Irish Dominicans killed during the Penal Days በ Irish Dominican Photographers

Irish Dominicans killed during the Penal Days CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF IRISH DOMINICANS EXECUTED UNDER THE PENAL LAWS The massacres of the communities of Derry and Coleraine rank as the worst events. These massacres are not accurately dated and are surmised to have been in the immediate aftermath of the Flight of the Earls (14th of September, 1607). The date is somewhat symbolic in that the 14th of September is the feast of the Holy Cross – the main feast of the Irish Province of the Order of Friars Preachers. Sligo and Tralee bear the name as too did the convents of Dublin, Waterford and Limerick. Today these houses celebrate the feast of Saint Saviour on the 6th of August, the feast of the Transfiguration.Originally the feast of the Holy Cross was believed to have been the patronage of the Province. Felix O'Connor, one of the later martyrs was Prior of Sligo but would not, naturally, have been buried in the cloister above. He died in prison in Dublin in 1689. The period covers the seventeenth century; the most virulent persecution of Catholics and Protestant Dissenters in the United Kingdom. Apart from the massacres at Derry and Coleraine most of the events recorded took place during the reign of Charles the First and the later Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland. After the death of Cromwell and the restoration of the British monarchy all recorded deaths happened in prison and not by public execution. EXECUTIONS IN THE REIGN OF ELIZABETH I (1558) fr. Peter O’Ferge & 20 companions, O.P. - in Derry; stone and massacred c.1600 fr. The entire community of 32 friars, O.P. - in Colraine hanged c.1600 2 unnamed priest and 7 novices thrown overboard off Clare during deportation, 1602 EXECUTIONS IN THE REIGN OF JAMES STUART (1603) Mr. John Burke, T.O.S.D., lay Dominican, hanged in Limerick in 1606 fr. William O'Luin, O.P. – priest in Derry hanged in 1607 fr. John O'Luin, O.P. – priest in Derry hanged in 1607 fr. Donagh O’Luin, O.P. - Prior of Derry, hanged in 1608 fr. William MacGollen, O.P. – priest in Coleraine hanged in 1614 fr. Arthur MacGeohegan, O.P. – priest hanged in 1633 EXECUTIONS IN THE REIGN OF CHARLES STUART (1625) fr. Peter O'Higgins, O.P. - Prior of Naas, hanged in 1641 fr. Raymond Keogh, O.P. - Prior of Roscommon, hanged in 1642 fr. Cormac MacEgan, O.P. - laybrother, hanged in 1642 fr. Richard Barry, O.P. - Prior of Cashel, executed in 1647 fr. John O'Flaverty, O.P. - Prior of Coleraine, executed in 1647 Ms. Margaret of Cashel, T.O.S.D., lay Dominican, slain in 1647 fr. David Fox, O.P. - laybrother in Killmallock, hanged in 1648 fr. Donald O'Neaghten, O.P. - laybrother in Roscommon, hanged in 1648 fr. Gerald Fitzgerald, O.P. - priest in Killmallock, hanged in 1648 fr. James O'Reilly, O.P. - priest in Waterford, hanged in 1648 EXECUTIONS IN THE TIME OF OLIVER CROMWELL (1649, Lord Protector 1653) fr. Peter Costello, O.P. - Prior of Strade, executed in 1649 fr. Richard Overton, O.P. - sub-Prior of Athy, beheaded in 1649 fr. Stephen Petit, O.P. - Prior of Mullingar, executed in 1649 fr. William Lynch, O.P. - priest in Strade, executed in 1649 fr. Dominick Dillon, O.P. - Prior of Urlar, beheaded in 1649 fr. Myles McGrath, O.P. - hanged in Clonmel in 1650 fr. Ambrose Aeneas O'Cahill, O.P. - priest in Cork, beheaded in 1651 fr. James Moran, O.P. - laybrother executed in 1651 fr. James Woulf, O.P. - priest in Limerick, hanged in 1651 fr. Terence Albert O’Brien, O.P. - Bishop of Emly, hanged in 1651 fr. Vincent Gerard Dillon, O.P. - priest in Athenry, died in prison in 1651 fr. Thomas O'Higgins, O.P. - priest in Clonmel, hanged in 1651 fr. William O'Connor, O.P. - priest in Clonmel, hanged in 1651 fr. Donatus ‘Niger’ Duff, O.P. - laybrother executed in 1651 fr. Edmund O'Beirne, O.P. - priest of Roscommon, beheaded in 1651 fr. Laurence O'Ferral, O.P. - Prior of Longford, hanged in 1651 fr. Bernard O'Ferral, O.P. - priest in Longford, hanged in 1651 fr. Stephen Petit, O.P. – priest in Athenry hanged in 1651 (same name as Mullingar man in 1649) fr. John Collins, O.P. – priest in Limerick, hanged in 1614 fr. John O'Quillen, O.P. - priest in Athenry, executed in 1652 fr. Hugh MacGoill, O.P. - priest in Rathbran, executed in 1653 fr. David Roche, O.P. - Prior of Glentworth, deported to Barbados and died in 1653 fr. Bernard O'Kelly, O.P. - laybrother in Roscommon, hanged in 1653 fr. Thaddeus Moriarty, O.P. - Prior of Tralee, hanged in 1653 Ms. Honoria de Burgo, T.O.S.D., lay Dominican at Burrishoole, died on the run in 1653 Ms. Honoria Magaen, T.O.S.D., lay Dominican at Burrishoole, died on the run in 1653 fr. James O’Reilly, O.P. – priest in Coleraine, killed by soldiers in 1656 fr. John O’Laghlin, O.P. – Prior of Derry, strangled and beheaded in 1657 EXECUTIONS IN THE TIME OF RICHARD CROMWELL (1658) none DEATHS IN THE REIGN OF CHARLES STUART (1660) fr. Raymond O'Moore, O.P. - priest in Dublin, died in prison in 1665 fr. Felix O'Connor, O.P. - Prior of Sligo, died in prison in 1679 DEATHS IN THE REIGN OF JAMES STUART (1685) fr. John O'Morrogh, O.P. - Prior of Cork, died in prison in 1702 fr. Clement O'Callaghan, O.P. - Prior of Derry, died in prison in 1704 fr. Daniel MacDonald, O.P. - priest of Urlar, died in prison in 1707 fr. Felix MacDonald, O.P. - priest in Tulsk, died in prison in 1707 fr. Dominick MacEgan., O.P. - priest in Tralee, died in prison in 1713 fr. John Keating, O.P. - priest in Louvain (Leuven) died in prison in 1703 42 of this list had their cause opened on 17th of March, 1918 by William the Archbishop of Dublin. Beatification was granted to Terence Albert O’Brien and Peter O’Higgins by Pope John Paul II on the 27th of September, 1992.