1783 - 1786 AD 

1783 AD The Irish Volunteers held their proposed meeting at Dungannon / Dun Geanainn / Geanann's Fort in Co. Tyrone in the Ulster Province to try and bring about democratic Parliamentary reform in Ireland, with the flamboyant Frederick Hervey the Ascendancy Church of England / Ireland Bishop in Derry who was now also known as Lord Bristol acting as a colonel in the Irish Volunteers Derry Corps as he was heavily involved in trying to bring about Catholic Irish Emancipation in Ireland. (He was was also a very rich man and an antique collector, and had previously planted 300,000 trees on his property at Downhill, where they all died due to the prevailing weather conditions at this time.

     Henry Flood the previous British Whig Imperial Government "Placeman" and a re - invigorated  Irish Patriot who was also anti - Catholic wanted Thomas Dermody / Darmody / Ua Diarmada the Irish poet, to write a poem in praise of the British Imperial Constitution, but it would never be written. 

     John Butler was to become the English seventeenth Earl of Ormonde in Ireland until 1795 AD, who was the son of Walter Butler the previous sixteenth Earl of Ormonde.

1784 AD February: Lord Northington was replaced as the British Lord Lieutenant in Ireland.

March: General Elections had been held in Westminster in England and William Pitt - the Younger was now in as the new British Conservative Tory Prime Minister there, and he appointed the Duke of Rutland to be the new British Lord Lieutenant in Ireland and Thomas Orde the Chief Secretary in Ireland for 3 years, to act under his instructions only, but it now also seemed to all that the Ascendancy Anglo - Irish Parliament was to finally gain their independence.

April, The Ascendancy Anglo - Irish Parliament introduced legislation to protect Irish goods by increasing the duty on any goods imported from England, but it was defeated once again, as there was no way Ireland could win against Britain if a price war should develop. 

July 12th: The Irish Volunteers were now disbanded as the Belfast Irish Volunteers presented a petition to James Caulfield / Lord Charlemont, who was a hard - line anti - Catholic, who was vehemently also opposed to Catholic Emancipation, for permission to train Irish Catholic Volunteers, but it was illegal for them under British Imperial Law to bear arms. 

     John Foster the Ascendancy Anglo - Irish Chancellor of the Exchequer introduced his Corn Laws to try and encourage agriculture further to ensure a constant supply of corn, with exports prohibited over 30 shillings a barrel, and Wheat, Barley and Oats also received a bounty, which increased the grain exports from Ireland as England was now no longer a grain exporter.

    William Pitt - the Younger the new Conservative Tory Prime Minister of England wanted to introduce a commercial treaty with Ireland, to try and bind the two countries to one another, and worked out a 10 point plan together with other members of the Ascendancy, Lord Sydney the British Tory Home Secretary, the Earl of Rutland, Orde, Foster and John Beresford, but it also contained an Irish Parliament payment for British Imperial expenses.   

     The first power driven textile machinery was introduced into Ireland at Whitehouse near Belfast in Co. Antrim in the north - east of the Ulster Province that was based on a water mill for spinning cotton twist.

    Eoghan Ruadh - of Red Complexion O Sullivan the famous Co. Kerry poet, from Southern Munster, died this year. 

    It was also recorded at this time that the Irish had a vocabulary of 5,000 words, while in England they only had 800, as for over a 100 years the Irish Hedge Schools had been still operating in Co. Waterford, Co. Kerry and Co. Clare in the Munster Province, despite the previous British repression, and of these, the schools in Munster were to be the most famous in Ireland.  

      The beginning of serious sectarian strife occurred this year, when the Presbyterian Nappach Fleet in the Ulster Province now began carrying out raids on Irish Catholic cabins on the Land Lords' Estates there, and this was increased by the local non - Catholic officials making any attempt to stop this occurring and this caused a Dissenting religious minister to form a group who were to be known as the "Defenders" there to try and protect the Irish Catholic tenant farmers against the aggressors on this occassion known as the "Peep - O - Day Boys"" who were to continue on with their rampage against the Irish Catholic tenants.

June: A group of "Peep - O - Day Boys" gathered at the local public house in a region known as the Diamond near Armagh in Co. Armagh in the south - east of the Ulster Province, and fired their guns on the Irish Catholic cabins that were situated on the adjoining hill, and the "Defenders" soon appeared and returned the fire from their particular side and when the British Militia eventually came the Catholic Irish fled the scene and the local magistrate allowed the "Peep - O Day - Boys" to retire from the scene also. Robert Quigley, a Catholic Irish man, went to get the local magistrate there to try and reconcile both parties, but the firing still continued on from one hill to the other, and Turner a local magistrate and agent for Cope the Land Lord whose Estate was involved brought British Militia, and the the "Peep - O - Day Boys" were pre - warned that they were coming, while all of the "Defenders" on the other hill were arrested and put in Armagh Prison bur despite this they had to be released 10 days later, as there were no actual charges against them, which further upset the "Peep - O - Day Boys." This type of ongoing negative activity by the lower orders (Common Man) suited those who were in control of Ireland, who were against any chance of any type of National Unity or democratic social reforms in Ireland that would unite the population and this ongoing sectarian harassment would continue until 1795 AD, when the "Peep - O - Day Boys" would then be absorbed into the newly formed "Orange Order," and Lord Charlemont / James Caulfield  the hard - line anti - Catholic was to raise a new Volunteer Force who would then only carry Orange Banners.

      John Foster the British Tory Government Chancellor of the Exchequer, acting for the British Conservative Imperial Ascendancy Government now under William Pitt - the Younger, increased the salaries for the positions of their "Placemen" once again in Ireland, instead of using the old and tried system of straight out bribes and among their "Placemen" now was John Beresford who was given the position of the Commissioner of Revenue and was so successful at it that he later became known as the king of Ireland. Despite this John "Black Jack"" Fitz Gibbon the British Tory Government's main "Placeman" in the Anglo - Irish Ascendancy Parliament was the one who was to be really in control, and together they were successful in resisting any c hanace of Irish Parliamentary reform, and definetely any chance of Irish Catholic admission to the Anglo - Irish Parliament to represent the majority of the population in Ireland.

    As a good harvest had occurred this year, and things were improving, there was now no need to try and introduce any further protection for Irish goods.

1785 AD February: John Foster was the appointed Speaker in the Anglo - Irish Ascendancy House of Commons and the British Tory Conservative Government's 10 point plan was put before the Ascendancy Anglo - Irish Parliament who seriously objected to the British Imperial payment and Henry Grattan, the Irish Patriot leader, moved a motion that no payment was to be made to them if the total revenue fell short of expenditure in times of peace, but had to be paid during War, which increased the plan to 11 points, but it passed.

February 22nd: William Pitt - the Younger put it to the British Westminster Parliament where it came up against much opposition and this created a great debate, that brought about many new alterations once again that also went against the interest of Ireland.

May 20th: The British Westminster Parliament increased the 11 point plan to a 20 point plan, by making further changes to suite their own agendas, and they then passed it subject to the Anglo - Irish Parliament making no alterations to it, thereby ensuring complete control over navigation, colonial trade, and in particular foreign trade and this basically meant that the Anglo - Irish Parliament in Ireland would be giving up their previous short - lived legislative independence they had only just recently gained by the hard work of the National Irish Volunteers within the last 3 years. 

August 12th: Orde, who was now the newly appointed British Tory Chief Secretary in Ireland, put the 20 point plan before the Anglo - Irish Parliament where there was great opposition, but despite this once again they had the numbers with their "Placemen" and it was passed, but only with a very small majority, which was not enough to bring it in with any confidence, due to the threat to their legislative independence and William Pitt - the Younger the British Conservative Tory Prime Minister now feeling safer and stronger introduced a new scheme to also re - establish their domination over Irish shipping and commerce, with high woollen duty, and also on other goods, which was then rejected twice by the Anglo - Irish Parliament as once again it was going too far altogether.

     This year the Swiss Huguenots who had been bought from New Geneva by Lord Temple the second Lord Palmerston to increase the non - Catholic numbers now left Ireland.

    The flamboyant Frederick Hervey the English Earl of Bristol and Ascendancy Church of England / Ireland Bishop in Derry who had supported reform for the Irish Catholics also left Ireland as he was now a totally dissatisfied individual and he went off to live in Europe.

1786 AD The Royal Irish Academy Society was formed this year to replace the Philosophical Society, which had long expired, to promote Science, Literature and Irish Antiquities, which came to have a great collection of Irish Book Shrines / Cumdachs.  

    The Four Courts, which were to contain the Chancery, Queen's Bench, Common Pleas and Exchequer were at this time under construction in Dublin at Inns Quay on what was previously the site of a Dominican Priory in the north - east of Southern Leinster.

    There were no giant Wolves recorded after this date and it now seemed that the Irish wolfhounds had done there job.    

1786 AD - 1834 AD James Warren Doyle was to be the first influential Catholic Prelate to join the Catholic Association, and O Driscoll begged the Ascendancy Parliament to, "Befriend us now and we are yours forever," but the Ascendancy Gentry were wary, as they were still the only ones who could legally attend the Parliament under English Law and they considered that if the Irish Catholics, who were in reality the majority in Ireland, gained any rights they would lose their long time overall Ascendancy control, and they would no longer be able to rely on the future British Ascendancy Governments to support their particular type of Ascendancy agendas, and Ireland would become a Nation.   

    Frederick Hervey the flamboyant English Earl of Bristol and Ascendancy Church of England / Ireland Bishop in Derry had returned to Ireland, but was soon to leave once again for Europe.

     Pierce Butler the twelth Lord Dunboyne, who was the nephew of John Butler the Catholic Bishop of Cork in Southern Munster, died, leaving him as the only possible heir to the Butler Estates and the English Title of Lordship, so on August 19th, John Butler in desperation to continue his family line and hold their Estate recanted his priesthood and married the daughter of his cousin, Theobold Butler from Co. Waterford in the south - east of the Munster Province, in the church at Clonmel.

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