1787 - 1790 AD
1787 AD The tenants of the Land Lords in Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of Southern Leinster were the first ones to present a petition against the devastating compulsory "Tithes" to the Ascendancy Church of England / Ireland.
John Dunne was to become the Catholic Bishop of Ossory in Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of Southern Leinster until 1789 AD.
1788
AD Saville's
Relief Act was passed allowing
Irish Catholics up to 999 years
/ or for
5 lives, to inherit and
bequeath the same as what was previously only
allowed for
non - Catholics.
1788
AD German George 111
the Hanoverian King of
Britain
had by now gone totally off the rails, and his second son, George Augustus
Frederick the
Prince of Wales was a candidate to become the
Regent, and if he did there was a possibility
that he would get rid of
William Pitt = the Younger the
ultra - Conservative British Prime Minister and put in his ally
Charles Fox but
William Pitt was ahead
of the game and had the British
Parliament define what the
Prince could and could not do, even though Charles
Fox pushed for his right to use his own authority and it all now remained
up in the air as each of them had to await the outcome of German George 111's sanity.
Christopher Emmet,
died at 27
years of age, and
Robert Emmet his 10 year old brother
who would grow up to play a major part in Irish Nationality was greatly effected by a
poem that his older brother had written about the eventual downfall of
the British
Imperial Empire.
1789 AD
James Lanigan
/ Ua Lonagain was to become the Catholic Bishop of
Ossory in
Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of Southern Leinster
until 1812
AD.
February 5th:
The Ascendancy Anglo - Irish
Parliament met, and
Henry Grattan the leader of
the Patriot
Party opposition
came out in support of the
view of
Charles Fox on the
overall authority of the
Prince of Wales, who they
believed should rule in his own right and called on the
Prince of Wales to assume the
Regency in
Ireland, which was further
confirmed in the Ascendancy Anglo -
Irish House of
Lords but the British Tory Lord
Lieutenant in Ireland
refused to inform the Prince of Wales
of their decision, as it was against the wishes of the
British Government's Dublin Castle
authorities who took their orders directly from William Pitt - the Younger.
This was to allow them time until
German George 111
was
able to regain his sanity and the
British Conservative Tory Government then
continued on under
William Pitt - the Younger, but the decision
by the two
Parliaments in
Ireland had threatened the
unity
of the British Monarchy.
Many
of
the M.P.s
in the
Ascendancy Anglo - Irish Parliament lived on
Merrion's
Square and
St. Stephen's Green
in
Dublin,
and among these was
John
"Black Jack"
Fitzgibbon
the hard - line
anti - Catholic,
who would later also become
the
Earl of Clare, and who was the
British Conservative Government's leading
"Placeman" in Ireland, and they were so sure of him that they appointed him the
British Lord Chancellor in
Ireland,
as the first of the Anglo
- Irish to be so in the last
60
years as his main job, during
his long period in office on their behalf, was to carry out the policies of the
British Tory Government
only,
as they were also well aware that he would stop at nothing to maintain the
Ascendancy in
Ireland. He was
to continue to carry
all of this out against the interests of
Ireland, especially under
William Pitt - the Younger who was also able to survive in
Government in England for a
18 years while
Henry Grattan, the
Patriot
Party leader in thye opposition, continued to stay
allied with
Charles Fox
the
British Opposition leader in
England in anticipation
of
William Pitt - the Younger one day being
removed from his position.
Terrified
of
the position, as to the Ascendancy's hold over property rights in
Ireland, the anti - Catholic hard - liner and
British Tory Government "Placeman,\'John
"Black Jack" Fitz Gibbon
put the following argument to the Ascendancy
Anglo - Irish Parliament at
College Green
in
Dublin,
during his opposition to
Henry Grattan's
reform proposals
to give
the Catholic
Irish
the right to vote." I wish to remind
the gentlemen of Ireland that the only security by which they held
their property, the only security they have for the present Constitution in
Church and State, is the connection of the Irish
Crown with, and it's dependence, upon the Crown of England.
If they are not duped into idle and fantastical speculations under the
pretence of asserting National dignity and Independence, they will feel the
effects to their sorrow. For give me leave to say sir, that when we speak of the
people of Ireland, it is a melancholy truth that
we do not speak of the great body of the
people.
This is a subject on which it is painful to me to be obliged to touch in the
Assembly, but when I see the right honourable member
(Henry Grattan
)
driving the gentlemen of Ireland to the verge of a precipice it is time to speak
out.
Sir, the ancient nobility of this Kingdom has been
harshly treated.
The Act by which most of us hold our
Estates was an Act of violence, an Act
subverting the first principle of the
Common Law in England and Ireland. I speak of the Act of Settlement and that gentlemen may know the extent, I
will tell them that every acre of land, which pays quitrent to the Crown is held
by Title derived under the Act of
Settlement. So I trust gentlemen, will deem it worthy of consideration how far it may be
prudent to pursue the successive claims of dignified independence made for
Ireland
by the right
honourable gentleman. If the address of both houses can convert the Prince of
Wales with Royal power in this Country, the same address could convey the same
power to Louis V1, or to His
Holiness the Pope, or to the honourable mover of this resolution.
We are committing ourselves against the law and against the Constitution, and
in such a contest Ireland
(the Ascendancy)
must fall."
During this year
Fermoy
on the
River Blackwater in
Co. Cork
in Southern Munster
was purchased by Anderson, a Scotsman,
who eventually
re - sold it to the British Imperial Government
to be used as a British Army
base
for their barracks in Ireland and near there also is the
Gallery Grave of
Labba
Callee
(Hog's Bed)
and
Carrigabrick Castle, Cragg Castle and
Licklash Castle on the banks, and
also
Castle Hyde
to be the future home of
Douglas Hyde
a non - Catholic who was to
become the 1st Anglo - Irish President
of Ireland after the Irish population
regained 26 of the 32
Counties of Ireland back from the British Imperial Empire in 1921 AD
July:
Saw the outbreak of the
French Revolution,
following on from the
American
Revolution, and it stirred the blood of many throughout the World, with
numerous newspapers printing the contents of Tom Payne's the,
"Rights of Man" and the new
"French Republic" also offered to
help
any small Nation, and one of those greatly effected by all of this
was
Theobold Wolfe Tone, a
French Huguenot lawyer, who because he was non - Catholic had been
able to be educated at
Trinity College in
Dublin, who was to assist to
found
The United Irishmen Society
and generate
Father Mathew, "The Apostle of Temperance" was born this year at Cashel in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster Province, and he was to bring a new way of life and hope to many, who had been the depressed victims of the terrible ethnic, commercial and religious terror carried out for Centuries in Ireland by the English and British Ascendancies, through his Temperance League in the future.
The Royal Canal was under construction for 100 miles running through Mullingar from out of Dublin in the north - east of Southern Leinster to Richmond Harbour near Cloon Dara on the River Shannon in Co. Longford in the north - west of Northern Leinster.-
The Book of Dimna
containing the Gospels in
Latin from the
Roscrea Abbey,
which had been
composed in the 7th
Century AD, was found
by boys hunting rabbits on
Devil's Bit Mountain also in
Co. Tipperary,
where it was
carefully preserved and concealed and it is now in
Trinity College.
1790 AD Many discoveries of the Catholic Irish who had somehow continued to hold onto their land were made by friendly non - Catholics who were actually trying to assist them to retain their land in Ireland.
Many Catholic priests were now accepted as respected pillars of their society, and the Catholic colleges of St. Patrick's in Co Carlow in the south of Southern Leinster, which is the oldest seminary, and another at Maynooth were begun. - Intermarriage between non - Catholics and Irish Catholics was finally "officially" allowed together with the right for Irish Catholics to become lawyers, which was to be the catalyst for opening the door to real reform in Ireland and Daniel O Connell, who in the future would be known as - the Liberator, and who was previously taught at the Irish Hedge Schools was sent off to Louvain in France to his other uncle, Daniel O Connell who had served with the Wild Geese there, by his other uncle, Maurice O Connell to receive a more formal education, together with his younger brother, Maurice O Connell.
Many
Catholic
Irish
families now found that they had to leave their
homes in the north of
Co. Armagh
and the south of Co. Derry in the
Ulster Province due to the lack of
opportunity that now existed for them there, and also due to the ongoing sectarian religious
intolerance there, and the
higher rent increases they were
being forced to pay because of their commitment to their faith and this last
imposition especially, that was being imposed by the ever - greedy
Land Lords on their various Estates
there, also
made many
of the
non - Catholics from the
Ulster
Province begin to migrate
to North America, while those in the south left for the
West Indies.
During this decade
447,000
people from out of the Irish population went to America,
with two thirds of these being from
Ulster
alone, while at the same time many of the
Frenchmen who had been interred in
prison during the
7 Years War with England had decided to
stay on
in Ireland.
The
Whig Club
in Ireland was set up
under the leadership of
Henry Grattan and the
Irish
Patriots to bring about further
Parliamentary reforms in Ireland, but there was
no intention to include any provision for
the Catholic Irish to receive
the right to vote
The Irish Volunteers were
now mostly from the lower economic ranks of society and had broken off their
ties with the Ascendancy aristocracy, and
the Ascendancy Gentry, with the
non -
Catholic Irish Volunteers in the
Ulster Province
now very
strong and the
Republican Presbyterians
and the Catholic
Irish
were now co - operating and were on very friendly
terms, which was becoming a great
worry to the
British
Ascendancy Government's authorities in the
Dublin Castle (The Devil's 1/2 acre) and the demand for the repeal of the
anti -
Irish Catholic Laws was
increasing,
with the demand for complete religious equality. The
Catholic Irish at this time, were not as
Republican minded
as the Presbyterians were, due to the
terrible treatment meted out during the French Revolution to the
Catholic clergy in
France by the revolutionaries there, but
there was one area of exception to this as a
Republican attitude was rife in the
more populated
Dublin area
in the north - east of Southern Leinster were
there was a strong democratic
Irish and Anglo - Irish element ready to ally with the
well educated
Presbyterians.
Robert Stewart, who was the
nephew of Lord Camden, who was
to become a future British Viceroy
who would also be appointed to control
Ireland for the British Conservative
Ascendancy Government won the election for a seat in
Co. Down
in the south - east of the Ulster Province
against the
Ascendancy establishment nomination there, but unfortunately he too was soon to become a
fervent British Imperial Government supporter and later
on as the British
Chief Secretary in
Ireland, for
William Pitt - the
Younger, he would also be a major player in bringing about the future
debauched
"Immoral
Union" of the British
Ascendancy
and Ascendancy Anglo -
Irish Parliaments in
1800 AD.
The
first Mail Coach
began linking
Belfast in the north - east of the
Ulster Province down
to
Dublin
in the north - east of
Southern
Leinster.
Frederick Hervey the flamboyant Earl of Bristol and the Ascendancy Church of England / Ireland Bishop in Derry, whose daughter was Lady Erne, returned once again to Ireland for brief periods and then left again for 13 years and never came back again, and although he travelled all over Europe he would not go to France, but used Rome instead as his headquarters while the English Earl of Tyrone who was now the head of the Beresfords desperately wanted him to die out of the road so he could put in one of his own relatives. (The Duke of Rutland at this time was still the appointed British Lord Lieutenant in Ireland).
Thomas Mac Coghlan from the Heberian Dal gCais Clan Conor, died leaving no legitimate heir .