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

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M854

National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record

Created: 2019

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.

Item Descriptions

Fonds MSS 868-MSS 869. Papers of Major Henry C. Sirr, 1798 - 1803

13 items

Filmed selectively.

Biographical / Historical

Henry Charles Sirr (1764-1841) was born in Dublin. He served in the British Army from 1778 to 1791. In 1798 he was appointed Town Major (chief of police) in Dublin. In that position he was responsible for the arrest of many of the rebels in the 1798 and 1803 uprisings. His post was abolished when the Dublin Police Force was reorganised in 1808.

Information of Thomas Devoy relating to John Carroll later transported to Botany Bay, 28 May 1798 (File MS 869/5 ff. 1-4)

Examination of Thomas Halpin Gardiner concerning Michael Dwyer's gang, 4 April 1801 (File MS 869/5 ff. 59-60)

Information of Matthew McDaniel concerning Michael Dwyer, 21 June 1801 (File MS 869/5 ff. 61-62)

Information referring to Michael Dwyer, 23 April 1803 (File MS 869/7 f. 8)

Henry Hayden (Dublin) to [?], 28 May 1803 (File MS 869/7 f. 10)

Terms under which he would undertake to take Dwyer or any of his party.

Information of Patrick Lynch, a prisoner who had been threatened by Dwyer and informed on him, n.d. (File MS 869/8 f. 46a)

Note containing information about Dwyer (File MS 869/8 f. 47)

H.C.S. List of prisoners to be sent on board (File MS 869/8 f. 85)

Mathias McElray (prisoner on convict ship Anne, Cork) to [?], 9 June 1800 (File MS 869/9 ff. 120-123)

Distress of his large family; does not know how soon he will sail for Botany Bay; his good character in the parish.

William Conna to [?], 1 July 1800 (File MS 869/9 f. 128)

Believes prisoner Laurence Jacob is a member of Dwyer's gang.

J. Bainbridge to G. Morrison, 13 March 1801 (File MS 869/9 f. 341)

Attack on two men by Dwyer's party.

Alexander McPherson (Kippure) to Sirr, 13 March 1801 (File MS 869/9 f. 351)

John Harman and another member of Dwyer's gang passed through Ballynascorney on their way to Dublin.

John and Laurence Harman to Sirr, 23 April 1801 (File MS 869/9 f. 368)

They are on board Lydia bound for America.

Fonds MS 872. Proceedings of courts martial, June 1798 - November 1798

Volume containing copies of court martial proceedings at Drogheda, Slane, Trim, Dublin and Loughlinstown, including trials of prisoners sentenced to transportation. (157 folios)

Fonds MS 1469-MS 1473. Papers of R.R. Madden, 1799 - 1800

4 items

Biographical / Historical

Richard Robert Madden (1798-1886), who was born in Dublin, studied medicine in Paris and London. After several years practising as a doctor, he joined the British Colonial Service in 1833 and served in the West Indies and West Africa. He returned to Dublin in 1850 and was secretary of the Office for Loan Funds. He was the author of many books including The United Irishmen, their lives and times (7 vols., 1843) and The life and times of Robert Emmet (1847).

Series MS 1471. Papers relating to the United Irishmen, 1799 - 1800

4 items

Each document is signed by the presiding officer and the sentence confirmed by Lord Cornwallis, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

Filmed selectively.

Proceedings of trial of Michael Kehoe at Wexford Court Martial, sentenced to transportation for life (2 folios), 12 July 1799 (File No. 802)
Proceedings of trial of Michael Quigly at Wexford Court Martial, sentenced to transportation for life (2 folios), 13 September 1799 (File No. 808)
Proceedings of trial of James Scully and Michel Kelly at Wexford Court Martial, sentenced to transportation (2 folios), 19 February 1800 (File No. 810)
Proceedings of trial of John Bryan at Wexford Court Martial, death sentence commuted to transportation for seven years (23 folios), 22 February 1800 (File No. 811)

Fonds MS 959. Papeles de la Fundacion de la Santa Prouya, 19 June 1636

1 item

Papers relating to ecclesiastical, civil and military proceedings in Spanish America in the first half of the seventeenth century.

Filmed selectively.

Relacion de los pleitos de Manila, 19 June 1636 (File ff. 485-513)

Fonds. Miscellaneous Deeds, 31 December 1847

1 item

Conditional pardon of James Scully, sentenced to transportation for life, signed by Sir Charles FitzRoy, Governor of New South Wales, 31 December 1847 (File 9)

The accompanying document records that Scully was tied at Queen's County on 27 March 1832 and transported on the Duvegan Castle in 1832.


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