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
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 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
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"
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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