Oliver Óge Martyn,

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Jacobite and landowner, fl. ca. 1630-ca. 1709. The eldest son of

Richard Óge Martyn Richard Óge Martyn (c. 1602 – 1648) was a Galway lawyer and member of the Catholic Confederates of Ireland. He was of the senior line of the Martyn family, one of the Tribes of Galway. He lived at Dunguaire Castle, Kinvarra. He worked with ...

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and his wife Magdalene French, he represented Galway Borough in the

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of 1689. He fought in the

Williamite war in Ireland The Williamite War in Ireland (1688–1691; ga, Cogadh an Dá Rí, "war of the two kings"), was a conflict between Jacobite supporters of deposed monarch James II and Williamite supporters of his successor, William III. It is also called th ...

, been listed as a Major in Bourke's

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, which last fought at the

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. Several members of his family were killed, while his brother, Justice of the

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Peter Martyn was exiled with his family during the

Flight of the Wild Geese The Flight of the Wild Geese was the departure of an Irish Jacobite army under the command of Patrick Sarsfield from Ireland to France, as agreed in the Treaty of Limerick on 3 October 1691, following the end of the Williamite War in Ireland. ...

. However, Martyn survived being

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and held onto his lands through the provisions of the

Treaty of Limerick }), signed on 3 October 1691, ended the 1689 to 1691 Williamite War in Ireland, a conflict related to the 1688 to 1697 Nine Years' War. It consisted of two separate agreements, one with military terms of surrender, signed by commanders of a Frenc ...

. In 1709, when the

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passed the first major piece of anti-Catholic legislation, Martyn's Tullira estate was exempted from its property clauses because, as

James Hardiman James Hardiman (1782–1855), also known as Séamus Ó hArgadáin, was a librarian at Queen's College, Galway. Hardiman is best remembered for his '' History of the Town and County of Galway'' (1820) and '' Irish Minstrelsy'' (1831), one of the f ...

wrote, it had been noted that ''Oliver Martyn, of Tulliry, Co Galway, Esquire, was, during the rebellion, a person who behaved himself with great moderation, and was remarkably kind to numbers of Protestants in distress, many of which he supported in his own family, and by his charity and goodness saved their live''. Therefore, it was ''enacted that he might enjoy his estates to him and his heirs, and settle and dispose of the same to his eldest son and heirs male''. He married Frances, daughter of John Donellan of Ballydonnelan, and Mary Daly, daughter of Charles Daly of Calla. They had had three sons. His notable descendants included

Edward Martyn Edward Martyn (30 January 1859 – 5 December 1923) was an Irish playwright and early republican political and cultural activist, as the first president of Sinn Féin from 1905–08. Early life Martyn was the elder son of John Martyn of Tullira ...

Edward Carson, Baron Carson Edward Henry Carson, 1st Baron Carson, PC, PC (Ire) (9 February 1854 – 22 October 1935), from 1900 to 1921 known as Sir Edward Carson, was an Irish unionist politician, barrister and judge, who served as the Attorney General and Solicito ...

, and

Ferenc Martyn Ferenc Martyn (1899 – 1986) was an artist and sculptor, Hungarian-born descendant of the Martyn tribe of County Galway, descended from the same branch of the Tribe as Edward Martyn of Tullira (1859 – 1923). His great-grandfather and brother ...

Sources

*''History of Galway'',

, Galway, 1820 *''King James II's Irish Army List'' by D'Alton, ca. 1861 *''

: An Aristocratic Bohemian'', Madeline Humphries, 2007 {{DEFAULTSORT:Martyn, Oliver Oge 17th-century births 18th-century deaths 18th-century Irish people Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Galway constituencies People from County Galway Irish soldiers in the army of James II of England Irish MPs 1689

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