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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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5:47

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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53:34

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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21st of January 1570 JOHN O’LOCHRAN, EDUMND...

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2025/01/20

(From Ward’s Catalogue)IN 1570 a certain Englishman named John Britton, or Brereton, accompanied by a body of soldiers,seized Brothers John O’Locran, Edmund Fitzsimon, and the Donogh O’Roarke, priests, in the convent of Down,[1] and after putting them to the torture repeatedly, hanged them near the place commonly called St. John’s Well, the spot where the angels appeared to St. Patrick.[2]He hanged two more in the garden of the convent from a tree, though he had received a large sum of money ...

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2:29

20th of January 1606. BERNARD O’KEAROLAN.

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2025/01/19

[1] (From Bruodin’s Propugnaculum, p. 472)HE was a Leinster priest, of noble family. The heretics accused him of having administered the sacraments according to the Roman rite, and without further process of law he was hanged and quartered on January 20th, 1606.F. Holywood, S.J., in a letter dated May 6th, of the same year, gives some further details concerning him:On Good Friday, the Marshal hanged by martial law a good priest named Bernard Kearolan, and this was done against the l...

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15th of January 1607. NEAL O’BOYLE, O.S.F.

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2025/01/14

(From Bruodin’s Propugnaculum p. 499)HE was descended from a noble family in Ulster, and adorned the Order of St. Francis for many years by his strict observance of the rule and holiness of life. At last he was seized by the heretics in the county of Tyrone, scourged with whips, and hanged, in hatred of the Catholic faith, and in this way he obtained the crown of martyrdom, January 15th, 1607.See also Rothe, Molanus, Ward, wadding, Porter, and Hueber. Please pray for final persevera...

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1594

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2025/01/10

1594. ANDREW STRICH(From Rothe’s Analecta, p. 387)HE was a Limerick priest. He studied the sacred sciences in Paris, and then returned to Ireland to labour for the salvation of souls, and discharged that duty with great zeal for many years. At length he was seized by the heretics, taken to Dublin, and thrown into prison. He ended his life happily therein, about the year mentioned above.Bruodin says he was imprisoned in Dublin Castle in 1594, with George Power and Bernard Moriar...

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PATRICK O’DYRY 6th of Janury 1618.

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2025/01/07

HE was a native of Ulster, and a priest, and gained a victory at Derry of St Columkille,[1]1 as he would not obey the iniquitous laws of Elizabeth and James. He overcame very cruel tortures, and preferred the ignominious death of the scaffold and the cutting of his body into four parts, to abandoning the way of truth. He died, venerable by reason of his age and virtues, January 6th, 1618, and, as we may well hope, enjoys a crown of glory with the Saints.See also Copinger and O’Sulle...

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Martyred 1st of January 1579, TADHG O’DALY, O.S.F.

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2024/12/31

(From Holing’s Compendium[1] and Bruodin’s Propugnaculum, p. 437)BROTHER TADHG O’DALY, a native of Kinvarra, and a monk of the Order of St. Francis, was seized by the heretics in the monastery of Askeaton, because he wore the habit of his Order and made open profession of the Catholic faith. He was led, as if he were a robber or a traitor, to Limerick, sixteen miles off.There he was stripped of his habit and cast into prison by order of Drury, the President of the province.[2]After nine ...

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14:27

22 of August, 1578, PATRICK O’HELY, BISHOP OF MAYO,...

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2024/08/21

(From Bouchier’s Hist. De Martyrio FE Ordinis S.F.)In 1576 he was appointed Bishop of Mayo. 1With Con O’Rourke OSF, he landed at Dingle, and immediately recognised. They were taken to Drury, President of Munster. 2 O’Hely replied for both. ‘By God’s grace we are both priests and religious of the Order of St. Francis. Moreover, I am the Bishop of Mayo, having been appointed to that office and consecrated by the Supreme Head of the Church on earth, Gregory XIII., and I have been sent ...

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1606. EUGENE O’GALLAGHER AND BERNARD O’TREVIR, O.CIST.

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2024/08/19

(From Hartry’s Synopsis, p. 259IN the Abbey of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Assaroe1 in the Co. Donegal, the Abbot, Eugene O’Gallagher and Bernard O’Trevir, his Prior, and the other monks to the number of thirty, lived according to their rule, undisturbed from the first erection of the abbey till some years after the suppression of nearly all the other monasteries,2 while the power of O’Neill and O’Donnell lasted. But when they fled across the sea the monks too were forced to fly, and when...

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13th August? 1599 JAMES DOWDALL

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2024/08/17

(From Bruodin’s Propugnaculum, p. 467)HE was a Drogheda merchant, & when returning from France to Ireland he was driven by contrary winds into a harbour in the south of England. The Mayor questioned him about the spiritual supremacy of Elizabeth. Dowdall answered, as a Catholic should, that he recognized no other as Head of the Church than the Roman Pontiff. Because he had spoken thus, his merchandise was confiscated, and he was taken to Exeter, his hands bound behind his b...

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15th August 1642. GEORGE HALLEY, O.D.C

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2024/08/17

GEORGE HALLEY, in religion Brother Angelus of St. Joseph, was born in Herefordshire, in England, of Catholic parents, by whom he was entrusted for his education to the care of a Carmelite missionary. In the year 1640 he came to Ireland to join the Carmelite Order, being then in the 18th year of his age.As a happy omen of his future destinies, he received the sacred habit of Our Lady on the 5th of May, the feast of St. Angelus, the Carmelite Martyr.Having completed the noviciate and prono...

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15th August 1585 (?) FORTY CISTERCIANS OF ST. MARY’S,...

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2024/08/17

(From Bruodin’s Propugnaculum, p. 450)THERE was formerly in the diocese of Limerick a celebrated monastery of the holy Order of Citeaux, situated on the river Maigue,1 from which the monastery took its name. It was founded in a most generous way by Donald O’Brien formerly Prince, or as other say, King of Limerick.2Here a large community of monks, under the gentle rule of the Mellifluous Doctor, Bernard, employed themselves profitably night and day praising God, till Henry VIII., King of ...

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10th August 1580. TADHG DONALD AND JOHN HANLY, O.S.F.

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2024/08/14

(From Ward’s Catalogue)F. TADHG DONALD, of the convent of Bantry1, a famous preacher, and his companion2, were seized by English soldiers near the same monastery. They were tied together with their girdles, and thrown into the sea from a high rock. Bruodin says they were put to death on the 10th of August.Notes:The convent of Bantry was ‘founded by Dermot O’Sullevan, about 1460, on the water’s edge, a mile west of the town. Nothing remains of it now.Bruodin says the name of Fr Donal...

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6th August DONOUGH AND JOHN OLVIN,1 O.P.

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2024/08/14

(From De Burgo’s Hib. Dom., p.559)AMONG our Irish martyrs assuredly these may well claim the first place. They are spoken of at length in the work bearing the title Palma Fidel Ordinis Prœdicatorum composed by the Rev. Father B. Peter Malphæus, OP., prior of Brussels ; viz:’Donough, alias William, Olvin, prior of the convent of Derry in Ulster2 : he was hanged, with many secular priests, in the square of the said city, and quartered, by the English heretics in the year 1608.3The brother ...

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4:19

12th July 1617, THOMAS FITZGERALD, O.S.F.

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2024/07/10

(From Bruodin’s Propugnaculum, p.499)HE was descended from the very ancient family of the Earls of Desmond.1From his very childhood he was so virtuous that he was considered a saint.When he was enrolled in the Seraphic Order, not only did he strengthen himself by vows in the virtues which he practised in the secular state, but he added others to them. He completed his studies in Spain, and in 1609 he taught theology in the College of St. Anthony of Padua at Louvain.2Filled with zeal for ...

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6th July 1642. THOMAS AQUINAS OF JESUS, O.D.C.

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2024/07/04

(From F. Eusebius’ Enchiridion, p.202)FR THOMAS AQUINAS was captured, and cast into prison. He meditated on the words of the Apostle ‘I am apprehended by the Lord.”1He confessed to a priest, celebrated Mass daily, fortifying himself. He devoted the night to mental and vocal prayer; fasted and chastised his body. He besought the Blessed Mother and all the saints to succour him.On the 6th of July, a messenger from the town Governor2 told him that he was to be hanged within an hour.&nb...

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12:28

4th July 1594: 1594.VENERABLE JOHN CORNELIUS (alias...

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2024/07/03

(From Challoner’s Memoirs,3 3.168)J CORNELIUS, born at Bodmin,4 in Cornwall of Irish parents; was sent to Oxford by John Arundel. Cornelius left Oxford, went to Rheims (the English college), and was received by Dr. Allen,5 first president of the seminary. He was sent to finish his studies in the English college of Rome. Here he was made priest, and sent on the English mission, where he worked for 10 years. He was captured in the house6 of John Arundel's widow April, 1594, ...

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1st July 1581: MATTHEW LAMPORT, PP.

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2024/06/30

HE was a priest, and had charge of a parish in the neighbourhood of Dublin. The heretics took him prisoner, and sent him to the city. He was put to death rather from hatred to the Catholic religion, which he upheld with great zeal, than for the reason alleged against him, namely, that he had frequently given hospitality to the priest F. Rochford.1He was hanged and quartered, and in this way died gloriously July l, 1581.For an account of F. Rochford, see Hogan’s Distinguished Irishme...

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4:45

Martyred 28th June 1593. _ EDMUND MAGAURAN,...

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2024/06/28

(From O’Sullevan’s Hist. Cath. Hib., p.158)OF his early life we know nothing. In 1581 he was appointed to the see of Ardagh. In 1587 he was transferred to the primatial see of Armagh.[1] Six years after we find him in Ireland, having come from Spain in the vessel of James Fleming, a Drogheda merchant. He was commissioned by Pope Clement VIII. To exhort the Irish people to persevere steadily in the faith, and, if necessary, to shed their blood in defence of their religion;a...

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