Adam Duff O'Toole ( ga, Adducc or ; died 11 April 1328) was an Irishman

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for

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and blasphemy. What is known about O'Toole comes from a letter from the leaders of

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, the Hiberno-Norman colony around

, 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. Adam Duff was the son of Walter Duff, Chief of the Name of the Clan O'Toole, based in the

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. The O'Tooles had formed an alliance with the

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, Domhnall mac Art MacMurrough- Kavanagh and

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, to wage war against English rule over Ireland. Holinshed's ''Chronicles'' states: Hogging or Hogges Green was a green extending south and east from the modern

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and centred on the Hogges, a Norse Dublin

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The Heretic’s Tale: Adam Duff O'Toole (died 1327 AD)
a 2010 lecture by Bernadette Williams at Dublin City Libraries. 1327 deaths 14th-century Irish people Medieval Gaels from Ireland People from County Dublin People from County Wicklow People executed for heresy Executed Irish people Year of birth unknown People convicted of blasphemy in Ireland People executed for blasphemy {{Ireland-bio-stub

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