1600 AD
1600 AD The Heberian Dal gCais Ui Bloid Ui Turlogh O Kennedys, who still had their kingdom of Ormond / North - Eastern Munster at this time at Lackeen in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster Province, also joined in to support 126.Aed Dubh / Black Hugh O Niall's attempt to finally rid Ireland of the continuing ongoing ethnic and religious repression of Elizabeth 1st.
In the later part of this Century also, the Irish and the Anglo / Irish / Old English were to lose all, for their decision once again, to continue to stand up and be counted, when up against the terror that was then to be Oliver Cromwell, who would by then be the English Commonwealth Lord Protector, and the O Kennedys / Ui Cean Eidigh Sept would eventually finish up in Co. Wexford in Southern Leinster.
Aed
Dubh
/ Black Hugh O Donnell
the
previous
"The
O Donnell"
who was the
"aged"
father of the recently deceased
Donnell O Donnell, the
young Aedh Ruadh / Red
Hugh
O Donnell
who was now
"The O Donnell"
in his own right, Fionnuala,
the wife of
Niall
Garbh
- the Rough O
Donnell,
and the younger
Rory
O Donnell,
died this year, who had been the son of
Manus O
Donnell
a son of
the previous
Aed
Dubh
O Donnell
who had
died in
1537 AD, who was also a
brother to
Aed mac
Aed
Dubh
O Donnell
the "aged"
Tanaiste
who would
also die in 1618 AD.
The
Gaelic
Irish Chiefs,
who were still surviving
at this time, were continuing to try and uphold the sanctity and traditions of the
Irish Brehon Law,
against the imposition of
English Law,
and were therefore in heavy conflict with
Elizabeth 1st's
English authorities, who had their
stronghold in
Dublin Castle (The
Devil's 1/2 acre), from were they were always trying to widen out the area they controlled
beyond
The
English Pale
surrounding
Dublin as even though the
Irish
Septs
were by now thoroughly oppressed by the continual confiscations,
English plantations,
persecutions, inhuman brutality
and
deaths,
they still continued to follow their Irish Brehon Law,
their
Irish
poetry,
their Irish
history,
and
especially their Irish language.
Due to his
submission during the Anglo
- Irish
Fitz Gerald
Desmond Wars,
O Connor
Kerry,
the Gaelic Milesian
Irian
Chief of
Iraghticonnor
in
Co. Kerry in
the south - west of the
Munster
Province, had
handed over his
Carrigafoyle Castle,
which was situated on
the left bank of the
River Shannon
near it’s mouth, after his men were
defeated there, and to try to then survive he had sided also with the
English, but
now seeing a light at the end of the tunnel for the
Irish
cause he had now also joined up with
Aedh
Ruadh /
Red
Hugh O Donnell "The O Donnell,"
and would also fight alongside him at the coming final
Battle of
Kinsale
against the English forces of Elizabeth 1st in
Co. Cork
in
Southern Munster.
The Irish and the Anglo - Irish Catholics in the Munster Province, rebelled again against the English authorities further repression there, and the English Episcopalian planters, who had been put in there on the confiscated Irish Family territories were in real trouble, although their numbers had been increased dramatically over the previous 30 years under the never ending oppressive policies of Elizabeth 1st. Sir George Carew, her English appointed President in Munster, had another agenda as he had pretensions of securing vast Estates there for himself personally, and to this end he was to ensure that the Irish "rebels" on this occasion there were to be thoroughly defeated. Despite this particular regression there, the immense success of the other surviving Irish Chiefs, in the Ulster Province, under 126.Aedh Dubh / Black Hugh O Niall "The O Niall" from Co. Tyrone in Central Southern Ulster, and the young, Aedh Ruadh / Red Hugh O Donnell "The O Donnell" from Co. Donegal in the north - west of Ulster, was still encouraging to the remaining Irish Septs also in the Munster Province, along with the promises of Philip 111 of Spain to assist them to eventually bring an end to the ongoing English ethnic and religious onslaught.
Aedh
Ruadh / Red Hugh
O Donnell
"The O
Donnell,"
besieged
Co. Clare
in the south - west of the
Munster Province again, to try and send another message to
Donogh O Brien
the appointed
English
fourth Earl of Thomond,
who was supported there by English
Militia, and also to the
Dal gCais Septs there
to rally, and on this occasion he was to reach as
far as
Loop Head,
and then was able to return
north to
his own territory in
Co. Donegal
in west of the
Ulster
Province
in ten days, but unfortunately, the
Dalcassian
people
in
Co. Clare, who were
now under Donogh O
Brien's control, had no real
true overall
Irish
leader there to uphold their rights, or their
Gaelic Milesian
culture.
126.Aedh
Dubh
/
Black Hugh O Niall
"The O Niall,"
was now known in
Europe as the
"Prince of Ireland," but he was also starting to have problems with some
of his
Dal Cuinn
"northern"
Ui Niaill
kinsmen,
especially,
Niall
Garb
- the
Rough
O Donnell,
who was married to
Fionnuala, another
older
half - sister to
Aedh Ruadh
/ Red Hugh
O Donnell,
who had become
jealous of his rising success, and the position he now held in the eyes of
all of the
Dal Cuinn
"northern"
Ui Niaill
Septs.
Because
of his personal envy and his own agenda he too had gone over to the English side,
and taken over the
Ross Nowlagh Friary
in
Tyrconnell
in
Co. Donegal
in the north - west of the
Ulster
Province,
were he now fortified it for an
English purpose, and it was then up his young
brother - in - law,
Aedh Ruadh
/ Red Hugh
O Donnell
to drive him out, which was only a further distraction from their real
problems with the English. After he was to be finally removed from there, the
friars there were able to return and re - construct the building from amongst the ruins,
which became important in
Irish History,
as this was
to be the friary were the
4 Masters
later on, under
Michael O Clery
from Ballyshannon, were to write the
4
Masters - Annals of Ulster
in 1626 AD,
which was to outline the
History of
Ireland,
and the
genealogies of the
Irish
people
from
2242 B.C.
up to
1626 A.D.
126.Aedh
Dubh
/ Black Hugh
O Niall
who was now
"The O Niall,"
although reared as a minor by the
English
for an English
purpose, to do the bidding of Elizabeth 1st
in
Ireland,
was now preaching a
"Holy War"
against her and her religious sectarian repression in
Ireland,
and he went to the south into the adjacent
Co. Westmeath
in the north - west of
Northern
Leinster
to also besiege the
Heberian Cianacht O Carrolls, the
Lords of
Ely
who were trapped on the very edge of
The
English Pale
surrounding Dublin, hoping
to also persuade them to see the light and to now stand up for
Ireland.
From there he
went on down further into the
Munster
Province to
see
James Fitz Gerald
the
Anglo
- Irish
Earl of Desmond,
who was now totally committed to the
Irish
Catholic cause, and bypassed
James Butler
the
English Royalist Earl
of Ormonde, who
had also been taken as a minor to
England
and reared for an English purpose who was a fully committed English monarchist. Despite this, on the way
past there he was to still
set fire to his
stronghold at
Kilkenny in
Co.
Kilkenny / Ossory in
the south - west of
Southern
Leinster just to let him
know were he stood in his eyes, and from there proceeded onto
Co. Cork in
Southern Munster
to obtain submissions from the
Irish
Septs there, to also further enhance his position as a
possible
overall commander and
"High King
of Ireland."
He then returned,
via
the
Bog of Allen
in the centre of
Ireland,
through the thick growth of willows, birch, hazel, pine, oak, elm
and ash forests, that made it almost impossible for the English Military forces to traverse,
and where the deer and the giant
Irish
wolves were still very numerous. His own home territory in
the
Ulster
Province was
also still very dense at this time, and following this route, he returned to his stronghold
in
Co.
Tyrone in
Central Southern Ulster, and
barricaded up the
Gap of the North,
which overlooked the south of there, and he then waited there in anticipation,
for the
imminent
arrival of the
support from the Spanish King,
Phillip 111.
Charles Blount
/ Lord Mountjoy
who was now Elizabeth
1st's
appointed English Lord Deputy in
Ireland,
immediately offered
4,000 pounds reward for
126.Aedh Dubh
/ Black Hugh
O Niall
"The O Niall"
alive, or 2,000 pounds for his
head, and following on from her instructions of all out "Slash and Burn" in
Ireland
he began destroying the
nearby territory of the
Gaelic Milesian
Irian
O Mores
in their kingdom in
Co. Laois
in the mid - west of
Southern
Leinster
on the perimeter of
The
English Pale.
With the assistance of
Sir
George Carew, the English
appointed President in
Munster,
he
also began to further carry out Elizabeth's 1st's "Scorched Earth" policy
there also, reducing the whole
of
the
Munster
Province
to dust,
while carrying out terrible savage raids, especially in
Co. Kerry.
May 22nd:
Edmond Fitz
Gerald / Fitz Gibbon,
the White Knight
and English appointed Earl of Kerry,
had
submitted to
Sir
George Carew, and
had also
refused permission for his kinsman,
James Fitz Thomas Fitz Gerald
the Anglo
- Irish
Sugan sixteenth Earl of Desmond to enter the
town of
Dingle
in
Co. Kerry
in the south - west of the
Munster
Province,
so in retaliation James Fitz Gerald destroyed the town
also.
There where by now no Irish men, women or children left at all in Co. Galway in Southern Connacht, due to the ongoing War, and the terrible famine that was by now occurring, but the O Reillys from the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Breifne Sept who had their kingdom of East Breifne in Co. Cavan in Southern Ulster, who were kinsmen to the Ui Briuin Breifne O Rourkes who had their kingdom in West Breifne in Co. Leitrim in the Connacht Province, were still holding onto their territory in Co. Cavan. Despite all of the constant ethnic and religious repression, there were still at this time, Irish primary school teachers, conducting "hedge schools," for the Irish children, although they were always on the run in fear of their lives from the English Militias, and somehow the Irish Families were still in there hanging onto the majority of their territory at this time.
The bark of the mighty Oak Trees, that had been so treasured by the Druids and the Irish Septs in the west of Ireland, was now in great demand by the English, to be used for tanning purposes, and also the Irish Horses for their conformation and physical strength.
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