Adam Duff O'Toole
Adam Duff O'Toole was an Irishman burned at the stake in Dublin for heresy and blasphemy. What is known about O'Toole comes from a letter from the leaders of the Pale, the English colony around Dublin, 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 accusations as politically motivated, and the letter as a counter to the Irish Remonstrance of 1317. Adam Duff was the son of Walter Duff, of the O'Toole family based in the Wicklow Mountains. The O'Tooles had formed an alliance with the King of Leinster, Domhnall mac Art MacMurrough-Kavanagh, to wage war on the English. Holinshed's Chronicles states:
Hogging or Hogges Green was a green extending south and east from the modern College Green and centred on the Hogges, a Norse Dublin mound.
