The Irish Martyrs

Patrick J. Corish & Benignus Millett OFM, editors

The beatified Irish martyrs are a selection of seventeen of the hundreds of bishops, priests, religious and laity, male and female, who died for their faith in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This volume presents the findings of the Historical Commission set up by the diocese of Dublin to examine the evidence for the beatification of the seventeen. The historical investigation of each martyr is based on sources (many of them newly discovered) indispensable for any historical research into that period, which are critically evaluated here for the first time.

The Martyrs
Patrick O'Healy, a Franciscan bishop from Co. Leitrim
Conn O'Rourke, a Franciscan from the old Gaelic aristocratic family of Breifne
Dermot O'Hurley, archbishop of Cashel
Margaret Ball, (née Bermingham), arrested by her son, the lord mayor of Dublin
Matthew Lambert, Robert Meyler, Edward Cheevers, Patrick Cavanagh and companions known as the Wexford Martyrs
Patrick O'Loughran, a priest from Co. Tyrone
Conor O'Devany, bishop of Down & Connor
Francis Taylor, former lord mayor of Dublin
John Kearney, a Franciscan priest from Cashel
William Tirry, an Augustinian priest from Cork
Dominic Collins, a Jesuit from Youghal, Co. Cork
Maurice MacKenraghty, from Limerick, chaplain to the earl of Desmond
Terence Albert O'Brien, a Dominican, bishop of Emly, from Limerick
Peter Higgins, a Dominican, prior at Naas, from Dublin

Monsignor Patrick J. Corish is Professor Emeritus of Modern History, Maynooth University. Fr Benignus Millett is the editor of Collectanea Hibernica: Sources for Irish History.