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                                                                                                                                                           1681 - 1690 AD

 

1681 AD April: The English Ascendancy Parliamen, at Oxford, was dissolved, and Charles 11 sent word in secret to James "Black Tom" Butler the Royalist first Marquis of Ormonde and English Viceroy in Ireland who was still in charge on his behalf in Ireland that he still supported him.

July 1st: St. Oliver Plunkett, the Irish Catholic Heberian Dal gCais Ui Bloid Ui Turlogh Archbishop of Armagh, after a travesty of a trial, had been falsely condemned by the Ascendancy of High Treason and executed by hanging at Tyburn, and was then drawn and quartered, as the last notable victim of the narrow - minded, greedy Conservative Whigs in the English Ascendancy Parliament nd he would be beatified by Pope Benedict XV in 1920, and canonized by Pope Paul V1 in 1975 becoming Ireland's second beatified Saint along with St. Malachy Morgair Ireland's original beatified Saint and his remains were interred at St. Giles In The Fields until 1683.

     Redmond O Hanlon from the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch Sept, who was known as the "Irish Tori Rebel," had continued on with the resistance to the English religious and ethnic oppression in the previous territory of his O Hanlon ancestors who were Chiefs at Tandragee in Co. Armagh in the south - east of the Ulster Province where their territory there had been taken off of them during the confiscations, and the non - Catholic plantations of James 1st but he was to be finally captured after a 10 year long campaign, and executed by firing squad and his remains were interred in the graveyard at Terryhoogan near Scarva and despite his demise his original long running campaign of guerrilla warfare against the English oppression was commemorated by others there who continued on in the same vein.    

1682 AD Dublin's population was now 60,000 persons.

April: James "Black Jack" Butler, the Royalist 1st Marquis of Ormonde in Co. Kilkenny in the south - east of Southern Leinster, was called to London by Charles 11, were he was now officially created the 1st Duke of Ormonde, as he had served the English Royalist cause for 50 years and was to remain there as his advisor on Irish affairs for another 2 years.  

     Edmond Malone / Ua Maoileoin (Descended from a devotee of St. John) was born this year in Porchester in Co. Meath in the south - east of Northern Leinster and was to grow up to be  7`7"in height.

1683 AD The remains of St. Oliver Plunkett was now removed from St. Giles In The Fields to Landspring in Germany under Charles 11 and his head is in the Convent of St. Catherine in Drogheda.

      The Philosophical Society was founded in the City of Cork in Co. Cork in Southern Munster, with 2 notable members of the Ascendancy being involved, Sir William Petty as it's President, and William Molyneux as a member.  

     Michael O Dea the son of Conor Cron O Dea / Day from the Heberian Dal gCais Sept, descended from *92.Aengus Cinnathrach / Oengus Ceann Nathrach, the fifth son of 91.Cas the King of Thomond / Tuaisceart Mhumhain / Northern Munster, repaired the ancient White Cross of St. Tola at Dysert O Dea in the previous O Dea / Ui Deaghaidh kingdom and territory, between Corofin and Ennis in Co. Clare in the north - west of the Munster Province.

1684 AD A Commission of Grace was instituted in March this year, where landholders could purchase their land titles with money to compensate the dispossessed.

      James "Black Jack" Butler, the Royalist anti - Catholic 1st Duke of Ormonde, was now over 70 years of age, and he returned to Ireland after being advised that he was to continue as the English Lord Lieutenant in Ireland forever, but within 3 months Charles 11 advised him, that due to his continuing hardline stance against Catholics he was to be replaced and Laurence Hyde, the younger son of the previous old hardline anti - Catholic English Chancellor Lord Clarendon, who was the English Earl of Rochester, and a brother - in - law to Charles 11's younger brother, James the Catholic Duke of York, was to take up this position instead. (James the Duke of York who would become James 11 was never afraid to acknowledge that he was a Catholic and had been allowing Catholic officers into the army in Ireland, which was against the English Ascendancy Test Act of 1673 AD.  

1685 AD February: Charles 11, died, and received the last rites of the Catholic Church, and his brother, James the Duke of York became James 11 the fourth Stuart Catholic King of England, against the wishes of the hard - line Conservative Ascendancy in England and Ireland and he had also recently married the young, Catholic girl, Mary of Modena, which led to further fears among the hard - liners of a future Catholic heir and even Catholic rights reform under English Common Law for the return of all previous confiscated property. The Conservative Whigs, in the English Ascendancy Parliament, were against all Dissenters (non - Conformists) to the Ascendancy Church of England, while James 11 was for toleration of all religions, and he introduced a New Policy, and as Catholics were among those to be accepted, this began a rush to found many Catholic schools in Ireland.

      James 11, re - called James ""Black Tom" Butler the anti - Catholic Royalist 1st Duke of Ormonde to London, and put in the two Ascendancy Church of England Episcopalian Lord Justices, Archbishop Boyle and Lord Granard, to run Ireland on his behalf, while Richard Talbot, a Catholic was appointed to the position of Colonel of the Horse Regiment there, which also upset many anti - Catholic Ascendancy hardliners also, who were serving under him but later on Richard Talbot would become the English Earl of Tyrconnell, while Lord Granard was to be the Army Marshall, but Richard Talbot was the one who would be actually in command.

      The Duke of Monmouth, who was an illegitimate son of Charles 11, and Campbell the Scottish Earl of Argyle who were both anti - Catholic hardliners, began a rebellion in England, after they had landed from Holland to try and remove James 11 the fourth Stuart King of England from his position, and this revolt gave Richard Talbot the opportunity to disarm the English Militia in Ireland.     

     The French King revoked the Edict of Nantes, and 10,000 Huguenots (French Calvinists) arrived in Ireland, who were nearly all from the La Rochelle area, and most of these were to also eventually inter - marry with the Irish people. 

August: Laurence Hyde, the Earl of Rochester, who had been in line to succeed James ""Black Jack" Butler as the English Lord Lieutenant in Ireland, instead became the Lord Treasurer in England, and his elder brother the second Earl of Clarendon, was given the position in Ireland instead, and both of these because of their upbringing were also to be staunch Ascendancy Episcopalian Church of England adherents and brother - in - laws to James 11, who had previously been married to their deceased sister, Anne Hyde, who was the mother of his 3 daughters, 2 of which, Mary and Ann, would rule England as non - Catholic Monarchs, but not so Charlotte who was to be left out, as she had married a Catholic.

1686 AD January: The second English Earl of Clarendon, took up his position as the English Lord Lieutenant in Ireland, where Richard Talbot was by now placing many of the Catholic Irish into positions of authority, including judges, officers and councillors, and James 11 also ordered that the Jesuits were to be in charge of the Government controlled schools, and for Catholic hierarchy payments to be authorised. At this time it was recorded in Co. Meath alone in the south - east of Northern Leinster, only 4 of the Church of England / Ireland buildings, were still useable, from those taken over during the confiscations of the Catholic Church Institutions by Henry V111, from the 42 original Parishes confiscated.

1687 AD The population of Ireland had increased and now stood at 2,000,000 people. 

      James 11, the fourth Stuart Catholic King of England, revoked the Charter of his grandfather, James 1st in creating the City of Kilkenny and Co. Kilkenny itself in the south - west of Southern Leinster and Co. Sligo in the north - west of the Connacht Province was partitioned and the territories of Cloonamahon and Cloonamahon Beg were returned to Charles O Hart, the brother of John O Hart the Catholic Bishop of Achrony there who was to live at Cloonamahon until he and his brother were to lose their territory again and be dispossessed in the future in 1737 AD under German George 11, the second Ascendancy German King of England for refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy to him.    

 January: James 11, the Catholic Stuart King of England now under the influence of the Earl of Sunderland, abandoned any further attempts of trying to compromise with the Ascendancy hard - liners, and decided to also break with his in - laws the Hyde brothers, who were strong Ascendancy Episcopalian Church of England supporters who had been bought up under the influence of their hard - line anti - Catholic father, the previously deceased Earl of Clarendon the English Chancellor. who had been totally anti - Catholic. James 11 now replaced his brother - in - law the Earl of Rochester, as the Lord Treasurer in England, and also recalled his other brother - in - law the Earl of Clarendon, from his position as the English Lord Lieutenant in Ireland. 

February: Hyde the Earl of Clarendon was replaced by Richard Talbot, the future Catholic Earl of Tyrconnell, as the English Lord  Deputy in Ireland, which did not naturally set too well with the Ascendancy Establishment there, who had long been in total control in Ireland and Richard Talbot as the new English Lord Deputy in Ireland then tried to repeal the English Act of Settlement, to try and return their land to the Irish and the Anglo - Irish / Old English, which also made the many thousands of foreign non - Catholic planters naturally feel unsafe, as to their land titles. The English Ascendancy merchants in Ireland began returning to the safety of London, while any of the army forces, who were dismissed went to Holland to join up with Prince William of Orange, whose mother, Mary Stuart was a sister to Charles 11 and James 11 and he was also married to Mary Stuart, James 11's Episcopalian daughter from his deceased first wife, Anne Hyde, who had been a daughter of the hard - line anti - Catholic Lord Clarendon and a sister to the Earl of Rochester and the Earl of Clarendon. (They had all been heavily influenced by their their father the Earl of Clarendon who had been a very hard - line anti - Catholic, but Anne Hyde had become a Catholic).

     Richard Talbot, as the English Lord Deputy in Ireland, seeing some hope of normality now replaced those who were dismissed or left the army of their own accord, with Catholic Irish, appointing judges and sheriffs in nearly every County, and compelled the towns to surrender up their charters and accept new ones that now included Catholic Corporations, while the Ascendancy Establishment, who had always been in control of their destiny and especially the destiny of the majority in Ireland, began to panic with many returning to England also, where they complained loudly, especially when the Catholic Irish troops began to arrive in England to support James 11. Richard Talbot had sent them over as reliable contingents to strengthen James 11's position there, but in doing so he had weakened his own garrisons in the Ulster Province, which was to create dire circumstances for him later on, especially in Co. Derry. Colonel Denis Mac Gillicuddy / O Sullivan was to be the Sheriff of Co. Kerry in Desmond / Southern Munster at this time.     

1688 AD James 11 the Catholic Stuart King of England's wife Mary of Modena gave birth to a baby boy James Edward Stuart / The Old Pretender and all hell broke loose and James 11 was to be deposed and the Williamite Wars begin as moves were made to continue on with the Ascendancy by bringing in Wiliam of Orange and Mary his Ascendancy daughter from Holland.

July: James "Black Jack" Butler the Royalist first Duke of Ormonde, died, and James Butler his great - grandson was to become the thirteenth English Earl of Ormonde, Earl of Ossory and second Duke (de jure) until 1745 AD. 

     James 11, the Catholic fourth Stuart King of England had 7 of the Ascendancy's Church of England Bishops in England arrested for not reading out the "Declaration of Indulgence" in their Dioceses "For the Toleration of Catholics and non - Conformists," but they were to be eventually acquitted, while the Lowland Scottish Presbyterians in Scotland, were also against him because he was a declared Catholic and now to add to their woes he had also previously married the 14 year old Catholic, Mary of Modena, who had since produced an English Catholic male heir, while his previous wife, the deceased Anne Hyde, had produced only 3 daughters. James 11, now in fear of his life, went to St. Germain to seek the protection of his kinsman the French King Louis XIV, which suited the purposes of the English Ascendancy Parliament, who were to use his eventual departure as a means to depose him, as they had previously been trying to get William of Orange, his non - Catholic son - in law and nephew, to come over from Holland and overthrow him, to keep the Ascendancy flag flying. Despite this both Ireland and Scotland were against the imposition of of William of Orange, a foreigner, by the English Ascendancy Parliament as he was in reality the Dutch ruler of Holland, but those in authority in Scotland, once again eventually gave in. William of Orange was James 11's son - in - law and his nephew as he was also the son of James 11's eldest sister, Mary Stuart. (Their main ancestor Mary Stuart had been the Catholic Queen of Scotland Mary Queen of Scots beheaded by her cousin Elizabeth 1st, )

     Meanwhile in Ireland, with the Ascendancy there now under some control the Catholic Irish had finally gained some possibility over their own destiny with Richard Talbot still acting as the English Lord Deputy in Ireland, who was hoping to actually return the land there back to the Irish and the Anglo - Irish / Old English population but he was also up against the genuine fear of the many thousands of non - Catholic planters, who were also developing a "siege mentality," which would persist, and still be noticeable even in more modern times, especially in the Ulster Province.

   Colonel Roger Mac Elligott / O Sullivan returned to Ireland.

November: William of Orange, arrived at Torbay in England with 24,000 foreign troops, after receiving approval from Pope Innocent XI to resist the French Jesuits and the Gallican Church, and was also supported by another daughter of James 11, the future English Queen, Anne who due to her upbringing also was totally dedicated to the Ascendancy Episcopalian Church of England, and against her father, James 11 whose Royalist forces in England, were to come up against William of Orange and his forces at Salisbury, where some of James 11's own English Army went over to support William of Orange, so in a panic he was to flee to France, but not before he ordered the English Fleet to sail to Ireland.   

     Meanwhile, in Ireland, there was conflict occurring at the Ironworks at Kenmare / Nedeen in Co. Kerry in the south - west of the Munster  Province, that was owned by Sir William Petty the English Government physician, the ancestor of the Lansdowne family there at Kenmare and the Irish population there of 3,000, who were now under the control of Richard Talbot the Catholic Lord Deputy in Ireland, drove out the 75 English non - Catholic planters, that Sir William Petty had brought in there in 1670 AD, but despite this initial result the English forces were to be able to take back Kenmare, and also Bandon in Co. Cork, until they were eventually forced to give them up once again.

December: Richard Talbot was by now feeling the effects of losing the support of the Irish troops that he had sent over to England from the Ulster Province, and the situation in Ulster was by now not very good for the Irish there.

December 7th: James 11's exchange garrison was refused entry into Derry City in Co. Derry in the north - east of the Ulster Province, after the Apprentice Boys there had locked the Ferry Quay gate on them and James 11's Redshanks Troops, who were now under the control of Alexander Mac Donnell the Lord of Antrim there in Ulster were composed of 1200 Irish, who were to lay siege to Derry City for 105 days without any real success.

     Peter Walsh the Franciscan, died this year, who had written the Loyal Remonstrance, which promised the allegiance of all Irish Catholics to the English Crown, in the hope of winning Catholic rights for the people in Ireland, by not acknowledging the Pope's Ecclesiastical authority over them, and for doing so he had since been excommunicated and expelled from the Franciscan Order. At this time 22% of the land of Ireland was still being held by the Catholic Irish.

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