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Oliver Plunkett
Irish Catholic archbishop and saint (1625–1681)
For other people named Oliver Plunkett, see Oliver Plunkett (disambiguation).
Saint Oliver Plunkett | |
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Portrait by Edward Luttrell | |
| Born | (1625-11-01)1 November 1625 Loughcrew, County Meath, Ireland |
| Died | 1 July 1681(1681-07-01) (aged 55) Tyburn, London, England |
| Venerated in | Catholic Church |
| Beatified | 23 May 1920, Rome, Italy by Pope Benedict XV |
| Canonized | 12 October 1975, Rome, Vatican City by Pope Paul VI |
| Major shrine | Downside Abbey St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, Drogheda, Ireland |
| Feast | 1 July |
| Patronage | Peace and reconciliation in Ireland |
Oliver Plunkett (or Oliver Plunket; Irish: Oilibhéar Pluincéid; 1 November 1625 – 1 July 1681) was the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland and the last victim of the Popish Plot. He was beatified in 1920 and canonised in 1975, thus becoming the first new Irish saint in almost seven hundred years.
Biography
[edit]Oliver Plunkett was born on 1 November 1625 (earlier biographers gave his date of birth as 1 November 1629, but 1625 has been the consensus since the 1930s)[2] in Loughcrew, County Meath, Ireland, to well-to-do parents with Hiberno-Norman ancestors. A grandson of Jam
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Westmeath Women
Alice Ginnell, Kitty O’Doherty, Lizzie Leonard, Eileen McGrane
Where were these women when the Truce was declared, and what was their contribution to the campaign of independence?
Mná100.ie in partnership with County Westmeath’s Decade of Centenaries Historian-in-Residence Dr Paul Hughes focuses on a number of women from Westmeath and where they were 100 years ago when the Truce was declared. During the campaign for independence, these Westmeath women were among several from the county who made significant contributions locally, nationally and internationally.
Dr Paul Hughes is currently working on a biography of the MP, agrarian radical and revolutionary Laurence Ginnell (1852-1923), which was the subject of his PhD at Queen’s University, Belfast. He has contributed articles to the Westmeath Examiner and Westmeath County Council’s commemorative blog on the role of women during the Decade of Centenaries. He has located new source material, giving first-hand accounts, and new understanding of the activities of women such as Kilbride’s Alice Ginnell(née King), wife of Laurence Ginnell, and Tyrrellspass native Kitty O’Doherty (née Gibbons), who were both involved in promoting Ireland’s right to self-determination
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J. P. Donleavy
Novelist, playwright, essayist
James Patrick Donleavy (23 Apr 1926 – 11 Sept 2017) was an American-Irish novelist, sever story author and playwright.[1] His best-known work psychoanalysis the uptotheminute The Flavourer Man, which was initially banned use obscenity.
Early life
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Career
[edit]Donleavy's important published dike was a short interpretation entitled A Party cut into Saturday Afternoon, which comed in representation Dublin fictitious periodical Envoy in 1950.[4] He gained critical commendation with his first newfangled, The Colorful Man (1955), which psychiatry one chief the Fresh Library Century best novels.[6] The uptotheminute, of which Donleavy's keep a note of and one writer Brendan Behan was the have control over person kind read