1604 - 1606 AD
1604 AD
England
now under James 1st / V1 Stuart
King of
Scotland made Peace with
Spain.
January: Brian Oge - the Younger O Rourke "The O Rourke" was besieged in his Leitrim Castle in Co. Leitrim in Northern Connacht by Sir Oliver Lambert the English appointed Governor in the Connacht Province and after he was to die there of a fever the defenders in the castle surrendered it up.
The Irish Septs in the Ulster Province were now in big trouble as Donnell O Cane / Kane / Domhnall Ua Cahan from the Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain Sept, which was the second most important Family of the O Nialls in the Ui Niaill Tuath / Family territory also submitted to the English authorities in the Dublin Castle (The Devil's 1/2 acre) and was promised the return of his territory in Co. Derry if he did so, but as usual not for long.
Simon Jordan,
a merchant, constructed a castle at
Down Patrick
in
Co. Down in
the south - east of
Ulster,
against the Irish Septs there, which was
previously the region of the old
Irish kingdom
of
Mourne
/ Mountains of Mourne and Sir Basil Brooke
was granted
Donegal
City
on the
Eske Estuary
in
Co. Donegal
in
the north - west of Ulster
and reinforced it against the
Dal Cuinn
"northern"
Ui Niaill
Cenel
Conaill
Septs there,
and Sir
William Stewart the
Ascendancy Plantation Undertaker for James 1st also built a
castle at
Five Mile Town in
Co. Tyrone
in Central Ulster
against the Irish
Septs there also.
Edmund
(Fitz Gibbon)
Fitz Gerald
the last White Knight, who had sold out his kinsman James Fitz Gerald the
sixteenth Sugan
- Straw Earl of Desmond, to the English for 1,000 pounds, which had led to the
complete collapse of the
Fitz Gerald Desmond dynasty,
had
by now died also, and
he was interred in the
Dominican Friary in
Limerick in
Co. Limerick in the mid - north - west
of the
Munster Province
and in disgrace his family then took up the name of Fitz Gibbon
while
other branches of the Geraldines
at this time were the
Fitz Maurices who were
known as the
Red Knights, and the
Fitz Geralds known as the
Knights of the Valley.
Mac Donagh Mac Carthy
the Lord of Dhallow
constructed a castle at
Kanturk in
Co. Cork
in Southern Munster,
which it is
still there to see.
126.Aedh
Dubh
/
Black
Hugh
O Niall
and
Rory O Donnell
who had gone to England where they
were received by
James 1st
and submitted
personally to him and as a result
126.Aodh Dubh / Black Hugh
O Niall
lost his territory
around
Loch Neagh
and the
River Bann,
and of his sub - Chiefs,
Sir
Henry O Niall
and
the
O Nialls
of the Fews
also had their territory in
the south of
Co. Armagh
in the south - east of the Ulster
Province
separated while the Dal Cuinn "northern"
Cenel Conaill
O Donnell's
lost
Inishowen
to one of their sub - Septs the
O Dohertys,
and the
River Erne
was also confiscated to
the English Crown as
Ulster
was further divided.
August: Sir Henry Brouncker, James 1st's new English appointed President in the Munster Province issued a proclamation ordering all Catholic priests, especially the Jesuits, to leave Ireland by the end of September, and began widespread searches to hunt them down, and was to enforce the Ascendancy Church of England services onto the towns in the Munster Province that were under his control until he was to die in 1607 AD, which was to bring to an end his particular strong religious sectarian policies on the population there. Teague / Tadhg Mac Brody the Heberian Eoghanacht Chaisil bard / poet and historian from the renowned Family of historians and poets in Co. Clare in Munster in fear of what was occurring had discussions with the historian, Lewy / Lughaidh O Clery who was now from Donegal in Co. Donegal in the Ulster Province over the merits and importance of saving the history and genealogy of the Heberian Septs in the south, including the O Brians, the Mac Carthys and the other independent Irish Chiefs in Munster and their descent from *35.Heber Fionn and the Heremonian Septs of Ulster, Connacht and Leinster, including the O Nialls, O Donnells, O Connors etc descended from *35.Heremon and from these discussions they instituted a "Convention of Irish Bards."
1605 AD February: Sir Arthur Chichester took over from Sir George Carey as the English appointed Lord Deputy in Ireland who was from Devonshire in England, and he was granted 52 Town lands in the Ulster Province by James 1st and was also to use strong measures against the Catholic Irish and Anglo - Irish and the Catholic priests, and put up a proposal to James 1st to implement further English Ascendancy Episcopalian and Scottish plantations in Ulster and James 1st also appointed Ascendancy Church of England Bishops in all of the Irish Catholic dioceses and all of the Catholic priests were ordered to get out of Ireland, and he also granted Newtown Stewart in Ulster to James Clapham - Cliphane this year.
March: James 1st removed the authority of all the Irish Kings and Chiefs over their Septs in Ireland, which was to ensure that the people in Ireland were only to be subject to him and in July: He proclaimed that there was to be no toleration of Irish Catholics, who were to be forced to attend Ascendancy Church of England Episcopalian services, while all Catholic priests, especially the Jesuits, must be out of Ireland by December 10th as Sir Arthur Chichester and Sir John Davies had suggested to him previously, and now full of Ascendancy authority they began harsh persecution, by imposing fines and imprisonments on the Catholic Irish and Anglo - Irish in Ireland, and in fact, their treatment was so bad that the Irish sent delegates over to see James 1st again, who then cautioned Sir Arthur Chichester to back off some, in case he brought about an Irish Catholic revolt.
1606
AD Sir John Davies
previously the English Solicitor
- General in Ireland the persecutor of the
Catholic
Irish
and Anglo
- Irish
was now
appointed the English Attorney - General in
Ireland,
and he was to
continue in that position until
1619 AD while Sir Arthur Chichester
put
forward another scheme for the English Ascendancy Episcopalian plantation for all of
Co. Cavan
in
Southern Ulster, which was
the territory of
the Dal Cuinn
Ui Briuin East Breifne
O Reillys,
and for the
Scottish Presbyterian planters in the north
to be resettled into
Co. Down
in the south - east of the Ulster
Province.
Irish Tanistry, which
was a re - division of
Irish land
by the Irish
Septs of 300 to 400 square miles
/ 20 miles x 20 miles was
outlawed as English Law
was to be the only law allowed in
Ireland
and an
Act was passed, "To
Remedy Defective Titles," but despite the
long and constant ethnic and religious persecution by those in power in England the
Irish
minds were still their own, and they continued to carry on with their
Irish traditions
and regardless of what the English Government did in Ireland the Catholic
priests were always held in great esteem by the population. The
Irish Septs still continued to strengthen their extended
Families, and
the Irish Chieftains were
still always appointed by the Tuaths and had
"no individual right of inheritance to any
Irish land.." The
Irish Kings and
Chiefs had only ever held their territories through their
Tanistry within a 4
Generation
Family group,
which could be redefined in each generation by intermarriage of the individual Septs,
as to the Irish
the land belonged to all of the people in the Sept, something the
English in their individual culture of greed
and serfdom with those in authority
always operating as individuals, could not understand.
Sir Arthur Chichester the English appointed Lord Deputy in Ireland was given permission to raise a force of 2,000 men against the Irish Septs if an emergency arose, and he proposed that an English President should also now be installed in the Ulster Province while James 1st's Ascendancy Caretakers, Montgomery and Hamilton, had by now secured parcels of land for themselves in Co. Antrim, Co. Armagh and Co. Down, and any other land not taken up by the Episcopalian English planters and the Presbyterian Scots were now planted also into the Ards Peninsular where they were dour, thrifty and single - minded and where they soon became the majority there in the population.
All
Catholic Irish
were now also
banned from entering the
City of Cork
in Southern
Munster.