Around
1577, a caustic satire against Irish Anglican bishops
Miler Magrath, Matthew Sheyn,
William Casey, and a fourth bishop no longer recognizable, was composed as
Irish bardic poetry by the
Franciscan priest-poet
FriarEoghan Ó Dubhthaigh (Owen O'Duffy). In the poem, which begins, Léig dod chomortus dúinn ("No more of your companions for us"), the bishops are skewered for having renounced veneration of the
Blessed Virgin in return for earthly wives, whom Friar O'Duffy then compares in a very unflattering way to the Mother of
Jesus Christ.[4]
^"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1"
Cotton, H. pp 222/3
Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
^Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (Third ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 345.
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