Guide to the Collections held by the Trinity College Library, Dublin (as filmed by the AJCP)

Collection Summary

Creator

The Library, Trinity College. University of Dublin

Title

Collections held by the Trinity College Library, Dublin (as filmed by the AJCP)

Date Range

1636 - 1847

Collection Number

M854

Extent

20 items

Language of Materials

English

Repository

Australian Joint Copying Project

Sponsor

The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) online portal was created with the assistance of the Australian Public Service Modernisation Fund, 2017-2020. The National Library of Australia gratefully acknowledges the contribution of the other foundation AJCP partners, the State Library of New South Wales and The National Archives of the UK, and all other organisations which supported the work of the AJCP, the world's most extensive collaborative copying project, operating from 1948 to 1997.

Introduction

Scope and Contents

Papers 1800-1803 of Major Henry C. Sirr, Town Major and Head of Police in Dublin 1798-1826, including letters relating to Michael Dwyer and his party, information of Thomas Devoy relating to John Carroll, and petition of Mathias McElray on board the Anne.

Volume containing copies of courts martial proceedings in 1798 at Drogheda, Slane, Trim, Dublin and Loughlinstown, following the United Irishmen Rebellion. The papers include proceedings of courts martial of prisoners sentenced to transportation.

Papers collected by Dr R.R. Madden relating to the United Irishmen, including reports 1799-1800 of the trials of Michael Kehoe, Michael Quigly, James Scully, Michael Kelly and John Bryan, all sentenced to transportation.

'Papeles de la Duncadion de la Santa Prouya: Relacion de los pleitos de Manila', Manila, 19 June 1636.

Conditional pardon 1847 of James Scully, sentenced to transportation for life, signed at Sydney by Governor Charles Fitzroy.

Conditions Governing Access

Available for access.

Conditions Governing Use

Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.

Preferred Citation

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February-23 September 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Archival History

Filmed at Trinity College Library, University of Dublin, as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1972. (AJCP reel M854). Original micrcofilm digitised as part of the NLA AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.

A number of other collections held in Trinity College Library are described in Phyllis Mander-Jones. Manuscripts in the British Isles relating to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific (1972). On account of copyright considerations, the Librarian would not allow the Australian Joint Copying Project to microfilm them.

Existence and Location of Originals

Trinity College Library, University of Dublin, Ireland.

For further information see the Trinity College Library (https://www.tcd.ie/library/collections/).

Existence and Location of Copies

The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2248033] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.

Finding Aid Note

This finding aid is a revised online version of the original finding aid prepared by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP), published by the National Library of Australia in 2019. The original AJCP finding aids were unpublished typescripts or photocopies available from libraries that held copies of the original microfilm.

Dates used in this finding aid refer to the date range of the records selected for filming rather than to the date range of the Series or Files.

Subjects

Australia; Anne (ship); Bryan, John; Carroll, John; Convicts; Devoy, Thomas; Drogheda, Ireland; Dublin, Ireland; Dwyer, Michael; FitzRoy, Sir Charles; Ireland; Kehoe, Michael; Kelly, Michael; Loughlinstown, Ireland; Madden, Richard R.; Manila, Philippines; McElray, Mathias; Philippines; Quigly, Michael; Scully, James; Sirr, Henry C., Major; Slane, Ireland; Tasmania; Trim, Ireland; United Irishmen Rebellion (1798)

Bibliography

Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 465, p. 181.