Irish Catholic Martyrs were 24 Irish men and women who have been beatified or canonized for both a life of heroic virtue and for dying for their Catholic Faith between King Henry VIII and Catholic Emancipation in 1829.
Exiled English Recusant poet Richard Verstegen's depiction of the 1584 torture and execution of Archbishop Dermot O'Hurley. The 1579 hanging of fellow Irish Catholic Martyrs Bishop Patrick O'Hely and Friar Conn Ó Ruairc at Kilmallock is shown in the background.
Inishbofin harbour, with Cromwell's Barracks in the background.
Slieve Gullion.
Saint Oliver Plunkett
A priest hunter was a person who, acting on behalf of the English and later British government, spied on or captured Catholic priests during Penal Times. Priest hunters were effectively bounty hunters. Some were volunteers, experienced soldiers or former spies.
Bragan Penal Cross, alias Leacht a 'tSagairt, Slieve Beagh, County Monaghan.