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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 ...
Another victim of the Popish Plot, Oliver Plunkett, the Archbishop of Armagh, was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn in July 1681. His executioner was bribed so that Plunkett's body parts were saved from the fire; the head is now displayed at St Peter's Church in Drogheda. [74]
The story surrounds a twelve-year-old named Eddie and his affiliation with a local gang, known as the "Reservoir Pups". Two runaway orphans, Pat and Sean, witness the theft of Saint Oliver Plunkett’s head from St. Peter's Church in Drogheda, where it was on display for a forthcoming papal visit.
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 ...
He was a kinsman of the Catholic Saint Oliver Plunkett, the martyred Archbishop of Armagh whose ring and crozier head are still held by the Dunsany family. He was also related to the prominent Anglo-Irish unionist and later nationalist / Home Rule politician Sir Horace Plunkett and George Count Plunkett , Papal Count and Republican politician ...
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 .
Saint Oliver Plunkett (1625–1681), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and martyr, 1st cousin of Luke Plunkett; Sir Nicholas Plunkett (1602–1680), Irish confederate; Sir Francis Richard Plunkett (1835–1907), British diplomat
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