1741 - 1750 AD 

1741 AD Dr. Charles Lucas who was a non - Catholic Anglo - Irish man produced the Irish Citizens Journal, which not only stirred up the emotions of the English planters in Ireland, but also the general population in Ireland, with talk of some hope of reform in Ireland, as it contained articles about freedom from the domination of the English Whig Conservative Government, and their ongoing oppression and repression on all things in Ireland.  

     Henry O Brien the English Earl of Thomond in Co. Clare in the north - west of the Munster Province, died, this year, and this brought to an end the Heberian Dal gCais Ui Turlogh Ui mBriain paternal mainline dynasty in Co. Clare in the north - west of the Munster Province, begun originally by *105.Brian Boru the Heberian Dal gCais 175th High King of Ireland who had gone along way to halting the Viking advance in Ireland in 1014 AD.  

    John Fitz Gerald the Anglo - Irish Knight of Kerry, also died this year at Dingle in Co. Kerry in the south - west of the Munster Province.  

    The Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain O Canes / Kanes / O Cahains had taken over the castle of the Mac Quillans / de Mandevilles English Barons in Deseverick in Co. Antrim in the north - east of the Ulster Province.  

   The Newry Canal was opened connecting Newry with Loch Neagh into Carlingford Loch / Loch Cuan in Co. Louth in the north - east of Northern Leinster.

1742 AD Hugh Boulter the unpopular English Ascendancy English Church of England Archbishop in Armagh, died, who had gained total control of the Ascendancy Anglo - Irish House of Lords for the Ascendancy English Whig Government, but despite this he had, had no success at gaining control of the Ascendancy Anglo - Irish House of Commons, and the English Earl of Wilmington now became the new British Whig Conservative Prime Minister until 1743 AD and John Hoadley, was put in to replace Hugh Boulter who was related by marriage to Henry Boyle the Speaker who was fervently anti - Catholic who still had the overall control in the Ascendancy Anglo - Irish House of Commons.

1743 AD Anthony Dopping the Ascendancy Church of England / Ireland Bishop in Ossory in Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of Southern Leinster Province, died, and Henry Pelham now became the new British Ascendancy Conservative Whig Prime Minister until 1754 AD.

1744 AD Edmund Burke the well known Anglo - Irish Statesman, whose mother and wife were of Catholic descent, and who had been reared in a Quaker School founded the Irish Historical Society for political debating at Trinity College in Dublin. 

     Thomas Bindon built Bessborough House at Piltown in Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of Southern Leinster.

    The Catholic Cathedral on the Rock of Cashel in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster Province that had also been taken over by the Ascendancy Church of England was too much for the present Church of England / Ireland Archbishop Price as due to his size he could not get his carriage up to the front door, so he had an Act of Parliament passed in the Anglo - Irish Ascendancy Parliament to remove the Cathedral nearby to the town of Cashel.

1745 AD The Catholic Irish Penal Laws were not working out as well as those in authority in the Ascendancy Church of England had anticipated.  

      Since 1691 AD up until this year 450,000 Irish and Anglo - Irish men had died in the service of France in what they had all considered was to be their only opportunity for the continuation of the struggle against the ethnic, religious and commercial repression by the Ascendancy English Whig Conservative Government in Ireland. 

    Construction was begun on Leinster House in Dublin in the north - east of Southern Leinster by the main male non - Catholic branch now in Ireland of the Anglo - Irish  Fitz Geralds who had continued to survive by becoming adherents of the Ascendancy Church of England / Ireland and in the future this building would become the Irish Dail / Parliament when the Irish Free State would be formed in 1922 AD after the British Coalition Government under David Lloyd - George was to be then driven out of 26 of the 32 Counties in Ireland by the political Sinn Fein Party.   

    James Butler the second English Duke of Ormonde and the thirteenth Earl of Ormonde, died, this year and Charles Butler, who was another grandson of James the first Duke of Ormonde became the fourteenth Earl of Ormonde and the third Duke (de jure) and also the English Earl of Arran until 1758 AD.

October 22nd: Jonathon Swift whose parents had been English and who had been born in Dublin and became the Ascendancy Church of England / Ireland Dean at St. Patrick's in Dublin, died this year. He had been installed originally as a minister at Templecorran were he had no Ascendancy Church of England parishioners, and then at Kilroot and Ballinure, which were all also out of the way Church of England parishes in Ireland and he always felt that he had been banished from England altogether. He had been the author of Gulliver's Travels and had previously anomalously protested against the continuing harsh treatment carried out on the general population in Ireland by the Ascendancy English Whig and Anglo - Irish Conservatives.

    John Barry who was to be the founder of the American Navy was born at Tacumshane / Teach Coimsin in Co. Wexford in the south - east of Southern Leinster where there is a statue to him erected in the City of Wexford.

   William O Meara the Heberian Dal gCais Ui Bloid Ui Turlogh Bishop of Clonfert  was transferred this year to Killaloe in Co. Clare in the north - west of the Munster Province and was to die in 1762 AD.

   Arthur Wellesley who was to be elected at 25 years of age to the Anglo - Irish Ascendancy Parliament and later become the English Duke of Wellington was born this year at Trim in Co. Meath in the south - east of Northern Leinster where there was to be a statue erected to him later on after his success at Waterloo over Napoleon Bonaparte.

1746 AD Henry Grattan was born this year who would become the leader in the future of the Irish Patriot Party in the Ascendancy Anglo - Irish House of Commons where only men of means who were non - Catholics could vote and represent the population in Ireland, and up to his demise in 1820 AD he would continue to fight for Catholic Emancipation / The right for the majority to vote and be represented in the Parliament.

     The Irish Bards / Mac a Wards continued to meet half - yearly up until this year, at their centre in Bruree on the River Maigue in Co. Limerick in the mid - north - west of the Munster Province in the territory held by the Anglo - Irish de Lacys. 

      The merchants in the Ascendancy English Conservative Whig Parliament now ensured the prohibition of the export also of Irish glass, while Irish raw wool was also still restricted, with its true value in France at this time up to 5 times greater, which encouraged those in the population who had access to it in Ireland to become involved in smuggling it there to be sold at a fair price.

   To try and further do away with the Gaelic way of life in the Scottish Highlands also the Ascendancy British Government banned the Tartans (Gael Breccan - Feile (Speckled Cloth) and they too became only land holders there with the Clann lands gone forever.

1747 AD Brian Merriman / Brian Mheic Giolla Mheidre (merry man) the Irish poet was born this year at Ennistymon in Co. Clare in the north - west of the Munster Province whose family may have been from the Heberian Dal gCais Ui Caisin Mac Namara Sept, and later on after his death in 1805 AD he was to be interred there at Feakle in Co. Clare.

      Dr. Charles Lucas who was a non - Catholic Anglo - Irish man and a committed Irish Patriot who published the Irish Citizen's Journal continued to denounce the commercial restrictions placed on the whole of Ireland by the merchants, either in the Ascendancy Englis Whig Conservative Government or those who were connected to it in Ireland and also called for Constitutional Rights for all of the people in Ireland.

    To further dstroy the Gaelic Culture the Gaelic heritable leaders in the Scottish Highlands were now also banned this year.  

      John Hoadley the previously appointed Ascendancy Church of England / Ireland Archbishop in Armagh, who was related by marriage to Henry Boyle the leader of the Ascendancy Anglo - Irish Parliament House of Commons, had died, and was now succeeded by the 40 year old George Stone who had originally arrived in Ireland with the Earl of Dorset the previous English Whig appointed Lord Lieutenant in Ireland and in a turnabout he was to favour John Ponsonby while also hoping to oust Henry Boyle the Speaker in the Ascendancy Anglo - Irish House of Commons and thereby gain control over the Anglo - Irish House of Commons himself. Although his particular overall role in the scheme of things was to only act as an agent and advisor to the Ascendancy English Government, his ambitions were far greater then this, as he too also wanted political power, just like his brother Andrew Stone had in England, who was the Under - Secretary of State there for the Duke of Newcastle in the Ascendancy English Whig Conservative Government.  

     John Wesley who was one of 19 children born to his parents and brought up in the rites of the Ascendancy Church of England bought the theory of Methodism to Ireland from this date onwards, when he was to make 21 visits in the future up until 1789  AD and he at first preached his sermons at St. Werburgh's Church in Dublin. (Previously the Anglo - Norman Catholic Church dedicated to St. Werburgh, a descendent of Wulfhere the English King of Mercia), which had also been taken over by the Ascendancy Church of England during the confiscations of all the Catholic Church Institutions by Henry VIII.

1748 AD With all the normal rights of the Catholic Church now completely illegal under the Ascendancy's Laws of England, St. Patrick's Cathedral on the Rock of Cashel in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster Province was totally abandoned, but although the young Catholic priests were still being forced to go abroad to be educated Butler the Catholic Archbishop of Cashel had somehow managed to establish a seminary for students in Ireland.

   Arthur Mac Eniry / Enery was now to be a Brigadier - General in the French Army until 1761 AD.

1749 AD James Bernard O Dunne became the Catholic Bishop of Ossory in Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of Southern Leinster until 1765 AD.

     Agar the Ascendancy Church of England / Ireland Archbishop now stripped the lead off of the roof of  St. Patrick's Cathedral on the Rock of Cashel in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster Province to build his own private palace.

     Dr. Charles Lucas the non - Catholic Anglo - Irish Patriot stood for election to the Ascendancy Anglo - Irish Parliament, but the Ascendancy in the House of Commons declared him an "enemy" of the Country because of his commitment to individual freedom of speech and rights for all of the population in Ireland and he was forced to go into exile to avoid being arrested and imprisoned.

1750 AD Lord Dowshire an English Land Lord who had his Estates in the Ulster Province this year cleared all of his tenants and their families from off of there, and 50,000 people this year were to emigrate from Ireland to America.

   Richard Boyle the second English Earl of Cork in an endeavour to build his mansion Burlington House in England, was to sell the Castle, the town, and 30,000 acres of his Estates in Co. Waterford in the south - east of the Munster Province to John Keane who became the ancestor of Sir Richard Keane who still controls the town of 800 people and 2,000 acres there today. 

   Stephens Town House was built near the south - east of Knock Bridge in Co. Louth in the north - east of Northern Leinster, and near to there at Rath Eddy is the 12' high Stone of Ireland's epitome of the aristocratic warrior, Cuchulainn.

    The Catholic Bishops and clergy who had been restrained under the Ascendancy English Whig Government's Banishment Act of 1691 AD had by now reformed their numbers, as the religious orders who still had seminaries in France and Spain allowed for ordinations to be available on the Continent for the Bishops and priests, and the great numbers of repressed Irish Catholics were still active in their religion but the priests previously educated in France were still at great great risk in Ireland, as was the friars who also tread the roads where few priests were willing to go. (Once again, if you want to make anything stronger then continue to repress it.)

     John "Black Jack" Fitz Gibbon, later to be Lord Clare the notorious Anglo - Irish Ascendancy leader in the foreseeable future, would continue to stop any chance of any reform for Catholic Emancipation in Ireland while continuing in control of the Ascendancy Anglo - Irish Parliament and acting in his role as an "Undertaker and Placeman" for the Ascendancy English Conservative Whig Parliament for over 30 years. (In a twist of fate his father, who had studied in Paris was to return to Ireland as a lawyer where he would make a fortune and become a Catholic.)

1750 - 1770 AD The territory of the O Reynolds / O Raghnalls from the Gaelic Milesian Irian Magh Rein Muinter Eoluis / Eolais Sept who previously had their kingdom of Conmaicne on Lough Rynn at Mohill in Co. Leitrim in the north - west of the Connacht Province, that had been confiscated by the English in 1621 AD and given over to the English Croftons for foreign non - Catholic plantations was now taken over by Daniel Clements whose ancestor Nathaniel Clements had been an officer in Oliver Cromwell's Army who had previously held a confiscated Estate in Co. Cavan in Southern Ulster that was taken from the Dal Cuinn East Breifne Families there also for the plantation of foreign non - Catholics.

1750 - 1790 AD During this 40 year period, due to the continuing influx of Lowland Scottish Presbyterians who were under similar pressure in Scotland, Belfast in Co. Antrim in the north - east of the Ulster Province was to go from a simple fishing village to the second largest city in Ireland.   

1750 - 1817 AD John Curran who was to be amongst the supporters of Catholic Irish Relief was in the future to treat his own daughter, Sarah Curran severely, on finding out that she was engaged to the active Anglo - Irish Patriot, Robert Emmet who was to be later executed by the Ascendancy English Government authorities in the Dublin Castle and on her death she was to be interred at Newmarket in Co. Cork in Southern Munster.   

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