Coigly, James, 1761-1798
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- Wikipedia, May 20, 2022(James Coigly; Father James Coigly (aka James O'Coigley and Jeremiah Quigley); born 1761 in Kilmore, County Armagh, Ireland; died 7 June 1798 in Maidstone, Kent, England; he was a Roman Catholic priest in Ireland active in the republican movement against the British Crown and the kingdom's Protestant Ascendancy; he served the Society of United Irishmen as a mediator in the sectarian Armagh Disturbances and as an envoy both to the government of the French Republic and to radical circles in England with whom he sought to coordinate an insurrection; in June 1798 he was executed in England for treason having been detained as he was about to embark on a return mission to Paris)
- His The life of the Rev. James Coigly, 1798.
- Crose, J. Concise dictionary of Irish biography, 1970(Coigly, Rev. James, ca. 1762-1798; hanged; United Irishman)
- LC in RLIN, 07-03-91(hdg.: Coigly, James, 1762?-1798)
- A patriot priest, 1998:t.p. (Father James Coigly, 1761-1798)