining United Irishmen forces of Michael Dwyer of 3,000 - 4,000 men and thereby be the last United Irishmen Society leader to surrender, after he was to withdraw up the valley at Glenmalure in Co. Wicklow into the Vale of Avoca, below Rathdrum, where the River Avonmore flows through to the River Avonbeg in the south - east of Southern Leinster 

November: Thomas Pelham retired as the British Imperial Government's Chief Secretary in Ireland, and William Pitt - the Younger the British Imperial Ascendancy Conservative Tory Prime Minister once again giving in to John "Black Jack" Fitz Gibbon / Lord Clare the hard - line anti - Catholic, who was his main "Placeman" in Ireland, declared that the intended Immoral Union of Ireland with England would be an "Ascendancy one only," while Cornwallis the British Imperial General, who had been involved heavily in the "American Revolution" also, was for bringing about the Immoral Union, but "only if it was for the whole Irish Nation."

November 10th: General Holt, the last of the United Irishmen Society's leaders, finally surrendered to Lord Powerscourt at Enniskerry in Co. Wicklow in the south - east of Southern Leinster, under an "Amnesty" from General Cornwallis the British Imperial Government's Commander, and he and Michael Dwyer would be among those many United Irishmen who would be now "transported" to Australia as "political prisoners" where he would go on to make a further mark in history, when he would later become reluctantly involved in the "Insurrection" there in Australia at Vinegar Hill in New South Wales against the British Imperial AScendancy Government's "continuing tyranny" that was to be still carried out also in Australia, and would then eventually return to Ireland in 1811 AD.

     In a show of total disrespect and profanity for the Christian beliefs of the Irish Catholics in Ireland, the huge "Cross" that had been constructed in 921 AD - 930 AD, that had been removed from the church in 1698 by Robert Balfe and erected in the Market Place at Ceanannus Mor / Kells in Co. Meath on the River Blackwater in the north - east of Northern Leinster, was now used for "hanging" anyone suspected of being a United Irishman.  

   Daniel Corkery was now moved to state, "That Irish Ireland, had become a peasant nation, with no urban existence and no middle class, who were oppressed by an alien Gentry and their hangers on"  and Father Prendergast another Anglo - Irish Catholic priest was to be also "hung" at Monasterevin in Co. Kildare in Central Southern Leinster. 

   In commemoration of all of those who had lost their lives in the United Irishmen Society Uprising this year, the Lia Fail Stone, which was the "Inauguration Stone" of the Kings of Tara / Erinn / Ireland was also removed from its previous place there at Tara and re - erected upright over the "graves" of those United Irishmen who had previously been killed there physically fighting for Irish Freedom in Co. Meath in Northern Leinster.

   A "memorial" was also to be erected in Tralee in Co. Kerry in the south - west of the Munster Province to commemorate the United Irishmen who had fought and died in the United Irishmen's Uprising there, and later still a monument was to be erected, (sculptured by Oliver Sheppard), commemorating the "Irish Rebels" who also led the resistance in the town of Wexford, situated on the junction of the River Slaney and the Wexford Harbour, for nearly a month until 100 of them were "piked" and thrown "off the bridge" into the River Slaney, while in Wexford itself there is a statue of John Barry who was also from there who had founded the "American Navy."

    The Ascendancy Anglo Parliament in Ireland was to be "abolished" and the Immoral Union of Ireland with Britain was muted with 100 non - Catholic representatives to go to the Westminster Ascendancy Parliament in England, and 28 non - Catholic Peers were to also sit in the Ascendancy House of Lords there in England, and towards this end Lord Callan from Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of Southern Leinster was one of those who received 15,000 pounds for his 2 votes, and surrendered up his right to sit in the Ascendancy Anglo Parliament in Ireland while Charles Tottenham / Lord Loftus the English Marquis / Earl of Ely who personally held 5 separate Peerages, with each one controlling 2 votes each, was rewarded quite substantially being paid 15,000 pounds for each of his 2 votes in and including Bannow, Fethard and Clonmines. 

      At this time a large proportion of the "Absentee Land Lords" who lived in England and had their money sent over to England also had confiscated Estates also in both England and Ireland.   

   John Foster / Lord Oriel who was to be the "last" Speaker in the Ascendancy Anglo Parliament in Ireland who was also "against" the Immoral Union of Ireland with England nevertheless took up a "position" with the British Imperial Conservative Tory Government, and after he died he was to be interred at Dunleer in Co. Louth in the north - east of Northern Leinster.  

   The Military Road was constructed this year for 50 miles, from Rathfarnham to Rathdangan near the Co. Carlow border in Southern Leinster, and the Grand Canal from Dublin to the River Shannon was also finally finished.

   Ballyragget in Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of Southern Leinster in Ireland was set up to be used as another British Imperial Military base by the British Tory Ascendancy Government to continue to have overall control in Ireland.

 

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