Guide to the Papers of Patrick O'Farrell, 1880-1999

Summary

Collection number:

MS 6265, MS Acc06.157

Creator:

O'Farrell, Patrick

Extent:

(227 boxes + 1 folio box + 1 map folio)

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Patrick O'Farrell, National Library of Australia, [class/series/file number]'.

Availability:

Available

Access conditions:

Part available for research; part requires permission for research. Not for loan.

Background

Content Summary:

Correspondence, notes, articles and book reviews, statistical data, photographs, miscellaneous journal issues, and newspaper cuttings. The literary papers include research notes, manuscripts and annotated typescript drafts of many of O'Farrell's publications.

Biographical Note:

Patrick James O'Farrell was born in 1933 in Greymouth, New Zealand. He was educated at the local Marist Brothers College and then completed an undergraduate degree at the University of New Zealand, Canterbury. In 1956 O'Farrell moved to Australia to undertake PhD studies at the Australian National University, Canberra.

In 1959 O'Farrell was appointed as a lecturer in the School of History at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). He was to remain at this institution until his retirement. He was a visiting Professor in History at University College, Dublin, in 1965 and at Trinity College and University College, Dublin, in 1972. In 1972 he was also given a Personal Chair in History at the UNSW. O'Farrell was Director of the UNSW Community History Project from 1986 to 1992 and in 1999 was appointed Emeritus Scientia Professor of History. He edited several publications, including Manna, and also served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Religious History and the Australasian Catholic Record.

O'Farrell's first research work was on the history of labour organisations in the Greymouth area in the South Island of New Zealand. This research developed into the study of the New Zealand labour movement and resulted in the publication of his first book, Harry Holland: militant socialist (1964). There followed a series of works on Australian Catholicism, including, The Catholic Church in Australia: a short history 1788-1967 (1968), Documents in Australian Catholic history 1788-1968 (1969), The Catholic Church and community: a history (1977) and The Catholic Church and community: an Australian history (1985).

Following his Professorships in Ireland, O'Farrell published two books on Anglo-Irish relations: Ireland's English question: Anglo-Irish relations 1534-1971 (1971) and England and Ireland since 1800 (1975).

O'Farrell's works on the history of the Australian-Irish include Letters from Irish Australia 1825-1929 (1984); The Irish in Australia (1986), which won the New South Wales Premier's Literary Award in 1987 and the Ernest Scott Prize for Australian History; Vanished kingdoms: Irish in Australia and New Zealand (1990) and Through Irish eyes: Australian and New Zealand images of the Irish 1788-1948 (1994). He also published a history of the University of New South Wales entitled UNSW, a portrait: the University of New South Wales 1949-1999 (1999).

In 1956 O'Farrell married Deirdre MacShane, with whom he had five children.

Patrick O'Farrell died in Sydney on 25 December 2003.

Collection Retrieval Advice:

Please note: each consignment in this collection has a separate box number sequence (i.e. there are multiple Box 1's). Please cite the relevant Class number as well as the Box number when requesting retrieval of material from the collection.

Immediate Source of Acquisition:

The Library purchased the original instalment of papers from O'Farrell in June 1980. O'Farrell donated subsequent consignments to the Library in August 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984 and in 2000. Other papers were purchased from O'Farrell in 1998 and 1999.

Material acquired in May 1984 and in February 1998 pertaining to Dr Albert Dryer has been transferred to the papers of Albert Dryer (MS 6610).Further material was added to the O'Farrell Papers in 2006.

Related

Other Finding Aids:

Note that further information on the contents of the 2006 consignment (MS Acc06.157) is available; please consult staff.

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Academic
History

Conditions Governing Access:

Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2618940).

Conditions Governing Use:

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 Patrick O'Farrell, National Library of Australia, [class/series/file number]'.

Location of this collection:

National Library of Australia

Parkes Place

Canberra ACT 2600, Australia

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