John Healy

John Healy (1841–1918) was an Irish Catholic bishop and historian. Born in County Sligo and trained at Maynooth, he taught there and became prefect of the Dunboyne establishment before his appointment as coadjutor and then Bishop of Clonfert in 1896. In 1903 he became Archbishop of Tuam. A scholar of early Irish church history, he served as a commissioner for the publication of the ancient laws of Ireland and wrote Insula Sanctorum et Doctorum (1890), a history of the monastic schools of early Christian Ireland, as well as a life of Saint Patrick and a history of Maynooth College.