Guide to the Papers of Oliver MacDonagh

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MS 9806

National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record

Created: ©2004.

Collection Summary

Creator
MacDonagh, Oliver, 1924-2002
Title
Papers of Oliver MacDonagh
Date Range
1958-1993
Collection Number
MS 9806
Extent
0.56 metres (4 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Repository
NLA

Introduction

Scope and Content

The collection mostly consists of correspondence between MacDonagh and historians in Australia, Britain, Ireland and the United States, written in the period 1973-1993 when he was living in Canberra. The correspondents include Stanley Dennison, Tom Dunne, Edith Mary Johnston, W.J. Lowe, Roy MacLeod, John Molony, John O'Brien and Maurice O'Connell. There are also drafts and notes for lectures and talks, reviews and reprints of some of MacDonagh's articles.

Access

The collection is available for reference.

Copying and Publishing

Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.

Preferred Citation

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Oliver MacDonagh, National Library of Australia, MS 9806, [box and/or folder number]'.

Provenance

The collection was donated to the Library by Mrs Carmel MacDonagh in 2004.

Arrangement

Apart from the reprints, the papers were filed by MacDonagh and this arrangement has been retained.

Biographical Note

Oliver Ormond Gerard MacDonagh was born in Carlow, Ireland, on 23 August 1924. He was educated at the Jesuit College of Clongowes Wood, University College Dublin and Cambridge University. In 1952 he became a Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge. In the same year he married Carmel Hamilton. They had seven children.

In 1964 MacDonagh came to Australia to take up the Foundation Chair of History at Flinders University of South Australia. He was also Chair of the School of Social Sciences. In 1968 he returned to Ireland as Professor of Modern History at University College Cork, a position he held for five years. He was a Visiting Professor at Yale University in 1970 and in 1973 he came back to Australia as Professor of History in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. Following his retirement in 1990, he was Executive Director of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia for a two year term. He was also a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the British Academy and the Royal Irish Academy.

MacDonagh wrote thirteen books and over a hundred articles and essays, mostly in the fields of Irish and British history and also English literature. They include A pattern of government growth 1800-1860 (1961), Early Victorian government 1830-1870 (1977), The Inspector General: Sir Jeremiah Fitzpatrick and social reform 1783-1802 (1981), States of mind; a study of Anglo-Irish conflict 1780-1980 (1985), a two volume biography of Daniel O'Connell, The hereditary bondsman (1987) and The Emancipist (1989), and Jane Austen: real and imagined worlds (1991). He had a strong interest in Irish-Australian immigration history and with Ken Inglis conceived the multi-volume Bicentenary publication The Australians.

Oliver MacDonagh died in Sydney on 22 May 2002.

Biographical Reference(s)

Pat Jalland. 'Oliver Ormond Gerard MacDonagh', Australian Historical Studies, no. 121, April 2003, pp. 175-77.

Item Descriptions

Correspondence: Ambassador to Ireland, 1975-1989 (File 1) - box 1

Correspondence: Bank of Ireland, 1981-1985 (File 2) - box 1

Correspondence: Geoffrey Best, 1973-1976 (File 3) - box 1

Correspondence: British Academy, 1984 (File 4) - box 1

Correspondence: Rev. Paul Collins, 1987-1989 (File 5) - box 1

Correspondence: Stanley Dennison, 1971-1979 (File 6) - box 1

Correspondence: Jim Donnelly, 1986-1987 (File 7) - box 1

Correspondence: Tom Dunne, 1975-1989 (File 8-11) - box 1

Correspondence: Edith Mary Johnston, 1976-1988 (File 12-13) - box 2

Journals, 1978-1983 (File 14) - box 2

Correspondence: Kilkenny Conference, 1983 (File 15) - box 2

Correspondence: W.J. Lowe, 1975-1990 (File 16-17) - box 2

Correspondence: Roy MacLeod, 1980-1987 (File 18-19) - box 2

Correspondence: Bill Mandle, 1974-1989 (File 20) - box 2

Correspondence: Allan Martin, 1978-1979 (File 21) - box 2

Correspondence: F.X. Martin, 1987-1989 (File 22) - box 2

Correspondence: John Molony, 1977-1989 (File 23) - box 3

Correspondence: Newman Society, Canberra, 1975-1985 (File 24) - box 3

Correspondence: John O'Brien, 1973-1989 (File 25-27) - box 3

Daniel O'Connell biography: correspondence, 1985-1988 (File 28) - box 3

Correspondence: Maurice O'Connell, 1973-1988 (File 29-30) - box 3

Miscellaneous correspondence, 1991-1993 (File 31) - box 3

Reviews of The hereditary bondsman, 1988 (File 32) - box 4

Lectures on the Russian Revolution (File 33) - box 4

Parnell lecture (File 34) - box 4

Lectures and Boorowa material (File 35) - box 4

Lectures on Irish Sisters of Mercy in New South Wales (File 36) - box 4

Talk on Guinness Company, 1980 (File 37) - box 4

Paper on Jane Austen and Ireland (File 38) - box 4

Paper on Anthony Trollope and Ireland (File 39) - box 4

Reprint of chapter on Irish overseas emigration during the Famine (File 40) - box 4

Reprints, 1958-1983 (File 41) - box 4

Miscellaneous papers (File 42) - box 4


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