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Our Martyrs was originally composed in 1896 by Fr Dennis Murphy SJ , A Cork born Jesuit priest, and is a record of Catholics killed for their faith in Ireland under the Penal Laws.
This edition of Our Martyrs has been edited and prefaced with a short introduction by Damien Richardson ( on the back cover) .
Most Irish Catholics only have a vague understanding of this history of the persecution of Irish Catholics in the past, with what they do know lacking detail. ‘Our Martyrs’ tries to remedy this by providing full detail of the Penal Laws passed in Ireland and detailed accounts of the martyrdom of Irish Catholics. These accounts include Blessed Dermot O'Hurley, St. Oliver Plunket and many more.
The decision to edit and relaunch Our Martyrs, was one “born of a genetic memory within each and every Irish person, conscious or unconscious, of the fact that the foundations of our faith and how it was sustained for centuries was through the most adverse and difficult of times. It was essentially a capital crime to be Catholic in Ireland – the practice of one’s faith, attending Mass, attending to any of the sacraments, being a priest – was something that could lead to, and overwhelmingly did lead to, imprisonment, torture and death. A book like Our Martyrs is a rather sanguinary vignette of the sufferings that generations of Irish people went through in order to practise and live their faith and pass it on to their children,”
This book was reissued in 2013 and 2018.
