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'''Malachy of Ireland''' ([[floruit|fl.]] 1279–1300), also known as '''Malachias Hibernicus''', was a theologian and [[Archbishop of Tuam]] in 1280.

He was a [[friar]] of the [[Franciscan]] [[convent]] of [[Limerick]] and was elected [[Archbishop of Tuam]], though never officially installed. He was first mentioned in a letter of 1279 from [[Nicol Mac Máel Ísu]], [[Archbishop of Armagh]], to [[Edward I of England]], [[Lord of Ireland]], asking that Brother Malachy be appointed to Tuam. The king granted this request in a letter dated 22 April 1280. However, five of the seven canons of Tuam chosen as electors voted for [[Nicol Mac Flainn]], a fellow canon. This resulted in [[Stephen de Fulbourn]] being transferred from Waterford to Tuam. Malachy had by then abandoned his claim, and his election was annulled.

Malachy may also be the author of a [[treatise]], ''De veneno'', on the [[seven deadly sins]], published in [[Paris]] in 1518 and alternatively attributed to [[Robert Grosseteste]]. It is stated as having been written ''"for the instruction of simple men who have to teach the people"''. The edition stated that he was a Franciscan preacher who was alive in 1300, ''"a doctor of theology, a strenuous expounder of the scriptures and a most zealous rebuker of vices."'' Apparently he also wrote a book of sermons, now lost. [[John Bale]] recorded that he was well received in Ireland, esteemed at [[Oxford]], and preached before [[Edward II]].

==References==
* ''Dictionary of Irish Biography from the Earliest Times to the Year 2002'', p.&nbsp;308, Cambridge, 2010.
* ''Friar Malachy of Ireland'', Mario Esposito, Early Historical Record xxxiii (1918), pp.&nbsp;359–66. 
* A.B. Scott, 'Latin Learning and Literature in Ireland: 1169-1500', in ''A New History of Ireland'', volume one, pp.&nbsp;969–71.

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