Guide to the Papers relating to Michael Dwyer (as filmed by the AJCP), 1838-1905

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Summary

Collection number:

M603

Creator:

Cullen, Luke and Weale, John Cyril

Extent:

2 items

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February-23 September 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

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Background

Content Summary:

The Australian Joint Copying Project filmed selected papers relating to Michael Dwyer in:

The Luke Cullen papers. About 400 p. of notes relating to the life of Dwyer and the Irish uprisings of 1798 and 1803, written by Brother Luke Cullen, a monk of Clondalkin, near Dublin, in a volume which also contains entries for the Clondalkin School roll (c.1816-1825).

The papers of J. Cyril Weale which includes Manuscripts, transcripts and newspaper cuttings collected by Weale in about 1900-5 for a proposed biography of Michael Dwyer.

Biographical / Historical:

Michael Dwyer (1772?-1825) was born at Camera, County Wicklow, and worked as an ostler and farm hand. In 1897 he joined the Society of United Irishmen and when rebellion broke out in Wicklow in 1898 he was one of the militants. In 1803 he supported the attempted coup d'etat of Robert Emmet. With his whole family facing transportation, Dwyer surrendered in December 1803, was gaoled, and in 1805 was transported to New South Wales as an unsentenced exile. He arrived in the colony in February 1806 and was granted 100 acres facing Cabramatta Creek. In 1807 he was arrested and tried for sedition and sent to Norfolk Island and later Van Diemen's Land. He returned to New South Wales in 1809 and subsequently became constable of the Georges River district. In 1820 he was briefly chief constable of Liverpool. In 1898 Dwyer's body was exhumed and, in the presence of tens of thousands of Irish-Australians, he was buried in Waverley Cemetery in Sydney.

Luke Cullen (1793-1859) was a seaman before joining the Third Order of Discalced Carmelites in 1838. He was a free school teacher at the monastery of Mount St Joseph at Clondalkin, near Dublin. Brother Cullen spent much of his later years travelling round the Wexford-Wicklow border area collecting the memoirs of survivors of the 1798 Rebellion. In particular, he befriended Anne Devlin (d. 1851), who had helped her cousin Michael Dwyer when he was hiding in the Wicklow Mountains and who worked closely with Robert Emmet in 1803. Cullen also corresponded with Richard Madden, the author of The life and times of Robert Emmet Esq. (1847). Cullen's extensive collection of manuscripts, now in the National Library of Ireland, were mostly written in school copybooks.

John Cyril Weale (1857-1942) was born in Bruges, Begium, and moved to England in 1878. In 1882 he emigrated to Sydney on account of his health. He was editor and part-owner of the Catholic newspaper The Express (1883-1888) and editor of the Catholic Times in Wellington (1888-1889). He returned to England in 1892 and engaged in press work, historical research and the study of Christian art. His proposed study of Michael Dwyer was not published.

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