The Irish Martyrs Podcast

Sep 08 2024 11 ep. 4 mins 29

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On the Catholic Martyrs of Ireland.A reading of Father Dennis Murphy's book 'Our Martyrs,' on Ireland's Catholic Martyrs.

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8th September 1620, 1620. JAMES EUSTACE, O.CIST.

(From Hartry’s Triumphalia, p. 257.)ON the 8 of September, 1620, the Rev. James Eustace received the crown of martyrdom, and by sufferings on earth like those of his brother in religion Nicholas Fitzgerald,[1] obtained a reward in heaven. The author says he heard the account of the martyrdom of these two religious from a venerable priest, Richard Kelly, then in the seventy-sixth

Simon Lutrell Archdeacon of Meath

Comemorate 6th SeptemberWhile striving to protect the flock entrusted to his care from heresy, he was captured, and ended his life in prison.Please pray for final perseverance for all of us!May the martyrs of old inspire us all.

4th September 1597 1597. JOHN STEPHENS

Sep 08 2024 1 mins

THIS priest was a native of Leinster. He was accused by the heretics of celebrating Mass.1He was hanged and quartered by order of the cruel tyrant Marshal Burrowes, and so deserved to obtain a martyr’s crown September 4th, 1597.See also Copinger and Wadding.1 For that he said Mass to Teig MacHugh.’ CopingerPlease pray for final perseverance for all of us!May the martyrs of old

September 1581 NICHOLAS FITZGERALD, O.CIST.

Sep 08 2024 3 mins

(From Hartyr’s Synopsis, p. 251)F. NICHOLAS FITZGERALD, to escape from the cruel persecution, fled to a wood, and lay concealed there. He was seized in his monastic habit, taken in chains to the city of Dublin, and condemned by the Viceroy, who was never sated with the blood of Catholics, to be hanged, and while half-alive to be quartered. He endured that manner of death courageo

22 of August, 1578, PATRICK O’HELY, BISHOP OF MAYO, AND CON O’ROURKE, O.S.F.

Aug 21 2024 14 mins

(From Bouchier’s Hist. De Martyrio FE Ordinis S.F.)In 1576 he was appointed Bishop of Mayo. 1With Con O’Rourke OSF, he landed at Dingle, and immediately recognised. They were taken to Drury, President of Munster. 2 O’Hely replied for both. ‘By God’s grace we are both priests and religious of the Order of St. Francis. Moreover, I am the Bishop of Mayo, having been appointe

1606. EUGENE O’GALLAGHER AND BERNARD O’TREVIR, O.CIST.

Aug 19 2024 2 mins

(From Hartry’s Synopsis, p. 259IN the Abbey of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Assaroe1 in the Co. Donegal, the Abbot, Eugene O’Gallagher and Bernard O’Trevir, his Prior, and the other monks to the number of thirty, lived according to their rule, undisturbed from the first erection of the abbey till some years after the suppression of nearly all the other monasteries,2 while the p

15th August 1585 (?) FORTY CISTERCIANS OF ST. MARY’S, NENAY

Aug 17 2024 4 mins

(From Bruodin’s Propugnaculum, p. 450)THERE was formerly in the diocese of Limerick a celebrated monastery of the holy Order of Citeaux, situated on the river Maigue,1 from which the monastery took its name. It was founded in a most generous way by Donald O’Brien formerly Prince, or as other say, King of Limerick.2Here a large community of monks, under the gentle rule of the Me

13th August? 1599 JAMES DOWDALL

Aug 17 2024 4 mins

(From Bruodin’s Propugnaculum, p. 467)HE was a Drogheda merchant, & when returning from France to Ireland he was driven by contrary winds into a harbour in the south of England. The Mayor questioned him about the spiritual supremacy of Elizabeth. Dowdall answered, as a Catholic should, that he recognized no other as Head of the Church than the Roman Pontiff. Because he had sp

15th August 1642. GEORGE HALLEY, O.D.C

Aug 17 2024 11 mins

GEORGE HALLEY, in religion Brother Angelus of St. Joseph, was born in Herefordshire, in England, of Catholic parents, by whom he was entrusted for his education to the care of a Carmelite missionary. In the year 1640 he came to Ireland to join the Carmelite Order, being then in the 18th year of his age.As a happy omen of his future destinies, he received the sacred habit of Our Lad

10th August 1580. TADHG DONALD AND JOHN HANLY, O.S.F.

Aug 13 2024 1 mins

(From Ward’s Catalogue)F. TADHG DONALD, of the convent of Bantry1, a famous preacher, and his companion2, were seized by English soldiers near the same monastery. They were tied together with their girdles, and thrown into the sea from a high rock. Bruodin says they were put to death on the 10th of August.Notes:The convent of Bantry was ‘founded by Dermot O’Sullevan, about 14