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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Above : Painting Of King Charles I
In December, 1644, the King intimated to Ormond that the Earl of Glamorgan was coming to Ireland, ” to further the peace there.” Glamorgan was probably selected for this mission as likely, being a zealous Catholic, to be specially acceptable to the Confederates. He crossed to Ireland the following July and, on landing, at once proceeded to Kilkenny, where he exhibited privately to the Council an authorisation from King Charles, given under his signet, to negotiate and conclude a treaty. This authorisation was most explicit.
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Above : Belfast Castle
Meanwhile the negotiations were being carried on between Ormond and the Confederates. The former had been directed by the King to agree to a cessation of hostilities for a year, during which arrangements for a permanent peace might be made. The old Irish, like the Parliamentarians, though, of course, for widely different reasons, disapproved of the proposed cessation, and indeed held that an attempt to treat with any English party at this juncture was a mistake, ff they continued to press their conquests, they would be in a position to force good terms from whichever side should be victorious in England ; whereas the cessation would give their enemies time to sow dissensions amongst them; moreover, the loss of 10,000 men whom they were to send to the King’s aid would seriously diminish their military power, and consequently their chances of a successful resistance, should the negotiations end unsatisfactorily, or the terms granted them not be observed. The Anglo-Irish party, however, were the stronger in the Supreme Council and also apparently in the General Assembly.
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
Above : Picture Of Owen Roe O’Neill
The period of Irish History on which we are now entering is one extremely difficult to treat within narrow limits. It is, as has been well said by Carlyle, both confused and confusing. ” There ara Parties on the back of Parties, at war with the world and with each other.
There are Catholics of the Pale, demanding freedom of religion. . . . There are old Irish Catholics, under the Pope’s nuncio . . . and Owen Roe O’Neill, demanding, not religious freedom alone, but what we now call ‘ Repeal of the Union.’ Then there are Ormond Royalists of the Episcopalian and mixed creeds, strong for King without Covenant; Ulster and other Presbyterians, strong for King and Covenant ; lastly, Michael Jones and the Commonwealth of England, who want neither King nor Covenant.” In order to convey a clear idea of the course of events, it will be necessary to confine ourselves to the relation only of those which exercised important influence and modified the situation as a whole.
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Success of the Insurrection: Kilkenny Draws Up a Scheme of Government
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
Above : Portrait Of King Charles I, King At The Time
A Supreme Council of the Confederated Catholics of Ireland was elected, consisting of twenty-five members. Before this Council all matters of importance, civil or military, were to be brought. Under the Supreme Council were Provincial Councils, to which each county in the province should send representatives, and under these, County Councils.
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