1751 - 1760 AD

1751 AD The English Earl of Dorset was re - appointed the Whig Viceroy / Lord Lieutenant in Ireland to try and re - establish the Ascendancy English Conservative Whig Parliament's control over their English "Undertakers" in Ireland and their "Placemen" that they still had in the Anglo - Irish House of Commons, but despite his best efforts it was still to remain under the control of Henry Boyle the Speaker of the Anglo - Irish House of Commons until 1752 AD and the English Earl of Dorset had also brought along his son, Lord George Sackville, as his secretary, who was also a friend of the Ascendancy Archbishop George Stone the Church of England / Ireland Primate, who also desperately wanted political power and control in Ireland for himself.

     Ireland in general this year had actually produced a surplus, and it was the intention of the Ascendancy Anglo - Irish House of Commons to deduct it from the Irish National Debt, but instead the English Earl of Dorset was to claim it for the English Crown, as the Ascendancy English Whig Conservative Parliament had inserted a clause giving them the right to confiscate any moneys in Ireland, and making them subject to German George 11 Ludwig the Hanoverian British King's previous consent but this did not go down too well with the Ascendancy Anglo - Irish Establishment in Ireland. Frederick Ludwig the German Prince of Wales, also died this year, who was a son of German George 11 and in turn his son, George William Frederick Ludwig would take up his previous position.

1752 AD John Keogh who was an Irish Catholic tried to personally develop a Catholic seminary to educate young Irish priests in Ireland.

May: The English Earl of Dorset, who was now the Ascendancy Whig Conservative Lord - Lieutenant in Ireland, returned to England, and Henry Boyle the Speaker of the Anglo - Irish Ascendancy House of Commons was then appointed as one of the English Lord Justices to control Ireland instead during his absence.

May 12th: Archibald Hamilton Rowan who was to become one of the young educated members of the United Irishman Society who would turn out to be a revolutionary in the cause of reform for all of the population in Ireland was born in London this year.

1752 / 1755 AD Michael Oge - the Younger O Gara from the Heberian Cianachta Sept who had been the Catholic Bishop of Tuam in the Connacht Province since 1740 AD, died this year.  

   The first Steeplechase in the World was held from Buttevant to Doneraile in Co. Cork in Southern Munster.

1753 AD The English Earl of Dorset who was the British Conservative Whig Ascendancy Government's appointed Viceroy / Lord Lieutenant in Ireland returned to Ireland, where Henry Boyle was now waiting to take him head on over the Ascendancy Anglo - Irish House of Commons' right to control the finances of Ireland themselves, as they had since produced another surplus to distribute in Ireland, just as they had done in 1751 AD and once again intended to use it to reduce the Irish National Debt. They were to formulate a Bill, which they were once again forced to send over to England to have confirmed. but when it was returned from there it had included in it the same clause requiring German George 11's the Hanoverian British King's consent, so they just rejected it out of hand altogether. (Those who were involved in its rejection in Ireland were then dismissed by the English Earl of Dorset under the instructions of the English Conservative Whig Government. This included their main antagonist Henry Boyle who was the Anglo - Irish Chancellor of the Exchequer, and this resulted in the Anglo - Irish Ascendancy in Ireland then moving in behind all of those who were dismissed, to give them their support against the imposition of overall control once again being expressed by the English Conservative Government in England. It was now more then evident that German George 11 and the English Conservative Whig Government wanted complete overall power, once again in Ireland, by using whatever means necessary to gain the majority of the deciding votes in the Anglo - Irish Parliament. They would do this by increasing the numbers of their "Placemen" in the Anglo - Irish Ascendancy Parliament to ensure that they then had total control over any agenda that was to be put forward in the Anglo - Irish Parliament and this blatant action taken against the rights of the members in the Anglo - Irish Parliament brought forward the proposition originally proposed by the Irish Patriots, who had professed to the English Government's "Placemen" in the Anglo - Irish Parliament previously, that although many of them had sold out for English rewards, that the Parliament of Ireland should makeits own decisions.         

    It was also at this time that the Heberian Cianachta O Haras and Magens / Mac Gann / Mac Annaidh / Mac Cann of Ununamore sold out.  

     Due to the Catholic Irish Penal Laws still being enforced, by now the amount of Irish Catholic held land had dropped to only 5%, but the homes where the Catholic Mass was still being conducted still existed, who were attended by those priests who were still able to survive the rigours of it all, as "priest catchers" were now encouraged by the British Ascendancy Conservative Whig's Dublin Castle authority and rewarded for their miserable efforts while those who still participated in this ongoing sectarian activity were also despised by many of the non - Catholics themselves for their measly actions, which often also led on to many riots occurring.    

     The trade discrimination against the overall population in Ireland, egged on by the greedy merchants in the English Conservative Whig Ascendancy Parliament and their connections outside of the Parliament, which had by now forced all of the population in Ireland together in a common cause, whether they were Church of England / Ireland, Presbyterian, Baptist, Anabaptist, Congregationalists, Huguenots, Methodists, Quakers or Catholics to a nil existence was still full on, due to the continuing oppressive economic restrictions continuing to be imposed by the English Conservative Whig Government. Even though the insatiable appetite of the merchants in the British Parliament itself or those connected to them, were the ones who had created all of the economic problems for Ireland, there were still Colonial dependency rumblings within their ranks being made in the British Westminster Parliament itself against the overall dependency of the population in Ireland. 

     Anthony Malone created an Irish Patriotic Opposition in the Anglo - Irish Ascendancy House of Commons, where many there still among them had Mere Irish ancestors, and who were longing for a Free Irish Parliament and an Irish Constitution of their own, and although his motions were always to be defeated by the numbers of the English Conservative "Placemen," his actions in this regard were to have a great influence on the population in Ireland for many years to come.  

   Lismore Castle, situated in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster Province, were Robert Boyle has been born, was altered by the sixth Duke, as the castle was passed on now to the English Dukes of Devonshire in England, when Lady Charlotte Boyle married Hartington the English fourth Duke of Devonshire there. 

   George Berkley, the philosopher, and Ascendancy Church of England / Ireland Bishop of Cloyne, from 1734 - 1753 AD, who had been born at Dysart Castle in Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of Southern Leinster, died this year, who was an idealist who had founded Trinity College Philosophical Society and had agitated for Irish Catholics to be allowed in to be educated.

1754 AD The population in Ireland was now up to 2,300,000 people.

      Henry Pelham, the British Conservative Whig Prime Minister died this year in England, which gave the Duke of Newcastle, who became the new British Conservative Whig Prime Minister temporary control there until 1756 AD of the British Westminster Parliament and he was personally against continuing to use strong arm measures in Ireland while Henry Fox, who was allied with Henry Boyle in Ireland, was now the Secretary of State in his Cabinet and he was also fervently for curbing the political ambitions of George Stone the Ascendancy English Church of England Primate in Ireland.

1755 AD April: Hartington the English fourth Duke of Devonshire, married to Charlotte Boyle was now installed as the British Whig Viceroy / Lord Lieutenant in Ireland to replace the Earl of Dorset, and he arrived into Ireland with the intention of making everything right with Henry Boyle, and to this end he gave him an English Earldom and he was created Lord Shannon, together with an Irish Pension to tide him over for good measure and he then also handed out many other similar rewards for any of the Ascendancy Anglo - Irish Conservatives who were willing to co - operate from now on / or once again with the British Conservative Ascendancy Government in England and subscribe to their intended agendas in Ireland. John Ponsonby was also put in to replace Henry Boyle as the Speaker in the Ascendancy Anglo - Irish House of Commons, and it was now all so dreadfully blatantly corrupt that the general feeling against the sell out by the new British Government's "Placemen" was so bad that an effigy of Henry Boyle was actually burnt in Dublin.     

1756 AD Patrick O Kennedy from the Heberian Dal gCais Ui Bloid Ui Turlogh Sept who was a friar at the Dominican Convent at Roscommon in Co. Rocommon the west of the Connacht Province, died ths year.

    Richard Pococke was to be the Ascendancy Church of England / Ireland Bishop in Ossory in Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of the Leinster Province until 1765 AD. 

   Cathal Buidhe Mac Giolla Gunna the Irish poet, died this year.

May: Hartington the English fourth Duke of Devonshire, and recently appointed British Government Viceroy in Ireland, was recalled to England, where he became the new British Conservative Whig Ascendancy Prime Minister until 1757 AD, and the Ascendancy Church of England Primate George Stone was not to be one of those, who surprisingly, were to be included among the new British appointed Lord Justices in Ireland and Henry Boyle who had co - operated with the new British Whig Government and accepted their rewards was also to be still in control of a large section of the Anglo - Irish Ascendancy House of Commons and the British Whig Ascendancy Government's Undertakers and "Placemen"" among them, were to continue to have overall control in the Anglo - Irish Parliament for for another 10 years.

      Public works were commenced on the Grand Canal linking Dublin in the north - east of Southern Leinster to the River Shannon, which was 80 mile away after passing through Tullamore to Athy in Co. Kildare in Central Southern Leinster and was to take 35 years to complete.

1757 AD January: The English Duke of Bedford was now appointed the new British Whig Viceroy / Lord Lieutenant in Ireland and Henry Boyle, John Ponsonby and the Ascendancy Church of England Primate Stone joined forces against him, but despite their opposition to him they had to eventually come to terms in the vested interests of the British Conservative Whig Ascendancy Government, which further upset the other members of the Anglo - Irish Ascendancy while the Duke of Newcastle now became the new British Whig Conservative Ascendancy Prime Minister until 1762 AD.

1758 AD An Act was passed to put a bounty on any grain or flour that was brought into Dublin to encourage the growing of corn in Ireland.

    Robert  Clayton the Ascendancy Church of England / Ireland Bishop in Clogher and Cork, died this year.  

   John Butler the great grandson of Walter Butler who had been the eleventh Earl of Ormonde became the fifteenth Earl of Ormonde (de jure) until 1766 AD.

1759 AD Thomas de Burgo / Burke became the Catholic Bishop of Ossory in Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of Southern Leinster until 1776 AD.

    The restrictions on Irish cattle exports to England were removed this year finally after 100 years of prohibition, and this also led to the increase use of more pasture over agriculture in Ireland, which meant that many more tenant farmers in Ireland would not be able to obtain  a living on the land in Ireland, which was to bring about further acts of retaliation by the "Whiteboys," known as such because they wore white smocks over their clothes, and took up the cause of those tenant farmers effected.

    The Irish Catholic Association was founded by Charles O Connor, Dr. Curry, and Wyse from Co. Waterford in the south - east of the Munster Province, and also included the Catholic Peers, Lord Kenmare, Lord Trimelston, Lord Fingall and Lord Gormanston.  (Dr. Curry's / Corry ancestors had lost all of their Irish territory Co. Cavan in Southern Ulster from 1641 - 1649 AD.) 

     Rumours were being circulated of the possibility of a Parliamentary Union of Ireland with Great Britain, and because of this rumour a crowd continued to invade the Anglo - Irish Ascendancy Parliament, until the members there were finally compelled to swear opposition to it, Lord Charlemont was moved to comment, "That the Anglo - Irish Parliament had previously been awakened by the invasion of their rights over the Money Bill, and they now realised they should have their own Irish Constitution, and that it was also possible to defeat the will of the English Conservtive Government."  Although the Anglo - Irish Ascendancy Parliament was not truly representative of the Irish population, they had finally come under the influence of the feelings being spouted throughout the Country at this time, and because of this, they were to ensure that any future anticipated surplus was to be expended in advance on Irish public bodies. Just as the merchants in England overtime had became stronger, the Irish merchants who were now forced by circumstances bought on by the British Whig Government's continual economic repression of Irish trade and commerce, were now also demanding their rights. Because of this they now began to favour the Irish Patriots in the Anglo - Irish Parliament, which included the newly elected Henry Flood who was now also amongst those demanding the removal of the British Whig Government's oppressive commercial laws on Irish commerce. He was the eldest son of the English Chief Justice who was from an English family, which had established itself in Ireland in the 17 Century AD, and he was therefore the heir to vast Estates in Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of Southern Leinster and also he had married Lady Frances Beresford, which was to give him even greater wealth, and powerful connections in both Ireland, and England were he had previously spent 7 years of his lifetime earlier on.

      Any chance of a further French insurgence into Ireland creating another crisis for the Irish population generally was frustrated by the victory of Hawke at Quiberon Bay, and the anti - Catholic Penal Laws by this time were also  being basically ignored and the other non - Catholic religions as a whole were now also more tolerant of the Catholic Irish due to their commitment to the English Crown given to the English appointed Viceroy during the 7 Years War with France, and also their lack of response to the French Wars previously, during 1715 AD and 1745 AD.     

    The dreaded enforced Ascendancy Church of England / Ireland Tithes in the Munster Province had to be paid by all of the Irish Catholics there, and also all of the other Recusants / Dissenters / non - Conformists, and de to Land Lord pressure it was now based on the value of their produce, potatoes, milk and eggs. 

   The present building at Trinity College was erected on the All Hallows site in Dublin and during this Century, Trinity College and Edinburgh College were to provide the best education in Britain, while Oxford and Cambridge were in mental decay.

   Arthur Guinness began his Brewery in St. James Street, Dublin this year.   

1760 AD The "Whiteboys" had been previously organized to try and offset the continuing  ill - treatment of the tenants in Ireland on the Estates of the Land Lords and their agents who acted on their behalf, and were actually trying to halt the loss of agricultural land to the increasing number of cattle the Land Lords were now bringing in to their Estates, and this meant that their activities were now much more widespread extending their raids into Co. Tipperary and Co. Waterford in the Munster Province. Other continuing aggravations on the tenants were the forced Tithes to the Ascendancy Church of England / Ireland, which were now also placed on their potato crops, along with the increasing rents on their holdings that were being introduced by the Land Lords. The "Whiteboys" were now also carrying out their raids at night against the "Absentee - Land Lords" who were having the income from their Estates sent over to England, by killing their cattle and tarring and feathering, or actually killing any of the Land Lords who they came up against personally. The Longs, were one of these particular Land Lords who were to early on feel their fury, who had their Estates at Longford House in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of Munster, who found that they had to fortify themselves against the ongoing rural troubles in that district but despite this Captain Long was to be among those killed, which would cause the Long family to eventually sell out to Carlo Bianconi who later on was to become known as the King of the Roads in Ireland in 1846 AD. The "Whiteboys" influence now began to spread further in the Munster Province, and also into parts of the Leinster Province and the Connacht Province, but they did not carry out any activities in the Ulster Province and the Anglo - Irish Ascendancy Parliament was to eventually pass legislation to try and stop their ongoing campaign to retain the land on the Estates in Ireland for agricultural purposes only so that the general population in Ireland would be able to continue to survive. 

February: Thurot, a French General, landed with a small force into Belfast Loch, were he captured Carrickfergus in Co. Antrim in the north - east of the Ulster Province, but the population in the countryside there rose up against him and thousands arrived into Belfast to defend the City against him also, so he withdrew, but the main effect was that he was offered no help from the Catholic Irish either and later on he was to be defeated on the Isle of Man by English Imperial Government forces and the fact that the Irish Catholics did not support this particular French incursion went down well in the eyes of those looking on, and it now seemed to them that the Irish Catholics were less of a danger then they had been previously led to believe. Another result of this was that the gun replacements and gates were now removed and the walls allowed to decay around the City of Limerick in Co. Limerick in the mid - north - west of the Munster Province.

     The Catholic Association in Ireland were able to hold their first meeting. 

    Patrick Cotter who was to reach 8'3" / 7' 11" tall was born near Pallas Town / Kinsale in Co. Cork in Southern Munster this year and was to die in 1801 AD as the tallest Irish man ever recorded. 

    The German Palatine non - Catholic planters who had been brought into Ireland in 1709 AD, to increase the non - Catholic population in Ireland, now mostly left the Country, as their Land Lord leases ran out and migration all over Ireland was now to be on the increase during this decade.           

October: George 11 August Ludwig the German Hanoverian King of Britain, died, and George William Fredrick 111 Ludwig became the new German Hanoverian King of Britain until 1820 AD, and the Anglo - Irish Ascendancy Parliament was dissolved after a period of 30 years during which there had previously been no General Election held in Ireland and this allowed the Irish Patriots in the Opposition to come forward in Ireland and enter into the political arena, giving them the opportunity to express their more circumspect views and opinions throughout the whole general population in Ireland.

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