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The Bard of Armagh, buried at Desertcreat Church, Co Tyrone.
Patrick Donnelly grew up in Gortalowry, near Cookstown in 1649.
He was made Bishop of Dromore in 1697, the same year as the enactment of the Bishops Banishment Act. Donnelly fled for his life and is believed to have taken the name of the travelling minstrel Phelim Brady to secretly carry out his duties as a Bishop...