46 Notable alumni of
Maynooth University
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Maynooth University is 1415th in the world, 485th in Europe, and 6th in Ireland by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 46 notable alumni from Maynooth University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Brian Friel
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- writerpoliticiantheatrical directortranslatorplaywright
- Biography
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Brian Patrick Friel was an Irish dramatist, short story writer and founder of the Field Day Theatre Company. He had been considered one of the greatest living English-language dramatists. He has been likened to an "Irish Chekhov" and described as "the universally accented voice of Ireland". His plays have been compared favourably to those of contemporaries such as Samuel Beckett, Arthur Miller, Harold Pinter and Tennessee Williams.
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Eimear Quinn
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Eimear Mary Rose Quinn is an Irish singer and composer. She is best known for winning the Eurovision Song Contest 1996 with the song "The Voice". Since then she has toured and performed extensively internationally and has released four albums of her work, the most recent being Ériu, recorded with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and released in 2020.
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Seán Gallagher
- Occupations
- reality television participantbusinessperson
- Biography
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Seán Gallagher is an Irish businessman and former reality television personality. He was a co-founder in 2000 of Smarthomes, which after initial success, failed in 2008–2010, and Gallagher departed in 2010–11. He was a panellist on RTÉ's Dragons' Den from 2009 to 2011. Gallagher was an active member of Fianna Fáil for 30 years, from 1981 to 2011, and sat on its National Executive twice (from 1985 to 1987, and from 2009 to 2011). He spent much of his career before Smarthomes working in Fianna Fáil, and in the Irish public service. Gallagher ran as an independent candidate in the 2011 presidential election, finishing second to Michael D. Higgins. He ran again in the 2018 presidential election, finishing third.
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Daniel Mannix
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- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Daniel Patrick Mannix was an Irish-born Catholic bishop. Mannix was the Archbishop of Melbourne for 46 years and one of the most influential public figures in 20th-century Australia.
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Joe McHugh
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- politician
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Joe McHugh is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has served as Chair of the Committee on European Union Affairs since September 2020. He has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Donegal constituency since 2016, and previously from 2007 to 2016 for the Donegal North-East constituency. He served as Minister for Education and Skills from 2018 to 2020 and as a Minister of State from 2014 to 2018, including as Government Chief Whip from 2017 to 2018. He was a Senator for the Administrative Panel from 2002 and 2007.
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Hermann Kelly
- Occupations
- newspaper editor
- Biography
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Hermann Patrick Kelly is an Irish anti-immigration politician, press officer and former journalist, serving as president of the far-right Irish Freedom Party since its foundation in September 2018. As of late 2021, Kelly is employed in the European Parliament as an assistant to Romanian MEP Cristian Terheș.
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Chris Andrews
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- politician
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Chris Andrews is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Bay South constituency since the 2020 general election, and previously from 2007 to 2011 as a Fianna Fáil TD for the Dublin South-East constituency.
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Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin
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- politician
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Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin is an Irish former Sinn Féin politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cavan–Monaghan constituency from 1997 to 2020. Ó Caoláin's victory in 1997 made him the first member of Sinn Féin to be elected to the Dáil since 1957, and the first to actually take their seat since 1922. His election, which paralleled the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, is cited as the beginning of Sinn Féin's involvement in the formal national politics of the Republic of Ireland.
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Jack O'Connor
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- coachGaelic football player
- Biography
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Jack O'Connor is an Irish Gaelic football manager and former player. In 2021, he was appointed manager of the senior Kerry county team, having earlier managed it over two terms in the 2000s.
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Noel Grealish
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- politicianbusinessperson
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Noel Grealish is an Irish independent politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Galway West constituency since the 2002 general election.
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Michael J. O'Doherty
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- Catholic priest
- Biography
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Michael James O'Doherty was an Irish prelate and was the 27th Archbishop of Manila in the Philippines. O'Doherty was Archbishop of Manila for 33 years from 1916 until his death in 1949, making him the longest to hold the post, serving through the difficult years of the Japanese occupation and the Second World War.
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Michael Logue
- Occupations
- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Michael Cardinal Logue was an Irish prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland from 1887 until his death in 1924. He was appointed a cardinal in 1893.
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Michael Griffin
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- priest
- Biography
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Michael Griffin was an Irish Catholic priest who was murdered during the Irish War of Independence.
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Fergus O'Dowd
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- politician
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Fergus O'Dowd is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Louth constituency since the 2002 general election. He was appointed Chair of the Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement in September 2020. He previously served as Chair of the Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport from 2017 to 2020 and as a Minister of State from 2011 to 2014.
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Patrick Augustine Sheehan
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- Christian ministerCatholic priestwriterpolitician
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Patrick Augustine Sheehan was an Irish Catholic priest, author and political activist. He was usually known as Canon Sheehan after his 1903 appointment as a canon of the diocese of Cloyne, or more fully as Canon Sheehan of Doneraile, after the town of Doneraile where he wrote almost all of his major works and served as parish priest.
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John Lyons
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- politician
- Biography
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John Lyons is an Irish former Labour Party politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin North-West constituency from 2011 to 2016.
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John MacHale
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- 1791-1881 (aged 90)
- Occupations
- authorCatholic priestCatholic deacon
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John MacHale was the Irish Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam, and Irish nationalist.
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Joseph MacRory
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- university teacherCatholic priestCatholic bishop
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Joseph Cardinal MacRory was an Irish Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Armagh from 1928 until his death. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1929. He is regarded as the leading Catholic churchman in Ireland during the period spanning the 1916 Rising, Partition, and the Second World War.
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Jim Daly
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- politician
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Jim Daly is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as Minister of State for Mental Health and Older People from 2017 to 2020 and Chair of the Committee on Children and Youth Affairs from 2016 to 2017. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork South-West constituency from 2011 to 2020.
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Peter Richard Kenrick
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- Catholic priestwriterCatholic bishop
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Peter Richard Kenrick was an Irish Catholic priest who served as Bishop of St. Louis from 1843 to 1895. The see was made an archdiocese in 1847, when he was called as the first archbishop west of the Mississippi River. The archdiocese covered nearly all the territory of the Louisiana Purchase. He served in this position for nearly 50 years, until months before his death.
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Gerald O'Donovan
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- 1871-1942 (aged 71)
- Occupations
- novelist
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Gerald O'Donovan was an Irish priest and writer.
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Patrick Rice
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- human rights activist
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Patrick Michael Rice was an Irish human rights activist and former Catholic priest and religious who became a resident of Argentina. He was a campaigner on behalf of the families of the "disappeared", the victims of that nation's dirty war during the 1970s. He himself was kidnapped and tortured as a part of that activity by the Argentine government.
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Edward MacCabe
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- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Edward Cardinal MacCabe or McCabe was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin from 1879 until his death and a Cardinal from 1882.
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William Joseph Walsh
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- Catholic priest
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William Joseph Walsh served as the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin from 3 July 1885 until his death in 1921.
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William Crean
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- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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William Crean is an Irish Roman Catholic prelate who has served as Bishop of Cloyne and chairperson of Trócaire since 2013.
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Peter Coffey
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- priestCatholic priestphilosopher
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Peter Coffey was an Irish Roman Catholic priest and neo-scholastic philosopher.
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Anthony O'Regan
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- 1809-1866 (aged 57)
- Occupations
- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Anthony O'Regan was an Irish prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Chicago in the United States from 1854 to 1858.
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Peter Yorke
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- 1864-1925 (aged 61)
- Occupations
- priest
- Biography
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Peter Christopher Yorke was an American Irish Catholic priest and an Irish Republican and Labor activist in San Francisco.
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Dermot Dunne
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- 1959-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- Anglican priest
- Biography
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Dermot Patrick Martin Dunne is the current and, by some counts, 35th Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin.
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Thomas Joseph Carr
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- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
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Thomas Joseph Carr was the second Roman Catholic archbishop of Melbourne, Australia.
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Denis Florence MacCarthy
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- poettranslatorwriterbiographer
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Denis Florence MacCarthy was an Irish poet, translator, and biographer, from Dublin.
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Daniel Cohalan
- Occupations
- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Daniel Cohalan was an Irish Roman Catholic clergyman who served as the Bishop of Cork from 1916 to 1952.
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Thomas Nulty
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- 1818-1898 (aged 80)
- Occupations
- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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The Most Reverend Dr. Thomas Nulty or Thomas McNulty was born to a farming family in Fennor, Oldcastle, Co. Meath, on 7 July 1818, and died in office as the Irish Roman Catholic Bishop of Meath on Christmas Eve, 1898.
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Thomas Francis Hendricken
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- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Thomas Francis Hendricken was an Irish-born American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the first bishop of the Diocese of Providence in Rhode Island from 1872 until his death in 1886.
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Daniel McGettigan
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- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Daniel McGettigan was an Irish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served Bishop of Raphoe from 1861 to 1870 and Archbishop of Armagh from 1870 to 1887.
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Bernie Sherlock
- Occupations
- conductorchoir director
- Biography
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Bernie Sherlock is an Irish choral conductor, adjudicator, teacher, and lecturer in music.
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Patrick Leahy
- Years
- 1806-1875 (aged 69)
- Occupations
- Catholic priest
- Biography
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Patrick Leahy was the Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly.
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Thomas Gilmartin
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- 1861-1939 (aged 78)
- Occupations
- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
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Thomas Patrick Gilmartin was an Irish clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Clonfert from 1909 to 1918 and Archbishop of Tuam from 1918 to 1939.
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Eugene O'Connell
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- 1815-1891 (aged 76)
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- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
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Eugene O'Connell was the first Catholic bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Grass Valley, California. Born in County Cavan, Ireland, O'Connell sailed to San Francisco upon the request of Bishop Alemany for priests to serve in the diocese of Monterey. O'Connell was rector of the diocesan seminary, and later appointed to the Vicariate of Marysville, up in the gold fields. The Diocese of Grass Valley later became the Diocese of Sacramento.
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Henry Cleary
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- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
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Henry William Cleary was the sixth Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland, from 1910 to 1929.
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William Walsh
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- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
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William Walsh,, was an archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Halifax. He was born in Waterford, County Waterford, Republic of Ireland and died in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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James Vincent Cleary
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- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
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James Vincent Cleary was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest and Archbishop of Kingston, Ontario.
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Joseph Higgins
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- 1838-1915 (aged 77)
- Occupations
- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
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Joseph Higgins was an Irish-born Catholic bishop in Australia. He was the Bishop of Rockhampton in Queensland and the Bishop of Ballarat in Victoria.
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John Harty
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- Catholic priest
- Biography
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John Mary Harty served as Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cashel from 1913 until his death in 1946. He served as Patron of the Gaelic Athletic Association from 1928. The Dr. Harty Cup, the trophy for Munster Schools Hurling, is named in his honour, as is the playing field of his native Murroe GAA club.
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Francis Murphy
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishopCatholic deacon
- Biography
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Bishop Francis Murphy was an Irish-born Roman Catholic priest and first Catholic Bishop of Adelaide, South Australia.
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Patrick Morrisroe
- Occupations
- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
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Patrick Morrisroe was an Irish Catholic priest and Bishop of Achonry.
