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PODCAST

The Irish Martyrs Podcast

Manus Mac Meanmain

On the Catholic Martyrs of Ireland.A reading of Father Dennis Murphy"s book "Our Martyrs," on Ireland"s Catholic Martyrs.

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martyred 4th May MALACHY SHIELL, O.CIST., AND ANOTHER...

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2025/05/07

(From Hartry’s Synopsis, p. 278) The Rev. Fr. Br. Robert Shiel was born in lveagh, Co.Down. In his youth he was instructed in polite learning and piety. He was admitted to the Cistercian Order by the Very Rev. Lord Br. Patrick Barnwell,[1] Abbot, for his own monastery of Mellifont, and professed under the name of Malachy. His superior intrusted to Malachy the care of souls within the jurisdiction of the monastery of Newry, then without a pastor. This duty he discharged for 7 years...

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1st of May 1578, PHELIM O’HARA AND HENRY...

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2025/05/02

THE 1st was the son of the well-known John O’Hara, chief of his family and owner of large possessions[2] in the County of Sligo in Connaught. The territory of the O’Haras was Luigne, conterminous with the present diocese of Achonry, comprising Parts of counties Mayo, Roscommon and Sligo. He entered the Order of the Friars Minors in the 21st years of his age, and wished to be considered the lowest among the lay brothers in it. During the many years that he lived in religion, he was...

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May 1582.ENEAS PENNY

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2025/05/02

1582.ENEAS PENNY THIS priest was a native of Connaught. He was slain by the heretical English soldiers in his parish church of Killatra[1]l while celebrating the sacrifice of the Mass, May 1582. See also Copinger. [1] This name is not given in the list of towniands of the Ordnance Survey Copinger calls it Killagh. Please pray for final perseverance for all of us! May the martyrs of old inspire us all.

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28 April 1575 FERGALL WARD, O.S.F.

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2025/04/27

(From Bruodin’s Propugnaculum, p. 427) FERGALL WARD, a native of Tyrconnell,[1] a member of the Seraphic Order of St. Francis, was a very eloquent preacher and most observant of poverty. He had laboured zealously for three years in the vineyard of the Lord, and was then promoted to be Guardian of the convent of Armagh about the year 1575. At this time the plague of heresy, introduced by Elizabeth, was raging through-out Ulster. Ward opposed it as a skilful physician. Wherefore he ...

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24th April 1601. DONOUGH O’MOLLONY.

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2025/04/23

1601. DONOUGH O’MOLLONY. HE was born of a noble family, was a priest, and vicar of the diocese of Kilialoe. This brave soldier and truly apostolic pastor did not fear to expose his life to danger when the wild beasts were laying the vineyard waste, opposing the heretics by word and deed. He was seized by the heretical soldiers in a certain part of Ormond which he was visiting as pastor, his hands were tied behind his back as if he were a robber, and he was led on foot to Dublin, i...

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22nd April 1569 DANIEL O’DUILLIAN, O.S.F.

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2025/04/21

(From Mooney’s Provincia Hibernia Description) ABOUT the beginning of the year 1569, though there seems to be some doubt as to the precise date, a certain brother, Daniel O’Duillian, of the convent of Youghal,[1] (Founded by Maurice Fitzgerald, 2nd baron of Offaly, in 1232) overcame the persecutors very bravely. For when one Captain Dudal and his troops were torturing him, by order of Lord Arthur Grey[2], (who later served as the Viceroy, from 1580 to 1582.) first they took him to the ...

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13th April 1588 TADHG O’BOYLE, O.S.F.

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2025/04/11

(From Ward’s Catalogue.) HE was Guardian of the convent of Donegal,[1] and a celebrated preacher. When the English soldiers came there[2] he sent away the rest of the brethren to a place of security, intending to follow them later; but he was prevented by the soldiers. He strove to gain them over by kindness, but he could not escape. As he was going out of the gate of the monastery, the first soldier who met him ran him through with a sword, and pierced his head to the brain...

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Martyred 30 of March 1577. THOMAS COURSY

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2025/03/30

THOMAS COURSY, a native of Munster, was a most zealous priest. He resided at Kinsale. He was Vicar General, and in discharge of his office he used to visit the parish priests who were under this authority, and urge them to watch anxiously over the flocks committed to their care. When thus engaged, he fell into the hands of the emissaries of that wicked tyrant, Sir John Perrott,[1] an Englishman, then President of Munster. By his order he was hanged, and so gained the v...

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Martyred March 28th 1580 DANIEL O’NEILAN, O.S.F.

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2025/03/28

(From Bruodin’s Propugnaculum, p. 439) DANIEL ONEILAN, born in Thomond of a noble family, consecrated himself to God by vows in the Order of St. Francis in the year 1560, and he lived in it for twenty years, both in Ireland and Spain. During this time he made great progress both in virtue and in learning, so that he was the model of a good religious to all. Urged by zeal for the salvation of souls, he returned to his native country which was then ravaged by the fury of the heretic...

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Martyred 26th March, 1578. HUGH LACY, BISHOP OF LIMERICK

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2025/03/26

(Ibid., p. 432) HUGH LACY, born of a noble family in Munster, was a man skilled in sacred and profane learning, and a priest of blameless life and character, for which reason he was chosen Bishop of Limerick[1] while Henry VIII. was still obedient to the Church. When the King apostatized, he could not induce Hugh to join in his rebellion or to stain himself by subscribing to this supremacy. Wherefore not only did he lose the King’s favour, but he was deprived first of his revenues...

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Martyred March 24th 1642. PETER O’HIGGIN, O.P.

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2025/03/24

From O’DaIy’s Relatio,p. 335 HE was Prior of Naas,[1]. He was seized and brought before the Viceroy in Dublin, for teaching doctrine opposed to the Anglican creed. He was told he would be set free and rewarded if he would abandon the Catholic religion and enter the Protestant sect. The morning that he was to be led to the scaffold, a messenger was sent by the Viceroy, and these terms were again offered to him. But he answered. 'Today, I am about to be led to the scaffold; and everyone k...

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Martyred March 23rd Peter Higghin, O.P.[1]

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2025/03/24

(From De Burgo’s Hib. Dom., p. 561) HE was a member of the Dublin Community. When the war was begun by the Catholics for their faith and country,[2] he was seized by the heretics and cast into a prison, where he endured much from the hardships of the place and want of food. Yet no one made a charge against him, nay rather, many heretics by word of mouth and writing declared he was innocent of any crime. While in prison he made his confession three times to his prior, who by ...

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1586. MORROUGH O’BRIEN, BISHOP OF EMLY

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2025/03/17

(From Lynch’s De Prœsulibus Hib., ii. 495) HE belonged to a respectable family. His extensive knowledge of theology and Canon Law, as well as his great virtue, caused him to be much esteemed. On the 24th of January, 1567, he was appointed Bishop of Emly. He was one of those sent over in 1568 to the King of Spain and the Pope by the Earl of Desmond and his confederates in Munster, to implore their aid in saving this country and the Catholic religion from oppression. On ...

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EDMUND M’DONNELL, S.J.

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2025/03/16

(From Tanner’s Societas Jesus, &c., p. 7 and Bruodin’s Propugnaculum, p.428) Bruodin gives March 16th, 1575, as the date of his death. WHEN Elizabeth was striving, not merely by threats but by the infliction of the severest punishments and tortures on the faithful, and especially on priests and religious, to root out the Catholic faith, Christ’s Vicar on earth, Pope Gregory XIII., thought fit to send some members of the Society of Jesus into England and Ireland to succour the faith...

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1601. REDMOND O’GALLAGHER, BISHOP OF DERRY

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2025/03/15

(From Bruodifl’S propugnaculum, p. 467) HE was a native of Ulster and Bishop of Connor.[1] (This is a mistake. He was appointed Bishop of Killala in 1545 and transferred to Derry in 1569.) He was attacked at night in his own house by some English soldiers of the garrison of Lough Foyle, and with three other priests cruelly put to death. He was in his 9Oth year and in the 60th of his episcopate. A State Paper, dated July 28th, 1592, says: In Ulster is one Redmundus O’Gallaghe...

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1597. WALTER FERNAN

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2025/03/12

(From Bruodin’s Propugnaculum, p. 465) HE was a native of LeinSter, a priest, and a zealous preacher. He was taken by the heretics and sent to Dublin, where he obtained a glorious victory for Christ. He was thrown into prison by order of the chief judge, and iron chain was bound round his body, his hands and feet were tied to a beam, and he was forced to stand for forty hours without sleep. He was flogged, and salt and vinegar were rubbed into his wounds by the executioners. ...

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1642. EDMUND HORE AND JOHN CLANCY.

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2025/03/09

(From the Barberini Archives, Rome.) ON March 9th, 1642, the Most Rev. Dr. Comerford, Bishop of Waterford, wrote to a friend resident in Paris Last week, the President of Ulster, having received reinforcements, once more took the field, together with the Earl of Cork, the Earl of Barrymore, Lord Broghill, and Sir John Browne. Marching to Dungarvan and seizing on the Castle, they set fire to the town and put to death F. Edmund Hore and F. John Clancy, both priests, together with others o...

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1590. MATTHEW O’LEYNE. O.S.F.

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2025/03/09

(From Hueber’s MartyrolOgiUm, p. 644) WHEN the English soldiers rushed madly into the convent of Kilcrea,[1] on the river Bride, in Muskerry, they seized one of the brethren, Matthew O’Leyne, an aged priest, as he was striving to escape from them across the river, and cruelly pierced him through with their spears, March 6th, 1590. See also Wadding and Ward. [1] Founded by Cormac Laidher McCarthy, lord of Muskerry, in 1465. The castle of that branch of the McCarthys is clos...

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12th-13th February 1539 - ROBERT AND OTHER BRETHREN...

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2025/02/13

(From Lopez’ Noticias Hisforicas, p. 150) The convent of Adare was the first house of the Order in this country.[1] The church is now the catholic parochial Church. Some parts of the convent are still standing. It was founded in 1230 by Thomas FitzGerald, third son of the second Baron of Offaly,[2] at the suggestion of the Earl of March, a Scotch nobleman, who was a patron of the Order. The Minister[3] of this convent in 1539 was Brother Robert. It was at this time that the impious decr...

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1-2-1612: CORNELIUS O’DEVANY, BISHOP OF DOWN AND...

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2025/02/02

CORNELIUS O’DEVANY was born in 1533. As a teenager he entered the Franciscans. When he went to Rome his gifts attracted the notice of the Pope & on the 18th, April, 1582, he was appointed Bishop of Down and Connor. He was one of the bishops who in Clogher in 1587 met and promulgated the decrees of the Council of Trent. He was imprisoned in Dublin Castle. For 3 years he remained a prisoner. In November, 1590, he petitioned to be set free. He was set free.[2] Only a short time e...

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