Guide to the Papers of Sir Charles Gavan Duffy (as filmed by the AJCP)

Memorial of Irish Members of Parliament to Pope Pius IX, n.d. (File)

Memorial of Catholic priests of Ireland to Pope Pius IX (11p), n.d. (File)

Letters from Frederick Lucas (Rome) to Duffy, December 1854 - February 1855 (File)

Frederick Lucas (1812-1855) was the editor of the Catholic weekly The Tablet and the Member for Meath in the House of Commons. He visited Rome on behalf of the Tenant Right League to protest about the prohibition on Irish priests taking part in political affairs. The lengthy letters describe his mission in detail, including two audiences with the Pope and a heated meeting with with Archbishop Cullen.

Page proofs of Charles Gavan Duffy, 'Half a century of boons to ungrateful Ireland', Nineteenth Century, vol. 14, pp 1003-29., December 1883 (File)

( Printed with manuscript amendments)

Miscellaneous documents including a petition concerning the right to vote of moderators of the University of Dublin, c. 1903 (File)

Papers relating to the Irish Constitutional Association, and two poems on Charles Gavan Duffy (one dated 1903).

Letters to Duffy, 1840 - 1846 (File)

The letters mainly relate to Irish politics, the Repeal Association, the affairs of The Nation the formation of the Young Irelanders, and Irish ballards and literature. The correspondents include William Carleton, Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Davis, John B. Dillon, Samuel Ferguson, R.H. Horne, Leigh Hunt, Frederick Lucas, Thomas MacNevin, John Martin, John Mitchel, Daniel O'Connell, John O'Connell and John Pigot...

Letters to Duffy, 1846 - 1854 (File)

The letters mainly relate to The Nation and the Young Irelanders, the 1848 uprising and its aftermath, the Tenant Right League, and Duffy's election to the House of Commons. The correspondents include Isaac Butt, William Careton, Thomas Carlyle, William Howitt, James Lalor, Frederick Lucas, Robert McClure, Thomas Meagher, John Stuart Mill, William Smith O'Brien, Samuel Smiles and Sir James Emerson Tennant...

Letters to Duffy, 1855 - 1880 (File)

The 1855-1880 letters were mostly written to Duffy in Australia, but the quantity is far less than the earlier and later letters and references to Australia tend to be incidental. The letters refer to the conflict with Archbishop Cullen, the 1855 mission to Rome, Duffy's decision to leave Ireland, his reception by the Irish in Sydney and Melbourne, the return of William Smith O'Brien to Ireland in 1856, literary matters, introductions written on behalf of people visiting Australia, a meeting between Thomas Carlyle and Henry Parkes, British and Irish politics, Duffy's visit to England and Ireland in 1865-66, immigration, Duffy's Land Act, relations between the colonies and Britain, Anthony Trollope's visit to Australia (1871), the possibility of Australian federation (1872), the conferral of the KCMG on Duffy (1877), Sir George Bowen's impressions of Mauritius (1879), and the publication of Young Ireland, Duffy's first historical book (1880)...

Letters to Duffy, 1880 - 1902 (File)

The 1880-1902 letters were written to Duffy when he was living in France or while he was visiting England or Ireland. They deal with his return to Ireland in 1880, Irish Home Rule, the publication of Young Ireland (1880), the book's reception in Australia, visitors to Nice, Irish historical writings, recollections of the Young Ireland party and the 1848 uprising, economic and social conditions in Ireland, politics in Victoria, land reform in Ireland, Charles Parnell, pamphlets, articles and other writings by Duffy, and contemporary Irish literature. The quantity of letters diminishes considerably in Duffy's last years. There are also a few drafts by Duffy...

Correspondence and accounts relating to Duffy's books, 1880 - 1914 (File)

The first group of papers comprise correspondence between Duffy and Cassell Petter, Galphin and Co. concerning the publication of Young Ireland, together with agreements, invoices and financial statements, 1880-1898. The second group comprises agreements between Duffy and Thomas Fisher Unwin concerning the publication of The English abroad (1894), Young Ireland, and My life in two hemispheres, together with stick accounts, 1894-1914.

Correspondence with Young Irelanders, 1842 - 1892 (File)

Letters, many of them undated, from Young Irelanders including Duffy, Thomas Davis, John B. Dillon, Frederick Lucas, John Martin, Thomas F. Meagher and William Smith O'Brien. The 22 letters from Duffy are drafts or copies. A letter from O'Brien to O'Flaharty (1852) was written from Van Diemen's Land...

Accounts by Richard O'Gorman (23 May 1881, 23pp) and T.B. MacManus (n.d.) of the 1848 uprising in Ireland (File)

The MacManus document is only partly legible.