1845 AD
"THE GREAT FAMINE / An Gorta Mor begins"
1845 AD
The population of
Ireland had reached
Sir
Robert "Orange" Peel
the
British
Conservative Imperial Tory Prime Minister, now offered to establish
"denominational colleges" in the cities of
Belfast
in
Co. Antrim
in the
Ulster Province,
Cork
in
Co. Cork
in Southern Munster
and
Galway
in
Co. Galway
in the
Connacht Province,
but the
Catholic Bishops
in
Ireland
were "against"
the proposition due to the
lack of any chance of "religious" instruction also being involved in their education.
August 20th:
Now came the terrible
Potato Blight (Murrain)
An Dubhchan
(Phytophthora Infestans),
which was actually a "fungus
growth" and not really a "disease" of the potato itself,
which had first appeared in "America," and then in "Belgium" in 1843 AD, and then in the
potato crops in
"England," and had by now
spread also across the
"Irish Sea"
to
Ireland where
September:
Within days the
"Great Famine"
/ An Gorta Mor
in
Ireland
was to begin its rampant march, with up to
40 %
of
the potato crop this year alone being "lost," which from now on would only get even
"worse," and it would
continue on right up to
1849 AD,
when this previous great
"maintainer of life"
in
Ireland
was to "fail completely" due to the never - ending "Fungus Blight,"
despite the fact that the potato was
genetically "related" to
the poisonous
narcotics, like "Deadly Nightshade"
and
"Tobacco," and therefore had a similar
structure, it,s genetic structure could not stop this "particular fungus" from "spreading" and inflicting
itself now on to the potato crops "all over"
Ireland.
During the
next
4 years the
terrible
"Great
Famine" that
was to continue to lie ahead, driven on by this
particular fungus would be the cause of greatly "diminishing" the
"population" of
Ireland, firstly by
creating insidious "starvation," followed
on by the resulting "diseases"
due to this "malnutrition"
to be then inflicted on the
starving
population in
Ireland,
which was then to be "added to" by the perpetual "pompous intolerable attitude" of
the British Conservative Imperial Governments in England. They had created the
"Immoral Union"
in the first place to give them "total economic control" over the lives of the
"population"
in
Ireland,
but they had never had the intention of fulfilling their actual "moral obligations"
under it.
September:
Thomas Davis
who had been born in 1814 AD the son of an army surgeon, who had been educated
at Trinity College in
Dublin,
who was the "leader" of the
"Young
Irelanders"
and the "editor" of
The Nation
newspaper, who was also a member of the
"Repeal of the
Immoral Union
Association,"
a person of great foresight,
had
previously put forward the proposition that,"
You must educate to be free,"
but unfortunately he was to die this month
from fever, and leave a great gap in their leadership, as he was only just over
30 years
of age,
but his ongoing efforts and enthusiasm on behalf of the
population in
Ireland
prior to this, were to be "greatly appreciated" by those who knew him and or had come to
know of him.
After his death, and without his "overall Statesmanlike balancing" presence, there was to be "no one"
capable enough to keep the "peace" among the
fully committed and
thoroughly dedicated
"Young Irelanders"
and the frustrated
Irish
Republicans
who were
among their numbers, and they were to come into "greater personal conflict" with the peaceful
"democratic"
ideals put forward by
Daniel O Connell
- the
Liberator and his continuing ongoing
association with the
"Whig Party,"
in anticipation of "gaining" further democratic "reform" from them if they
should "regain" the political control once again in the
British Imperial Parliament in England.
Hoping to continue on with his "democratic" way of doing
things,
previously
Daniel O Connell
who was an
"Irish Patriot"
first
and not really a
Nationalist,
was to
personally assail the
"Young
Irelanders"
for their "strong revolutionary" stance while trying in desperation to bring about total
Irish Freedom,
who were always to be "frustrated" by the
continuing "oppressive policies" of the British Imperial
Governments.
William Smith -
O Brien
at that time convinced
Daniel O Connell
to
remove his "personal remarks" that he had made during the debate, which had then
assisted to ease the 'tension"
between them and
an "emotional"
Thomas Davis
also at that time then applauded
Daniel
O Connell
for doing so, while breaking down and
crying with "genuine emotion," at which moment
Daniel O Connell
had
taken him by the hand and said,
"Davis, I
love you." The death of
such a strong personality as
Thomas Davis was to see
the "end" of the
"Repeal Association"
who had been highly involved in attempting to remove the
destructive
"Immoral Union"
John
O Mahoney,
from
Co.
Limerick
in the north - west of the
Munster Province,
was descended from a main branch of the
Heberian Eoghanacht Sept, whose original male ancestor was
110.Cian, a son of
109.Molloy / Mael Muad the
40th King of Munster,
and of 106.Sabdh
the daughter of
*105.Brian
Boru
the Heberian Dal gCais 175th High King of
Ireland. The main
Sept / Family branch of the
O Mahonys who were Catholic Irish had previously become
adherents to the Ascendancy Episcopalian Church of England
to try and "survive" and "hold on" to their original territory
in Co. Cork in Southern
Munster, but as usual they had since lost it any way to the English Land Lords the
Kingstons.
Therefore John O Mahoney as a non - Catholic had been allowed to be
"educated" also at
"Trinity College" and
was a fully committed
"Young
Irelander"
and a member also of the
"Repeal
Association."
John
Mitchell, a son of an initial
Presbyterian minister from the
Ulster Province
who had since become a Unitarian, had also written articles for
The Nation,
and founded the
"United Irishman"
newspaper,
and he
was to be "arrested and sentenced" by the British Imperial
Government to "transportation" to
Australia for his "political" outlook
of "reform" in
Ireland and
William
Smith -
O Brien
from the non -Catholic
O Brien
"survivors,"
who were now
set up in the
Dromoland
Castle
in
Co. Clare
in the north - west of Munster
Province,
had now "taken over" his role and was as "fully committed" to
"Irish Reform and
Freedom"
as he was. Although
James Stephens
who was also
a non - Catholic
from
Co.
Kilkenny
in the south - west of
Southern
Leinster
was with
John Mitchell
at the time of his arrest, he was "not arrested," and was able to "escape" into
"exile" into
revolutionary
France,
where he was to "broaden his horizons" and receive a
"different outlook" on how to "resolve" the problem of
the continuing
British
Imperial Government's
ongoing "oppression" in
Ireland.
James Fintan Lalor,
who was of
Irish
Gaelic Milesian
Irian
descent,
had called on Sir
Robert
"Orange" Peel,
the
British
Imperial Conservative Ascendancy Tory
Prime Minister, to "nationalise"
all of the land in
Ireland
to stop any further
land "agitation,"
caused by the "harsh" treatment that was "continually" metered out particularly by the greedy
Land Lords on their confiscated Estates
against
their
"tenant farmers" and their
families, but as usual "nothing was done" to try and correct the cause of these ongoing
"conflicts," and
James Fintan Lalor
then felt personally compelled himself to found the
"Irish
Tenant League"
in
Co. Tipperary
in the north - east of the Munster
Province
to try and support the "besieged tenants" there.
The
English Earl of Devon finally made his report to
Sir
Robert "Orange" Peel and the British Imperial Conservative
Tory Government on the relations between the
Land Lords
and their
"tenants"
in
Ireland,
and he then
finally attempted to bring in a
Bill to
give the "tenants" some "compensation"
for any "improvements"
they had previously carried out on the Land Lords' Estates, but it came under "attack" by the powerful
Conservative
Land Lord
lobby and he "withdrew" it.
Because of the "increasing and never - ending physical,
economic and
mental oppression" on the population in
Ireland
the "majority" were
by now forced to grow more "reliant"
on the "educated" Catholic
priests for guidance, and a
devotional
"religious revolution" was now about to occur
in
Ireland
up to
1849 AD. (Once again if
you want to make anything stronger then continue to persecute it!)
The British Royal Commission reported that, "The sufferings of the Irish, born with exemplary patience, were greater than the people of any other Country in Europe had to sustain." But once again still "nothing was done" to change the situation, except that more "Absentee Land Lords" who had their "confiscated" Estates in Ireland continued to go off "to live" in London and their "rent monies" went with them, which only created further "economic" drain on the resources of Ireland and further increased the "distress," as this new group of "Absentee Land Lords" joined those who were already there doing the same thing "draining the economy" of Ireland further making matters even worse then before. Sir Robert "Orange" Peel and the British Imperial Conservative Tory Government's only answer to all of this ongoing "misery and death" in Ireland at this particular moment in time, was to proclaim that, "If any tenant farmer in Ireland was to defend his farm, it is hereby denominated as "Rebellion,"
The "rural agricultural tenant families" in
Ireland,
increasingly, from now on were to be flung onto the "bogs" and
the
"mountain sides," where they
had to try and "survive" somehow on their own ingenuity, along with a lack
of "shelter" and any possible chance of sustenance, where their "diet" would
come to consist of
wild turnips, nettles,
chickweed, sorrel and
seaweed, (if they were lucky.) All of this ongoing "misery" was
also followed by increased "exposure" to the bitter "Cold
and Wet" conditions,
"starvation,"
and a lack of any real vitamins, resulting in further
"physical weakness" and
subsequent "fevers,"
due to the "loss" of their small but "warm"
cabins,
and their eventual proximity to other "distressed and infected human beings,"
who were
suffering the same fate, which
was also later on added to by a failure to be able to "bury" the numerous
"deteriorating human bodies" of those along the way who were
to also succumb, rapidly, to the horrible terrible devastating never - ending conditions.
"Typhus"
outbreaks began that were transmitted by "Lice," and they were
also
already beginning to occur also in
Co. Cork
in
Southern Munster,
and
Co. Kilkenny
in the south - west of
Southern
Leinster,
and all of this untold
suffering
was to be also accompanied by
dreadful "diarrhoea"
and "fatal dysentery".
Despite all of this
"wretchedness"
that was now occurring on the
general
population in
Ireland,
the total outrage
within the overall
Irish population who were by now being
severely affected by such miserable treatment would soon begin to
"subside," as the
"Great Famine"
continued to take a further "grip" on them,
with "Yellow Fever" and "Jaundice"
also beginning to occur. (The "human anger and political protest" within them would
now only return
"much later on" when
those who were capable of "surviving"
would finally be able to regain some
of their "physical strength" back.)
November: Sir Robert "Orange" Peel the British Conservative Tory Imperial Government's Prime Minister, finally realising he had to do "something" showed some personal recourse when he decided to purchase 100,000 Pounds worth of "American Indian" corn on his "own" volition, against the wishes of the Conservative members of his Tory Party, and it was to be eventually sent over to Co. Cork in Southern Munster, with a Relief Committee to be set up to reorganize the local committees there to distribute it at "reasonable prices," but he still insisted that the "export" of Irish Beef, Irish Pork, Irish Lambs and Irish Grain, including Irish Corn, were continued to be "transported" out of Ireland to England. The British Conservative Imperial Government's control by the "merchants" either in or out of the Westminster Parliament with their continuing policy of Laissez - Faire (Let the Market Rule) was to be the main ongoing "cause" that allowed the terrible situation to continue on in Ireland. They were to "refuse" to place an embargo on the "export" of produce from Ireland, even during the "worst times" of the "Great Famine," which finally brought not only many in Ireland, but also in Britain to the realisation that the "Immoral Union" meant nothing at all to the greedy "merchants" and their supporters in the British Conservative Imperial Government, as this dreadful human tragedy would have never have been allowed if the "Great Famine" had occurred in England itself. Despite this pernicious attitude by those in control there, Sir Robert "Orange" Peel knew personally that he had to take some individual resposibility to remove the repressive "Corn Laws" with their high price structures that had "been set" to placate the insatiable appetites of the "merchants" in England, due to the terrible circumstances now facing the general population in Ireland, but his Conservative Tory Party was made up of "Protectionists" who "discouraged" any sort of "relief schemes," and advised one and all that the reports of the "Great Famine" that was occurring in Ireland that were now being received in England were "exaggerated." Sir Robert "Orange"" Peel unfortunately now made a momentous and devastating decision when he put Charles Trevelyan, who was the Assistant - Secretary to the British Treasury, in charge of the "Corn" distribution and the"Board of Works," who was also to begin new road construction although he was a strong follower of the Laissez - Faire (Let the Market Rule) approach, and the result of his appointment was that the population of Ireland were now to continue to "suffer and die" in "greater numbers" because of his "personal attitude" towards any chance of "empathy or humanity."
Sir Robert "Orange" Peel the British Conservative Imperial Prime Minister in England was also still "really desperate" to win over the "upper and middle classes" in Ireland, and turn away any chance of Irish "revolutionary independent " aims that might have been picked up by the Catholic Irish priests who had previously had to be "educated" in France and Spain, and to this end he turned his attention to St. Patrick's Catholic College at Maynooth, founded in 1795 AD in Co. Kildare in Central Southern Leinster, were he increased their grant to 26,000 pounds up from the 9,000 pounds previously given, and placed it in the Consolidated Fund so that it would be a "permanent" fixture to ensure continuity, and also gave them a further 30,000 pounds towards their building fund. This decision "upset" William Gladstone who was a fair - minded Scotsman, who "resigned" from Peel's Conservative Cabinet, but not because of any "religious" grounds to the grants themselves. Even at this early stage in his political career William Gladstone saw Ireland, due to the "Immoral Union" as a part of Britain that was being "cruelly treated," and where "entrenched injustices" were being carried out by the continuing British Conservative Imperial Government authorities. He was also for the "Disestablishment of the Ascendancy Church of England / Ireland" altogether in Ireland and their continual draining "Enforced Tithes" and wanted an overall "reform" of the "land system" there also on the confiscated "Land Lords' Estates" in Ireland. Sir James Graham, who was Sir Robert "Orange" Peel's Home Secretary, was responsible for "Irish Affairs" at this time, and together with Sir Robert "Orange"Peel he was to carry out fairly successful procedures into the next year to try and "stabilise" the challenging effect of the "Great Famine" in Ireland and a "Relief Commission" was introduced modelled on Irish Famine Relief 1836 AD - 1839 AD, but its Road Works and Poor Houses, were "too slow" in being introduced, and in the meantime 1,000,000 people were to either die from "Starvation and Typhus" in Ireland and 1,000,000 were to "emigrate" up to 1846 AD.
Trinity
College /
Dublin University
the previous
Ascendancy bastion was the only
University
in
Ireland
where "degrees" were now open to all, but its
"scholarships and fellowships" were still
only available to members of the
Ascendancy
Church of England / Ireland, and the costs to attend it
were far "too high" for the general struggling population in Ireland,
while in
Scotland
there were
5
Universities
catering to only a "quarter" of the
population that existed
in
Ireland.
Summer:
Sir Robert "Orange" Peel
the British Imperial Tory Prime Minister, put through a
Bill to create the
3
"secular"
Queen's Universities
that he had previously proposed in
Belfast / Ulster Province,
Cork
/
Munster Province
and
Galway
/
Connacht Province,
which would in theory be "non - denominational." The "University" in
Belfast
in
Co. Antrim
in the north - east of
Ulster Province
would become a bastion for
Presbyterian
graduates, but much later on in the
1960's it
was to foster
Irish
Catholic
Civil Rights,
when Irish
Catholics and
non - Catholics there were to" combine" in a common cause for all in the
6 Counties
from the
9
Counties
in
the
Ulster Province
that would be "artificially separated" to continue on
to create further division with the Ascendancy there. (As
Thomas Davis
the recently deceased poet and leader of the
"Young Irelanders"
had stated, "You must
educate to be free.")
Daniel O Connell
the Liberator
tried to get his
"Repeal
of the
Immoral Union"
group to come out in
"opposition" to these "secular" Colleges who had no "religious" education, but he came up
against the
"Young Irelanders"
who were all for educating "all
" religious denominations "together," as they wanted all
"sectarian differences"
removed from
Irish
politics, but despite this they too were also not happy with the
actual
"Constitutions of the Colleges"
but still went along quietly in deference to
Daniel O Connell
as
"Repeal
of the
Immoral
Union"
was still their "main objective."
Sir Robert "Orange" Peel
the British
Imperial Tory Conservative Prime Minister,
was now also politically "in trouble" in England, and he looked like being
"removed" from government
there, so
Daniel O
Connell
the Liberator
was once again forced to ally with the
"Whigs"
John Henry Newman,
who was previously the
Ascendancy Church of England Vicar
at
Oxford University in
England, at this time,
became a Catholic
and would eventually become a
Catholic priest, and then a Cardinal,
and was to have a great wide spread "educational" influence in
Ireland,
when he would later take over the running of the
Irish
Catholic University in
Ireland.
1845 AD -
1926 AD,
Over this period, 4,100,000 people
were to
physically
leave
Ireland
altogether,
with
3,000,000 of these
settling in the "U.S.A.," 300,000
in
"Australia"
and "New
Zealand," 200,000
in
"Canada," and
60,000
in
"Argentina," "South Africa" and other various places
of "political refuge."