#St. Oliver Plunkett

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#OTD in 1628 – Founding of the Irish College in Rome. Among its former students was St Oliver Plunkett, who attended in the late 17th century.

The Irish College, Rome was founded on this date in 1628 by the Irish Franciscan, Fr Luke Wadding O.F.M. and the Italian Cardinal, Ludivico Ludovisi, a nephew of Pope Gregory XV, who died three years before the College was established. Having been appointed Cardinal Protector of Ireland, Ludovisi was concerned that his title would not be an empty one and when he was approached by Luke Wadding to…

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Saint Oliver Plunkett

1625 - 1681

Feast Day: July 1

Patronage: Peace and Reconciliation in Ireland

Born in Ireland, he studied for the priesthood in Rome and was ordained there in 1654. After some years of teaching and service to the poor of Rome, he was appointed Archbishop of Armagh in Ireland. Four years later, in 1673, a new wave of anti-Catholic persecution began, forcing Archbishop Plunkett to do his pastoral work in secrecy and disguise and to live in hiding. He was viewed as ultimately responsible for any rebellion or political activity among his parishioners. He was arrested and imprisoned in Dublin Castle in 1679, but his trial was moved to London. A jury found him guilty of fomenting revolt. He was hanged, drawn and quartered in July 1681.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here: (website)

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Off Oliver Plunkett St, Cork, Ireland, 2024.

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"In Assisi" - Kim Addonizio

This souvenir shop is full of skinny wooden crucified Christs like there weren’t enough of those in the churches already

I guess everyone has to believe in something Crystals, colonics, when you die you get virgins or your very own planet where you can spin for eternity in your celestial underpants

Some people believe Jesus spoke to St. Francis, but I have a feeling Jesus is just going to hang there silently looking holy & tormented for another two thousand years or so

I don’t think I’m going to get a Catholic miracle, like a statue blinks at me & I suddenly understand Italian Greek Latin Aramaic & Ugaritic

or peel off my tattoos & send the carved lions of my higher self to tear apart the lambs of my addictions

I’ll probably just go on kneeling before minibars in hotel rooms in my silk robe of flowers, praising the macadamias

One story about St. Francis is that two years before he died he got stigmata Probably malaria or leprosy, but imagine those sores

He dressed in a mended sack & old worn sandals If you saw him in Berkeley you might cross the street then come back with some change & try not to touch his hand

At the end of his life he was going blind, living in a reed hut overrun by mice Mice slithering over his feet, mice climbing the table to sit on his plate I guess they figured out that the job of a saint is to suffer as horribly as possible

St. Agnes raped & stabbed in the throat Joan of Arc burned & cast into the Seine

Oliver Plunkett: imprisoned hanged drawn & quartered beheaded beatified canonized

Brother Sun, Sister-in-law Death, forgive me I don’t see the point of all this pain, or believing it gets better when you’re boxed & delivered to the parade of microbes that will devour your corpse

I know my soul is small, it just wants a decent hotel room & the man who lies down to sleep so trustingly beside me to open his eyes & love me

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ATR 72-600 Aer Lingus Regional operated by Stobart Air

Registration: EI-FCY Named: St Oliver Plunkett Type: 72-600 (72-212A) Engines: 2 × PWC PW127M Serial Number: 1139 First flight: Mar 25, 2014

Stobart Air, legally incorporated as Stobart Air Unlimited Company, was an Irish regional airline headquartered in Dublin. It operated scheduled services under the brands Aer Lingus Regional, BA CityFlyer and KLM Cityhopper on behalf of their respective owners. Stobart Air had operating base in Cork, Dublin and Belfast for Aer Lingus Regional. Established as Aer Arann in 1970, a major refinancing in 2014 was associated with a name change to Stobart Air. Aer Arann (styled as Aer Arann Regional) was a regional airline based in Dublin, Ireland. The airline operated scheduled services on behalf of Aer Lingus Regional. On 19 March 2014, Aer Arann announced that it would be changing its corporate name to Stobart Air by the end of 2014. It ceased operations on 12 June 2021.

Poster for Aviators. aviaposter.com

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https://www.indcatholicnews.com/saint/190

St Oliver Plunkett

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My Lovely Mum

Here she is wearing a colourful hat that I bought for her in Menorca. It suited her personality, bright, friendly, full of fun and definitely colourful. My lovely Mum passed away in September this year just before turning 88. It was a few months ago but feels like it was yesterday. The last year of her life was spent in St. Oliver Plunketts’s nursing home in Dundalk and they looked after her so,…

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Thứ Bảy 1-7 Những người từ phương đông và phương tây sẽ đến trong nước trời

Jul 01 Thánh Oliver Plunkett, GM tử đạo và Thánh Junipero Serra, LM Thứ Bảy, Tuần 12 Thường Niên, Năm 1 – 01/07/23 BÀI ĐỌC I: St 18, 1-15 “Đối với Thiên Chúa có gì khó đâu.Ta trở lại thăm ông và Sara được một đứa con trai”. Trích sách Sáng Thế. Trong những ngày ấy, Chúa hiện ra cùng Abraham dưới chòm cây ở Mambrê, đang lúc ông ngồi ở cửa lều giữa trưa nóng bức. Ông ngước mặt lên thấy ba…

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#OTD in 1679 – St. Oliver Plunkett, Archbishop of Armagh, is accused of instigating the ‘Irish Popish’ Plot and arrested.

The late 1670s under Charles II were a special time in British history during which religious controversy ran high. The rivalry between the king, who issued a Declaration of Indulgence suspending all laws punishing Roman Catholics and other religious dissenters, and a strongly Anglican Parliament had reached its peak. In Ireland the Catholic Church had slowly been recovering from the Cromwellian…

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Happy Feast Day Saint Oliver Plunkett 1625 - 1681 Feast Day: July 1 Patronage: Peace and Reconciliation in Ireland

Born in Ireland, he studied for the priesthood in Rome and was ordained there in 1654. After some years of teaching and service to the poor of Rome, he was appointed Archbishop of Armagh in Ireland. Four years later, in 1673, a new wave of anti-Catholic persecution began, forcing Archbishop Plunkett to do his pastoral work in secrecy and disguise and to live in hiding. He was viewed as ultimately responsible for any rebellion or political activity among his parishioners. He was arrested and imprisoned in Dublin Castle in 1679, but his trial was moved to London. A jury found him guilty of fomenting revolt. He was hanged, drawn and quartered in July 1681. {website}

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Cork History | With Love from Cork

by Michael Lenihan

It is widely accepted that the Christian church decided to place St. Valentine’s feast day in the middle of February in an effort to “Christianise” the pagan celebration of Lupercalia. Celebrated on February 15, Lupercalia was a fertility festival dedicated to Faunus, the Roman god of agriculture, as well as to the Roman founders Romulus and Remus. Later in the day, according to legend, all the young women in the city would place their names in a big urn. The city’s bachelors would each choose a name and become paired for the year with his chosen woman. These matches often ended in marriage. The Catholic Church recognises at least three different saints named Valentine or Valentinus, all of whom were martyred. John Sprat was an Irish Carmelite Friar and well-known preacher.  He visited Rome, where he received a relic of Saint Valentine from Pope Gregory XVI, and Sprat brought the Reliquary containing the relics to his Whitefriar Street Church in Dublin where it remains to this day.

In France and England February 14 was assumed to be the beginning of the birds mating season, which added to the idea that Valentine’s Day should be a day for romance. The English poet Geoffrey Chaucer was the first to record St. Valentine’s Day as a day of romantic celebration in his 1375 poem “Parliament of Foules,” writing, “For this was Seynt on Valentyne’s day / Whan every foul cometh ther to choose his mate.” Valentine greetings were popular as far back as the Middle Ages, although written Valentines didn’t begin to appear until around 1400. The oldest known valentine still in existence  was a poem written in 1415 by Charles, Duke of Orleans to his wife while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London following his capture at the Battle of Agincourt.

In America the exchanging of hand-made valentines became very popular in the early 1700s and some wonderful early English examples exist in the Victoria & Albert Museum. By the middle of the 1800s, it was common for friends and lovers of all social classes to exchange small tokens of affection or handwritten notes, and by 1900 printed cards began to replace handwritten letters due to advances in printing technology. Ready-made cards were an easy way for people to express their emotions in a time when direct expression of one’s feelings was discouraged. An explosion of  affection in the form of Valentine cards made its way through the postal system thanks to the introduction of the penny post by Rowland Hill on 10 January1840.

Corkonians were quick to respond to cupid’s arrow and some Victorian advertisements by W. Wheeler Junior give us examples of his high-class stock of Valentine’s Day gifts. Valentines in boxes, from 3d. to £1 15s 03d containing solid silver jewellery, perfume, bottles, cards, cigar, and cigarette cases could be had from his premises at 4 & 5 Patrick Street. Another advertiser proclaimed that there was no charge for love notes to purchasers of Valentines at sixpence and upwards. Valentine novelties such as hummingbird Valentines were very popular shop window displays. W.J. Murray of George’s Street (now Oliver Plunkett Street) was doing a brisk trade in Valentine cards including those of the sentimental, poetic, refined and comic variety which could be posted nationwide post free.

The bard himself William Shakespeare mentions Saint Valentine's Day in A Midsummer Night's Dream (4.1.145) and in Hamlet, where he alludes to the superstition that if two single people meet on the morning of Saint Valentine's Day they will likely get married:

Tomorrow is St. Valentine’s Day

All in the morning betime

And I a maid at your window,

To be your Valentine.

Today, St. Valentine’s Day has become a much more commercial proposition. Bouquets of red roses, magnums of champagne, handmade chocolate, cuddly toys, organic candles, jewellery and of course the romantic candlelit meal are now standard fare. Well after all love is in the air so why not spice up your life with a little bit of romance.

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St Oliver Plunkett Martyr

Oliver Plunkett was archbishop of Armagh and primate of All Ireland from 1668, at a time when the country was in a state of civil and religious disorder after the interventions of Oliver Cromwell.

He persevered for ten years in his effort to ameliorate this state of affairs, until the discovery of a non-existent “Popish Plot” against the English government (invented and revealed by Titus Oates, who implicated many before he was executed for his part in it) gave the authorities an excuse to act against many prominent Catholics.

Plunkett was arrested in Ireland but taken to London for trial; one of his companions was saved by being appointed as Bavarian Ambassador to London and therefore acquiring diplomatic immunity, but for Plunkett there was no such escape, and he was hanged at Tyburn, cheating his executioners by dying before he could be ceremonially disembowelled.

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Cork: A food diary

(Contributed by Christy Lorio)

One of the biggest pleasures of travel is sampling foods that you either wouldn’t have access to back home or might not think to try. We’re almost halfway through the program now and I’ve fallen into a routine that feels comfortable but also gives me leeway to venture out and try new restaurants on nights and weekends.

Breakfast is whatever I have on hand at my apartment that’s quick and easy, like yogurt and a banana or a fried egg. On class days we get €10 vouchers for lunch in the cafeteria. I can’t eat €10 worth of food in one sitting so I either grab snacks for later, such as an extra sandwich or a bag of popcorn, or I take a piece of fruit for the next day’s breakfast. We are on our own for dinner and weekends, which typically means socializing and grabbing a bite to eat with students at a pub. This can be great craic but woman can not survive on pub fare alone. Here are just a few restaurants I’ve tried in Cork.

Quinlan’s 

If you’re looking for something upscale yet still relatively affordable Quinan’s is the way to go. The fish & chips are a solid bet but if you’re looking for something different try the Thai fish cakes. The last time I went Meghan said her seafood chowder was super flavorful and Genevieve liked the sticky toffee pudding so much she ordered it before dinner and split it with her daughter. 

West Cork Burger Co. 

This isn’t your standard burger joint. Creative takes on the classics, plus vegetarian and vegan options abound at West Cork Burger Company. I tried “The Japanese” with miso slaw, shiitake mushrooms and smoked chili jam. It’s right on the main road (No. 6 Washington St.) near The Edison, which makes for a good, filling meal before or after you explore the city. 

The Fish Wife

In the land of fish & chips The Fish Wife just might have the best chips (fries) in town. They’re served fresh and the texture is perfection crisp yet pillowy soft when you bite into them. The fish has a nice, doughy batter and a good ratio of fish to batter. The mushy peas are good (I like Jackie Lennox’s better) but it’s a nice complement to the main. 

Malay Kitchen

If you get tired of the Irish staples (hey, it happens) consider trying some Malaysian delicacies. Malay Kitchen is a pretty small restaurant so consider ordered takeaway if you’re with a large group. The appetizers alone make a light dinner and they also offer  €5 fried rice specials. 

Coffee Shops

Two of my favorite coffee shops are Alchemy Coffee & Books and Cafe Nerro, which highlight the range of coffee shops in Cork City.

Alchemy is a snug little spot with plenty of comfy, well worn seating and serves the usual coffee shop offerings, such as pastries and beverages, and also has made to order sandwiches and a small selection of books. 

Cafe Nerro is a chain and is a larger shop conveniently located on Oliver Plunkett. It has nice booth spaces and comfy couches, perfect for relaxing with friends or knocking out some homework. I really enjoy their iced espresso and tonic. It’s a nice alternative to your standard iced coffee. 

Just this past weekend I discovered Pink Moon, which has a menu of healthy options such as their Hippie Bowl (greens, grains, sauerkraut, slaw, tomatoes) and plenty of vegan pastries. The Bookshelf is another great option and has a nice, modern feel. It’s also located off the beaten path which provides a nice break from the usual city centre haunts.