Irish Martyrs
The collective title given to the 260 or more persons who are credited with dying for the faith in Ireland between 1537 and 1714 . Pope Benedict XV signed the Commission of Introduction for their beatification in March 1915 . The long delay in the start of their Cause was occasioned by the scarcity of official records and by the evident reprisals which any such virtual declaration of the injustice of laws still in effect would naturally have brought from the English ascendancy. The latter objection was removed in 1829 by Catholic Emancipation ; the former was gradually overcome as conscientious investigators published the results of their researches. A series of publications begun in 1861 by Dr Moran (then Vice-Rector of the Irish College, Rome , later cardinal , and Archbishop of Sydney) was followed in 1868 by a collection of memorials made with great discrimination by Major Myles O’Reilly; the labors of these two men greatly facilitated the task of investigation finally entrusted by the ecclesiastical authorities to Father Denis Murphy, S.J., whose materials were published in 1896 , thus completing the work started in Portugal between 1588 and 1599 by Father John Houling, S.J. Either the records of the various martyrdoms during the reign of King Henry VIII were all destroyed, or it was too dangerous to attempt to keep them, and for that reason the evidence for this time is so scanty that only two names of martyrs belonging to this period have been submitted in the appeal for beatification . Neither have any names been submitted from the earliest narrative, i.e., the histories given to an Irish professor at the University of Alcala by an old Trinitarian friar, for discredit has been thrown on it because it was worked up by the fanciful Spanish writer Lopez. Nevertheless, in spite of the most careful investigation of their claims to martyrdom , and with the elimination of most of those who died in prison rather than by actual martyrdom , the following list has been retained and their names presented for beatification . Many were beatified on 27 September 1992 by Pope John Paul II .
Archbishops
Dermot O’Hurley, Cashel
Edmond MacGauran, Armagh
Malachy O’Quealy, Tuam
Richard Creagh, Armagh
Bishops
Boetius Egan, Ross
Cornelius O’Devany, Down and Connor
Edmund Dungan, Down and Connor
Eugene MacEgan (bishop -designate), Ross
Heber MacMahon, Clogher
Maurice O’Brien, Emly
Oliver Plunket , Saint
Patrick O’Healy, Mayo
Redmond Gallagher, Derry
Terrance Albert O’Brian , Emly
William Walsh, Meath
Secular Priests
AEneas Penny
Andrew Stritch
Bernard Fitzpatrick
Bernard Moriarty
Bernard O’Carolan
Brian Murchertagh
Daniel Delaney
Daniel O’Brien
Daniel O’Moloney
Donatus MacCried
Donough O’Cronin
Donough O’Falvey
Edward Stapleton
Eugene Cronin
George Power
Henry White
Hugh Carrigi
James Murchu
James O’Hegarty
John Lune
John O’Grady
John O’Kelley
John Stephens
John Walsh
Laurence O’Moore
Louis O’Laverty
Maurice O’Kenraghty
Nicholas Young
Patrick O’Derry
Patrick O’Loughran
Philip Cleary
Richard French
Roger Ormilius
Theobald Stapleton
Thomas Bath
Thomas Morrissey
Walter Ternan
Order of Premonstratensians
John Kieran (or Mulcheran)
Order of Cistercians
Bernard O’Trevir
Edmund Mulligan
Eugene O’Gallagher
Gelasius O’Cullenan
James Eustace
Luke Bergin
Malachy O’Connor
Malachy Shiel
Nicholas Fitzgerald
Patrick O’Connor
the Abbot and Monks of the Monastery of Magia
the Prior and the members of the Abbey of Saint Saviour
Order of Preachers
32 religious of the Monastery of Londonderry
Ambrose AEneas O’Cahill
Bernard O’Ferral
Bernard O’Kelly
Clement O’Callaghan
Cormac MacEgan
Daniel MacDonnel
David Fox
David Roche
Dominic MacEgan
Dominick Dillon
Donald O’Meaghten
Donatus Niger
Edmund O’Beirne
Felix MacDonnel
Felix O’Connor
Gerald Fitzgerald
Hugh MacGoill
James Moran
James O’Reilly
James Woulf
John Keating
John O’Cullen
John O’Flaverty
John O’Luin
Lawrence O’Ferral
Myler McGrath
P. MacFerge with his companions
Peter Costello
Peter O’Higgins
Raymond Keogh
Raymond O’Moore
Richard Barry
Richard Overton
Stephen Petit
Thaddeus Moriarty
Thomas O’Higgins
Vincent Gerard Dillon
William Lynch
William MacGollen
William O’Connor
Order of Saint Francis
Anthony Musaeus
Anthony O’Farrel
Antony Broder
Bernard Connaeus
Bernard O’Horumley
Bonaventure de Burgo
Brother Thomas and his companion
Charles MacGoran
Christopher Dunleavy
Conor Macuarta
Cornelius O’Dougherty
Cornelius O’Rourke
Daniel Clanchy
Daniel Himaecan
Daniel O’Neilan
Denis O’Neilan
Dermot O’Mulrony
Didacus Cheevers
Donagh O’Rourke
Donatus O’Hurley
Edmund Fitzsimon
Eugene O’Cahan
Eugene O’Leman
Fergal Ward
Francis Fitzgerald
Francis O’Mahony
Francis O’Sullivan
Galfridius O’Farrel
Henry Delahoyde
Hilary Conroy
Hugh MacKeon
James Pillanus
James Saul
Jeremiah de Nerihiny
John Cathan
John Cornelius
John Esmund
John Ferall
John Honan
John Kearney
John O’Daly
John O’Dowd
John O’Lochran
John O’Molloy
Joseph Rochford
Lochlonin MacO’Cadha
Magnus O’Fodhry
Mattheus O’Leyn
Maurice O’Scanlon
Neilan Loughran
Nicholas Wogan
Patrick O’Brady
Patrick O’Kenna
Paulinus Synott
Peter O’Quillan
Peter Stafford
Phelim O’Hara
Philip Flasberry
Philip O’Lea
Raymond Stafford
Richard Butler
Richard Synnot
Roger Congaill
Roger de Mara
Roger O’Donnellan
Roger O’Hanlon
Terence Magennis
Thaddeus (or Thomas) O’Daly
Thaddeus O’Boyle
Thaddeus O’Caraghy
Thaddeus O’Meran
Thomas Fitzgerald
Walter de Wallis
William Hickey
Order of Saint Augustine
Austin Higgins
Donatus O’Kennedy
Donatus Serenan
Fulgentius Jordan
Peter Taaffe
Raymond O’Malley
Thaddeus O’Connel
Thomas Deir
Thomas Tullis
William Tirrey
Carmelite Order
Angelus of Saint Joseph
Peter of the Mother of God
Thomas Aquinas of Jesus
Order of the Blessed Trinity
Cornelius O’Connor
Eugene O’Daly
Society of Jesus
Dominic O’Collins
Edmund MacDaniell
John Bath
Robert Netterville
William Boyton