Patrick Aloysius Murray DD STP (1811–1882) was an Irish Roman Catholic theologian.
[1] Murray wrote for the Dublin Review and for magazines, besides publishing four volumes called Essays, Chiefly Theological.
His greatest work was De Ecclesia Christi, a masterpiece in positive and controversial theology.
According to Carlyle, the conversation was consistently about "Ireland versus England," with Duffy and Murray being in a "sad, unreasonable humor" on the topic which "pervad[ed] all the Irish population on this matter" (p. 50).
Carlyle continues: "Dr. Murray, head cropped like stubble, red-skinned face, harsh gray Irish eyes; full of fiery Irish zeal, too, and rage, which, however, he had the art to keep down under buttery-vocables: man of considerable strength, man not to be 'loved' by any manner of means!"