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- [1800]-1977
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11 boxes
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Archival history
Gerard Anthony Hayes-McCoy was born 15 August 1911 in Galway, of Thomas Hayes McCoy and Mary Kathleen Hayes McCoy (née Wallace). His grandfather Thomas Hayes McCoy had been a Dubliner who as a child came to Galway in 1834; he was later a well-known Parnel
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
NUIG acquired this collection by donation in 2008 on an indefinite loan from Felicity Hayes-McCoy, London, on behalf of the family. Her permission as copyright-holder is required for reproductions (in print or online).
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Scope and content
This collection consists of written, printed and photographic archives pertaining to the academic career, and wider historical interests, of Gerard Anthony Hayes-McCoy (1911-1975), historian, and professor of History at University College Galway from 1958
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Some sections were found previously arranged (specific publications and radio and television projects); the overall arrangement into seven sections has been imposed. Earliest document by Hayes-McCoy include a specially-compiled scrapbook on his early care
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Conditions governing access
The material in this collection is available to all bona fide researchers and subject to the conditions of access governing the consultation of archival material at the James Hardiman Library. No material may be reproduced from this collection without the
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77
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Dates of creation revision deletion
27/06/2013
16/06/2025