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Padraig 🌈1d ago

Well shit...

#UlsterFinal2026 #GAA #Monaghan #Armagh

Padraig 🌈1d ago

*clears throat*
HON THE FARNEY ARMY!!

#UlsterFinal2026 #GAA #Monaghan #Armagh

jdmccafferty May 3

3 May 1681: St. Oliver Plunkett, Archbishop of #Armagh arraigned for High Treason at King's bench #London #otd

Executed on 1 July 1681.

jdmccafferty May 1

1 May 1553: Hugh Goodacre, recently consecrated Archbishop of #Armagh (along with the fractious John Bale, to Ossory) dies in #Dublin never having set foot in his diocese #otd (BM)

jdmccafferty Apr 27

27 Apr 1404: d. John Colton at Drogheda #otd, very shortly after he had resigned as Archbishop of #Armagh. He had been consecrated for that diocese in St. Paul's #London on 8 Mar 1383 (BM) His 1397 account of his ten-day visitation of #Derry diocese has survived.

Mems Dead Apr 21

On this day in 1821, Anne McCoy died aged 52. See this and other gravestone inscriptions from Killevy, Co. Armagh, in the Journals: tinyurl.com/mcco1821

Learn about the Journals at MemsDead.com

#OTD #Genealogy #IrishGenealogy #Armagh

jdmccafferty Mar 22

22 Mar 1649: Gerard Vossius, theologian, friend & correspondent of Archbishop James Ussher of #Armagh buried at Nieuwe Kirk #Amsterdam #otd.

Queen Kristina of #Sweden bought Vossius' library afterwards.

jdmccafferty Mar 22

22 Mar 1642: Provincial Synod of #Armagh held at Kells Co. #Meath #otd legitimises the 1641 rebellion as a war of defence for Catholicism in #Ireland (Nemoi/MeglithicIreland)

jdmccafferty Mar 21

21 Mar 1625: James Ussher gets his letters patent for the archbishopric of #Armagh #otd just days before James I's death (JMcC) - the king's last bishopric granted before his own death on the 25th.

What Ussher didn't know is that he himself would die #otd 31 years later in 1656