14 May 1619: Dr Thomas Arthur returns home to #Limerick#otd from Bordeaux & Paris where he had trained as a physician. He would go on, amongst others, to treat James Ussher, Archbishop of #Armagh and Henry Cromwell in the future (Bodleian/BM)
8 May 1613: Christopher Hampton is consecrated Archbishop of #Armagh#otd in St Patrick's #Dublin His pretty speedy consecration was due to an imminent #parliament He had earlier defended episcopacy at the #Scottish General Assembly in Glasgow on James VI & I's request. (NLI)
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)
29 Apr 1543: George Dowdall, former Crutched Friar, is appointed Archbishop of #Armagh by Henry VIII.
He fled to the Continent in 1551, was provided to #Armagh by the Papacy on 1 Mar 1553 & was re-instituted by Mary I in Oct 1553 (BM)
29 Apr 1608: A group of Cardinals including Peter Lombard of #Armagh greet Ruaidhrí Ó Domhnaill, Earl of Tyrconnell & Aodh Ó Néill, Earl of Tyrone at the Milvian Bridge near #Rome#otd
The pair - and their entourage - had left Lough Swilly in Sept 1607 (Anthony Majanlahti)
29 Apr 1661: Edmund O’Reilly #Catholic Archbishop of #Armagh arrives in Rouen #otd Fleeing an arrest warrant issued by the Castle he'd managed to slip out of #Dublin on 25 April. (BM/NLI)
28 Apr 1324: Stephen Seagrave Archbishop of #Armagh ordered to leave #Avignon by Pope John XII #otd and devote himself to his diocese... #GetGone (Jean-Marc Rosie/ NLI)
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.
27 Apr 1613: d. Luke Challoner, an important figure in the establishment of Trinity College #Dublin and father-in-law, through his daughter Phoebe, to Archbishop James Ussher of #Armagh (NLI)
24 Apr 1348: First recorded sermon of Richard Fitzralph anti-mendicant Archbishop of #Armagh is given at #Dundalk#otd (ParkerLib/JMcC) The #Irish Franciscans who owned this later copy of his works were less than impressed with him.
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)
Apr 1565: John Garvey of Murrisk future Archbishop of #Armagh is appointed Dean of Christ Church #Dublin#otd A lucrative post, he had a 'grant of #English liberty' on 27 Jan 1561 to allow him hold benefices in the Englishry (NLI/BM)
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)
2 Apr 1641: Archbishop James Ussher of #Armagh appears as witness at the trial of the former Lord Deputy of #Ireland, the Earl of Strafford #otd in #Westminster (Bodl/NPG).
28 Mar 1568: Elizabeth I informs #Dublin Castle that she has chosen Thomas Lancaster former Bishop of #Kildare for the Archbishopric of #Armagh. He had been deprived by Mary I. He was reconsecrated with episcopal orders 13 June 1568 - an unusual/interesting thing to do. (eebo)