25 Mar 1553: Hugh Goodacre is consecrated as Archbishop of #Armagh & the ex-friar playwright, polemicist John Bale as Bishop of #Ossory #otd in Christ Church #Dublin using the new Edwardian Ordinal - at the sharp insistence of Bale (NLI)
23 Mar 1625: Henry Bourchier, future 5th Earl of #Bath, writes #otd to James Ussher new Archbishop of #Armagh, sending him Asser's Life of Alfred, telling him that Lancelot Andrewes had a v bad cold & more of Dr Dee's books will soon be for sale. (Lobsterthermidor (talk)/NPG)
23 Mar 1565: Third interrogation of Richard Creagh of #Limerick, Catholic Archbishop of #Armagh in the Tower of #London #otd He would escape a few weeks later.
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Map of Ireland showing the towns completed (red dots) and towns in progress (green dots)
Access to #IHTA no. 18 Armagh by Catherine McCullough and W.H. Crawford for free
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Image credits (non-IHTA)
3. City of Armagh, 1810 by James Black. Armagh County Museum, no. 156.1958
5. Map-view of Armagh city, 1602 by Richard Bartlett. NLI, MS 2656
#MapMonday #IHTA #Armagh
22 Mar 1649: Gerard Vossius, theologian, friend & correspondent of Archbishop James Ussher of #Armagh buried at Nieuwe Kirk #Amsterdam #otd. See
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ed. of Ussher's letters for their relationship. Queen Kristina of #Sweden bought Vossius' library afterwards.
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)
For eyewitness accounts of that rebellion see the 1641 Depositions series from
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The signature of Aodh MacAingil aka Hugo Cavellus, of #Downpatrick Co. Down from @ucdarchives.bsky.social
A #Franciscan, #poet, Scotist, Archbishop of #Armagh who died just after his consecration in 1626 before he could get back to #Ireland
21 Mar 1589: John Garvey of Murrisk Co. Mayo nominated Church of #Ireland Archbishop of #Armagh by Elizabeth I #otd (British Museum)
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
20 Mar 1630: Francis Quarles #poet writes to James Ussher Archbishop of #Armagh #otd - gossiping about expected crackdowns on recusants, European war news, manuscripts & the fear of ... an imminent #plague in #London. For all known Ussher letters see the
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edition
20 Mar 1623: John Bramhall future Bishop of #Derry & Archbishop of #Armagh becomes a prebend of #Ripon cathedral #otd (SSC/gorg)
20 Mar 1656: In Reigate James Ussher Archbishop of #Armagh complains #otd of violent pain in his side after supper, takes to bed. Died 21st. (JMcC)
19 Mar 1649: d. Gerard Vossius #otd , theologian, friend & correspondent of Archbishop James Ussher of #Armagh (NPG)
All their known surviving letters are to be found in the superb
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multi-volume edition of Ussher's correspondence.
The coat of arms & portrait of Joseph Justus Scaliger, the #French Protestant chronologer whose work had a vast influence on that of James Ussher Archbishop of #Armagh (Rijksmuseum) in his dating of creation to 23 Oct 4004BC.
Born In The USA live in Armagh!
#springsteenire #marketplacetheatre #springsteen #BruceSpringsteen #TheBoss #armagh #northernireland #ireland
8 Mar 1383: John Colton consecrated as Archbishop of #Armagh in St Pauls London #otd (British Museum)
Streets of Philadelphia live in Armagh..
#springsteenire #marketplacetheatre #springsteen #BruceSpringsteen #TheBoss #armagh #northernireland #ireland
7 Mar 1357: At Greyfriars, #London, Franciscans list the alleged errors of Richard Fitzralph Archbishop of #Armagh (ParkerLibrary) #otd Some 16thC #English reformers believed that Fitzralph had translated the #Bible into #Irish #Gaeilge
A snap from Market Place Theatre Saturday 28th February.
#springsteenire #marketplacetheatre #springsteen #BruceSpringsteen #TheBoss #armagh #northernireland #ireland
4 Mar 1629: Ambrose Ussher, scholarly younger brother of James Ussher Archbishop of #Armagh buried #otd in either Trinity College chapel or St. Werburgh's #Dublin. Ambrose made his own original translation of the #Bible, but he was up against the AV.. (James pictured here)
Small city living in Armagh: Here is exactly what I spend in a month. 🇮🇪 #Armagh #NorthernIreland #MoneyTalk #Rent #Finance
2 Mar 1615: James Ussher, future Archbishop of #Armagh, appointed Vice-Chancellor of #Dublin university #otd (Bodl)
22 Feb 1565: Richard Creagh of #Limerick, the #Catholic Archbishop of #Armagh, interrogated in Tower of #London #otd by William Cecil (BM)
21 Feb 1609: John Bramhall future Bishop #Derry & Archbishop of #Armagh as well as being an Anti-Hobbes writer was admitted to Sidney Sussex College Cambridge #otd (SSC)
I spent some time in his company, as it were
18 Feb 1471: d. John Bole #Augustinian abbot of #Navan and Archbishop of #Armagh #otd (BM) His financial mismanagement left the diocese crippled with debts for decades.
