Irish Catholic Martyrs () were 24

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men and women who have been

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for dying for their

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faith between 1537 and 1681 in

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. The canonisation of

Oliver Plunkett Oliver Plunkett (or Oliver Plunket) ( ga, Oilibhéar Pluincéid), (1 November 1625 – 1 July 1681) was the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland who was the last victim of the Popish Plot. He was beatified in 1920 an ...

in 1975 brought an awareness of the others who died for the Catholic faith in the 16th and 17th centuries. On 22 September 1992

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proclaimed a representative group from Ireland as martyrs and beatified them.

Individuals formally recognized

Canonized

12 October 1975 by

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. *

, Archbishop of Armagh, 1 July 1681 at

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, London; beatified 1920

Beatified

15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI. * John Carey (alias Terence Carey) and Patrick Salmon, laymen, 4 July 1594 at Dorchester, England * John Cornelius, Jesuit priest, 4 July 1594 at Dorchester, England * John Roche, layman, 30 August 1588 at

, England 22 November 1987 by

. * Charles Mahoney (alias Meehan), Franciscan, 21 August 1679,

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27 September 1992 by Pope John Paul II. * Patrick O'Hely, Franciscan Bishop of Mayo, 31 August 1579 * Conn O'Rourke, Franciscan priest, 31 August 1579 *

Wexford Martyrs The Wexford Martyrs were Matthew Lambert, Robert Myler, Edward Cheevers, Patrick Cavanagh ( Irish: Pádraigh Caomhánach), John O'Lahy, and another martyr whose name is unknown. In 1581, they were found guilty of treason for aiding in the escape ...

, 5 July 1581: Matthew Lambert, Robert Myler, Edward Cheevers, Patrick Cavanagh (Irish: Pádraigh Caomhánach), John O'Lahy, and one other unknown individual *

Margaret Ball Margaret Ball (1515–1584) was a prominent member of 16th-century Irish society, who, despite being the widow of a Lord Mayor of Dublin, was arrested for her adherence to the Catholic faith and died of deprivation in the dungeons of Dublin Cas ...

, 1584, Dublin * Dermot O'Hurley, Archbishop of Cashel, 20 June 1584 *

Muiris Mac Ionrachtaigh Muiris Mac Ionrachtaigh, anglicised as Maurice MacKenraghty (executed 30 April 1585, Clonmel, County Tipperary) was an Irish Roman Catholic priest and one of the Irish Catholic Martyrs. He was beatified in 1992. Life Although the exact date of ...

(Maurice MacKenraghty), Chaplain to the Rebel Earl of Desmond, executed at Clonmel, during the

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, 1585 *

Dominic Collins Dominic Collins (; 1566 – 31 October 1602) was an Irish Jesuit lay brother, an ex-soldier, who died for his Catholic faith. He was beatified as a martyr by Pope John Paul II on 27 September 1992. Life Collins was born in 1566 of a promine ...

, Jesuit

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executed without trial at

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, 31 October 1602 * Concobhar Ó Duibheannaigh (Conor O'Devany), Franciscan Bishop of Down & Connor, 11 February 1612 * Patrick O'Loughran, priest from County Tyrone, 11 February 1612 * Francis Taylor, former

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, 1621 * Peter O'Higgins O.P., Prior of Naas, 23 March 1642 * Terence O'Brien O.P., Bishop of Emly, 31 October 1651 * John Kearney, Franciscan Prior of Cashel, 1653 *

William Tirry William Tirry OSA (1609 – 12 May 1654) was an Irish Roman Catholic priest of the Order of Saint Augustine. He suffered martyrdom in Clonmel in the context of the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. Pope John Paul II beatified him in 1992. Lif ...

, Augustinian priest from Cork, 12 May 1654

Other martyrs awaiting beatification

Lives of Irish Martyrs and Confessors (1880) (14594645478)

Edmund Daniel, S.J., 25 October 1572 in Cork * Teige O'Daly, O.F.M., about March 1578 in Limerick * Donal O'Neylan, O.F.M., 28 March 1580 in Youghal, Cork * Gelasius Ó Cuileanáin (born 1554), Cistercian Abbot of Boyle, 21 November 1580 in Dublin * Eoin O'Mulkern, O. Praem, 21 November 1580 in Dublin * David and John Sutton, laymen, 13 November 1581 in Dublin * Maurice, Thomas, and Christopher Eustace, laymen, 13 November 1581 in Dublin * William Wogan, Robert Scurlock and Robert Fitzgerald, laymen, 13 November 1581 in Dublin * Felim O'Hara, O.F.M., 1 May 1582 in Moyne, Cork * Walter Eustace, layman, 14 June 1583 in Dublin * Richard Creagh (born 1523), Archbishop of Armagh, late 1586 in London, England * Brian O'Carolan, priest, 24 March 1606 near Trim, Meath * John Burke, layman, 20 December 1606 in Limerick * Donough MacCready, priest, before 05 August 1608 in Coleraine, Northern Ireland * George Halley (born 1622), O.C.D., 15 August 1642 in Siddan, Meath * Theobald and Edward Stapleton, priests, 13 September 1647 in Cashel, Tipperary * Thomas Morissey, priest, 13 September 1647 in Cashel, Tipperary * Richard Barry, O.P., 13 September 1647 in Cashel, Tipperary * Richard Butler and James Saul, O.F.M., 13 September 1647 in Cashel, Tipperary * William Boyton, S.J., 13 September 1647 in Cashel, Tipperary * Elizabeth Kearney (mother of Blessed John Kearney) and Margaret (surname unrecorded), laywomen, 13 September 1647 in Cashel, Tipperary * John Bathe, S.J. and Thomas Bathe, priest, 11 September 1649 in Drogheda, Louth * Peter Taafe, O.S.A.,11 September 1649 in Drogheda, Louth * Dominic Dillon and Richard Oveton, O.P., 11 September 1649 in Drogheda, Louth * Laurence and Bernard O'Ferrall, O.P., between February-March 1649 in Longford * Conor MacCarthy, priest, 5 June 1653 in Killarney, Kerry * Francis O'Sullivan, O.F.M., 23 June 1653 on Scarrrif Island, Kerry * Thaddeus Moriarty, O.P., 15 October 1653 in Killarney, Kerry * Donal Breen and James Murphy, priests, 14 April 1655 in Wexford * Luke Bergin, O.P., 14 April 1655 in Wexford * John Tobin (born 1620), O.F.M. Cap., 6 March 1656 in Waterford * James Dowdall (born 1626), O.F.M. Cap., 20 February 1710 in London, England

History

The persecution of Catholics in Ireland in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries came in waves, caused by a reaction to particular incidents or circumstances, with intervals of comparative respite in between.Barry, Patrick, "The Penal Laws", ''L'Osservatore Romano'', p.8, 30 November 1987
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Henry VIII

Religious persecution of Catholics in Ireland began under King Henry VIII (then Lord of Ireland) after his

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in 1533. The Irish Parliament adopted the

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, establishing the king's ecclesiastical supremacy. Some priests, bishops, and those who continued to pray for the pope were tortured and killed. The

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caused any act of allegiance to the pope to be considered treason. Many were imprisoned on this basis. In 1536, Charles Reynods was posthumously convicted of high treason for successfully persuading the Pope to excommunicate Henry VIII of England. In 1537, John Travers, the Chancellor of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, was executed under the Act of Supremacy.

Elizabeth I

Relations improved after the accession of the Catholic Queen Mary in 1553–58, and in the early years of the reign of her sister

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. After Mary's death in November 1558, Elizabeth's Parliament passed the Act of Supremacy of 1559, which re-established the Church of England's separation from the Catholic Church. Initially, Elizabeth adopted a moderate religious policy. The Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity (1559), the Prayer Book of 1559, and the Thirty-Nine Articles (1563) were all Protestant in doctrine, but preserved many traditionally Catholic ceremonies."The Reign of Elizabeth I"
by J.P. Sommerville, University of Wisconsin. In 1563 the

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issued a proclamation, by which all

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s, secular and regular, were forbidden to officiate, or even to reside in

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or in

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. Fines and penalties were strictly enforced for

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from the Anglican Sunday service; before long, torture and death were inflicted. Priests and religious were, as might be expected, the first victims. They were hunted into the Mass rocks in mountains and caves; and the parish churches and few monastic chapels which had escaped the rapacity of Henry VIII were also destroyed.Cusack, Margaret Anne, ''An Illustrated History of Ireland''
libraryireland.com; accessed 11 July 2015. During the early years of her reign no great pressure was put on Catholics to conform to the " Established Church" of the new regime, but the situation changed rapidly from about 1570 onwards, mainly as a result of

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's papal bull ''

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'' which "released lizabeth I'ssubjects from their allegiance to her". In Ireland the First Desmond Rebellion was launched in 1569, at almost the same time as the

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in England. The

were found guilty of

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for aiding in the escape of

James Eustace, 3rd Viscount Baltinglass James FitzEustace of Harristown, 3rd Viscount Baltinglass (1530–1585) James FitzEustace, the eldest son of Rowland Eustace, 2nd Viscount Baltinglass and Joan, daughter of James Butler, 8th Baron Dunboyne. He was born in 1530 and died in Spain ...

and refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy and declare

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to be the

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and Ireland.

Charles II

During this period, the English treatment of Catholics in Ireland was more lenient than usual, owing to the sympathy of the king, until the Popish Plot, a conspiracy theory concocted by

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, between 1678 and 1681 gripped the Kingdoms of England and Scotland in anti-Catholic hysteria. Those caught up in the false allegations included: * Peter Talbot, Archbishop of Dublin (died in prison, November 1680) *

, Archbishop of Armagh, executed at

1 July 1681 Slieve Gullion

As persecution of Catholics heated up in reaction to the Titus Oates plot, a priest named Father Mac Aidghalle was murdered while saying the

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at a Mass rock that still stands atop

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. The perpetrators were a band of redcoats under the command of a

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named Turner. Local

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leader Count

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is said in local

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to have avenged the murdered priest and in so doing to have sealed his own fate.

Investigations

Irish martyrs suffered over several reigns. There was a long delay in starting the investigations into the causes of the Irish martrys for fear of reprisals. Further complicating the investigation is that the records of these martyrs were destroyed, or not compiled, due to the danger of keeping such evidence. Details of their endurance in most cases have been lost."The Irish Martyrs", Irish Jesuits
sacredspace.ie; accessed 16 December 2015. The first general catalog is that of Father John Houling, S.J., compiled in Portugal between 1588 and 1599. It is styled a very brief abstract of certain persons whom it commemorates as sufferers for the Faith under Elizabeth. After

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in 1829, the cause for Oliver Plunkett was re-visited. As a result, a series of publications on the whole period of persecutions was made. The first to complete the process was Oliver Plunkett, Archbishop of Armagh, canonized in 1975 by Pope Paul VI. Plunkett was certainly targeted by the administration and unfairly tried.

Biographies

John Kearney, O.F.M.

John Kearney (1619-1653) was born in

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and joined the

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at the Kilkenny friary. After his novitiate, he went to Leuven in Belgium and was ordained in Brussels in 1642. Returned to Ireland, he taught in Cashel and Waterford, and was much admired for his preaching. In 1650 he became

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, County Tipperary. During the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, he was arrested by the New Model Army and hanged at Clonmel,

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. He lies buried in the chapter hall of the suppressed friary of Cashel.

Peter O'Higgins O.P.

Peter O'Higgins was born in Dublin around 1602 during the persecution under James I. He was educated secretly in Ireland and later in Spain. With the accession of Charles I in 1625, a limited tolerance obtained and Peter came back to Dublin and was sent to re-open the Dominican house in

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, supported by the Viceroy Strafford who was building Jigginstown nearby. The

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, a result of the plantations, evictions and persecutions (but not in County Kildare), brought with it years of conflict between

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vs Hiberno-Normans, Catholics vs Protestants; Puritans vs Anglicans. During this time Dr. William Pilsworth, Protestant Vicar of

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, was arrested by rebel soldiers and was about to be hanged, when Fr. Peter O'Higgins stepped forward. Dr. Pilsworth later wrote that when he was on the gallows, "a priest whom I never saw before, made a long speech on my behalf saying that this…was a bloody inhuman act that would…draw God's vengeance on them. Whereupon I was brought down and released." The

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moved on Naas in February 1642 and O'Higgins was arrested and turned over to Sir Charles Coote, Governor of Dublin. O'Higgins was offered his life if he would renounce his faith. He responded, "So here the condition on which I am granted my life. They want me to deny my religion. I spurn their offer. I die a Catholic and a Dominican priest. I forgive from my heart all who have conspired to bring about my death." Among the crowd at the foot of the scaffold was Dr. William Pilsworth who shouted out: "This man is innocent. This man is innocent. He saved my life." Dr. William Pilsworth was not wanting in courage, but his words fell on deaf ears. With the words "Deo Gratias" on his lips Peter O'Higgins died on 23 March 1642. The most likely reason for Prior Higgins' execution without trial was that on the previous day, 22 March, at a synod at

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chaired by Archbishop Hugh O'Reilly, the

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had pronounced the rebellion to be a "Holy and Just War". Higgins had been summarily executed as a result.

Legacy

Various churches have been dedicated to the martyrs, including: * Church of the Irish Martyrs, Ballyraine,

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*Church of the Irish Martyrs, Ballycane,

*Church of the Irish Martyrs, Cromwell, Otago, New Zealand. *Church of the Irish Martyrs, Mallee Border Parish,

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, Australia *Chapel of the Irish Martyrs, Pontificio Collegio Irlandese, Pontifical Irish College, Rome, Italy.

References

Sources

*''New Catholic Dictionary''
Irish Martyrs

External links

Catholicireland.net
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