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James MacCaffrey

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, PhD (1875 – 1935) was an Irish priest, theologian and historian.

Biography

Monsignor MacCaffrey was born in 1875, at Fivemiletown, Co. Tyrone, he was the son of Francis MacCaffrey of Alderwood, Clogher, Co. Tyrone. He was educated at St. Macartan's Seminary, Monaghan, before going to

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, and was ordained there in 1899. He was awarded a Doctorate by the

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. At Maynooth he went on to serve as Professor of Ecclesiastical History from 1901, vice-president (1915–1918) and president of the College from 1918 until 1935. A noted historian Dr. MacCaffrey edited the early editions of the Historical Journal published in Maynooth Archivium Hibernicum. He also served on the editorial board of the

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. Monsignor MacCaffrey also served as Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the

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Appendix - Calendar Centenary Year, 2008
National University of Ireland He died on 1 November 1935 while still president of Maynooth.

Publications

"Louis Veuillot,"
''The Irish Ecclesiastical Record'' 16 (1904)
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''The Irish Ecclesiastical Record'' 17 (1905). * ''The Black Book of Limerick'' (1906). * ''History of the Catholic Church in the Nineteenth-century'' (1909) * ''History of the Catholic Church: From the Renaissance to the French Revolution'' (1915).

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