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Richard Creagh, the Glossary

Richard Creagh (Risteard Craobhach; 1523 Limerick City – December 1586, Tower of London) was an Irish Roman Catholic clergyman who was the Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Along with the other Irish Catholic Martyrs, Archbishop Creagh is under investigation for possible Roman Catholic Sainthood.^[1]

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16th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Ireland
Christian clergy from Limerick (city)
Escapees from the Tower of London
Irish Servants of God
Irish escapees
Irish people who died in prison custody
Post-Reformation Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland
Roman Catholic archbishops of Armagh

Agent provocateur

An inciting agent is a person who commits, or who acts to entice another person to commit, an illegal or rash act or falsely implicates them in partaking in an illegal act, so as to ruin the reputation of, or entice legal action against, the target, or a group they belong to or are perceived to belong to.

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Archbishop

In Christian denominations, an archbishop is a bishop of higher rank or office.

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Archbishop of Armagh

The Archbishop of Armagh is an archiepiscopal title which takes its name from the city of Armagh in Northern Ireland. Richard Creagh and Archbishop of Armagh are Roman Catholic archbishops of Armagh.

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Archbishop of Cashel

The Archbishop of Cashel (Ard-Easpag Chaiseal Mumhan) was an archiepiscopal title which took its name after the town of Cashel, County Tipperary in Ireland.

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Archbishop of Dublin (Catholic Church)

The Archbishop of Dublin (Ard-Easpag Bhaile Átha Cliath) is the head of the Archdiocese of Dublin in the Catholic Church, responsible for its spiritual and administrative needs.

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Arson

Arson is the act of willfully and deliberately setting fire to or charring property.

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Babington Plot

The Babington Plot was a plan in 1586 to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I, a Protestant, and put Mary, Queen of Scots, her Catholic cousin, on the English throne.

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Bishop of Cork and Cloyne

The Bishop of Cork and Cloyne was an episcopal title which took its name after the city of Cork and the town of Cloyne in southern Ireland.

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Bishop of Limerick

The Bishop of Limerick is an episcopal title which takes its name after the city of Limerick in the Province of Munster, Ireland.

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Caesaropapism

Caesaropapism is the idea of combining the social and political power of secular government with religious power, or of making secular authority superior to the spiritual authority of the Church, especially concerning the connection of the Church with government.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Charles Nicholl is an English author specializing in works of history, biography, literary detection, and travel.

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Charles Patrick Meehan

Charles Patrick Meehan (12 July 1812 – 14 March 1890) was an Irish Catholic priest, historian and editor.

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Chief of the Name

The Chief of the Name, or in older English usage Captain of his Nation, is the recognised head of a family or clan (Irish and Scottish Gaelic: fine).

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Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe (baptised 26 February 156430 May 1593), was an English playwright, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era.

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Coadjutor bishop

A coadjutor bishop (or bishop coadjutor) is a bishop in the Catholic, Anglican, and (historically) Eastern Orthodox churches whose main role is to assist the diocesan bishop in the administration of the diocese.

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Creagh

Creagh is an Irish surname derived from the Gaelic Craobhach, meaning "branch".

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David Wolfe (Jesuit)

David Wolfe, SJ (died 1578?) was an Irish Jesuit who became papal legate in Ireland. Richard Creagh and David Wolfe (Jesuit) are Christian clergy from Limerick (city).

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Dictionary of Irish Biography

The Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB) is a biographical dictionary of notable Irish people and people not born in the country who had notable careers in Ireland, including both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

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Dictionary of National Biography

The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published since 1885.

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Dublin Castle

Dublin Castle (Caisleán Bhaile Átha Cliath) is a major Irish government complex, conference centre, and tourist attraction.

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Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. Richard Creagh and Elizabeth I are Prisoners in the Tower of London.

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Excommunication

Excommunication is an institutional act of religious censure used to deprive, suspend, or limit membership in a religious community or to restrict certain rights within it, in particular those of being in communion with other members of the congregation, and of receiving the sacraments.

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Gaels

The Gaels (Na Gaeil; Na Gàidheil; Ny Gaeil) are an ethnolinguistic group native to Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man.

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Glorious Revolution

The Glorious Revolution is the sequence of events that led to the deposition of James II and VII in November 1688.

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Grace (style)

His Grace and Her Grace are English styles of address used with high-ranking personages, and was the style for English monarchs until Henry VIII (r. 1509–1547), and for Scottish monarchs until the Act of Union of 1707, which united the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England.

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High treason in the United Kingdom

Under the law of the United Kingdom, high treason is the crime of disloyalty to the Crown.

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Irish Catholic Martyrs

Irish Catholic Martyrs were 24 Irish men and women who have been beatified or canonized for both a life of heroic virtue and for dying for their Catholic faith between the reign of King Henry VIII and Catholic Emancipation in 1829.

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James II of England

James VII and II (14 October 1633 – 16 September 1701) was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII from the death of his elder brother, Charles II, on 6 February 1685.

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Limerick

Limerick (Luimneach) is a city in western Ireland, in County Limerick.

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Mortal sin

A mortal sin (peccātum mortāle), in Christian theology, is a gravely sinful act which can lead to damnation if a person does not repent of the sin before death.

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Nuncio

An apostolic nuncio (nuntius apostolicus; also known as a papal nuncio or simply as a nuncio) is an ecclesiastical diplomat, serving as an envoy or a permanent diplomatic representative of the Holy See to a state or to an international organization.

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Peter Creagh

Peter Creagh or Piers Crevens (born Carrigeen 25 July 1642; died Strasbourg 25 July 1705) was an Irish Roman Catholic bishop in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

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Pope Pius IV

Pope Pius IV (Pio IV; 31 March 1499 – 9 December 1565), born Giovanni Angelo Medici, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 25 December 1559 to his death, in December 1565.

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Popish Plot

The Popish Plot was a fictitious conspiracy invented by Titus Oates that between 1678 and 1681 gripped the kingdoms of England and Scotland in anti-Catholic hysteria.

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Primacy of Ireland

The Primacy of Ireland belongs to the diocesan bishop of the Irish diocese with highest precedence. Richard Creagh and Primacy of Ireland are Roman Catholic archbishops of Armagh.

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Privy council

A privy council is a body that advises the head of state of a state, typically, but not always, in the context of a monarchic government.

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Rape

Rape is a type of sexual assault involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without their consent.

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Reformation in Ireland

The Reformation in Ireland was a movement for the reform of religious life and institutions that was introduced into Ireland by the English administration at the behest of King Henry VIII of England.

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Regicide

Regicide is the purposeful killing of a monarch or sovereign of a polity and is often associated with the usurpation of power.

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Robert Poley

Robert Poley, or Pooley (fl. 1568– aft. 1602) was an English double agent, government messenger and agent provocateur employed by members of the Privy Council during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I; he was described as "the very genius of the Elizabethan underworld".

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Strasbourg

The Archdiocese of Strasbourg (Archidioecesis Argentoratensis o Argentinensis; Archidiocèse de Strasbourg; Erzbistum Straßburg; Ärzbischofsìtz Strossburi(g)) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France, first mentioned in 343 AD.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Creagh

Also known as Creagh, Richard, Risteard Craobhach.

, Titus Oates, Tower of London, Treason, Trinity College Dublin, Ulster.

Richard Creagh, the Glossary

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See also

16th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Ireland

Christian clergy from Limerick (city)

Escapees from the Tower of London

Irish Servants of God

Irish escapees

Irish people who died in prison custody

Post-Reformation Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland

Roman Catholic archbishops of Armagh

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