“THADY M’CARTHY (_succ._ 1490).—Upon the resignation of William, Thady M’Carthy, by some called Mechar, succeeded the same year by a provision from Pope Innocent VIII., as may be seen from the _Collectanea_ of Francis Harold”—Ware’s _Bishops_ (Harris), p. 563. The Blessed Thaddeus’s name is unhonoured then, in his own country; his biography, if ever written, is at least not recorded by the Irish historians. Even the scanty information which the industrious Ware supplies, was gleaned not from our annals, but from Harold’s _Collectanea_, probably notes and extracts taken from documents in the continental libraries. Dr. Renehan had, therefore, little to add on our saint’s life. He was, however, fully satisfied that Blessed Thaddeus of Ivrea was no other than the Bishop of Cork and Cloyne, mentioned by Ware. His arguments may be seen in a rough outline of his answer to the Bishop of Ivrea’s letter, among the O’Renehan MSS. in Maynooth, almost the only authority we had time to consult for this notice. Sometimes the very words of the letter are given in inverted commas:— I. The Pilgrim of Ivrea was an Irish bishop who died in the year 1492. “The most diligent search through our Irish annals will not discover another bishop to whom even so much of the poet’s description will apply but Thaddeus M’Carthy, Bishop of Cloyne. About that date there were indeed in Ireland five bishops named Thaddeus: 1. Thady, Bishop of Kilmore, since before 1460; but his successor Furseus died in 1464, and Thomas, the third from him, died before 1492. 2. Thady M’Cragh, of Killaloe, succeeded in 1430, full sixty years before our saint’s death at Ivrea. His third successor died in 1460. 3. Thady, Bishop of Down, was consecrated in Rome, 1469, died in 1486, and his successor, R. Wolsey, was named before 1492. 4. Thady of Ross died soon after his appointment in 1488, succeeded by Odo in 1489. 5. Thady of Dromore, appointed only in 1511, and the see was held by George Brown in 1492. The date (1492) is alone enough to prove that B. Thaddeus of Ivrea was not any of the preceding bishops, and there was no other of the name for full sixty years after or before, but the Bishop of Cork and Cloyne, the date of whose death fits exactly all the requirements of the case. Ware quotes from Harold that he was appointed by Innocent VIII. (_sed._ 1484-1492,) that he succeeded W. Roch, resigned 1490, and further, that Gerald, who succeeded, resigned in 1499, after obtaining a pardon from Henry VII. in 1496”—(_Lib. Mun._, i. p. 102)