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Portraits of the Manchester Martyrs – Larkin (left), Allen (centre) and O'Brien (right) – on a shamrock. The Manchester Martyrs (Irish: Mairtirígh Mhanchain) [1] [2] were three Irish Republicans – William Philip Allen, Michael Larkin, and Michael O'Brien – who were hanged in 1867 following their conviction of murder after an attack on a police van in Manchester, England, in which a ...
In response, Irish bishops, priests, and laity who continued to pray for the pope during Mass were tortured and killed. [8] The Treasons Act 1534 defined even unspoken mental allegiance to the Holy See as high treason. Many were imprisoned on this basis.
Daniel Harte and Bill Hughes formed the idea of a trio of Irish tenors during the Cannes film festival. [when?] Harte and Hughes wanted to produce a television special and first approached Ireland's Finbar Wright (one of Ireland's leading romantic tenors) in 1998 to join the group, but Wright's recording contract with Sony BMG prohibited such a venture.
In 2011, a medical examination of brain tissue kept after the original post-mortem revealed that there was a high probability that the priest was alive up to six hours after the initial attack and therefore might have lived if medical help had been summoned. Molloy was parish priest of Castlecoote, County Roscommon at the time of his death. [2]
Ellen Organ, an Irish child who became known as "Little Nellie of God" and whose story promoted Pope Pius X to lower the age of first communion. [150] Egbert Xavier Kelly, an Irish Christian Brother who was abducted and killed during the Manila massacre in 1945. [151] Sister Clare Crockett, an Irish nun who died in the 2016 Ecuador earthquake ...
He had given the last rites to IRA volunteer Seamus Quirke, who was shot and killed by the RIC on 9 September 1920, and took part in the funeral Mass for Sinn Féin councillor and local businessman Michael Walsh, who was killed by a group of armed men "with English accents" [10] who claimed to be "English secret service men" [11] on 19 October ...
William Joseph Gabriel Doyle, SJ, MC (3 March 1873 – 16 August 1917) was an Irish Catholic priest who was killed in action while serving as a military chaplain to the Royal Dublin Fusiliers during the First World War. [1] He is a candidate for sainthood in the Catholic Church.
Seán na Sagart (John of the Priests in Irish) (c. 1690 – 1726) was a priest hunter during Penal Times in Ireland. Born John O'Mullowny [ 1 ] in Derrew , near Ballyheane , County Mayo , he began his career as a horse thief but was arrested and sentenced to death in Castlebar in his youth.
