Work

Mahaffy Family Collection

Location

• Manuscripts & Archives Research Library, Trinity College Dublin

Creator

• Unattributed

Contributor

• Mahaffy, J. P. (John Pentland), 1839-1919, Associated Name
• Mahaffy, Rachel, -1944, Donor
• Mahaffy, Rupert, 1923-2005, Donor
• Mahaffy family, Associated Name

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.

Date Created

• 1825-1919

Language

• English

Abstract

• The Mahaffy Family Collection comprises a collection of autographs largely made up from the correspondence of the Reverend Sir John Pentland Mahaffy (IE TCD MS 2075), and his autobiography in 61 folios (IE TCD MS 11137). Mahaffy was born in Switzerland in 1839 to Irish parents. He studied Classics and Philosophy in Trinity College Dublin, and held the Chair in Ancient History there from 1871. He became Provost of the College in 1914. He married Frances Letitia MacDougall (d. 1908) in 1865, and had two daughters, Rachel Mary (d. 1944) and Elsie (d.1926), and two sons Arthur William (d.1919) and Robert Pentland (d. 1943). Mahaffy died in 1919. The collection also includes Elsie Mahaffy’s account of the Easter Rising (IE TCD MS 2074).

Provenance

• IE TCD MS 2075 was presented to the Library of Trinity College Dublin by Miss Rachel Mahaffy, a daughter of John Pentland Mahaffy, 7 May 1927. IE TCD MS 11137 was donated by Rupert Mahaffy, son of Robert Pentland Mahaffy and grandson of John Pentland Mahaffy, March 2001.
• Mahaffy, Rachel, -1944, Donor
• Mahaffy, Rupert, 1923-2005, Donor

Keyword

• Unassigned

Format

• Correspondence
• manuscripts (document genre)
• Ephemera

Resource type

• text

Medium

• ink

Support

• paper (fiber product)

Culture

• Irish

Digital Object Id

• MS2075-325_1

Source

• 0151504

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Items

Thumbnail	Title	Shelf Mark/Reference Number	Visibility	Actions
	Oscar Wilde, 25 Albemarle Street, to Arthur Mahaffy	IE TCD MS 2075/326	Public
	Oscar Wilde, Haymarket Theatre, to John Pentland Mahaffy	IE TCD MS 2075/325	Public
	Autobiography of the Reverend Sir John Pentland Mahaffy	IE TCD MS 11137	Public
	Elsie Mahaffy's account of the Easter Rising	IE TCD MS 2074	Public