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Brown, David

Brown, David (c.1485–c.1559), Dominican priest and provincial, probably belonged to the Kerry branch of the Norman-Irish Brown family. The description of him as a distinguished filius of the Dominican priory of Tralee indicates that he entered the order…

Burke, Dominic

Burke, Dominic (c.1603–1649), Dominican priest and political agent, was a scion of the Burke family, earls of Clanricard and St Albans. Having entered the Dominican order, he entered its house at Athenry, and then studied at the studium generale at Bologna,…

Burke, Dominic

Burke, Dominic (c.1622–1704), Dominican theologian and bishop of Elphin, one of the Clanricard Burkes of Cahirkinmonivy, Craughwell, Co. Galway, made his religious profession in 1648 at either Coillascail or Brosk near Athenry. Shortly afterwards he set out for Spain, but…

Burke, Oliver

Burke, Oliver (c.1598–1672), Dominican priest and ecclesiastical administrator in Rome and Connacht, was born in Co. Galway, a member of the Clanricard Burke family. He studied at Burgos and was listed as a priest in Spain in 1627. In that year he became an honours…

Caron (Mac Carraghamhna), Richard (Ricardo de la Peña)

Caron (Mac Carraghamhna), Richard (Ricardo de la Peña) (1579–c.1630), Dominican priest, was born in the barony of Kilkenny West, the son of Henry Caron and Evelyn Nicholas. He belonged to an ancient, distinguished Westmeath Gaelic Irish family, which claimed descent from…

Cogly, Quentin (Quintin)

Cogly, Quentin (Quintin) (d. 1539?), Dominican priest and bishop of Dromore, was a member of the Gaelic Irish family of Ó Coigligh, a branch of the Uí Fiachrach, who in times long past had been settled in the barony of Carra, Co. Mayo, but in the sixteenth century were dispersed…

French, Peter

French, Peter (c.1615–1693), Dominican priest and missionary in South America, came of a distinguished Galway family. On completion of his studies in Andalucía in the 1640s, he obtained the royal consent to sail for Spanish America as a missionary. For thirty years he…

Hackett, John Baptist

Hackett, John Baptist (c.1606–1676), Dominican priest and theologian, was born into a very prominent Norman-Irish family at Fethard, Co. Tipperary. He entered the Dominican order and made his profession at Cashel; he then studied in Spain and was ordained deacon and priest at…

Lynch (Lince), Dominic (Domingo)

Lynch (Lince), Dominic (Domingo) (1622–1697), Dominican priest and theologian, was born 4 August 1622 in Co. Galway, the son of Peter Lynch and Mary Skerret. He was a member of the illustrious Lynch family of that county: his paternal grandparents were Peter Lynch and Mary Kirwan…

Lynch, Nicholas

Lynch, Nicholas (c.1590–1634), Dominican priest and prior of Galway, was born into one of the dominant and most influential families of Galway; he was the son of Nicholas Lynch FitzStephen and brother of both Sir Henry Lynch bt., recorder of Galway (1625–9), and Thomas…

MacDuane, Thaddeus (Tadhg Mac Dubháin)

MacDuane, Thaddeus (Tadhg Mac Dubháin) , (d. 1608), Dominican priest and prior of Sligo, was a native of Connacht. While little is known of his early career, his personality manifested itself as that of a leader of great moral stature, who towered above the growing desolation of…

MacGeoghegan, Arthur

MacGeoghegan, Arthur (c.1600–33), Dominican priest, was almost certainly a Westmeath kinsman of his fellow Dominican Ross MacGeoghegan (qv). His original name was most probably Art Mac Eochagáin. He…

MacGeoghegan, Ross (Rossa Mac Eochagáin)

MacGeoghegan, Ross (Rossa Mac Eochagáin) (c.1577–1644), catholic bishop of Kildare and sometime Dominican provincial, was the sixth son of Rossa Mac Eochagáin, lord of Moycashel, and Sheila O'Dempsey, sister of the 1st Lord Clanmalier; he was born c.1577 at his…

Moriarty, Thaddeus

Moriarty, Thaddeus (Tadhg Ó Muircheartaigh) (c.1603–1653), Dominican priest and prior of Tralee, was a native of Castle Drum, Co. Kerry, on the Dingle peninsula. His family were the ancient lords of Aos Aisde along the banks of the River Mang. Moriarty's father was said…

Nolan, John

Nolan, John (c.1600–1662), Dominican priest and theologian, was a filius of the Black Abbey of Kilkenny. He entered the Dominican order at Zamora in Spain. By 1627 he was already lector of philosophy at Pamplona, where he had studied. He was appointed conventual…

O'Brien, Terence Albert (Muiris Ó Briain Aradh)

O'Brien, Terence Albert (Muiris Ó Briain Aradh) (1601–51), catholic bishop of Emly and Dominican provincial, was born at Tuogh (Towerhill), in the parish of Cappamore (diocese of Emly), Co. Limerick, the son of Murchadh O'Brien Aradh. Both his parents were of the noble family of O…

O'Connell, Terence

O'Connell, Terence (Theodore de Pietate ) (d. 1668), Dominican priest, was a filius of Sligo. He was already a priest when he was sent to study at Lérida in Spain. From 1629 he was designated a ‘collegial’ (honours) student at S. Maria sopra Minerva, Rome, where he was…

O'Connor, John

O'Connor, John (John of St Dominic ) (d. 1678), Dominican priest and scholar, was a filius of Galway and was educated in Spain. From the early 1630s, while stationed at Segovia, he organised the collection of theological books (and alms for their purchase) in Spain for…

O'Crean, Andrew

O'Crean, Andrew (d. 1594), catholic bishop of Elphin and prior of Sligo, bore the name of a family of Cinél Eoghain, who by the sixteenth century had settled in Sligo. Members of his family were prominent merchants at the port of Sligo, where the fish trade was the lucrative…

Ó Fergusa, Cormac

Ó Fergusa, Cormac (fl. 1571–2), Dominican prior provincial of Ireland and continental envoy, bore the name of an ecclesiastical family of Co. Leitrim, as well as that of a family of medical practitioners in west Connacht, who were the hereditary physicians of the O'…

O'Hallaghan, Edmund (Simon of the Holy Spirit)

O'Hallaghan, Edmund (Simon of the Holy Spirit) (d. c.1607), Dominican priest, was the son of John O'Hallaghan (Johannis Halychanis) and Elinora Cunt, residents of the parish of St Mary, Youghal (Yohullia). The Irish form of his name in Munster is Ó hAllachacháin and was that of…

O'Heyne, John

O'Heyne, John (c.1648–1713), Dominican priest and historian, was born near Athenry; his writings, curiously, do not mention his own parentage. He was the great-nephew on his father's side of Dominic Burke (qv)…

O'Higgins, Quentin

O'Higgins, Quentin (Con Ó hUiginn) (d. 1565), Dominican priest and vicar provincial, was born at Termonhiggin, Co. Sligo. His family belonged to a branch of the southern Uí Néill, one of the most distinguished literary families in Ireland, as attested in the annals of the Four…

O'Kelly, Dominic

O'Kelly, Dominic (c.1613–1669), Dominican priest and provincial, was born in the diocese of Elphin. There is a conflict of views as to his parentage. According to one source he was the son of William Reagh O'Kelly of Skreen, Co. Roscommon, and had one brother, Conor, who…

Ó Mocháin, Muiris (Maurice Morall)

Ó Mocháin, Muiris (Maurice Morall) (c.1440–c.1502), Dominican priest and theologian, belonged to a distinguished ancient Gaelic Irish family in Connacht. The Ó Mocháin family name is variously anglicised as O’Mochane, O'Moone, Moohan, Maughan, and Vaughan, and is…