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1 January. The bystanders reported that his head
when cut off distinctly uttered the words: "Lord, show
me Thy ways." Edmund Tanner (q. v.), S.J., Bishop
of Cork, died, 4 June, in prison at DubUn; John
O'Dowd, p., O.S.F., refused to reveal a confession, put
to death at Elphin by having his skull compressed
with a twisted cord ; Thomas O'Herlahy (q. v.), Bishop
of Ross. 1580: Edmund MacDonnell (q. v.), p., S.J.,
16 March, Cork (but the year should be 1575 and the
name perhaps O'Donnell) ; Laurence O'Moore, p.,
Oliver Plunkett, sfnt'eman, and William Walsh or
Willick, an Enelishman, tortured and hanged, 11 No-
vember, after the surrender of Dun-an-oir in Kerry;
Daniel O'Neilan p., O.S.F., fastened round the waist
with a rope and thrown with weights tied to his feet
from one of the town-gates at Youghal, finally fastened
to a mill-wlieel and torn to pieces, 28 March. He is
obviously the person whom Mooney commemorates
under the name O'Duillian, assigning the date, 22
April, 1569, from hearsay; Daniel Hanrichan, Maurice
O'Scanlan, and Philip O'Shee (O'Lee), priests, O.S.F.,
beaten with sticks and .slain, 6 April, before the altar
of Lislachtin monastery, Co. Kerry; the prior at the
Cistercian monastery of Graeg, and his companions.
Murphy, quoting O'Sullevan, says the monastery was
Graiguenamanagh; O'Sullevan names the place Seri-
pons, Jerpoint.
1581: Nicholas Nugent, chief justice, David Sutton, John Sutton. Tliomas Eustace, John Eustace, William Wogan, Robert Sherlock, John Clinch, Thomas Netherfield, or Xetterville, Robert Fitzgerald, gentle- man of the Pale, anil Walter Lakin (Layrmus), executed on a charge of complicity in rebellion TNath Lord Baltinglass; Matthew Lamport, described as a parish priest (patitor) of Dublin Diocese, but more probably a baker (pistor) of Wexford, executed for harbouring Baltinglass and Father Rochford, S.J., Robert Meyler, Edward Cheevers, John O'Lahy, and Patrick Canavan, sailors of Wexford, hanged, drawn, and quartered, 5 July, for conveying priests, a Jesuit, and laymen out of Ireland; Patrick Hayes, shipowner of Wexford, charged with aiding bishops, priests, and others, died in prison; Richard French, p.. Ferns Diocese, died in prison; Nicholas Fitzgerald, Cister- cian, hanged, drawn, and quartered, September, at Dublin.
1582: Phelim O'Hara and Henry Delahoyde, O.S.F., of Moyne, Co. Mayo, hanged and quartered, 1 May; Thaddajus O'Meran, or O'Morachue, O.S.F., guardian of Enniscorthy; Phelim O'Corra (apparently Phelim O'Hara, above); ^neas Penny, parish priest of Killatra (Ivillasser, Co. Mayo), slain by soldiers while saying Mass, 4 May; Roger O'Donnellan, Cahill McGoran, Peter McQuillan, Patrick O'Kenna, James Pillan, priests, and Roger O'Hanlon (more correctly McHenlea, in Curry), lay brother, O.S.F., died, 1.3 February, Dublin Castle, but the date can scarcely be correct for all; Henry O'Fremlamhaidh (anglicized Frawley); John Wallis, p., died, 20 Jan- uary, in prison at Worcester; Donagh O'Reddy, parish priest of Coleraine, hanged and transfixed with swords, 12 June, at the altar of his church.
1584 : Dermot O'Hurley (q. v.), Archbishop of Cashel; Gelasius O'CuUenan, O.Cist., Abbot of Boyle, and his companion, variously named Eugene Cronius and Hugh or John Mulcheran (? Eoghan O'Maoil- chiarain), either Abbot of Trinity Island, Co. Ros- common, or a secular priest, hanged, 21 November, at Dublin; John O'Daly, p., O.S.F., trampled to death by cavalry; Eleanor Birmingham, widow of Bartholomew Ball, denounced by her son, Walter Ball, Mayor of Dublin, died in prison; Thaddaeus Clancy, 15 vSeptembcr, near Listowel.
1585: Richard (Ireagh (q. v.). Archbishop of Ar- magh, poisoned, 14 October, in the Tower of London — he is included amongst the 242 Pra^tormissi in the article English Confkssors and Martyrs; Maurice
Kenraghty (q. v.), p.; Patrick O'Connor and Malachy
O'Kelly, O.Cist., hanged and quartered, 19 May, at
Boyle.
1586: Maurice, or Murtagh, O'Brien, Bishop of Emly, died in prison at Dublin; Donagh O'Murheely (O'Murthuile, WTongly identified with O'Hurley) and a companion, O.S.F., stoned and tortured to death at Muckross, Killarney. 1587: John Cornelius, O.S.F., of Askeaton; another John Cornelius, S.J., surnamed O'Maliony, born in England of Irish parents from Kinelmeky, Co. Cork, is included among the venerabiles of the English list; Walter Farrell, O.S.F., Askeaton, hanged with his own girdle. 1588: Dermot O'Mulrony, p., O.S.F., Brother Thomas, and another Franciscan of Galbally, Co. Limerick, put to death there 21 March; Maurice Eustace (q. v.), Jesuit novice, hanged and quartered, 9 June, Dublin; John O'Molloy, Cornehus O'Dogh- erty, and Geoffrey Farrell, Franciscan priests, hanged, drawn, and quarteretl, 15 December, at Abbeyleix; Patrick Plunkett, knight, hanged and quartered, 6 May, Dublin; Peter Miller, B.D., Diocese of Ferns, tortured, hanged, and quartered, 4 October, 1588; Peter (or Patrick) Meyler, executed at Galway; not- withstanding the different places of martyrdom assigned, these two names may be those of the same person, a native of Wexford executed at Galway; Patrick O'Brady, O.S.F., prior at Monaghan — Mur- phy, on slender grounds, supposes him to be the guardian put to death in 1540, but Copinger and after him Curry, in his "Civil Wars in Ireland", state that six friars were slain in the monastery of Moynihan (Monaghan) under EHzabeth; Thadda?us O'Boyle, guardian of Donegal, slain there, 13 April, by soldiers. 1590: Matthew O'Leyn, p., O.S.F., 6 March, Kilcrea; Christopher Roche, 1., died, 13 December, under torture, Newgate, London. 1591: Terence Magennis, Magnus O'Fredliney or O'Todhry, Loughlin og Mac O'Cadha (? Mac Eochadha, Keogh), Franciscans of Multifarnham, died in prison. 1594: Andrew Strich, p., Limerick, died in Dublin Castle. 1597: John Stephens, p., Dublin province, apparently chaplain to the O'Byrnes of Wicklow, hanged and quartered, 4 September, for saying Mass; Walter Fernan, p., torn on the rack, 12 March, at Dublin. 1599: George Power, Vicar-General of Ossory, died in prison. 1600: John Walsh, Vicar-General of Dublin, died in prison at Chester; Patrick O'Hea, 1., charged with harbouring priests, died in prison, 4 December, DubUn — probably the Patrick Hayes of 15S1 (svpra); James Dudall (Dowdall, q. v.,), died either 20 Novem- ber or 13 Augu.st, Exeter; Nicholas Young, p., died, Dublin Castle.
1601: Redmond O'Gallagher, Bishop of Derry, slain by soldiers, 15 March, near Dungiven; Daniel, or Donagh, O'MoUony, Vicar-General of Killaloe, died of torture, 24 April, Dublin Castle; John O'Kelly, p., died, 15 May, in prison; Donagh O'Cronin, clerk, hanged and disembowelled, Cork; Bernard ftloriarty, dean of .Vrdagh and Vicar-General of Dublin, having his thighs broken by soldiers, died in prison, Dublin. 1602 : Dominic Collins, lay brother, S.J., hanged, drawn, and quartered, 31 October, Youghal. The following Dominicans suffered under Elizabeth (1558- 1603), but the dates are uncertain: Father MacFerge, prior, and twenty-four friars of Coleraine, thirty-two members of the community of Derry, slain there the same night, two priests and .seven novices of Limerick and Kilmallock, as.spmbled in 1602 with forty Bene- dictine, Cistercian, and other monks, at Scattery Island in the Shannon to be d('i)orted under safe conthict in a man-of-war, were cast ()\orboard at sea. To this year, 1602, seems to belong the death of Eugene MacEgan, styled Bisliop-dcsign:ito of Ro.ss, of wliioli ho was vicar Apostolic, mortally wounded while olliciating in the Catholic army. There was no Catholic army on foot in 1606, at which date his name
