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"RAINBOW FARMS" HARNESS HORSES - STANDARDBREDS - PACERS & TROTTERS The Hunter Valley - New South Wales - Australia.
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Sweetwaters "Egyptian Kings Smokey (Imp) Shazzally Shazam (Aust) * Mini Weanlings |
1567 AD - 1570
1567 AD
Sir Henry Sidney
the English Lord Deputy in Ireland and
the Chancellor in
England,
Cecil wanted to bring in
English type shires in all
of
of the
Ulster
Province so Elizabeth 1st
the English Queen put an
Attainder on
Shane O Niall the Proud,
and required the
extinction
of the
O Niall name altogether and they
then
brought in hired assassins from Scotland to murder him and kept a
map of were he
was eventually murdered while he was seeking refuge with the
Mac Donnells
at
Cushendun
in
Co. Antrim
in north - eastern
Ulster.
They
cut off his head, which was given to the English and it was pickled and sent to
Dublin were it was
impaled on the
spikes of
Dublin Castle
(The Devil's 1/2 Acre) and his headless body was buried at
Glenarm. The English
Government then
confiscated
3 of the
Counties in
Ulster and
gave their support to
the cousin of Shane O Niall,
Turlough "Luineach"
O Niall
to become
"The O Niall" who
also then became suspect by the English also after he married
Agnes
Campbell the daughter of the
Irish Scottish Earl of Argyll
receiving
2,000 mercenaries
from the Hebrides as a dowry. Meanwhile the young Black Hugh O Niall, the son of Ferdoragh O Niall, who would become the English appointed 1st Baron of Dungannon in the Ulster Province and to be the English appointed 2nd Earl of Tyrone and then eventually "The O Niall" in his own right was being groomed in England for English service and purpose in Ireland.
The
Fitz Geralds
who were
the
Anglo - Irish
Earls of Desmond
controlled the region there in the
Munster Province from
Dungarvon to
Co. Kerry, Co. Limerick
to
Co. Cork
and were now a
Junior
branch of the Geraldines while
the
Fitz Geralds who were the
Earls of Kildare had
previously been the
Senior branch who ruled over the
most powerful Irish Families
of the
Heberian Eoghanacht
Mac Carthys and
O Sullivans
in the
Munster Province
and were usually up against the
Butlers
the English Earls of Ormonde who were always reared
in England for an English purpose.
(Fitz Maurice Fitz Gerald
was a cousin to the Earl of Desmond.) The English Officials
under the English Queen,
Elizabeth
1st
operating in Ireland were now
exchanging pardons
for sacks filled with the heads of
the Irish
and
they
also introduced their
State Conformity Act
for the Episcopalian Church of
England - Ireland where
all
Irishmen must
conform to
the English Episcopalian
religion or else. Fitz
Gerald the Catholic Anglo - Irish
Earl
of Desmond refused to conform so the
English sent more soldiers
to Ireland
to carve out estates for themselves, and the Irish
and Anglo - Irish "rebelled," which then forced the
Butlers
of
Ormonde
and the
Geraldines
of
Kildare
and
Desmond
to
combine briefly against them.
1568 AD
Black Hugh
O Niall
from the Northern
Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain Sept,
who was a son
of
Ferdoragh
O Niall, and a grandson of
Conn
"Bacach" O Niall
the
English
appointed 1st Earl of
Tyrone
and his legal heir - apparent who had been born at Dungannon in the
Ulster Province,
and who had also been taken as a child and reared in
England for an English purpose, was appointed the
English
1st
Baron of Dungannon in
Ulster.
He was later on to be appointed the
English 2nd Earl of Tyrone as
he had served in
the English army in Ireland against the Irish Septs in
Munster
Province
&
Co. Monaghan and because of this
early influence was then
disturbed that the
Irish people were not
following the English ways. He
was to hold the Ui Niaill
territory in the
Ulster
Province
for
40 years after
Shane
O Niall's
murder, together with his kinsman from the other Northern
Ui Niaill
Sept in
Hugh - Aedh
"Ruadh"
-
Red
Hugh
O Donnell
the English appointed
1st Earl of Tir Connell
- Tyrconnell,
by negotiation and war.
The
Book of Kells
"The Most Beautiful Book in
the World" was now in the custody of
Gerald Plunkett
aka
Pluinceid who acted as a harbour master in
Dublin
in mid - east
Leinster,
1569
AD The
Catholic Lords
in the north of
England
were also
crushed after a
rebellion there against the
religious oppression occurring also in
England by the
Earl of Sussex
but rebellion still continued against the ethnic and religious oppression of Elizabeth 1st until
1574 AD in Ireland.
Turlough O Brian
the Irish Catholic
Bishop
of
Killaloe
in
Co. Clare in north - west
Munster,
died, and the
English
appointed a son of
Mac
O Brian of
Ara to the post who became the
1st
Church of England - Ireland
Episcopalian Bishop in
West
Thomond - West
Munster.
The
Anglo - Irish,
originally Anglo - Norman
and Old English
families, and the
Irish
Family Septs were now
mostly
intermarried throughout Ireland especially in
Thomond - Northern Munster.
The
English Queen,
Elizabeth
1st
ordered
Sir
Humphrey Gilbert, who was the older half - brother of the
26 year
old Sir
Walter Raleigh who was
with him at the time, to completely bring the
Ulster
Province under the control of
England and she was to reward Sir Walter Raleigh
with
200,000 acres
of the land of the
Ulster
Irish Septs, which he lost in a card
game overnight.
His half - brother, Sir Humphrey Gilbert
cut off the heads of the
Irish
and placed them
along the road sides to the
disgust of
Sir
James Croffs the Tudor Deputy
who attacked him for
his savagery to
ploughmen, babes in
cradles and the decrepit aged
but
Elizabeth 1st
gave him the reward of a knighthood. She then appointed
Sir Henry Sidney as
the
English President in
the
Munster
Province to take it also over by
military force together with
Leinster
Province and
Connacht
Province by
murder and
massacre
so
he attacked the towns of
Cork, Kinsale, Youghal
and
Kilmallock and the people in
Munster
eventually
broke out in revolt against his continuing oppression. These
particular towns were
defended by the Irish Septs under
"The Mac Carthy
Mor"
the
Irish
Lord of Muskerry, the
1st English Earl of Clan Carty
and
the English Baron of Blarney, who
rebuilt the
Blarney Castle,
together with the aid of
Fitz Maurice
Fitz Gerald
who was a cousin to
Gerald Fitz Gerald the
14th Earl of Desmond
who
Elizabeth 1st had put
in the Tower of London. This was the the
1st Desmond
Revolt
after Elizabeth
1st had previously imprisoned
Gerald Fitz Gerald the
14th
Earl of Desmond
for failure to suppress the
Gaelic
way of life and pay England
its
dues and his cousin,
Sir
James Fitzmaurice Fitz Gerald
stepped in to
take his place as the leader of the
Irish
defence
with kerns and
galloglasses
but although he was
to be
defeated he was able to repeatedly escape her clutches.
Elizabeth 1st then had an
English Act passed
making
all the land in
Ireland into
English Shire Land whereby the Irish
Chiefs lost all the
agreements previously made with their previous English oppressors. The
Brehon Law
of Ireland was
abolished
again, and the
Irish
under
English Law became
"Irish Rebels"
if
they resisted the
English
Legislation,
which removed the
2,000 years of Celtic
possession of Ireland
by the Irish Septs. This English Legislation was to be enforced
by their
torturers and
hangmen
backed up by
English Militia
and all of the Irish Families,
whether they were sick or old, women or children, scholars or bards, were now branded as "Irish Rebels." All
Irish
Books and
Genealogies
were burnt,
"So
that no Irishman was ever to know his Grandfather."
This particular aspect of the English oppression was to be instigated
for
70 years as one piece of
Irish land after another was
taken from those who defended their homes and was even continued with abandon throughout the
cold Irish Winters. All of the
Cistercian
monks were
driven out
of
Ireland
with
such cruelty and ferocity that they would not return until 1832 AD, which was over
260 years later on.
Munster Province
was totally destroyed and the
English
continued to exchange
sacks full of
Irish
heads for pardons as the undergrowth grew thicker and the
Irish and
Anglo - Irish people slowly
starved to death.
Sir
Edmund Fitz Gerald
also
attacked
Wexford in
Co. Wexford
in the south - east of the
Leinster Province
as a
non - conformist.
1570 AD
James
Fitz Maurice Fitz Gerald now the leader of the
Desmonds
challenged
Sir John Perrot the
new English appointed President in the
Munster Province,
who was a half - illegitimate brother of
Elizabeth 1st, to
meet him in single combat at
Emly in
Co. Tipperary
in the north - east
of
Munster
but after
being convinced that
there was no one else to succeed him to lead the Rebellion he changed his mind.
The territory of
Shane
O Niall
the Proud that actually belonged to the
combined
Northern
Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain
Septs were now also
confiscated
in the
Ulster
Province
but
despite this the removal of the Irish Septs and the English Plantation
there in the north - east was to
fail.
February:
Sir Edward Fitton
the English
appointed President
in
the
Connacht Province declared that an
English Assizes was to be held at
Ennis in
Co. Clare
in north - west
Munster
and
Teague
O Brien,
the son of
Murrough
"The Tannist" who had been the
1st appointed English Baron of Inchiquin was appointed the
1st
English Sheriff of
Co. Clare.
He arranged for the Assizes to
be held in the Franciscan monastery
and
Conor
O Brien
the English
3rd Earl of Thomond
and son of
Donough "The Fat"
O Brien
did not turn up. On the 3rd
day
Sir
Edward Fitton
endeavouring to
assert his English authority over the Irish
Septs sent a detachment of Calvary
to bring him in from
Clare Castle, which was
only 2 miles away. Once the
Calvary were inside his
stronghold
Conor took them prisoner and
also killed those outside and
Sir
Edward Fitton
fearing for his own life
then
left for
the safety of the English stronghold in the city of
Galway
in Co. Galway in
Southern
Connacht
with
Conor in pursuit where he made it to
the safety of
Gort Castle instead..A large English
Army was then sent against
Connor O Brien
led by his kinsman,
Butler
the
English
Earl of Ormonde into
West
Thomond to bring him to submission and their personal relationship allowed them to
discuss the problem and it was decided that
it would be better for
Conor to go
into exile to
France and all the Irish
territory in
Co. Clare under his control was then
confiscated
also to the
English Crown.
The notorious
Myler Magrath,
who had
conformed to suite
his own personal position in life was
appointed the
1st
Church of England - Ireland
Episcopalian Bishop of
Clogher
in
Co. Tyrone
where the Princes of Ergalia
had, had their
fortress in ancient times in
Central Ulster.
-
Elizabeth
1st also
gave
Shrule Castle
in
Co. Mayo
in mid - western
Connacht
to
Mac William - Burke the
English Earl of Clanricarde after
a battle there and
Captain
Brown
built a castle near
Nendrum
on
Mahee Island off
of
Co. Down
in south - east
Ulster
to resist the Irish Septs there.
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