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John Fitzgibbon, 1st Earl of Clare
John Fitzgibbon, first Earl of Clare ( 1748- 1802) was known by the tennants of his Mountshannon estate as " Black Jack" Fitzgibbon. He was created Earl of Clare in 1795. In 1802 he was made a Baron in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Lord Clare was Lord Chancellor of Ireland and a dedicated opponent of Catholic emancipation.He is known to have said that" the Irish will be as tame a mutilated cat" once he had dealt with them. At his funeral in Dublin the population honoured him by throwing dead cats at his coffin.
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