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Of course this was written by Catholics and is therefore nothing but a pack of lies. I post it only to amuse our Protestant friends. When we're not creating death squads, we have to amuse ourselves somehow. It can't all be blood and vain repetitions, after all. SOME time must be given to fables and vain imaginings.

Commonwealth (1649-1659)

1649: Robert Netterville, priest, S.J. -- died at Drogheda, 19 June, of a severe beating with sticks;
1649: John Vath, priest, S.J., and his brother Thomas, secular priest, Dominic Dillon, O.P., prior at Urlar, Richard Oveton, O.P., prior at Athy, Peter Taaffe, O.S.A., prior at Drogheda -- slain in Drogheda massacre;
1649: Bernard Horumley (? Gormley), priest, O.S.F. -- hanged, Drogheda;
1649: Raymund Stafford, priest, Paul Synnott, priest, John Esmond, priest, Peter Stafford, priest, Didacus Cheevers and Joseph Rochford, lay brothers, Franciscans -- slain in Wexford massacre;
1649: James O'Reilly, priest, O.P. -- slain near Clonmel;
1649: William Lynch, priest, O.P. -- hanged.
1650: Boetius Egan, O.S.F., Bishop of Ross, celebrated for exhorting the garrison of Carrigadrehid Castle to maintain their post against Broghill -- dismembered and hanged;
1650: Miler Magrath (Father Michael of the Rosary), priest, O.P. -- hanged, Clonmel;
1650: Francis Fitzgerald, priest, O.S.F. -- hanged, Cork;
1650: Walter de Wallis, priest, O.S.F., and Antony Musæus (? Hussey), priest, O.S.F. -- hanged, Mullingar;
1650: John Dormer, O.S.F. -- died in prison, Dublin;
1650: Nicholas Ugan, or Ulagan, O.S.F. -- hanged with his girdle;
1650: Thomas Plunkett and twelve other Franciscans, Eugene O'Teman, O.S.F. -- flogged and cut to pieces by soldiers.
1651: Franciscans: Denis O'Neilan, priest, hanged, Inchicronan, Co. Clare; Thaddæus O'Carrighy, priest, hanged near Ennis; Hugh McKeon, priest, died in prison, Athlone; Roger de Mara (MacNamara), priest, shot and hanged, Clare Castle; Daniel Clanchy and Jeremiah O'Nerehiny (Nerny), lay brothers, Quin, hanged; Philip Flasberry, hanged near Dublin; Francis Sullivan, priest, shot in a cave, Co. Kerry, December; William Hickey, priest, hanged;
1651: Dominicans: Terence Albert O'Brien, O.P., Bishop of Emly; John Wolfe, priest, hanged, Limerick; John O'Cuilin (Collins), priest, beheaded; William O'Connor, prior at Clonmel, beheaded, and Thomas O'Higgin, priest, hanged, Clonmel; Bernard O'Ferrall, priest, slain, his brother Laurence, priest, hanged, Longford; Vincent Gerald Dillon, chaplain to Irish troops in England, died in prison, York; Ambrose Æneas O'Cahill, priest, cut to pieces by cavalry, Cork; Donagh Dubh (Black) and James Moran, lay brothers; laymen: Louis O'Farrall, died in prison, Athlone; Charles O'Dowd, hanged; Donagh O'Brien, burned alive; Sir Patrick Purcell, Sir Geoffrey Galway, Thomas Strich, mayor, Dominic Fanning, ex-mayor, Daniel O'Higgin, hanged after surrender of Limerick; Henry O'Neill, Theobald de Burgo.
1652: Secular priests: Roger Ormilius (? Gormley) and Hugh Garrighy -- hanged, Co. Clare;
1652:Cornelius MacCarthy, Co. Kerry;
1652: Bernard Fitzpatrick, Ossory Diocese;
1652: Franciscans hanged: Eugene O'Cahan, guardian at Ennis, Sliabh Luachra, Anthony Broder, deacon, near Tuam, Bonaventure de Burgo, Nielan Locheran, priest, Derry.
1652: Anthony O'Ferrall, priest, Tulsk, John O'Ferrall; Edmund O'Bern, priest, O.P. -- beheaded after torture, Jamestown;
1652: Laymen hanged: Thaddæus O'Connor Sligo, Boyle; John O'Conor Kerry, Tralee; Thaddæus O'Conor of Bealnamelly in Connaught; Bernard McBriody; Edmund Butler, Dublin; Brigid D'Arcy, wife of Florence Fitzpatrick; Conn O'Rorke -- slain after quarter given.
1653: Dominicans: Thaddæus Moriarty, prior at Tralee, hanged, Killarney; Bernard O'Kelly, priest or lay brother, Galway; David Roche, priest, sold into slavery, St. Kitts; Honoria Burke and her maid, Honoria Magan, tertiaries, Burrishoole; Daniel Delany, P.P., Arklow, hanged, Gorey.
1654: Bernard Conney, O.S.F., died in Galway jail; Mary Roche, Viscountess Fermoy, Cork; William Tirry, priest, Augustinian hermit, probably in Co. Cork.
1655: Daniel O'Brien, dean of Ferns, Luke Bergin, O.Cist., and James Murchu -- hanged, 14 April.