In Colin Bateman's 2004 novel, Bring Me the Head of Oliver Plunkett, the head of Oliver Plunkett head is stolen from St. Peter's Church.
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(He has since been followed by 17 other Irish martyrs who were beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1992. Among them were Archbishop Dermot O'Hurley, Margaret Ball, and the Wexford Martyrs.)
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The remains were exhumed in 1683 and moved to the Benedictine monastery at Lamspringe, near Hildesheim in Germany.
In October of the same year, he was present at the canonisation of Oliver Plunkett, where he met the then Pope Paul VI and future Pope John Paul II who was bishop of Kraków at the time.
Oliver Cromwell | Oliver Stone | Oliver! | Oliver Goldsmith | Oliver | Jamie Oliver | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | Oliver Sacks | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | Oliver Twist | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Oliver Hardy | Oliver Reed | Oliver North | Oliver Nelson | Oliver Hazard Perry | Oliver Lake | Oliver Heaviside | Oliver O. Howard | Oliver Tambo | Oliver Lodge | Oliver Letwin | Oliver Kahn | Oliver Knussen | Paul Oliver | Oliver Tompsett | Oliver Pocher | Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany | Damien Oliver | Susan Oliver |
The Dean Brian Maguirc College, a second level education school, is named after Dean Brian McGurk who was Vicar-General to St Oliver Plunkett during the Penal Times and died in Armagh Gaol aged 91.
UCD, Ballyboden St Enda's, Raheny, St Oliver Plunkett's-Eoghan Ruadh, Skerries Harps, St Vincent's, St Peregrine's, Kilmacud Crokes, Trinity Gaels, Na Fianna, Ballymun Kickham's, St Patrick's Palmerstown, Parnells, Templeogue Synge Street, St Brigid's and Lucan Sarsfields all went on to qualify for the winners section of the second round of the Dublin Championship.
Bring Me the Head of Oliver Plunkett is the second novel of the Eddie & the Gang with No Name trilogy by Northern Irish author, Colin Bateman, published on 13 May 2004 through Hodder Children's Books.
Located in central Letterkenny, close to the Library and Arts Centre on the Lower Main Street side and the Bank of Ireland on the Upper Main Street side, it also overlooks Pearse Street and Oliver Plunkett Street.
In 1605 he married Margaret Plunkett, daughter of Oliver Plunkett, 4th Baron Louth and Frances, sister of Henry Bagenal.