1646 - 1648 AD
1646 - 1660 AD The first exile of Clarendon.
March
11th:
Sir
William Penn arrived from
England at
the mouth of the River Shannon
in Ireland with a fleet of ships from the Puritan Parliament, while the
Irish
Confederacy
forces were finally involved in taking
the
Bunratty Castle in
Co. Clare
in the north - west of the Munster
Province
as it was
still being held by the
English forces there as
"The Mac Carthy Mor" the
Heberian Eoganacht Chaisil Lord
of Muskerry in
Co. Kerry in the south - west of
Munster arrived to carry out the task with
3,000
men, including
300 horsemen, and surrounded the castle and began the siege.
During the conflict
Lt. Col.
Mac Adam, the English
Puritan Parliamentary army commander
there was to be killed, and his
men then surrendered, and they were allowed to leave and board
their ships bound for
Co. Cork in
Southern Munster and the
English standards that were
taken, were
paraded throughout
Limerick City down to
St. Mary's Cathedral to celebrate
the victory on this occasion by Irish Confederacy Government.
March: Once more acting under the orders of Charles 1st the second Stuart English King, James Butler the English first Marquis of Ormonde concluded another partial Truce, with the Irish Confederacy Government to supply Charles 1st with 10,000 fighting Irish troops for service in England to support him there and in return for their service the Court of Wards was to be abolished, and an Oath of Allegiance would be invoked instead of one of Religious Supremacy, with Irish Catholics allowed to take up civil and military offices, and be educated, but there would still be no concessions to the Catholic Church. This new Truce was announced in James Butler's stronghold in Kilkenny City in Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of Southern Leinster and also in some other towns, but the majority of the Irish Catholics were still against these moderate terms as their normal religious rights were still not to be recognized under this agreement.
The
Mac Carthy's
Blarney Castle in
Co. Cork
in Southern Munster was secured by
Lord
Broghill for the
Ascendancy
English Puritan Parliament.
June 4th:
127.Eoghan Ruadh
/ Owen Roe
O Niall
was to
defeat the
Scottish
Parliamentary Army under
Robert Munro at
Benburb on the River
Blackwater in
Co. Tyrone in
Central Southern Ulster, seven mile
from
Armagh, as up until this time
127.Eoghan Roe O Niall had been taking all before him
and all of Robert Munro's artillery, stores and
half of his men, and
31 of his colours were captured
and although 3,000
of Robert Munro's men were killed
in this action, the
Irish forces only lost
40 of their men, with
another
250 wounded, 127.Eoghan Ruadh O Niall
then went on
to capture the Rock of Dunamaise
in
Co. Laois in the mid - north - west of
Southern Leinster, which had
been the original stronghold of 113.Diarmait
Mac Murrogh
na Gall
who had brought the English Galls
into Ireland in
the first place in 1167 AD.
126.Murrogh
O Brien
an Toitean
-
of the Burnings,
the Ascendancy English
Episcopalian
reared
sixth Baron of Inchiquin, who was now fighting on
the side of the Ascendancy Puritan
English Parliament ravaged the
Munster
Province killing
3,000 of his own
Irish
people who had fled to the Cashel
Cathedral
in Co. Tipperary for refuge, while
Lord
Taafe fighting on behalf of the
Irish
Confederacy
Government tried to intercept him,
but lost nearly half of his men in the conflict, near the town of
Mallow
in Co. Cork in
Southern Munster.
August:
Pope Innocent X 's
representative Archbishop
Rinuccini also came out against
the
Irish Confederacy's
new Treaty that had been recently
concluded with the anti - Catholic James
Butler the
English first Marquis of Ormonde for
Charles 1st the Stuart English King, at a
Synod being held at
Waterford in
Co. Waterford
in the south - east of the
Munster
Province where he threatened excommunication against the
members of the Irish Confederacy's
Supreme Council for
failing to secure
any religious rights for
the
Catholic Church, as this proposal had
been one of their main basic aims, under their original
Oath of Association when the
Irish
Confederacy
Government had been initially set up.
September:
127.Eogan
Roe
O Niall
also came out in support of the position taken by
Archbishop Rinuccini on the
Irish
Confederacy Treaty and he went to
Kilkenny City in Co.
Kilkenny in the south - west of
Southern
Leinster were he deposed and
imprisoned the members of the
Supreme Council of the Irish Confederacy
Government
for making such a deficient Treaty
in the first place,
without the provision of any religious rights for the Catholic Church and he
assumed the position as their
President, and then appointed a new
Supreme Council and he was
joined by
General Thomas Preston the Anglo -
Irish Catholic
commander, who
this time was in
agreement with his overall position and they now prepared to renew the
Uprising against the
Ascendancy Royalists and
the
Ascendancy Puritan English Parliamentarian forces.
November:
127.Eogan Roe
O Niall
withdrew
after a further disagreement with
General Thomas Preston over the Irish Confederacy's
new
position who a few
weeks later on, had decided to support the aims of the original
Treaty, and had also joined up with
James Butler the first Marquis of Ormonde to attack the
Puritan Parliamentary forces
who were still
under Robert Munroe
in the
Ulster
Province and then fearing
excommunication he
changed his mind again, and decided to support the recent
Irish Confederacy
decision again, but by now
the Irish Confederacy
Government
had lost their chance to capture
the English Government's
Dublin Castle (The Devil's 1/2 acre).
The
O Briens,
who were originally descended from
124.Donogh
- the Fat
O Brien, were now
English Earls of Thomond, and by
this time
headed by a totally evolved
Englishman, known as
126.Henry O Brien, who
had an
English mother and
who had also been Ascendancy Episcopalian Church of
England reared and
the English seventh Earl of Thomond after
being also educated in
England for an English purpose and he too was to also contribute
to the
English
foreign
non - Catholic
plantations
in Ireland, and his
descendents would continue to be only
English lackeys or their agents, completely
lost to their Heberian Dal
gCais Irish heritage
and to their own
Irish
Dalcassian
people in Thomond /
Northern Munster who
they were previously committed to support under the Irish
Brehon Law and who were by now totally leaderless.
1647 January:
Pope Innocent X's representative, Archbishop Rinuccini decided to
release the original
Supreme Council
of the Irish Confederacy
Government
and called a General Assembly
of the Irish Confederacy
leaders who then rejected the
previous
Treaty
agreed to by them that did not contain any rights for the Catholic Church
in Ireland and they confirmed that any future Treaties must
contain religious rights for the Catholic
Church and its clergy and
General
Thomas Preston the Anglo - Irish commander acting for the Irish Confederacy
Government
now decided he would
take Dublin
Castle himself, but he was to be defeated
by
Michael Jones
the
Ascendancy Puritan English Parliamentary
commander at
Dungan Hill,
Murrogh O Brien
-
of the Burnings
now also
acting for the Ascendancy Puritan Parliament was still
continuing to carry out
attacks against his own Irish people, all over the
Munster Province,
destroying Waterford, Cahir in
Co. Tipperary
and
captured Cashel were everyone fled to up onto the Cashel Cathedral
where he demanded 3,000 pounds and a months pay for
his army.
James Butler
the Royalist
first Marquis of
Ormonde
acting for Charles 1st the Stuart English King
was now to
maintain an uneasy truce with the
Irish Confederacy Government until the
coming April,
but he was well aware that he could not continue to hold onto the City of
Dublin forever
April: The
Puritan
Parliament forces began to
arrive into Ireland
from
England.
The
Civil War
in
England between the Royalists acting for James 1st and the
Puritan Parliament was to be bought to an end, and
Oliver
Cromwell who was to be
Ireland's
Greatest
Scourge was coming as the
English Protector, and General
Michael
Jones had already arrived into
Dublin with
a
Puritan Parliament army
made up of 2,000 Roundheads
and he would be followed by the unappeasable
Oliver Cromwell himself who was to
eventually arrive at
Ringsend in
Dublin with another
15,000 English Military
force and his
Mid - June:
James Butler
the English Royalistwho was
first Marquis of
Ormonde agreed
to surrender up
Dublin Castle to the
Puritan Parliament together
with all of the Royalist
garrisons rather then allow any Irish Catholic rights in
Ireland.
July 27th:
James Butler
the first English Marquis of Ormonde
gave over
Dublin
Castle
to
Oliver Cromwell's forces and went over to
England were he was allowed to
visit with
Charles 1st the
Stuart
English King who was now in big trouble, and he advised him of the
continuing negotiations that he was still having with his only hope for success, the
Irish
Confederacy
Government, in anticipation of regaining Charles 1st's original position in the
scheme of things, but it was all too late, as the cat was by now well and truly out of the bag..
September: 126.Murrogh O Brien - of the Burnings sacked the Rock of Cashel in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster Province, the ancient fortress of his Heberian Dal g Cais Ui mBriain ancestors the Kings of Munster, and the religious seat given over to the Catholic Church by his own direct ancestor 108.Murtogh O Brian who had been the 180th King of Ireland but having been reared as an Ascendancy Episcopalian in England, for an English purpose, he was devoid of any contact with his own Irish Dal gCais people and of his Irish heritage and would not have had any idea of what he was destroying.
November 13th: Lord
Taafe with
8,000 of his men
fighting for the Irish
Confederacy Government went into battle against
Murrogh O Brien
-
of the Burnings, who was still acting
for the Ascendancy English Puritan Parliament, at
Knocknanuss Hill in
Co. Cork in Southern
Munster, 3 mile
east of Kanturk, where
Murrogh - of the Burnings was able to defeat
him, giving him now his greatest ambition, the complete control over nearly all of
Munster Province.
The
Irish Confederacy
Supreme Council held another meeting where they appointed a new
Irish
Supreme Council made up mostly of
the Old English / Anglo - Irish, and
their overall commander, 127.Eogan
Roe
O Niall
then
destroyed the
Maynooth Castle,
originally constructed there by the
Fitz Geralds in Co.
Kildare in Central Southern Leinster,
which was still under the control of the
Ascendancy Puritan English Parliamentary forces.
Alasdair Mac Donnell / Mac Donald
the
Heremonian Dal Cuinn Colla Uais
Catholic Earl of Antrim, who had been a strong supporter of
Charles 1st the
Stuart English King,
died in his own territory in the north - east of the Ulster
Province.
November 13th: 126.Murrogh O Brien an Toitean - of the Burnings had originally been the leader of the English Royalist Military forces for Charles 1st the Stuart English King in the Munster Province, but had then been denied total Royalist control there in Munster and had then switched to the Ascendancy Puritan English Parliament to gain the position that was his hereditary right and he had then continued to kill and expel the Irish Catholics from the towns throughout Munster, and defeated the Irish under Lord Taaffe and 121.Sir Alexander / Alastrum Mor Mac Donnell, the son of 122.Sir James Mac Donnell of Eanagh and Ballybannagh, at the Battle of Knocknaness for which the Puritan English Parliament gave him 1,000 pounds.
1648 AD Because of his compliance, James Butler the Royalist first Marquis of
Ormonde was reappointed as the English Lord Lieutenant
in Ireland for only one
year.
March:
James Butler
the Royalist
first Marquis of Ormonde went to
Catholic France were he joined up with the
English Catholic Queen of Charles
1st and
Charles the
Prince of
Wales, who would become Charles 11 the third Stuart
King of England, and his brother,
James the Duke of York who would also eventually become James 11 the
Catholic King of England, who were both now in
exile in fear of
their lives.
April:
126.Murrogh O Brien
an Toitean
- of the Burnings was very upset by the treatment
that was now being meted out to him also by the
Ascendancy Puritan English Parliamentarians
and he
openly declared,
once again, for the English Crown and
Charles 1st the Stuart English King,
but the Ascendancy Church of England Episcopalians in
the
Munster
Province
by now only supported the Ascendancy English Puritans and
they would not join in with him. Meanwhile, also upset by the events that were
now occurring in
Scotland the
Lowlands Scottish Presbyterians in
the
Ulster
Province were suspicious of
George Monck, who was now
the
Ascendancy Puritan English Parliamentarian
Military commander,
who had since been released from prison by them to take command there, and
he seized their garrison.
May:
126.Murrogh O Brien an Toitean
-
of the Burnings achieved a personal
truce
with his previous sworn enemies the
Irish
Confederacy, which the
Pope Innocent X's ambassador,
Archbishop
Rinuccini, denounced, and also stated that he would excommunicate any one who
followed it, so the
Irish Confederacy
Supreme Council
went over his head and appealed directly to
Rome and they also dismissed
Eoghan
Roe
O Niall who commanded the
Irish
Confederacy
Government forces in
the
Ulster Province, as he
had once again
also
supported the position
taken by
Archbishop Rinuccini on this issue.
Despite
his dismissal he
continued on with his own personal efforts anyway, against the English forces, attacking
James Butler's stronghold in
Kilkenny City in
Co. Kilkenny
in the south - west of
Southern
Leinster
and he also attacked the
Munster
Province controlled by
Murrogh O Brien
-
of the Burnings,
but was
unsuccessful, and also forced to negotiate a
truce with him also, who was
himself then forced to retreat there from the
advancing Ascendancy Puritan
English Parliamentary forces of the belligerent
Oliver Cromwell. The opportunities and
resistance of the
Irish Confederation
Government
to the inroads of the Ascendancy Puritan English Parliament
forces in Ireland was by now lost, and coming to an
inevitable end, so the Papal Legate,
Archbishop Rinuccini retired to
Co. Galway
in
Southern Connacht
for his own personal protection.
September:
James Butler,
the Royalist English
first Marquis of Ormonde,
who was by now realising what he could have achieved, if he had been at all tolerant to other people's beliefs, could now finally see which way the wind was
really blowing,
and was
in the City of
Cork in Co. Cork in
Southern Munster trying to
arrange a permanent peace deal
not only with the
Irish Confederacy
Government, but also with
126.Murrogh O Brien an Toitean -
of the
Burnings.
13,000 wooden Oak poles from the Oak trees in Co. Clare in the north - west of the Munster Province were to be taken away to be used in the Amsterdam Palace.