Niav Gallagher outlines how the Franciscans arrived in Ireland c.
1231 and enjoyed over a century of expansion and consolidation despite
racial tensions.
According to the thirteenth-century chronicler Thomas Eccleston, the first Franciscan friars to arrive in the British Isles landed at Dover on 10 September 1224. Within a few years houses of the order had been established in most of the major towns of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, heralding a new period of reform in the church and marking the beginning of the ascendancy of the mendicant orders over their monastic brethren. The two principal orders, the Order of Friars Minor and the Order of Friars Preachers, became known colloquially by the names of their founders, Francis and Dominic, and from their inception they differed from their monastic predecessors in several ways.
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According to the thirteenth-century chronicler Thomas Eccleston, the first Franciscan friars to arrive in the British Isles landed at Dover on 10 September 1224. Within a few years houses of the order had been established in most of the major towns of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, heralding a new period of reform in the church and marking the beginning of the ascendancy of the mendicant orders over their monastic brethren. The two principal orders, the Order of Friars Minor and the Order of Friars Preachers, became known colloquially by the names of their founders, Francis and Dominic, and from their inception they differed from their monastic predecessors in several ways.
http://www.historyireland.com/medieval-history-pre-1500/two-nations-one-order-the-franciscans-in-medieval-ireland/