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Updated: June 18, 2025
He is a big man in his way, and I was rather surprised when he buttonholed me after the ladies had left the room. I am not a big man in any way. "Do you happen to know a man called Gorman?" he asked. "Yes," I said, "Michael Gorman. I've met him. In fact, I know him pretty well." "Nationalist M.P.?" "Sits for Upper Offaly," I said. "Can't blame him for that.
"Alternately the guest of his aunts, married to the daughter of the chief of Offaly and Donegal, the sympathy everywhere felt for him lead to a confederacy between the northern and southern chieftains, which had long been felt wanting, and never could be accomplished.
Would he himself, Michael Gorman, M.P. for Upper Offaly, incur some awful penalty if he did not persuade Donovan to sell, if he did his best he certainly meant to do his best to prevent a marriage between Miss Donovan and King Konrad Karl? He chuckled with delight at the prospect and was more than ever glad that he had promised to go to Salissa. The voyage turned out to be a very agreeable one.
It was during the reign of Mary that the plan of the English Plantations was first put into force by the removal of the native Irish from large portions of Leix and Offaly to make room for English settlers.
So long as the Irish in the Leinster districts were active it was little use for him to undertake dangerous expeditions towards the more remote districts, and for this reason he turned his attention to O'Connor of Offaly. Before many months elapsed he forced the MacMurroughs, the Kavanaghs, the O'Moores, the O'Carrolls, MacGillapatrick of Ossory, and O'Connor to sue humbly for peace.
Although the religious struggle was thus for a time postponed, the other vital Irish point the possession of the land now began to be pressed with new vigour. Fercal, Leix, and Offaly, belonging to the fierce tribes of the O'Moores, O'Dempseys, O'Connors, and O'Carrols, lay upon the Kildare frontier of the Pale, and had long been a standing menace to their more peaceful neighbours.
By an Act passed in their reign the lands occupied by the O'Moores, O'Connors and O'Dempseys were confiscated and formed into the King's and Queen's counties, Leix and Offaly being renamed "Philipstown" and "Maryborough"; and a "Plantation" of English settlers was established. And here it is well to pause for a moment and consider these confiscations, about which so much has been written.
They renounced the jurisdiction of the Pope, agreed to hold their lands from the king, and to abandon all claims to tribute or black rent from their neighbours of the Pale. Brian O'Connor was created Baron of Offaly.
The North is as far out of frame as it was before, for the Scots beareth as great rule as they do wish, not only in such lands as they did lately usurp, but also in Clandeboy. The O'Moores and O'Connors have destroyed and burned Leix and Offaly saving certain forts." On the death of Queen Mary in November 1558, her sister Elizabeth succeeded to the English throne.
"You can command the gratitude of the Cabinet," said Sir Bartholomew, "and anything they can do for you an O.B.E., now, or even a knighthood " "No thank you," said Gorman, "but if you could see your way to starting a few munition works in Upper Offaly, my constituency, you know.
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