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McCaffrey and Walch Irish Studies Collections
 McCaffrey
Collection
Lawrence McCaffrey '49, professor emeritus of
history at Chicago's Loyola University and one of the world's foremost
historians of Ireland and Irish America, donated his collection of
nearly 400 Irish studies books and journals to SAU Library in early 2000.
Information about the McCaffrey Collection is available
on the library website at http://library.sau.edu/irish/indexA.htm.
McCaffrey's donation only represents a beginning to the
collection. The Irish Studies program is currently seeking community
support to endow the McCaffrey Collection to ensure that it continues to
grow as the Irish Studies program does.
Walch Collection
On St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 2005, SAU was given
another major collection of 1,800 Irish and Catholic Americana books. The
Timothy Walch Collection covers a broad range of topics on Irish, Irish
American, and American Catholic life. This donation enhanced the
university’s current Irish Studies collection, increasing it to
approximately 2,200 books.
Read
more about this donation from a story on the SAU website and
a
story from The Catholic Messenger
To make a donation, please make a check payable to: St.
Ambrose University, Irish Studies Program, and mail it to:
Advancement Office
St. Ambrose University
518 West Locust Street
Davenport, Iowa 52803
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