Norris, Philip (c.1400–1465), scholar and controversialist, was probably born in Dundalk, where on 31 July 1427 he was presented to the parish church of St Nicholas. Granted leave of absence for seven years in order to study at a university, he went to Oxford; there he…
Walsh, Katherine
O'Corcoran, John
O'Corcoran, John (Ó Corcráin, Johannes) (d. 1389), Benedictine and bishop of Clogher; details of his birth and family are unknown, but it can be inferred that he was born in Ireland and most probably within the diocese of Clogher. At an unknown date, probably before the middle of…
Swayne, John
Swayne, John (d. 1442), lawyer, papal secretary, and archbishop of Armagh, was of Anglo-Irish origin and a native of the diocese of Kildare. He may have been related to that John Swayne, priest of the diocese of Ossory, who figured in the Irish patent rolls in 1355. The earliest…