Educated at Cambridge, a wealthy Protestant landowner and member of Parliament, he had little success in persuading the famine-stricken Irish to take up arms against England.

He was a Protestant landowner whose family originally left from Congleton, Cheshire.

The first was the destruction of the native ruling classes and their replacement with the Protestant Ascendancy, of British-origin (mostly English) Protestant landowners.

English policy became increasingly repressive in Ireland, importing Protestant landowners to oppress the locals who resisted conversion.

The Protestant Ascendancy, usually known simply as the Ascendancy, was a class of Protestant landowners and professionals that dominated political and social life in Ireland up to the early 20th century.

Without further evidence, FitzGibbon's role as a Protestant landowner in mainly Catholic Ireland is of little importance against his known dealings as Lord Chancellor.

It starts during the Irish War of Independence, when Protestant landowners caught in the battle between the IRA and the British army had their houses burned [2].

The first was the destruction of the native ruling classes and their replacement with the Protestant Ascendancy, of Protestant landowners originating from Britain, and most of them from England.

The destruction of their subsistence crop seemed the final blow after centuries of political repression and economic exploitation by Protestant landowners under the protection of the British.

During the time of his military and civil authority Sir James Cotter treated the Protestant landowners well, not allowing his troops to despoil their property or for acts of reprisal to occur.