MacAULIFFE, J.J. Notes on the Irish Clan MacAuliffe. Compiled by J.J. MacAuliffe. With arms in colour, and numerous pedigrees, including Mac Carthy.

Bradford: MacAuliffe. Printed for Private Circulation, 1940. pp. 79. Green cloth, title on label in spine. A fine copy. Rare.

McAuliffe or MacAuliffe is a surname of an Anglicisation of the Gaelic Mac Amhlaoibh , meaning “son of Amhlaoibh”. The Gaelic name, Amhlaoibh, was derived from the Old Norse personal name Olaf. The surname occurs frequently in Munster, especially northern County Cork, western County Limerick, and eastern County Kerry. The MacCarthy’s and McAuliffe’s have always been traditionally linked through history. The name McAuliffe itself has various possible origins. The first of two deriving from the Norse are Mac Amhlaoibh’ meaning ‘son of Amhlaoibh’, or son of Olaf. The second, Amhailgadh, means ‘willow or sally’. More likely the name is of Celtic origin, a variation of the MacArthy, and descended from the first McAuliffe chieftain Auliffe Alainn (‘Humphrey the Dandy’). Alainn was born around 1214 and would have been alive when Dermot McCarthy received the Lordship of Duhallow, an area approximately 30 miles in circumference surrounding the towns of Kanturk and Newmarket, Co Cork, in south-west Ireland.

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