The key date for so much of the revolutions and bloody wars in Ireland can be traced back to the Protestant Reformation in 1517, and more importantly the Vatican's counter-reformation that started in 1543 through the Council of Trent.

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The following is a summary of Irish secret societies, their affiliations and objectives from the 16th century:

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The Defenders - Founded in 1562 by Roger Moore on behalf of Jesuit priests with the intention of using Ireland "as a pawn in the game of world politics". This society also served to protect fugitive priests on the run for their subversive activities across Europe as well as within Ireland.

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While we were sold the history that the Battle of the Boyne was purely Catholicism vs Protestantism, or reformation vs counter-reformation, this story doesn't make sense when you examine the deeper beliefs of the Catholic House of Stuart who ruled the British throne and the belief system of King William of Orange. Both King James II from the Catholic Royal House of Stuart, and King William III from the Protestant House of Orange were both initiates of the Order of the Temple, i.e. the Knights Templar. I will only briefly mention here that the Templars are and always have been Satanists. 

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The most significant outcome of the Battle of the Boyne was the merger of the British and Dutch East India Companies. The membership, but especially the leadership of the East India Company today has morphed into a global empire hiding behind fronts like HSBC bank. HSBC of course is laundering the proceeds of a drug running empire above the rule of law. The aristocracy of Europe all have a family member who belongs to the apex of this system known as the Committee of 300. They all belong to the Order of St John of Jerusalem, a Vatican aristocratic Knighthood. For more in depth analysis on this story see The Committee of 300 page.

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The loss of the Battle of the Boyne followed by later defeats of Irish revolutionaries in the 18th century led many Irish revolutionaries to join Spanish and French military adventures connected to counter-reformation agendas. These conflicts subsumed Irish revolutionary forces in a wider European agenda intimately connected to counter-reformation agendas controlled by the Papacy and implemented by the Jesuit Order.

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Following numerous Acts in the 16th and 17th centuries which became known as the Penal Laws, Irish nationalism became intimately intertwined with Roman Catholicism. So much in fact that the Catholic Church became a State within the Irish State.

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An invasion of Carrickfergus in 1760 by French warships saw the emergence of Volunteer movements spring up across Ulster but primarily around the Belfast area. They organised quickly as a result of the Militia Act of 1715 which had trained and armed protestant settlers due to the inevitable backlash from native Irish Catholics who had been evicted from their lands during the Ulster Plantation. Unlike the movement that grew out of the Militia Act of 1715 this movement claimed independence from government and Royal influence. This movement was inspired by the French and American revolutions at the time and split the loyalty of the Protestant settlers between the ideals of Republican forms of government and loyalty to the Crown on the other side. This led to the rise of the first Volunteer movement in Belfast in June 1778 that was in part a "masonic initiative".

 

An older movement called The Belfast Society had formed the nucleus of the United Irishmen movement in Belfast and laid the groundwork for it. Two of its most noteable leaders were a Reverend Fitzpatrick who shared descendancy with ‘the Empress Eugenie of France, the bride of Louis Napoleon’. The other was Dr Victor Ferguson, who is a direct ancestor of Sarah Ferguson, the former Duchess of York. Also in Belfast there was the Green Company and the Blue Company coming under the broader United Irishmen movement. The Green Company was led by a man named John Brown, the Worshipful Master of the Orange Lodge who was said to be the wealthiest man in Belfast at the time. In Dublin the movement came under the leadership of James Caulfied, the 1st Earl of Charlemont. Caulfield was an initiate of the Mystery Schools and all one has to do to see it is visit Marino Casino in Dublin to see the Egyptian style playground he built for his aristocratic friends. Caulfield was also very close with Pope Benedict XIV. 

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By 1784-85 William Drennan, one of the founder of the United Irishmen was to outline the Volunteer hierarchy’s strategy of ‘a secret inner circle of dedicated radical reformers, within the Volunteer movement and directing its politics, six years before the United Irish Society was formed’. This strategy was to follow the same template of the subversive Illuminist / Masonic networks fomenting revolution across multiple nations in Europe. The Dublin branch of the United Irishmen arose largely out of a Catholic Committee made up of ‘Catholic aristocracy and clergy’ that had formed in 1760.

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In 1791, the Society of United Irishmen was formed with the coming together of all the volunteer movements across Ireland. The two men who would go down in history as the figures who launched the United Irishmen movement in 1791 were Theobald Wolfe Tone and Napper Tandy, ‘both of whom were high in rank in the Masonic Lodges’. On May 21st 1791, William Drennan had outlined his plan for a quasi masonic secret society within the Volunteers. In the North the Volunteers were organised through the Masonic Lodges while in Dublin the movement held its meetings in the Grand Lodge of Freemasons, which two centuries earlier had been a Jesuit Church. The movement would later absorb the older Jesuit founded secret society called The Defenders. 

 

By 1800 Ireland was under the Act of Union which combined the Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland. A leader within the United Irishmen's Catholic Committee in Dublin would go on to spearhead Catholic Ireland's emancipation after the dissolution of the group. This man was of course another freemason called Daniel O' Connell. Following the banishment of the United Irishmen multiple other groups soon organised post 1805. They were likely all one and the same group but went under different names such as:  

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• The Ribbon Society

• The Threshers

• The Carders

• The Molly Maguire's

• Rockites

• Caravats

• Shanavests

• Paudeen Gars men etc.

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Spooked by the rise of Irish revolutionary nationalism in Northern Ireland, the masonic Protestant contingent went on to form the Orange Order in 1795. The Orange Order itself was from its inception a freemasonic enterprise. What stands out like a neon light in the darkness is the fact that the Catholic Stuart family through King James I formed the basis of the masonic movement in England. In the Mystery Schools page you will learn that at the highest levels all these masonic groups are all one and the same. They are the adepts and we are the cattle.