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Martyrs, Irish
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
The collective title given to the 260 or more persons who are credited with dying for the faith in Ireland between 1537,1714. Pope Benedict XV signed the Commission of Introduction for their beatification in March 1915. The long delay in the start of their Cause was occasioned by the scarcity of official records and by the evident reprisals which any such virtual declaration of the injustice of laws still in effect would naturally have brought from the English ascendancy. The latter objection was removed in 1829 by Catholic Emancipation; the former was gradually overcome as conscientious investigators published the results of their researches. A series of publications begun in 1861 by Dr Moran (then Vice-Rector of the Irish College, Rome, later cardinal, and Archbishop of Sydney) was followed in 1868 by a collection of memorials made with great discrimination by Major Myles O'Reilly; the labors of these two men greatly facilitated the task of investigation finally entrusted by the ecclesiastical authorities to Father Denis Murphy, S.J., whose materials were published in 1896, thus completing the work started in Portugal between 1588,1599 by Father John Houling, S.J. Either the records of the various martyrdoms during the reign of King Henry VIII were all destroyed, or it was too dangerous to attempt to keep them, and for that reason the evidence for this time is so scanty that only two names of martyrs belonging to this period have been submitted in the appeal for beatification. Neither have any names been submitted from the earliest narrative, i.e.,the histories given to an Irish professor at the University of Alcala by an old Trinitarian friar, for discredit has been thrown on it because it was worked up by the fanciful Spanish writer Lopez. Nevertheless, in spite of the most careful investigation of their claims to martyrdom, and with the elimination of most of those who died in prison rather than by actual martyrdom, the following list has been retained and their names presented for beatification. Many were beatified on September 27, 1992 by Pope John Paul II.
Archbishops
- Dermot O'Hurley, Cashel
- Edmond MacGauran, Armagh
- Malachy O'Quealy, Tuam
- Richard Creagh, Armagh
Bishops
- Boetius Egan, Ross
- Cornelius O'Devany, Down and Connor
- Edmund Dungan, Down and Connor
- Eugene MacEgan (bishop-designate), Ross
- Heber MacMahon, Clogher
- Maurice O'Brien, Emly
- Oliver Plunket, Saint
- Patrick O'Healy, Mayo
- Redmond Gallagher, Derry
- Terrance Albert O'Brian, Emly
- William Walsh, Meath
Secular Priests
- AEneas Penny
- Andrew Stritch
- Bernard Fitzpatrick
- Bernard Moriarty
- Bernard O'Carolan
- Brian Murchertagh
- Daniel Delaney
- Daniel O'Brien
- Daniel O'Moloney
- Donatus MacCried
- Donough O'Cronin
- Donough O'Falvey
- Edward Stapleton
- Eugene Cronin
- George Power
- Henry White
- Hugh Carrigi
- James Murchu
- James O'Hegarty
- John Lune
- John O'Grady
- John O'Kelley
- John Stephens
- John Walsh
- Laurence O'Moore
- Louis O'Laverty
- Maurice O'Kenraghty
- Nicholas Young
- Patrick O'Derry
- Patrick O'Loughran
- Philip Cleary
- Richard French
- Roger Ormilius
- Theobald Stapleton
- Thomas Bath
- Thomas Morrissey
- Walter Ternan
Order of Premonstratensians
- John Kieran (or Mulcheran)
Order of Cistercians
- Bernard O'Trevir
- Edmund Mulligan
- Eugene O'Gallagher
- Gelasius O'Cullenan
- James Eustace
- Luke Bergin
- Malachy O'Connor
- Malachy Shiel
- Nicholas Fitzgerald
- Patrick O'Connor
- the Abbot and Monks of the Monastery of Magia
- the Prior and the members of the Abbey of Saint Saviour
Order of Preachers
- 32 religious of the Monastery of Londonderry
- Ambrose AEneas O'Cahill
- Bernard O'Ferral
- Bernard O'Kelly
- Clement O'Callaghan
- Cormac MacEgan
- Daniel MacDonnel
- David Fox
- David Roche
- Dominic MacEgan
- Dominick Dillon
- Donald O'Meaghten
- Donatus Niger
- Edmund O'Beirne
- Felix MacDonnel
- Felix O'Connor
- Gerald Fitzgerald
- Hugh MacGoill
- James Moran
- James O'Reilly
- James Woulf
- John Keating
- John O'Cullen
- John O'Flaverty
- John O'Luin
- Lawrence O'Ferral
- Myler McGrath
- P. MacFerge with his companions
- Peter Costello
- Peter O'Higgins
- Raymond Keogh
- Raymond O'Moore
- Richard Barry
- Richard Overton
- Stephen Petit
- Thaddeus Moriarty
- Thomas O'Higgins
- Vincent Gerard Dillon
- William Lynch
- William MacGollen
- William O'Connor
Order of Saint Francis
- Anthony Musaeus
- Anthony O'Farrel
- Antony Broder
- Bernard Connaeus
- Bernard O'Horumley
- Bonaventure de Burgo
- Brother Thomas and his companion
- Charles MacGoran
- Christopher Dunleavy
- Conor Macuarta
- Cornelius O'Dougherty
- Cornelius O'Rourke
- Daniel Clanchy
- Daniel Himaecan
- Daniel O'Neilan
- Denis O'Neilan
- Dermot O'Mulrony
- Didacus Cheevers
- Donagh O'Rourke
- Donatus O'Hurley
- Edmund Fitzsimon
- Eugene O'Cahan
- Eugene O'Leman
- Fergal Ward
- Francis Fitzgerald
- Francis O'Mahony
- Francis O'Sullivan
- Galfridius O'Farrel
- Henry Delahoyde
- Hilary Conroy
- Hugh MacKeon
- James Pillanus
- James Saul
- Jeremiah de Nerihiny
- John Cathan
- John Cornelius
- John Esmund
- John Ferall
- John Honan
- John Kearney
- John O'Daly
- John O'Dowd
- John O'Lochran
- John O'Molloy
- Joseph Rochford
- Lochlonin MacO'Cadha
- Magnus O'Fodhry
- Mattheus O'Leyn
- Maurice O'Scanlon
- Neilan Loughran
- Nicholas Wogan
- Patrick O'Brady
- Patrick O'Kenna
- Paulinus Synott
- Peter O'Quillan
- Peter Stafford
- Phelim O'Hara
- Philip Flasberry
- Philip O'Lea
- Raymond Stafford
- Richard Butler
- Richard Synnot
- Roger Congaill
- Roger de Mara
- Roger O'Donnellan
- Roger O'Hanlon
- Terence Magennis
- Thaddeus (or Thomas) O'Daly
- Thaddeus O'Boyle
- Thaddeus O'Caraghy
- Thaddeus O'Meran
- Thomas Fitzgerald
- Walter de Wallis
- William Hickey
Order of Saint Augustine
- Austin Higgins
- Donatus O'Kennedy
- Donatus Serenan
- Fulgentius Jordan
- Peter Taaffe
- Raymond O'Malley
- Thaddeus O'Connel
- Thomas Deir
- Thomas Tullis
- William Tirrey
Carmelite Order
- Angelus of Saint Joseph
- Peter of the Mother of God
- Thomas Aquinas of Jesus
Order of the Blessed Trinity
- Cornelius O'Connor
- Eugene O'Daly
Society of Jesus
- Dominic O'Collins
- Edmund MacDaniell
- John Bath
- Robert Netterville
- William Boyton
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Entry for 'Martyrs, Irish'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ncd/​m/martyrs-irish.html. 1910.