Lives of the Irish MartyrsThe Christian zeal and devotion of the founders of the primitive church in Ireland were only equaled by the great sacrifices and sufferings; endured alike by priests and people, during the fierce and bloody persecutions inaugurated by the Reformers under the sacred garb of religion.The fanatical followers of Mohammed propagated the doctrines of the Koran by the sword; but the Reformers, bloodier far, prostituted the name of religion, and glorified the sacred name of God with their lips, while they butchered his faithful ministers and people, or tortured them in mockery and sport.The persecution, which commenced under Henry, in the early part of the sixteenth century, gradually increased in intensity and cruelty, until it culminated in the middle of the seventeenth, in the most bloody and exterminating scenes on record.England readily embraced Protestantism, Ireland remained Catholic; hence, the war of supremacy and conquest carried on by the former was intensified by all the acerbity of religious hate and fanaticism; and though the roll of those who suffered death for the faith might be said to close with 1745, still the persecutions for religion's sake have come down to our own days. |
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Contents
PERSECUTIONS UNDER HENRY VIII | 17 |
THE CHURCH IN IRELAND UNDER EDWARD AND MARY | 29 |
LEVEROUS AND OTHER BISHOPS PERSECUTED | 47 |
MARTYRDOM OF BISHOPS OHURLEY AND CREAGH | 61 |
FEARFUL INCREASE OF RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL OPPRESSION | 73 |
THE FRANCISCANS PERSECUTED | 87 |
PERSECUTIONS UNDER JAMES I | 104 |
BISHOP ODOVANYS MARTYRDOM | 114 |
MURROUGH THE BURNER | 157 |
CROMWELLS CAMPAIGN IN IRELAND | 167 |
THE PURITANS IN IRELAND | 177 |
THE SWORD AND THE MITRE | 188 |
THE IRISH EXPELLED AND HANGED | 200 |
IRELAND UNDER CHARLES II | 212 |
NEW PLOTS AND PERSECUTIONS | 220 |
THE DAWN OF TOLERATION | 236 |
CHICHESTERS TREACHEROUS PLOTS | 124 |
THE KING AND THE PURITANS | 131 |
FRESH PERSECUTION AND TORTURE | 139 |
EXECUTION OF FATHER SHEEHY | 243 |
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