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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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6th April 1580 DANIEL HINRECHAN, PHILIP O’SEE,[1] AND...

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2026/04/05

THESE religious were natives of Kerry, and born of respectable Catholic parents. They were priests, and for more than thirty years had preached the word of God throughout different parts of Ireland, not without great profit to souls. When the rest of the brethren fled from the heretics who were coming to seize them, these could not accompany them, owing to old age and loss of sight; the youngest of them was over seventy years of age. They took refuge in church of their monastery in the ...

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Remembered 3rd April JOHN CORNELIUS, O.S.F. +1587

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2026/04/02

(From Ward’s Synopsis.) Comemorated on 3rd April, reported Date in 1580 when Nicholas Malby massacred the community of Monasteranenagh Cistercian Abbey. HE was ordained priest in the year 1581, and belonged to the convent of Askeaton. He was seized by ten English soldiers by order of Nicholas Malby.[1] These inflicted three or four great wounds on his head, and another soldier pierced him through with a sword. The martyr died, invoking the glorious name of Christ, in the ye...

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26th March 1578. HUGH LACY, BISHOP OF LIMERICK

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2026/03/26

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 and afterwards ...

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March 24th 1641or 1642, PETER O’HIGGIN, O.P.

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2026/03/24

(From O’DaIy’s Relatio, p. 335) HE was Prior of Naas,[1] and a famous preacher of the word of God. He was seized by the heretics and brought before the Viceroy of Ireland in Dublin, as teaching doctrine opposed to the Anglican creed and leading the people astray. For this he was cast into prison. But when nothing could be proved against him that would deserve capital punishment by the laws of the country, he was told he would be set free and amply rewarded if he would aban...

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1575 Edmund M’Donnell

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2026/03/19

Please pray for final perseverance for all of us! May the martyrs of old inspire us all.

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Saint Odhran, Ireland's First Christian Martyr

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2026/03/18

Please pray for final perseverance for all of us! May the martyrs of old inspire us all.

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March 17th, 1586. MORROUGH O’BRIEN, BISHOP OF EMLY

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2026/03/17

(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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March 16th, 1575, EDMUND M’DONNELL, S.J.

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2026/03/16

(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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115 STEPHEN PETTIT, O.P. [1]

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2026/03/13

(From the Acts of the General Chapter, OP., 1644) WHILST he was encouraging the Catholics in the faith, and in the midst of war and battles was looking to the welfare of their souls and discharging the office of confessor at the same time in a Praiseworthy manner, he was struck by a bullet, in a battle against the heretics, and so exchanged life for death. O’DaIy adds he was prior of Mullingar,[2] and that while he was engaged at Ballenacorra in hearing the confession of a soldier going...

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Repost for Lent 1594. ANDREW STRICH

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2026/03/12

(From Rothe’s Analecta, p. 387) Commemorate 10th January, date of appointment in 2013 of Bishop of Limerick Brendan Leahy 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 say...

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Repost for Lent JOHN O’DOWD, O.S.F.

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2026/03/11

(From Wadding’s Annales Minorum, xxi. 208) In our convent of Elphin[1], some English soldiers seized a certain priest of our Order and some other persons. They pressed a layman, who was one of their captives, to tell something of the plots which they said he had entered into with others against the Queen of England; but he protested he could tell nothing but the truth, and that there were no such plots. So they determined to hang him. He begged that he might first be allowed...

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Repost for Lent: 1578 DAVID HURLEY, DEAN OF EMLY.

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2026/03/10

(From Rothe’s Analecta, p.67) BECAUSE he defended the authority of the Church with great firmness, and asserted that the apostolic ceremonies should be retained and the novelties of the heretics rejected, he was frequently sought after by the emissaries of the Queen. At length he was seized and cast into prison. He died there. See also Sander, Bridgewater, and Molanus Please pray for final perseverance for all of us! May the martyrs of old inspire us all.

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Repost on anniversary of report of Martyrdom: 1642....

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2026/03/09

(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 ot...

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Repost for Lent 1609 - DONOUGH MACREDY,[1] O.S.F.

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2026/03/07

(From Molanus’ Idea, p.154) HE was a priest, and because he had spread the Catholic faith with all his might throughout every province of Ireland, then convulsed with war, he was seized through hatred of the faith, and torn to pieces by means of four wild horses, and so he ended his life, to be followed by a triumphant entrance into eternal bliss, in the year 1609. See also Rothe, Copinger, O’Sullevan, and Ward [1] Another of similar name will be found at p. 125, antea. Clearly they ar...

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Repost on anniversary 1590. MATTHEW O’LEYNE. O.S.F.

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2026/03/06

(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 close by. Please pray f...

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114 RAYMOND KEOGHY, O.P. +1642

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2026/03/05

(From the Acts of the General Chapter, OP., 1656[1]) THIS year F. Keoghy, of the Convent of Roscommon,[2] was seized by the heretics and put to death through hatred of the Catholic faith, and so found eternal life in death. The Acts of the General Chapter of 1644 make mention of another of this name, who. De Burgo thinks, must be a different person from the above, for the one was a priest, the other a lay-brother. See also O’Heyne. [1] See Hib. Dom., p. 562 [2] Founded by Phelim O’Connor, Kin...

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Repost for Lent _ 1577 JOHN O’DOWD, O.S.F.

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2026/03/04

(From Wadding’s Annales Minorum, xxi. 208) In our convent of Elphin[1], some English soldiers seized a certain priest of our Order and some other persons. They pressed a layman, who was one of their captives, to tell something of the plots which they said he had entered into with others against the Queen of England; but he protested he could tell nothing but the truth, and that there were no such plots. So they determined to hang him. He begged that he might first be allowed...

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Repost for Lent 1594. ANDREW STRICH

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2026/03/03

(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 Moriarty, and died t...

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Repost for Lent 1586. DONAGH OMURHEELY (O’HURLEY),O.S.F.

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2026/03/02

(From Ward’s Synopsis) HE was sacristan of the Convent of lrrelagh, now known under the name of Muckross,[1] and hearing of the fury displayed by the English soldiers against other convents, he hid a portion of the church ornaments in a certain island in the neighbouring lake. When he returned with a companion to carry away the rest, they found the monastery taken possession of by soldiers, and these stoned them almost to death. As soon as they recovered somewhat, they were asked where ...

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1578. THOMAS MOERAN, DEAN OF CORK Reposted

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2026/02/28

(From Molanus’ Idea, p. 66) He underwent great toil and hardships while the persecution was raging, in order to encourage the citizens of that very famous city. When engaged in the performance of the sacred functions, he fell into the hands of the persecutors, and so ended his life gloriously in the year 1578. He is buried in a marble tomb outside the choir of St. Peter’s church, Cork. See also Sander and Rothe. Please pray for final perseverance for all of us! May the marty...

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