14 June 1654: Oliver Plunkett, future Archbishop of #Armagh is released from his student oath to return to the #Irish mission - he stayed on in Rome for a further 15 years. Given what happened when he did go home, this was pretty prudent.

"Sightseeing"
pic: @xabacus

#armagh #church #churchesandcastles #catholic #catholicchurch #monument #building #history #historic #historicbuildings #northernireland #beautiful #happy #happysoul #happyheart #sunny #wonderfulday❤️ #wonderfulplaces #photooftheday

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#Armagh #UlsterChampionship #UlsterGAA

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)

30 Apr 1399: John Swayne receives a dispensation from the canonical disabilities arising from illegitimacy #otd from Boniface IX. On 10 Jan 1418, Pope Martin V would provide him to the Archbishopric of #Armagh (BM)

27 Apr 1626: Aodh MacAingil #Franciscan (Cavellus), Scotist, appointed Archbishop of #Armagh #otd

He d. 22 Sept 1626 in #Rome before making it home to #Ulster

Fresco (JMcC)

His signature from @ucdarchives
His memorial slab over the crypt in St. Isidore's #Rome (JMcC)

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.

17 Apr 1656: State funeral #otd of James Ussher, Archbishop of #Armagh, #Dubliner, outstanding scholar of his generation, using the proscribed Church of #England Prayer Book in St. Erasmus Chapel #Westminster (Bodleian)

6 Apr: date on which Celsus or Cellach, Abbot of #Armagh v. significant politician & reformer entered the Roman martyrology - he died on 1 Apr 1129, but due to a mistake in a martyrology in printed in #Leuven in 1563 was assigned #otd in the #Roman calendar

3 Apr 1189: St. Celsus or Cellach, Abbot of #Armagh, a very significant politician & reformer is buried in the tomb of the bishops of Lismore #Waterford #otd

(National Museum of Ireland: Lismore Crozier photographed by jemartin03 on flicker)

28 Mar 1716: d. John Vesey Archbishop of #Tuam and first biographer & editor of the works of John Bramhall Archbishop of #Armagh #otd (eebo/SSxC)

27 Mar 1174: d. Gelasius [Gilla Mac Leic] abbot of #Derry, Archbishop of #Armagh remembered as 'Cenn Banba', #Ireland's head #otd (BM)

[18:34] Antrim set to win Corrigan Park battle for Armagh clash

It now looks almost certain that Antrim's glamour Ulster SFC match against the All-Ireland champions Armagh will take place at Corrigan Park in Belfast on 12 April.

https://www.rte.ie/sport/football/2025/0324/1503805-antrim-set-to-win-corrigan-park-battle-for-armagh-clash/

#Antrim #Ulster #Armagh #CorriganPark #Belfast #12April

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

12 Mar 1554: Title of Primate of All #Ireland restored to Archbishop George Dowdall of #Armagh #otd - Edward VI had given it to #Dublin in 1551 (BM)

[20:42] Antrim’s Championship participation in jeopardy as clash with Armagh is fixed for Newry

Antrim could play no part in the 2025 football championship should they follow through on their commitment not to play Armagh in the Ulster Championship if the game is not fixed for Corrigan Park in Belfast.

https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/hurling/antrims-championship-participation-in-jeopardy-as-clash-with-armagh-is-fixed-for-newry/a1243562625.html

#2025 #Armagh #CorriganPark #Belfast

3 Mar 1644: James Ussher Archbishop of #Armagh preaches on the 'Sovereign's power & subject's duty' at #Oxford #otd (JMcC) An ever topical subject

2 Mar 1595: d. John Garvey Church of #Ireland Archbishop of #Armagh #otd

From Murrisk Co. Mayo, he is buried in Christ Church #Dublin
(British Museum)

2 Mar 1615: James Ussher, future Archbishop of #Armagh, appointed Vice-Chancellor of #Dublin university #otd (Bodleian)