Fláithrí Ó Maol Chonaire
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Flaithrí Ó Maolchonaire O.F.M. |
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| Archbishop of Tuam | |
| Archdiocese | Tuam |
| Province | Connaught |
| Diocese | Tuam |
| See | Tuam |
| Elected | 1609 |
| Predecessor | Seamus Ó hÉilidhe |
| Successor | Malachy Ó Caollaidhe |
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| Consecration | 1609 by Maffeo Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII) |
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| Birth name | Flaithrí |
| Born | c.1560 Figh, civil parish of Tibohine, County Roscommon, Ireland |
| Died | 18 November 1629 (age 69) Madrid, Spain |
| Buried | College of St Anthony of Padua, Leuven |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Denomination | Catholic |
| Parents | Fíthil and Onóra Ó Maolchonaire |
| Education | Ireland and Spain |
| Alma mater | University of Salamanca |
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Styles of Flaithrí Ó Maolchonaire |
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| Reference style | The Most Reverend |
| Spoken style | Your Grace or Archbishop |
Flaithrí Ó Maolchonaire (also known as Florence Conry, Conroy, O'Mulconry, Omoelchonry Omulconner; c.1560 – 18 November 1629), was an Irish Franciscan and theologian, founder of the College of St Anthony of Padua, Leuven, and Archbishop of Tuam.
Flaithrí Ó Maolchonaire was born in the townland of Figh, civil parish of Tibohine, barony of Frenchpark, County Roscommon. His father and mother were Fíthil and Onóra Ó Maolchonaire. Two other sons survived to adulthood, Maoilechlainn and Firbisigh. They belonged to a well-known family of historians and poets whose principal estate was at Cluain Plocáin (Ballymulconry), civil parish of Kiltrustan, County Roscommon. Flaithrí was brought up in the family profession.
He studied for the priesthood at Salamanca, entering the Irish college founded in 1592. Ó Maolchonaire first studied the liberal arts and philosophy. On 10 December 1594, he was in the third year of his studies at Salamanca. A year earlier he had translated into Irish a short Castilian catechism by Jerónimo de Ripalda SJ. The original is a simple catechetical work written in Aristotelian master-pupil dialogue. According to Mícheál Mac Craith, Ó Maolchonaire's translation pointedly referred to the Irish as Eirinnach rather than Gaedheal.
After five years at the Salamanca Irish college, Ó Maolchonaire left to join the Franciscan province of Santiago. Aodh Mac Cathmhaoil was among his classmates in the Salamanca Franciscan friary. They and nine of their peers in the Santiago province were later raised to the episcopacy, an unprecedented development in the history of the order. In a memorial of 1606, Francisco Arias Dávila y Bobadilla, conde de Puñonrostro, stated that Ó Maolchonaire was ordained after taking the habit of the friars minor.
At the height of the Nine Years' War, Flaithrí Ó Maolchonaire sailed to Ireland where he served as a confessor and preacher to troops under the command of Hugh O'Neill and Red Hugh O'Donnell. In 1601, they requested a bishopric for Ó Maolchonaire 'in recognition of his diligence, commending his sound judgment on Irish affairs.' After the disaster of Kinsale in 1601, Ó Maolchonaire accompanied O'Donnell to Spain as his confessor and adviser, hoping to see a renewal of Spanish military intervention in Ireland.
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