List of post-Reformation Catholic saints in Ireland

The Catholic Church recognises certain deceased Catholics as saints, beati, venerabili, and servants of God. In the post-Reformation period, some such people were born, died, or lived in Ireland.

Edmund Ignatius Rice was the first Irish-born Catholic to be beatified after the English Reformation

Saints

• Joannes Andreas Houben (Charles of Saint Andrew) (1821–1893), Professed Priest of the Passionists (Limburg, Netherlands – Dublin, Ireland)
  • Declared "Venerable": 10 May 1979
  • Beatified: 16 October 1988 by Pope John Paul II
  • Canonized: 3 June 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI

Blesseds

• Edmund Ignatius Rice (1762–1844), Widower; Founder of the Irish Christian Brothers and the Presentation Brothers of Mary (Kilkenny – Waterford City, Ireland)
  • Declared "Venerable": 2 April 1993
  • Beatified: 6 October 1996 by Pope John Paul II
• Joseph Marmion (Columba) (1858–1923), Professed Priest of the Benedictines (Annunciation Congregation) (Dublin, Ireland – Namur, Belgium)
  • Declared "Venerable": 28 June 1999
  • Beatified: 3 September 2000 by Pope John Paul II
• John Sullivan (1861–1933), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Dublin, Ireland)
  • Declared "Venerable": 7 November 2014
  • Beatified: 13 May 2017 by Cardinal Angelo Amato, S.D.B.

Venerables

• 
  Ven. Matt Talbot
• 
  Ven. Catherine McAuley
• 
  Ven. Edel Mary Quinn
• 
  Ven. Nano Nagle
• 
  Ven. Mary Aieknhead
• 
  Ven. Patrick Peyton

• Matt Talbot (1856–1925), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Dublin; Member of the Secular Franciscans (Dublin, Ireland)
  • Declared "Venerable": 3 October 1975
• Catherine McAuley (1778–1841), Founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy (Dublin, Ireland)
  • Declared "Venerable": 9 April 1990
• Edel Mary Quinn (1907–1944), Layperson of the Archdioceses of Nairobi and Dublin; Member of the Legion of Mary (Cork, Ireland – Nairobi, Kenya)
  • Declared "Venerable": 15 December 1994
• Honora [Nano] Nagle (1718–1784), Founder of the Presentation Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Cork, Ireland)
  • Declared "Venerable": 31 October 2013
• Mary Aikenhead (1787–1858), Founder of the Religious Sisters of Charity of Ireland (Cork – Dublin, Ireland)
  • Declared "Venerable": 18 March 2015
• Patrick Peyton (1909–1992), Professed Priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross (Mayo, Ireland – California, United)
  • Declared "Venerable": December 18, 2017

Servants of God

• 
  Tomb of Fr. Andrew Mullen
• 
  Mo. Margaret Mary Healy Murphy
• 
  Fr. Willie Doyle
• 
  Fr. Edward J. Flanagan
• 
  Mo. Mary Kevin Kearney
• 
  Alfie Lambe
• 
  Frank Duff

• Andrew Mullen (1790–1818), Priest of the Diocese of Kildaire and Leighlin (Offaly – Kilkenny, Ireland)^[1]
• Alice O'Sullivan (Louise) (1836–1870), Vowed Member of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul; Martyr (Tipperary, Ireland – Hebei, China)^[2]
• Patrick Ryan (1845–1878), Priest of the Diocese of Knoxville (Tipperary, Ireland – Tennessee, United States)^[3][4]
• Margaret Mary Healy Murphy (1833–1907), Widow; Founder of the Sisters of the Holy Spirit and Mary Immaculate (Cahersiveen, Ireland – Texas, United States)^[5]
• William [Willie] Doyle (1873–1917), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Dublin, Ireland – Zonnebeke, Belgium)^[6]
• Joseph Shanahan (1871–1943), Professed Priest of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit (Spiritans); Bishop of Onitsha; Founder of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary (Tipperary, Ireland – Nairobi, Kenya)^[7]
• Edward Joseph Flanagan (1886–1948), Priest of the Archdiocese of Omaha (Roscommon, Ireland – Nebraska, United States)^[8][9][10]
• Martyrs of North Korea
  • Anthony Collier (1913–1950), Priest of the Missionary Society of Saint Columban; Martyr (Louth, Ireland – Gangwon, South Korea)^[11]
  • Patrick Reilly (1915–1950), Priest of the Missionary Society of Saint Columban; Martyr (Westmeath, Ireland – Gangwon, South Korea)^[12]
  • Thomas Cusack (1910–1950), Priest of the Missionary Society of Saint Columban; Martyr (Clare, Ireland – Daejeon, South Korea)^[13][14][15]
  • John O'Brien (1924–1950), Priest of the Missionary Society of Saint Columban; Martyr (Roscommon, Ireland – Daejeon, South Korea)^[16]
  • Francis Canavan (1915–1950), Priest of the Missionary Society of Saint Columban; Martyr (Galway, Ireland – Chagang, North Korea)^[17][18]
• Teresa Kearney (Mary Kevin) (1875–1957), Founder of the Little Sisters of Saint Francis and the Franciscan Missionary Sisters for Africa (Wicklow, Ireland – Massachusetts, United States)^[19][20]
• Alphonsus [Alfie] Lambe (1932–1959), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires; Member of the Legion of Mary (Offaly, Ireland – Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• Francis Michael [Frank] Duff (1889–1980), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Dublin; Founder of the Legion of Mary (Dublin, Ireland)
• Declan O'Toole (1971–2002), Priest of the Mill Hill Missionaries; Martyr (Galway, Ireland – Kotido, Uganda)^[21][22]
• Colm O'Brien (1973–2009), Priest of the Diocese of Waterford and Lismore (Waterford City – Dublin, Ireland)^[23][24]
• Clare Crockett (1982–2016), nun who died in the 2016 Ecuador earthquake and was declared as Servant of God in 2024.^[25]

Candidates for sainthood

• John Christopher Drumgoole (1816–1888), Priest of the Archdiocese of New York; Founder of the Sisters of Francis of the Mission of the Immaculate Virgin (Longford, Ireland – New York, United States)^[26]
• Patrick Manogue (1831–1895), Bishop of Sacramento (Kilkenny, Ireland – California, United States)^[27]
• Geraldine Gibbons (Scholastica) (1817–1901), Founder of the Sisters of the Good Samaritan (Kinsale, Ireland – New South Wales, Australia)^[28][29]
• Timothy Leonard (1893–1929), Priest of the Missionary Society of Saint Columban (Limerick, Ireland – Jiangxi, China)^[30][31]
• Johanna Butler (Marie Joseph) (1860–1940), Professed Religious of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary (Kilkenny, Ireland – New York, United States)^[32]
• Martyrs of the 1945 Battle of Manila, Philippines:
  • John Heneghan (1882–1945), Priest of the Missionary Society of Saint Columban (Mayo, Ireland – Manila, Philippines)^[33]
  • William Kelly (Egbert Xavier) (1894–1945), Professed Religious of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (De La Salle Brothers) (Wicklow, Ireland – Manila, Philippines)^{[citation needed]}
• Hugh O'Flaherty (1898–1963), Priest of the Vicariate of Rome (Cork – Kerry, Ireland)^{[citation needed]}

See also

• List of post-reformation saints in the United Kingdom
• List of Catholic martyrs of the English Reformation
• List of American candidates for sainthood
• List of Canadian Catholic saints and beatified people
• List of Scandinavian saints