1816 - 1820 AD 

1816 AD The cost to Ireland for the Immoral Union with England was by now running at 13,000,000 pounds, as against the original Anglo - Irish Government cost before the Union of only 4,500,000 pounds, so the British Imperial Government decided to amalgamate the Irish Exchequer with that of Britain, but the joining of the Exchequers was opposed by the Anglo - Irish Ascendancy, as this would mean that more money would to be drawn out of Ireland's economy to pay to the British Conservative Tory Government in England.

     Once again the British Conservatives in power in  England showed their true colours, when due to the ever increasing hardship in Ireland they passed 3 more Acts to make the eviction of the tenants on the Land Lord's Estates in Ireland much easier, once again instead of taking positive steps to correct the ongoing economic problems in Ireland they only continued to act negatively and in their own class interests  and over the following 14 years they were to once again prolong the further use of British Martial Law provisions against the general population in Ireland.

     Thomas Davis and John Blake - Dillon were to be the co - founders of  the Irish newspaper, The Nation, which had 250,000 readers and Charles Gavan Duffy who was born in Co. Monaghan in Southern Ulster, was to be the editor who would later also become the Premier of Victoria in Australia, and possibly the initial founding Father of Federation there.

     Richard Edgeworth opened his own private school to all of the population in Ireland, whether they were non - Catholic or Catholic.

    Building work also began this year on St. Mary's Pro - Cathedral in Dublin, which just like the other Catholic churches it was to be constructed in a back street, so as not to upset the Ascendancy authorities in the Dublin Castle who were still in control in Ireland.

    James Orr the Presbyterian United Irishman and poet, who had previously escaped to America, died this year, and he was to be interred and a monument was to be erected to his memory in Ballycarry / Baile Cora (The Town of the Weir) in Co. Antrim in the north - east of the Ulster Province. (This was where the first Presbyterian church in Ireland had been originally built in 1611 AD). 

    A British Imperial Government troop ship, which was bound for England from the Peninsular this year, was wrecked at Tramore off the coast of Co Waterford in the south - east of the Munster Province and 363 lives were lost. 

1816 AD - 1818 AD During this period the food crops in Ireland were to be destroyed by bad weather conditions that continued to prevail, with the resultant outbreaks of Typhus and Smallpox that were to follow, which caused the deaths of at least 50,000 people in Ireland.               

1816 AD - 1842 AD 14 complete or partial failures of the potato crops were to occur during this period, with the earlier varieties being Minion, Apple (keeping qualities,) and Cup, which eventually superseded these, which was then also to be replaced by the prolific white watery Potato the "Lumper," which was not to keep too well at all as it went bad in early August, and they would then have to wait for a new crop to dig in October. (Nearly 30 % of all the cultivated land left in Ireland was to be sown down to Potatoes prior to the Famine.)

1817 AD A terrible Famine was also occurring this year, due to a partial failure of the potato crop, and thousands of men, women and children were to also die this year in Ireland because of it, and this too was naturally then followed also by another Typhus outbreak.  

    By now there had also been another 25% increase in the National Debt of Ireland since the introduction of the Immoral Union with England, and with the two Exchequers joined as one in England, further money had to be borrowed there to pay the share of Ireland's expenses, which was ever increasing and this was in fact really due to England's ongoing War with France that had been borrowed at great interest, which meant once again that more monies were being drawn out of Ireland's local economy for the use of those in authority in England. This was added to as usual by the continual economic drain of the monies being sent over to the many "Absentee" - Land Lords who were continuing to receive their tenants rent moneys from their Estates in Ireland that were being spent in England, which continued the great drain on Ireland's economy. Some relief money was also made this year available to assist the poor. 

     The Seditious Meetings Act was also passed in the Ascendancy British Westminster Parliament by Lord Castlereagh to suspend the Habeus Corpus Act in Ireland.

      In the east of the Ulster Province the region there was now mainly controlled by the Presbyterians who were doing well with their Linen industries, which they now attributed to the creation of the Immoral Union with England, while on the other hand the rest of the population in Ireland was suffering under great economic hardships due to their reliance on the rural agricultural industries. which they also attributed to the Immoral Union.

      Due to the previous Ascendancy Conservative Governments in England and there destruction over the Centuries of all the Irish records, books and relics, John O Donovan's father, when he was dying, had repeated to his sons his Heberian Eoghanacht lineage of descent back to 1641 AD, and then to the 84.Ailill / Oilioll Oluimm the Heberian 1st King of Munster in 210 A.D through his oldest son, 85.Eoghan Mor. John's brothers took him at first to study in Dublin, and then later in the farm houses of Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of Southern Leinster he was to learn the Celtic Gaelic language, genealogy and history of the Mere / Native Irish people, which he was able to pass onto future generations. Eugene O Curry, (1796 AD - 1862 AD) who was also of Heberian Dal gCais descent, who came from Co. Clare in the north - west of the Munster Province, who was also descended from 84.Ailill Oluimm, through his second son, 85.Cormac Cass - of the Curly Hair, was to do the same.

     Ancient gold ornaments were discovered this year on Magee Island in Co. Antrim in the north - east of the Ulster Province, the previous territory of the Mac Gees / Mag Aoidh. (The last witch to be tried in Ireland was to be from there also).

     The Maynooth Catholic Religious College, was now suppressed by John "Black Jack" Fitz Gibbon the English Earl of Clare who was a hardline Anglo - Irish anti - Catholic who was still acting as the Lord Chancellor for the British Ascendancy Conservative Tory Government, in Ireland under the auspices of the Dublin Castle authorities.

1818 AD Carrowdore Castle in Co. Down in the south - east of the Ulster Province, was constructed by a French Huguenot family. 

   The church at West Dromore near Ballysadare Bay in Co. Sligo in the north - west of the Connacht Province, which was by this time in ruins, was abandoned this year.

   Lola Montez / Marie Gilbert, whose mother had Spanish blood, was born at Oliver Castle on the edge of the Plain of Limerick, on which site the Victorian mansion of Clonadfey House that is constructed of red sandstone, now stands.

1818 AD - 1822 AD During this 4 year period cereal prices in Ireland were to also crash.     

1819 AD Henry Grattan the Anglo - Irish Statesman and previous leader in Ireland of the Opposition Patriot Party, introduced another Catholic Emancipation Bill into the Ascendancy Westminster House of Commons, which was only defeated this time by 2 votes with the Anglo - Irish Ascendancy once again debasing itself as "survivors" for all to see as a corrupt body, who endured an ignoble servitude for wealth, and to also hold onto their dominant position and well aware of their personal involvement in its defeat the British Tory Ascendancy Government's Lord Lieutenant in Ireland felt well within his rights to write back to the British Imperial Government informing German George 111 the Hanoverian King of Britain and his son the German Hanoverian Prince of Wales, as he knew were both totally against Catholic Emancipation. He advised them that, "Great Britain may still easily manage the non - Catholics in Ireland and they in turn the Irish Catholics." (To ensure the continuation of this, he once again also suspended the Habeus Corpus Act in Ireland). 

July:  The body of Ellen Hanley / Colleen Bawn (white girl) a 16 year old girl, was washed up, with her feet weighted with a rock, on the shore of the Shannon Estuary in Limerick in Co. Limerick in the north - west of the Munster Province after having being drowned by Sullivan, a boatman, who had been plied with whiskey, acting under the instructions of her new husband, John Scanlon of Ballycahane Castle near Croom who fled the scene and hid in a hay barn at his families' house and was found after being prodded with a bayonet and was arrested and Daniel O Connell - the Liberator was hired to defend him at the trial in Limerick. It was firmly believed at this time that no one from the "Landed Gentry" would ever be convicted of a murder of a peasant girl, but despite this he was to be found guilty and hanged along with his boatman and Ellen Hanley was buried on the northern shore of the River Shannon at Killimer in Co. Clare nearby, where her grave in the future would be chipped away by souvenir hunters until there was to be none of it left. 

      The non - Catholic French Huguenots who had been brought into Ireland to offset the Catholic Irish majority were to abandon the Grey Friars Church, which had been built in 1240 AD, at Waterford in Co. Waterford in the south - east of the Munster Province, and previously taken over by them after the confiscation of the Catholic Institutions by Henry VIII,

1819 AD The Salmon Weir Bridge was constructed to the north of St. Nicholas' Church in Galway City in Co. Galway in Southern Connacht.

   James Warren Doyle became the Irish Catholic Bishop of Kildare & Leighlin, who was to be a great Statesman for Catholic Emancipation while giving evidence during the 1830's to the Westminster Ascendancy Parliament in this regard, who was also a great advocate for education and the union of all Christian churches.

1820 AD 4,700,000 people from out of the population in Ireland were to emigrate to America from this year until 1920 AD.

    Henry Grattan, the previous leader of the Opposition Patriot Party in Ireland, who was recently the M.P. for Dublin, who had continued to push for Catholic Emancipation, (The right to vote and be represented in the Parliament) was to die this year, and he was to be succeeded in his endeavours to secure Catholic reform by another non - Catholic M.P. William Plunkett who held the seat for the Dublin University.

   Daniel O Connell "The Liberator" would now come to the fore pushing for Catholic Emancipation, with Maynooth college now also producing Catholic priests in Ireland itself instead of on the Continent.

     Carrickmacross in Co. Monaghan in Southern Ulster was at this time famous for its Lace.  

    Father John Hogan the last of the Franciscans in Quin in Co. Clare in the north - west of the Munster Province, died this year, and was buried in his tomb in the north - east corner of Quin Abbey in defiance of the suppression of the Catholic religion in Ireland for Centuries.

    Flesk / Fleasc Castle was constructed this year in Co. Kerry in the south - west of Munster, but would be eventually dismantled by the Heberian Eoghanacht O Sullivan Sept of the Mac Gilli Cuddys when it came into their possession later on.  

   Loghcutra Castle was also constructed  this year in Co. Galway in Southern Connacht.

   Craiganowen Castle originally constructed by the Heberian Dal gCais Ui Caisin Mac Namaras near Six Mile Bridge in Co. Clare, which had been destroyed in the middle of the 17th Century AD, was to be restored from now on, and contains a museum there today.

   Pope Pius VII who had since cancelled the "veto" over the appointment of Catholic clergy appointments by the British Imperial Government in Ireland now gave his blessing to the teaching order of the Christian Brothers, founded by Edmund Rice in Co. Waterford in the south - east of Munster, who were by now carrying out Catholic education in Ireland who would spread further education throughout the World.

   The Royal Irish Society became the Royal Dublin Society. 

    James Butler, became the English nineteenth Earl of Ormonde until 1838 AD, who was another son of John the seventeenth Earl.

 1820s While the general population in Ireland were starving the Michelstown Mansion was constructed in Co. Cork in Southern Munster, where it cost Lord Kingborough, the English Land Lord, 220,000 pounds to build, while he also spent 32,000 pounds on the publication and research into Mexican History, until he was to go finally insane in 1833 AD, leaving debts of 400,000 pounds, while most of the members of his close family occupied their time by hunting foxes.

                    Home Page                                                                             Return to Celtic Heritage                                                                             On to 1821 - 1827 AD