Adam Duff O'Toole explained

Adam Duff O'Toole (Irish: Adducc or Irish: Adam Dubh Ó Tuathail;^[1] died 11 April 1328) was an Irishman burned at the stake in Dublin for heresy and blasphemy. What is known about O'Toole comes from a letter from the leaders of the Pale, the Hiberno-Norman colony around Dublin, to Pope John XXII asking him to authorise a crusade against the Irish. The letter names "Aduk Duff Octohyl" as leader of a host of Irish heretics. Modern historians regard the heresy accusations as politically motivated, and the letter as a counter to the Irish Remonstrance of 1317.^{[2] [3]} Adam Duff was the son of Walter Duff, Chief of the Name of the Clan O'Toole, based in the Wicklow Mountains.^[4] The O'Tooles had formed an alliance with the King of Leinster, Domhnall mac Art MacMurrough-Kavanagh and Edward Bruce, to wage war against English rule over Ireland. Holinshed's Chronicles states:^{[5] [6]}

Hogging or Hogges Green was a green extending south and east from the modern College Green and centred on the Hogges, a Norse Dublin Thing mound.^[7]

Further reading

• "The heresy of being Irish : Adducc Dubh O'Toole and two MacConmaras" in Maeve Brigid Callan The Templars, the witch, and the wild Irish : vengeance and heresy in medieval Ireland (Cornell University Press, 2015)

External links

• The Heretic’s Tale: Adam Duff O'Toole (died 1327 AD) a 2010 lecture by Bernadette Williams at Dublin City Libraries.

Notes and References

1. Book: Neary, Anne R. . . http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/20/101020932/ . Adam Dubh O Tuathail . 2004 .
2. Web site: Summary–Wild Irish. Callan. Maeve Brigid. 14 February 2015. The Templars, the Witch, and the Wild Irish. 22 April 2015.
3. Nicholson. Helen J.. 2012. The Hospitallers' and Templars' involvement in warfare on the frontiers of the British Isles in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. Ordines Militares. Colloquia Torunensia Historica. 17. 115–116. 0867-2008.
4. Book: Olden, Thomas . Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/20/101020932/. 42. 1895. Smith, Elder & Co.. O'Toole, Adam Duff.
5. Book: Webb, Alfred. Alfred Webb. A Compendium of Irish Biography. http://www.libraryireland.com/biography/AdamDuffOToole.php. 1878. M. H. Gill & Son. Dublin. O'Toole, Adam Duff.
6. Web site: The Holinshed Texts (1577, Volume 3, p. 58 with companion text). University of Oxford. 22 April 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151021133954/http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/holinshed/texts.php?text1=1577_4931&text2=1587_0495#p3333. 21 October 2015. dead.
7. Book: Duffy, Seán. Christopher Harper-Bill. Proceedings of the Battle Conference in Dublin, 1997. https://books.google.com/books?id=gRBAQBB5PiQC&pg=PA82. 21 April 2015. 1998. Boydell & Brewer. 9780851155739. 82. Ireland's Hastings: the Anglo-Norman conquest of Dublin.