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Born: Clontuskert, County Galway
Entered: 1650, Spain
Ordained: ???
Died: post 1679
Superior of Irish Mission 1670-1679
Left Society of Jesus: ???
Official Catalogus Defuncti MISSING
◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent 1650
◆ Old/15 (1) has “Richard Burke or Burgo” Ent 1650 RIP 1693
◆ Old/16 has : “P Richard De Burgo or Burke”; DOB Clontuskert Galway; Ent 1650 Spain; RIP post 1697
◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
De Burgo or Burke
DOB Clontuskert; Ent 1650 Spain;
Nephew of John De Burgo, Archbishop of Tuam; Of the Clanricarde family (also known as Mac William Uachtar - Upper Mac William - or the Galway Burkes).
1660 At St Malo. Reported to the General as “prudens et insignis religiosus”
1662 Sent to Ireland
1670 Superior of the Mission
1679 Arrested for the faith and deported
Of polished manners; A good Religious and prudent and hardworking Missioner; Successful in reconciling enemies.
◆ Menology of the Society of Jesus: The English Speaking Assistancy
January 19
Father Richard Burke, born in County Galway, was the nephew of Dr. Burke, Archbishop of Tuam. In 1650, he entered the Society, being then in Spain. He came back to Ireland in 1662, was appointed Superior of the Mission, and arrived in Dublin on January the 20th, 1670. He was subsequently arrested in connection with the Oates' conspiracy, released on bail in 1679, and lived in daily expectation of banishment. He bore the reputation of being a good Religious, a man of courteous and winning manner, a discreet and hardworking missioner ; all which qualities gave him unwonted success in the spiritual art of reconciling enemies.
◆ Henry Foley - Records of the English province of The Society of Jesus Vol VII
BURKE, RICHARD, Father (Irish), was nephew to Dr. John Burke, the Archbishop of Tuam. He entered the Society in Spain. On January 20, 1670, he arrived in Dublin as Superior of the Irish Jesuits, then thirty-five in number. He had been arrested in the Oates Plot persecution, and released on bail, and in May, 1679, was daily expecting banishment. (Oliver's Collectanca, Irish section, from Stonyhurst MSS.) In 1666 he was living near Galway, Consultor of the Mission, and assisting his uncle the Archbishop, and was successful in reconciling enmities. He had been four years on the mission. (Irish Cataloguc, 1666, Archives, Rome.)