Malachy of Ireland

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Friar Malachy of Ireland, fl. 13th/14th century?

Probable[weasel words] author of Venenum (Poison), a moral treatise, usually attributed to Robert Grosseteste. It is stated as having being written "for the instruction of simple men who have to teach the people".

Malachy may be[weasel words] identical with the franciscan, Malachy of Limerick, and unsuccessful candidate for the Archbishop of Tuam in 1280.

[edit] Sources

  • Friar Malachy of Ireland, Mario Esposito, Early Historical Record xxxiii (1918), pp.359-66.
  • A New History of Ireland, volume one, pp.969-71.


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