Subseries

Michael Davitt: Diaries and Notebooks

Shelf Mark/Reference Number

• IE TCD MS 9527-9696

Location

• Manuscripts & Archives Research Library, Trinity College Dublin

Creator

• Davitt, Michael, 1846-1906, Author

Contributor

• Moody, T. W.(Theodore William), Associated Name
• Davitt, Michael, 1846-1906, Former owner
• Davitt, Mary, 1861-, Former owner
• Davitt, Cahir, Donor

Rights statement

• Copyright The Board of Trinity College Dublin. Images are available for single-use academic application only. Publication, transmission or display is prohibited without formal written approval of the Library of Trinity College, Dublin.

Copyright status

• Public domain

Date Created

• end 1906
• start 1877

Language

• English

Abstract

• IE TCD MS 9527-9696, Michael Davitt Diaries and Notebooks,1877-1906 is a sub-series (Series II, DN 1-62) of the the Papers of Michael Davitt collection held in the Manuscripts and Archives Research Library, Trinity College Dublin. It contains diaries and records of tours and other special occasions, notably of Davitt’s visits to Australasia in 1895, and South Africa during the Boer War in 1900. The sub-series also includes notes by Davitt of letters contributed to newspapers, and various accounts for the years 1882-1895 relating to the Land League, the general election fund for the Irish Parliamentary Party raised by Davitt in Australia, and Davitt’s own personal expenditure.

Collection title

• Papers of Michael Davitt

Provenance

• Davitt, Cahir, Donor
• The Davitt papers were in the hands of Professor T.W. Moody, professor of modern history TCD and biographer of Davitt, and they were arranged, numbered and listed by him. His arrangement and catalogue remain in use but aspects of his numbering have been superceded. Additional listing done in TCD. Deposited in TCD Library in parts 31 March 1978 and 20 August 1980. Presented by Davitt's son, Judge Cahir Davitt, May 1982 and 17 June 1982 with additions later (January 1983).

Subject

• Davitt, Michael, 1846-1906

Keyword

• Unassigned

Format

• Manuscripts
• diaries

Resource type

• text

Medium

• ink
• pencils (drawing and writing equipment)

Support

• photographic paper
• paper (fiber product)

Culture

• Italian
• American
• Samoan
• Russian
• South African
• Hawaiian
• English
• New Zealand
• Canadian
• Irish

Digital Object Id

• MS9554_003

Source

• 0151461

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Relationships

Parent works and subseries:

This object has no parent works or subseries.

In Collection:

• Papers of Michael Davitt

Items

Thumbnail	Title	Shelf Mark/Reference Number	Actions
	Diary of Michael Davitt. DN 25, 1893	IE TCD MS 9554
	Diary of Michael Davitt. DN 30, 1895	IE TCD MS 9561
	Diary of Michael Davitt. DN 36, 1896	IE TCD MS 9567
	Diary of Michael Davitt. DN 42, 1900	IE TCD MS 9572/2
	Diary of Michael Davitt. DN 43, 1900	IE TCD MS 9573