Life
1830-1911 [Patrick Francis; Cardinal Archbishop of Sydney]; b. Leighlinbridge,
co. Carlow; nephew of Cardinal Cullen; ed. Rome, 1842; Vice-Rector of
Irish College, 1856; Prof. of Hebrew at College of Propaganda, Rome; issued
Memoir[s] of Oliver Plunkett (1861); issued The
Catholic Archbishops of Dublin (1864); co-ed. with Rev. George Conroy
Irish Ecclesiastical Record, from March 1864; joined Cardinal Paul
Cullen in Ireland as his private secretary, 1866; appt. adjutor bishop
of Ossory, 1870; preferred to see of Ossory, 1872; ed. and annotated Mervyn
Archdall’s Monasticon Hibernicum [1789], 2 vols. (1873; rep.
1876); translated to Sydney [q.d.]; issued The Catholics of Ireland
[...] in the 18th Century (1899), and sundry pamphlets;
made cardinal. DNB DIH
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Works
Memoirs [sic] of the Most Rev. Oliver Plunkett [1st edn.] (1861);
Essays on the Origin, Doctrines, and discipline of the Early Irish
Church (Dublin: Duffy 1864); The Catholic Archbishops of Dublin
(1864); A Historical Sketch of the Persecutions Suffered by the Catholics
of Ireland under [...] Cromwellians and Puritans (1865; rep.
edn. M. H. Gill 1907), 515pp.; Civilization of Ireland Before the Anglo-Norman
Invasion (Dublin: CTS [n.d.]), pamphlet.; ed., Monasticon Hibernicum
by Mervyn Archdall [1789], with add. notes by P. F. Moran, 2 vols. (Duffy
1873, 1876); Spicelegium Ossoriense, 3 vols. (1874-84); ed., David
Rothe, The Analecta (1884); and The Catholics of Ireland [...]
in the 18th Century (1899).
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Notes
Maureen Wall, Catholic Ireland in the Eighteenth Century: Collected
Essays, ed. Gerard O’Brien (Dublin: Geog. Publ. 1989), refers
to Spicelegium Ossoriense, 3 vols. (1874-84), as invaluable due
to later lost of documents in Record Office fire [in 1922].
Library of Herbert Bell (Belfast) contains 24 CTS and Irish Messenger pamphlets bound as Irish History and Archaeology, incl. nationalist pamphlets on Irish history by Cardinal Moran; Most Rev John Healy, DD, Archb. of Tuam; E[dmund] Leahy, Very Rev. Dr Alphonsus Bellesheim, trans. Rev. W McLoughlin; John G Rowe, RJC, John B Cullen, Rev William Moran, DD, St Patrick’s College, Maynooth; Very Rev. Canon Murphy, DD, PP; JM Flood; John J Horgan; Rev. JJ MacNamee, and anon.
British Library holds Monasticon [sic] Hibernicum, ed. with many additional notes by P. F. Moran, Vols. 1, 2 (Dublin: W. B. Kelly 1873, 1876) [no other vols.]
University of Ulster Library (Morris Collection) holds P. F. Moran, ed., Monasticum [sic] Hibernicum by Mervyn Archdall (1st edn.: Luke White 1789); also Patrick Francis Moran, Essays on the Origin, Doctrines, and discipline of the Early Irish Church (Duffy 1864); Historical Sketch on the persecutions of the Catholics of Ireland under the Rule of Cromwell and the Puritans (Gill 1907), 515p.; Spicelegium Ossoriense (1874); and Moran, ed., David Rothe, The Analecta (1884).
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)