Career
He was created Viscount Kenmare in the Peerage of Ireland on 20 May 1689, by King James II, after his deposition by the English Parliament, but while he still possessed his rights as King of Ireland. At the time James was presiding over the short-lived Patriot Parliament. A poem by Aogán Ó Rathaille mocked this vulgar person, compared to the Gaelic aristocrats whose place he attempted to supplant.
In translation by Frank O"Connor it says:.
