Sebastian Dangerfield repeatedly calls on the name of "the Blessed Oliver" and, towards the end of the book, receives a wooden carving of the saint's head. In David Caffrey's 2001 film On the Nose, Nana, played by Francis Burke refers to an Aboriginal person's head in a large specimen jar as "Oliver Plunkett". In Colin Bateman's 2004 novel, Bring Me the Head of Oliver Plunkett, the head of Oliver Plunkett is stolen from St. Peter's Church. Too Much Joy's 2021 album Mistakes Were Made includes a song called "Oliver Plunkett's Head". Timeline 4 March 1651 – tonsure & minor orders 20 December 1653 – ordained as subdeacon 26 December 1653 – ordained as deacon 1 January 1654 – ordained as priest in Rome November 1657 – appointed Professor of Theology at Propaganda college, Rome 1 December 1669 – consecrated as archbishop 7 March 1670 – landed at Ringsend, Dublin, ending 23 years of self-imposed exile abroad 6 December 1679 – arrested 23 July 1680 – trial 24 October 1680 – transfer from Ireland to London 8 June 1681 – trial 15 June 1681 – sentenced to death 1 July 1681 (OS) = 11 July 1681 (NS) – hanged, drawn, quartered (the punishment for treason against the state), beheaded 9 December 1886 declared venerable 17 March 1918 – declaration of martyrdom Pentecost Sunday, 23 May 1920 – beatified 12 October 1975 – canonized References Works cited Blessed Oliver Plunkett: Historical Studies, Gill, Dublin, 1937. External links Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials digitised by Google Books Biography of St Oliver Plunket St Oliver Plunkett webpage maintained by Drogheda Borough Council & St. Peter's Church 1625 births 1681 deaths 17th-century Irish-language poets 17th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Ireland 17th-century Roman Catholic martyrs 24 Irish Catholic Martyrs Beatifications by Pope Benedict XV Canonizations by Pope Paul VI Catholic martyrs of England and Wales Executed Irish people Irish Roman Catholic saints Martyred Roman Catholic bishops People associated with the Popish Plot People executed at Tyburn People executed by Stuart England by hanging, drawing and quartering People executed under the Stuarts for treason against England People from County Meath People from Drogheda Poet priests Roman Catholic archbishops of Armagh Victims of the Popish Plot