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                                                                                                                        1798 AD - July - December


       William Pitt - the Younger the British Conservative Tory Prime Minister and his Ascendancy Government now had 40,000 British Militia in Ireland to further ensure there would be no further resistance to their plans for the Immoral Union of Ireland with England and to this end also he was now pushing the pertinent line that if the Ascendancy was to keep control and survive in Ireland as before then this would depend on the Immoral Union of the Anglo - Irish Ascendancy Parliament with that of the Ascendancy Westminster Imperial Parliament in England, where there were "safety in numbers," as there was no chance of any Catholic Irish representation occurring there.

      During this time Daniel O Connell "The Liberator" was called to the Bar. (In the future he would become the first Catholic M.P in Ireland, representing Co. Clare / "The Banner County" in the north - east of the Munster Province, which was to then lead onto further Catholic Emancipation and the words of John Beresford the Ascendancy Church of England / Ireland Bishop in Armagh, who was the richest man in Ireland, was to come to fruition in the future when he was to state that," If you give the Catholics any rights at all they will want the same rights as us."

      The surviving members of the United Irishmen Society now included in their Oath, "To be true to the Catholic religion and assist the French when they land," and at the same time, to give them further hope, one of the exiled United Irishmen leaders, Napper Tandy, landed at Co. Donegal in the far north - west of the Ulster Province with a small contingent of French soldiers also given to him by Napoleon Bonaparte.

August 14th: Back in France, Theobold Wolfe Tone the founder of the United Irishmen Society and the Irish Republican leader, now realised he would have to push on regardless, as his followers back in Ireland were being picked off one by one, by the British Conservative Imperial Government, so he set sail from Brest with 3,000 French troops also given to him by Napoleon Bonaparte.

August 22nd: The United Irishmen forces under General Joseph Holt a non - Catholic farmer from Wicklow in Co. Wicklow in Southern Leinster and Michael Dwyer the Wicklow Chieftain were hoping for further French assistance when Humbert, the French General, with 1,100 French troops arrived in Kilcummin Bay in Co. Mayo in the mid - west of the Connacht Province, but Humbert had left his run too late as by now there were not many free United Irishmen left there to assist him, so he occupied the town of Killala in the north of Co. Mayo, and the ships that had brought his particular French contingent to Ireland then returned to France. At Killala he was to be eventually joined by a few thousand United Irishmen from throughout the rural areas there, who had no experience or training in any type of warfare, but who were now also willing to fight for the cause of the Catholic Irish, and to this end he had brought with him arms and ammunition for their use and his combined forces where then driven out of Killala by the British Huguenot General Trench with great slaughter, while Father Conroy, the Catholic priest there, was summarily executed for giving him assistance. Despite this this setback the Irish population there were to continue on with the fight and managed to hold onto Killala and the French General, Humbert was then able to capture the town of Ballina also in Co. Mayo, and pushed on to take the town of Castlebar from the clutches of the resolute and ferocious British Imperial Government's Military commander, General Lake.

September 4th: Humbert the French General with his combined Irish forces was also able to capture Ballysadare / Baile Easa Daire (The Town of the Waterfall of the Oak Tree) nearby in Co. Sligo in the north - west, although there had been no United Irishmen Society Uprising in the Connacht Province itself.

September 8th: Humbert the French General with his combined forces also defeated the British Imperial Government's Military forces under Colonel Vereker at the Collooney Gap on the Owen More River, but they then came under further attack, so he pushed on eastwards instead towards Dromahair.

September 23rd: The town of Killala in Co. Mayo was retaken by the British Military forces, and this then brought about the actual end of any further revolt there in the Connacht Province, and the Land Lords' Yeomanry and the British Military forces then took a brutal revenge on the Irish population throughout that region for their previous defeat at Castlebar.

October: Humbert th French General was eventually forced to surrender at Ballinamuck in Co. Longford in the north - west of Northern Leinster by General Cornwallis the British Military Commander, after previously marching overland for 150 miles and although "Napper" Tandy had also arrived by now with his small French force, he soon left again and all up 30,000 from the overall population in Ireland would be massacred during the United Irishmen Societies' Uprising, which would only be allowed to foster further sectarian hatred.

     After previously being personally in exile in Paris for two years trying to gain assistance from Napoleon Bonaparte, Theobold Wolfe Tone, the Irish Republican leader, returned to Ireland with his particular French contingent via Loch Swilly in Co. Donegal in the north - west of the Ulster Province where his French force was to be intercepted and defeated during a sea battle off of the Irish coast by the British Imperial Government's Navy ships and he was arrested and placed in the Buncrana Castle previously built by Sir John Vaughan, and he was then sent down to Dublin in chains and on horseback and paraded through the City of Dublin for all to see and was then condemned to be hung as a "ommon criminal."

November 19th: Theobold Wolfe Tone, the Irish Republican leader, wanted to die an honourable death as a combatant, by firing squad, but the powers that be in the British Imperial Government's Dublin Castle refused his request, as it had been decided that he was to be hung instead but he was determined that it would be better all round for the cause of Irish Freedom if he was to defeat the British Government's intention of executing him as a common criminal and to this end he decided instead to commit suicide and his brother smuggled a razor in to his cell and he cut his own throat. He did not die immediately and was to linger on for a few more days while in terrible agony until he finally gave up the ghost, and it is believed that his body was interred at Bodenstown in Co. Kildare in Central Southern Leinster, where his father hd already been interred, which is now a place of eternal remembrance to all Irish Republicans today.

      General Joseph Holt, the United Irishmen leader who was also a non - Catholic, would take over command of the remaining United Irishmen forces of Michael Dwyer of 3,000 - 4,000 men and be the last of the United Irishmen to surrender, after he had withdrawn up the valley at Glenmalure in Co. Wicklow into the Vale of Avoca, below Rathdrum, where the River Avonmore flows through to the River Avonbeg in the south - east of Southern Leinster 

November: Thomas Pelham retired as the British Chief Secretary in Ireland, and William Pitt - the Younger the British Conservative Tory Prime Minister once again giving in to John "Black Jack" Fitz Gibbon / Lord Clare the hard - line anti - Catholic who was his main "Placeman" in Ireland, declared that the intended Immoral Union of Ireland with England would be an Ascendancy one only, while Cornwallis the British Imperial General, who had been involved in the American Revolution, was also for the Immoral Union, but only if it was for the whole Irish Nation.

November 10th: General Holt, the last of the United Irishmen leaders, finally surrendered to Lord Powerscourt at Enniskerry in Co. Wicklow in the south - east of Southern Leinster, under an Amnesty from General Cornwallis the British Imperial Commander, and he and Michael Dwyer would be among those many United Irishmen who would be now transported to Australia as political prisoners where he would go on make a further mark in history, when he would later become reluctantly involved in the Insurrection at Vinegar Hill in New South Wales against the British Imperial Government's continuing tyranny that was still being carried out also in Australia, and would eventually return to Ireland in 1811 AD.

     In a show of total disrespect for the beliefs of the Irish Catholics, the huge Cross that had been constructed in 921 AD - 930 AD, that had been removed from the church in 1698 by Robert Balfe and erected in the Market Place at Ceanannus Mor / Kells in Co. Meath on the River Blackwater in the north - east of Northern Leinster, was now used for hanging suspected United Irishmen.  

   Daniel Corkery was now moved to state, "That Irish Ireland, had become a peasant nation, with no urban existence and no middle class, who were oppressed by an alien Gentry and their hangers on"  and Father Prendergast another Anglo - Irish Catholic priest was to be also hung at Monasterevin in Co. Kildare in Central Southern Leinster. 

   At this time in commemoration of those who had lost their lives in the United Irishmen Society Uprising this year, the Lia Fail Stone, which was the Inauguration Stone of the Kings of Tara / Erinn / Ireland was also removed from its previous place there and re - erected upright over the graves of those United Irishmen who had previously been killed there at Tara in Co. Meath in Northern Leinster.

   A memorial was also to be erected in Tralee in Co. Kerry in the south - west of the Munster Province to commemorate the United Irishmen who fought and died in the United Uprising there and later still a monument was erected, (sculptured by Oliver Sheppard), commemorating the "Irish Rebels" who also led the defence of the town of Wexford, situated on the junction of the River Slaney and the Wexford Harbour, for nearly a month until 100 of them were piked and thrown off the bridge into the River Slaney while in Wexford there is a statue of John Barry who was also from there who had founded the American Navy.

    The Ascendancy Anglo - Irish Parliament was to be abolished and the Immoral Union of Ireland with Britain was muted with 100 non - Catholic representatives to go to the Westminster Ascendancy Parliament in England, and 28 non - Catholic Peers were to also sit in the Ascendancy House of Lords there and to this end Lord Callan from Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of Southern Leinster was one of those who received 15,000 pounds for his 2 votes, and surrendered up his right to sit in the Ascendancy Anglo - Irish Parliament while Charles Tottenham / Lord Loftus the English Marquis / Earl of Ely who held 5 separate Peerages, with each one controlling 2 votes each, was rewarded quite substantially being paid 15,000 pounds for each of these including Bannow, Fethard and Clonmines. 

      At this time a large proportion of the "Absentee - Land Lords" who lived in England had Estates in both England and Ireland.   

   John Foster / Lord Oriel who was to be the last Speaker in the Ascendancy Anglo - Irish Parliament who was against the Immoral Union of Ireland with England nevertheless took up a position with the British Conservative Tory Government, and after he died he was interred at Dunleer in Co. Louth in the north - east of Northern Leinster.  

   The Military Road was constructed this year for 50 miles, from Rathfarnham to Rathdangan near the Co. Carlow border in Southern Leinster, and the Grand Canal from Dublin to the River Shannon was also finally finished.

   Ballyragget in Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of Southern Leinster was to be set up to be used as another British Military base by the British Imperial Tory Government in Ireland.

 

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