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
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 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
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"
I
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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