1172 AD - 2

        Henry 11, the first Plantagenet Norman English King, just like all of those in authority in England who had the Military power and control after him, was not interested in his so - called peace, but really only wanted the fruits of Ireland, to add to his coffers and to this end he was now to send English" overseers" to Ireland, and also changed them regularly, to ensure that he continued to have total English control over Ireland, while endeavouring to eliminate the influence of the Celtic Irish Catholic Church and the Celtic culture of the Irish Septs under the Irish Brehon Law. He was not to know that the Families of those hand chosen Anglo - Norman Barons that he was to leave behind were to become integrated with the Gaelic Irish Families and their Celtic culture, the climate, their committed Catholic religion and the native population of Ireland in general. Over time many were to become the Anglo - Irish who then became "More Irish than the Irish," which was to cause the territories that the original Galls /  foreigners had secured for themselves in Ireland, to be taken back off of them by those in overall authority in England, many times, and their previous secure positions removed under the auspices of the English Crown. The English authorities also tried hard early on to get the original Teutonic Norsemen the Danish, Norwegian and Swedish Vikings to separate themselves out from the Celtic Irish Septs by bringing in penalties against them if they refused to do so. 

    The "ferocious" O Toole / Ui Dunlainge Ui Muireadhaigh Ui Tuathail Sept and the O Byrne / Ui Dunlainge Ui Faelan Ui Brain Sept were to be the main Irish Septs in control of the south and the east of Ireland along the coast. (As a sign of things to come at Bannow in Co. Wexford in the south - east of Southern Leinster no Irish men were to be allowed in to the town) while the whole of the Connacht Province, situated to the west of the River Shannon, now had to be shared by the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ai Siol Muireadhaigh O Connors and their Septs and the Heberian Dal gCais Ui Bloid Ui Turlough Ui mBriain O Brians and the various other Gaelic Irish Septs there. Many of the Irish Septs were now naturally in panic mode, as each more important Sept tried to assert it's authority over the others, while endeavouring to strengthen their own position in the new scheme of things. From now on, as their natural Irish leaders came to the fore, the Anglo - Norman English Barons, and those acting with authority on their behalf, with their superior military strength and weapons, made sure that the Irish leaders and their Septs were to be either weakened or killed off altogether.

April:  Henry 11 had to leave Ireland in a hurry due to his troubles elsewhere in England and Europe as he had been summoned by the Papal Legate to explain the outright blatant murder of Thomas A' Beckett, the Archbishop of Canterbury who had previously been personally appointed by Henry 11 to that most important Catholic Church position to do only Henry 11's bidding, but much to the shock of Henry 11 he had stood up for the rights of the Catholic Church instead, which was similar to what Archbishop Lanfranc did to William 1st, and St. Anselm did to William 11 and Henry 1st. Thomas A Beckett had recently been killed by 4 of Henry 11's Norman knights after Henry 11 had made an outburst of, "Will anyone rid me of that troublesome priest." (Also Henry 11's oldest son, Henry, was also planning a rebellion against him). Before he left Ireland he was to appoint 6 of his hand picked Anglo - Norman Barons to the overall control of power in Ireland, including William Fitz Adhelm de Burgh as the English Justicar in Ireland. who is the direct ancestor of the Burkes, who was originally from Tonburg in Normandy (His descendents were to become the English Earls of Clan Rickarde, situated originally at Pallas Castle near Duniry / Dun Doighre in Co. Galway in Southern Connacht, and also eventually the English Earls of Mayo in Co. Mayo, and the English Earls of Clan William in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster Province and the English Earls of Ulster. ) (Phillip Walnyus - the Welsh man was to be the father of Haylen Brenach who actually became the direct ancestor of the Walshes from Co. Dublin, Co. Kilkenny, Co. Wicklow and Co. Laois in Southern Leinster and Co. Waterford in the south - east of Munster.) The Geraldine stronghold of the Geradini / Fitz Geralds was to be at Maynooth in Co. Kildare in Central Southern Leinster, who also had their Black Castle in Co. Wicklow / Wykynlo / Viking Loch in the south - east of Southern Leinster. The main purpose to which Henry 11 had entrusted the Anglo - Norman Barons was to secure their own particular area or region by force, and only for the benefit of the English Crown, with no trading of any type or mixing to occur with the Celtic Gaelic Irish Septs. They were also to form an English Parliament to implement only English Law, and an English Lieutenant Governor was to be eventually appointed in the future to be set up in the Dublin Castle, which became known over time as

" The Devil's 1/2 acre."  

April 17th: After Henry 11 any chance of Peace was mostly to be within the English Pale surrounding Dublin as the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "southern" Ui Niaill King of Meath could not sign away something that did not belong to him personally, as they could not convey their territory under the Irish Brehon Law to foreigners. Strongbow 11 and Hugh de Lacy who were now the 2 most important Norman Barons, had been basically left in control of Ireland by Henry 11, and their Latimers / interpreters were now to be made use of, as any agreements made between them would have to be transcribed into French and Irish, with all of the Irish Kings now having to pay tribute rent for their own Sept's Family territories to Henry 11 the Norman English King. Hugh de Lacy was about to begin the confiscations and the Gall / foreign plantations in Ireland and because of it's proximity the kingdom of Meath was to come under terrible pressure in this regard. The legitimate Irish Tanaiste of Tara was to eventually receive territory from the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel Conaill in Tir Conaill / Tyrconnell, which by then took in the north of Co. Sligo in the Connacht Province at Ard Tarmon / Artarmon and Ballinfull / Dun Fuil near Lissadell where they were to be Hemonian Dal Cuinn "southern" Ui Niaill Chiefs there up to the coming of Black Tom Wentworth / Strafford who would be by then acting for the greedy Charles 1st the French Stuart King of England who would lose his head prematurely.   

September: Henry 11 the Norman Plantagenet English King was given absolution by the Pope Callistus 111 for his secondary involvement in the murder of Thomas A' Becket, who also gave him Lordship over Ireland, as it seemed that he had triumphed over the disordered and undisciplined Irish, as he wanted him to bring all religious services in Ireland under the accepted practises of the Roman Catholic Church that were being carried out now in England and a later Pope was to create Thomas A' Becket an English Saint, and his gravesite would then be revered for Centuries by the common English people, until the coming of the disastrous Henry V111, the second Welsh Tudor Norman English King of England in the 16th Century AD who was to totally destroy his grave site altogether, on the pretext that he had stood up to a previous English King. 

December: Henry 11 the Plantagenet Norman English King of England had completely ignored *115.Rory O Connor as the 183rd King of Ireland and had gone onto Dublin were he had carved up the Gaelic kingdoms in Ireland and set up a Palace, and gave Dublin City to the men of Bristol in England to inhabit, and it was then to remain an English City until 1841AD until it was then vested in the Dublin Corporation to control. All rents imposed on all of the Irish Septs and their territories were to go to Henry 11, and he was also to send English clerics to Ireland to try and fortify the English religious hold over Ireland, and only English officials were to administer the government in Ireland, and the Celtic Irish population overall soon began to cease to exist in the eyes of the English Crown. Dublin became an English fortress surrounded by The English Pale, from which no English Law for hundreds of years to come, would ever benefit any of the Irish population. Within 500 years 97 1/2 % of all Irish territory would be confiscated by the English Crown, and given over to Gall / foreign planters, as it was systematically taken away by murder, exile or confiscation from the original Celtic Irish Families. 

        Hugh de Lacy the Anglo - Norman Baron who now controlled the Dal Cuinn "southern" Ui Niall kingdom of Meath / Midhe in the south of Northern Leinster decided to do away with the "aged" 113.Tiernan O Rourke / Ua Ruairc the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Breifne King of West Breifne, whose territory was now also situated above Co. Longford in Northern Leinster, on the western side of the River Shannon and in Co. Leitrim in Northern Connacht, by murdering him during a meeting. and he was to be the last of his male line also to the Kingship. His father had been 112.Donogh / Donnchad O Rourke, a son of 111.Donnell / Domhnall O Rourke, one of the 2 sons of 110.Ualgarg O Rourke, who was the son of 109.Niall O Rourke who had died in 1047 AD. He in turn was a son of 108.Art Uallach O Rourke who had been the 48th King of Connacht who had died in 1046 AD, a son of 107.Fergal O Rourke the 43rd King of Connacht, a son 106.Art, the son of the original 105.Rourke / Ruarc who had been the initial King of West Breifne who had died in 898 AD. He was in turn descended from 99.Donogh / Dunchad one of the 2 sons of 98.Baethine, descended from 93.Fergus who is also the direct male line ancestor of the O Reillys / Ui Raghailligh who were the Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Breifne Kings of East Breifne and he had been one of the 2 sons of 92.Eogan Srem, one of the 2 sons of 91.Daui Tenga Uma - of the Sweet Tongue who had been the Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin 3rd King of Connacht, the ancestor of all of the Ui Briuin, the Ui Briuin Ai, the Ui Briuin Sinna and the Ui Briuin Seola Septs, who was a son of 90.Brion (Ui Briuin) the first Dal Cuinn King of Connacht. Hugh de Lacy then combined his forces with that of Strongbow 11 and his Gall / foreign followers, and they took an army over to Normandy to support Henry 11 there against the rebellion being carried out by his own sons.    

     Every town in Ireland from now on was either to be founded by the Danes or the Anglo - Normans, while the English were to create the rest, as the Celtic Gaelic Irish were always an inland pastoral people.

     The Irish Sport of Hurling, which had been carried on by the Irish Septs for 4,000 years, where there were sometimes up to 200 men on each side was to be banned in the future, at least 12 times, by the English authorities in the Dublin Castle, because of the simple reason that it was Irish, together with Camogie, which was the females version of the sport.

     The territory in Downpatrick in Co. Down in the south - east in the kingdom of Ulaid in the Ulster Province was finally captured by Hugh de Courcy the Anglo - Norman Baron, who constructed a castle there, and Newry and nearby Dundalk / Dun of Delga / Deagan's Fort in Co. Louth in the north - east of Northern Leinster was also taken and granted to Bertram de Bheardun / de Verdon, the Anglo - Norman Baron, who was to found an Augustinian Priory there'and become the direct male line ancestor of the Anglo - Irish Verdons who were to later on also make a stand for the Catholic Irish cause during the constant ethnic and religious Wars in Ireland in the 17th Century AD.)

     Strongbow 11 / Richard de Clare the Cambro - Norman Marcher Baron, in consultation with Laurence / Lorcan O Toole who was the first Irish Archbishop of Dublin constructed a new Catholic Church on what is now the Christchurch Cathedral site, which was also previously a Catholic church built there originally by Sitric Silkbeard the half - Viking King of Dublin and Donatus the Bishop of Dublin in 1038 AD and it was to be later taken over by the non - Catholic Ascendancy ruling classes after the confiscation of all of the Catholic Church lands and Institutions by Henry V111 the Welsh Tudor Norman King of England in 1534 AD. Strongbow 11 also built a castle at Kilkenny in Co. Kilkenny / Ossory in the south - west of Southern Leinster where St. Patrick's Walking Stick / Bachall was to be stored as a religious relic until it was to be destroyed by Brown who the Church of England bishop acting on behalf of Henry V111.

     The English Norman Barons continued to besiege the Irish Septs and their territories at every opportunity to try and gain more and more of their Irish land with Raymond Le Gros Fitz Gerald raiding the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Ui Felim Decies Septs who had their territory now in Co. Waterford in the south - east of the Munster Province and he also plundered the Lismore monastery there, where he run off a large herd of their cattle to Waterford, which the Irish Septs there subsequently also reacted to. (So far so good for the promised peace.)             

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