Life
1620-1680 [occas. pseud. ‘Peter Wilson’]; b. Co. Dublin; br.
of Richard Talbot, Earl of Tyrconnell; ed. Portugal and Rome; joined jesuit
order; lived and worked in Lisbon, Antwerp, Cologne, and Paris; Archb.
of Antwerp, assisted by the bishop of Ferns; involved in diplomatic missions
[plots] ‘to gain assistance from Charles II’, trusting no party;
made [titular] archbishop of Dublin at Ghent, 1669; took up his position
and became engaged in dispute about precendency of Dublin or Armagh with
primate Oliver Plunkett; removed from Ireland to Paris at banishment of
priests, 1673; issued The Friar disciplin’d in Ghent, a bitter
attack on Peter Walsh (of the Remonstrance); returned to England
and Ireland; pension of £200 from Charles II; lived unmolested at Poole
Hall in Cheshire; arrested for complicity in popish plot, 1678, and d.
Newgate prison, Dublin, after two years; reconciled with Plunkett, also
a prisoner. DNB
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Notes
Muriel McCarthy & Caroline Sherwood-Smith, eds., Hibernia Resurgens:
Catalogue of Marsh’s Library (1994); [biog. and bibl. details
as supra]; Thomas Darcy McGee reports that he had republican principples
and attended Cromwell’s funeral in 1658; br. of Richard Talbot, earl
of Tyrconnel; at first supported Peter Walsh against Rinuccini but then
strenuously opposed him, calling his book ;Stufft with eros, no less dangerous
to the state, than damnable to the soul’; [Note that the dates and
details of his exit from and return to Ireland do not square with the
Shorter DNB account.]
Marsh’s Library, Dublin holds copy of The Friar disciplined [Printed
at Gant 1674), 8o.
Portrait Peter Talbot d. 1680, Italian school, possibly done in Rome,
c.1660, lent Malahide family; see Anne Crookshank, Irish Portraits
Exhibition (Ulster Mus. 1965). Note also Talbot, Earl and Duke of
Tyrconnell d.1691, French Sch. in manner Petitot, miniat. c.1691; ibid.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)