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St Oliver Plunkett's head. Oliver Plunkett was beatified on 23 May 1920 by Pope Benedict XV. [14] The cause for his canonization was opened on 27 July 1951, [14] and he was canonized in 1975, the first new Irish saint for almost seven hundred years, [1] and the first of the Irish martyrs to be beatified. For the canonisation, the customary ...
August Wilson (né Frederick August Kittel Jr.; April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was an American playwright. He has been referred to as the "theater's poet of Black America". [ 1 ] He is best known for a series of 10 plays, collectively called The Pittsburgh Cycle (or The Century Cycle ) , which chronicle the experiences and heritage of the ...
Oliver Plunkett, 1st Baron Louth (d. c. 1555), was an Irish peer. He was the eldest son of Sir Richard (or: Patrick, Lodge vol. 6, p. 161) Plunkett of Beaulieu (died 1508), High Sheriff of Louth , and his wife Catherine Nangle, daughter of Thomas Nangle, 15th Baron of Navan .
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Randal Pilgrim Ralph Plunkett, 14th Baron Louth (1868–1941) Otway Randal Percy Oliver Plunkett, 15th Baron Louth (1892–1950) Otway Michael James Oliver Plunkett, 16th Baron Louth (1929–2013) [1] Jonathan Oliver Plunkett, 17th Baron Louth (born 1952) The heir apparent is the present holder's son Hon. Matthew Oliver Plunkett (born 1982)
The descendants of his younger brother, Reginald Drax, bear not only the Dunsany's surname Plunkett, but also other surnames inherited from their mother, Ernle Elizabeth Louisa Maria Grosvenor Ernle-Erle-Drax, née Ernle Elizabeth Louisa Maria Grosvenor Burton (1855–1916), giving them a rare quadruple-barrelled surname of Plunkett-Ernle-Erle ...
Oliver Cromwell: 30 January 1661: Posthumous execution following exhumation of his body from Westminster Abbey. Robert Hubert: 28 September 1666: Falsely confessed to starting the Great Fire of London. [62] Claude Duval: 21 January 1670: Highwayman. [63] Saint Oliver Plunkett: 1 July 1681: Lord Primate of All Ireland, Lord Archbishop of Armagh ...
Lamspringe Abbey housed the relics of St Oliver Plunkett, taken there in 1684 by the later Abbot of Lamspringe, Corker, who had been with him in Newgate Prison in London, [5] as well as the head of St Thomas of Hereford. Plunkett's relics are now at Downside Abbey, along with a reliquary containing Hereford's skull and much of the monks ...