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Malachy

British  
/ ˈmæləˌkaɪ /

noun

  1. Saint. 1094–1148, Irish prelate; he became Archbishop of Armagh (1132) and founded (1142) the first Cistercian abbey in Ireland. Feast day: Nov 3

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Teresa and Malachy have two other sons who are now in their 20s.

From BBC Oct. 18, 2024

The family, Malachy would write, was “not poor, but poverty-stricken.”

From New York Times Mar. 11, 2024

A trove of documents appears to have been posted to a large group early last year, the New York Times’s Aric Toler, Malachy Browne and Julian E. Barnes reported Friday.

From Washington Post Apr. 24, 2023

The virus may be filling the ecological and immunological niche once occupied by the smallpox virus, wrote Malachy Ifeanyi Okeke of the American University of Nigeria and his colleagues in a 2020 paper.

From Scientific American May 24, 2022

Malachy and Michael run up to me in the lane and say, God, you’re walking very slow.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

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