McNulty

McNulty

Language(s)	Gaeilge
Origin
Meaning	"descended of the Ulaid Nation"
Region of origin	Ireland
Other names
Related names	McAnulty, Donlevy, Dunleavy, Garvey, McKinley (surname)

McNulty (MacNulty) is an Irish surname historically associated with County Donegal and, possibly, with the moniker Ultach, an agnomen (additional surname) used by some of Gaelic Ireland's MacDunleavy or MacDonlevy (dynasty) royals in its earlier Gaelic language form. The surname denotes that its bearer is of the ancient Irish Ulaid race (singl. Ultaigh). In alternate spelling, Ulaid may be encountered as Ulaidh or Uladh. It is pronounced in Gaelic language "Ully" and has been corrupted in English to "ulty".

The surname derives from an anglicized contraction of the original Irish patronymic Mac (descended) an Ultaigh or confusion of the Irish "Mac an Ultaigh" (male) and "Nic an Ultaigh" (female) surname. Variant spellings include McNaulty, its variations McNalty and, rarely, O'Nalty, Nolty, McNult, the more primitive Anglicizations McAnulty, McEnulty and McKnulty and others.

The surname McNulty and any of its variations may be encountered sans their mac or mc prefix. Accordingly, some persons of this surname and their namesakes may be found alphabeted instead of at “M” at “N”, “O” and even “U”. Capitalization and spacing are inconsistent following either prefix. Mac appears in anglicized contraction not only as Mc (also written M^c), but, even, M’.

Alphabetization of Mac Nulty, Mc Nulty and M’ Nulty or their Mac, Mc and M’ variants

In researching persons of the McNulty surname or its variants, where either the Mac, Mc or M’ prefix has been employed to form such Anglicization of the Irish Mac or Nic an Ultaigh surname, also note that British text sources consistently place all surnames beginning with both the prefixes “Mac” and “Mc” at the alphabetical position of “Mac”, as the English language “Mc” is simply the Irish language “Mac”, anglicized by contraction. Depending on the particular American text source (United States or Canadian), it may follow the British convention or it may place all surnames beginning with the prefix “Mac” separately from surnames beginning with the prefix “Mc” at the alphabetical position of “Mac” and all surnames beginning with “Mc”, instead, at the subsequent alphabetical position of “Mc”. Surnames beginning with the even further abbreviated prefix M’ are consistently placed at the alphabetical position of “Mac” in both British and American reference sources.

Surname McNulty: its meaning and remotest heritage

Map shows colored in orange and green the entirety of Ireland's original Ulster or Ulaid province, the namesake of the Irish Ulaid. 6 modern Ulster counties of Northern Ireland are in Orange. 3 modern Ulster counties of the Republic of Ireland are in green.

The Irish surname Mac (literally, son) and Nic (literally, daughter) an Ultaigh (Anglicized Mac or Mc Nulty), actually, means in English “descended of the Ulaid Nation” or people. Mac and Nic an Ultaigh and its many Anglicizations may, also, though, be encountered in more ambivalently obscured and, likely, inadvertently, gender biased English translation as simply “son of an Ulsterman ” or "Ulidian". The Gaelic Mac and Nic an Ultaigh and its many Anglicizations may also be encountered in even still looser English translation as “(from or) native of Eastern Ulster”.

In any of these translations, though, the surname McNulty connotes that its bearer is descended from the Ulaid, a nation of people, that is the ancient Irish Uluti tribe, which dynasties in remote times ruled the entirety of the North of Ireland. The “Ulaid”, “Ulaidh” or “Ultaigh” (anglcized or corrupted “Nulty”) are actually equated in English translation to “Ulsterites or an Ulsterite” and their former territory of the “Ulaidh (province)” is equated in English translation to “Ulster”, because the Ulaid in remote times so occupied roughly the land of the 9 modern counties, which are Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Coleraine (now Londonderry), Tyrone, Cavan, Donegal and Monaghan, of historic Ulster province in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. As noted in that Wikipedia article, the English word Ulster, itself, is the Irish word Ulaid anglicized with the English possessive ending -s and Irish tír (Ulaidh’s tír) to designate the "land" or "territory" of the Ulaid, in other words, the Irish Ulaidh (province). In addition to being fierce land warriors, the Ulaid were also known for a formidable seafaring navy.

From their seat at Emain Macha, the dynasties of the Ulaid or Ulaidh first ruled all of the historic province of Ulster, that is the Ulaidh (province) as a sovereign state or in Irish language their “tuath” (literally, “the commonality”) from sometime between the 10th and 17th century BC and after the 5th-century AD encroachments of the adversary Uí Néill, successively, smaller portions, thereof, until the last remnants of their state, then, called Ulidia (kingdom), substantially dissolved in the late 12th century AD.

The dynasties of the Ulaid and their territory remaining after the 5th century AD were the Dál Riata in the glens of the land area of the modern County of Antrim in eastern Ulster and later, also, Scotland, the Dál nAraidi in the area of modern Belfast in eastern Ulster and the Dál Fiatach in the land area of the modern Diocese of Down and Connor in eastern Ulster.

Surname McNulty: a surname of ancient Gael royals

This is a map of Gaelic Ireland circa 900 A.D. The map area labeled Ulaid (nation) is the Kingdom of Ulidia. The map area labeled Northern Uí Néill is the Kingdom of Tir Chonaill. By the time that the Kingdom of Ulidia fell to the English in the late 12th century, the Kingdom of Tir Chonaill had expanded to include the northern portion of the Kingdom of Ulidia shown on this map.

There are variant etymologies proposed for McNulty. In large measure, however, all of these hold that the surname McNulty evolved from the Irish surnames of ancient Gael royals of southeastern Ulster or from Irish nicknames given them. Some McNulty are of the Ultonian royal house that produced kings of the Ulidia sub-kingdom of (modern) Iveagh and some McNulty may be of the Ultonian royal house that produced the last line of over-kings of the Ulaid (nation) and the Kingdom of Ulidia.

As persons of a surname originating in southeastern Ulster's Ulidia (kingdom), by any scenario posed by scholars, the McNulty are descended of the Red Branch royal houses of the Dál Fiatach group of the Ulaid dynasties, which include also the house of MacDonlevy (Irish Mac or Ó Duinnshléibhe), which produced the line of royals, who last ruled all the Ulaid as their over-kings. As persons of a surname originating either within or without southeastern Ulster, it is debated whether some McNulty are also descended of the MacDonlevy royal house, itself. As all the other Dál Fiatach dynasties, members of both the clanna MacDonlevy and McNulty claim descent from Fiatach Finn mac Dáire, a King of Ulster and High King of Ireland in the 1st century A.D., after whose reign the Dál Fiatach dominated the kingship of Ulster, and through him and the Heremon line of Irish kings, as many of the other royalty of the British Isles, to the Milesian Irish King Heremon, himself, and through Heremon to his father the legendary circa 15th century B.C. Iberno-Celts king Mil Espaine or Miles Hispaniae (Latinized Milesius of Spain, “victor of a thousand battles”), King of Galicia (Spain), Andalusia, Murcia, Castile (historical region) and Portugal.

There are two scholarly proposals for the origin of the McNulty surname in Ulidia (kingdom) in extreme southeastern Ulster. The McNulty are of the Kingdom’s Red Branch royal houses, in their line that later includes the O’Garvey, or the McNulty are of the Cú Uladh sept of the MacDonlevy branch of the Kingdom’s Red Branch royal houses.

In the context of a distinct clan (I. "clanna"), John O'Hart traces the McNulty to the Dál Fiatach group of Ulaid dynasties, who were the last rulers of the Ulaid nation of people and their, by then, greatly reduced Ulahd (province), called Ulidia (kingdom), and to the branching of its O’Garvey royals. In contrast to the entirety of the land area of the original Ulster province, the "lesser Ulahd province" or Ulidia (kingdom) of this time comprised a much smaller, though still large land area, concurrent with that of only one of Ulster province's 9 modern counties, that is County Down, and the southern portion of a second of its modern counties, which is County Antrim. The McNulty (parent house) and O’Garvey (descended house) ruled in this Ulidia (kingdom) the largest of its sub-kingdoms, which substantial land area in the west of County Down was concurrent with the land area of what is today Northern Ireland’s district or Barony (Ireland) of Iveagh (I. “Eachach Cobha” or older “Magh Cobha”), occupying much of the southern and western part of modern County Down. These Dál Fiatach kings were the Red Branch royal houses that ruled Ulidia (kingdom) for half a millennium until its fall in the late 12th century. Ulidia (kingdom), the last patrimony of the Ulaid nation, substantially collapsed, then, following John de Courcy's, his 800 armored English footroops' and 22 mounted armored cavalry's defeat of the Ulidians or Ultonians at Downpatrick in 1177 A .D. The cultural shock of the loss of their ancient administrative center and sacred religious site at Downpatrick (I. “Dùn Phádraig", L. “Dunum”) to de Courcy and the English caused, too, the already centuries diminished Ulaid race to in short order, thereafter, cease to exist as a cohesive people.

Some McNulty may, though, too, be traced directly to the MacDonlevy house of the royalty of Ulidia by virtue of a nickname there given the MacDonlevy. In one highly unusual translation of the surname McNulty, it is actually and seemingly oddly translated through its variant Naulty to mean in English “wild Ulidian dog” or hound (noted at reference to be from Gaelic “Cuallaidh”). This peculiar translation is, though, a reference to the battle famed Cú – Uladh MacDunnshleibhe (fl. c. 1177) (Latinized “Canis Ultoniae” or English “the Ulidian hound”), who was the nephew of Rory, the 54th Christian and last king of a viable Ulaid (province) (again, English Ulster and Latinized Ultonia and then being the reduced Ulidia (kingdom)). The chieftain Cú-Ulahd was noted to be as swift footed in combat as the feared Irish Wolf Hound, that the MacDonlevy and/or McNulty took to battle for successful purpose including the dismounting of their opponents the English’s armored cavalry. This later translation may, also, in addition to Naulty and its variants Nalty and Nulty, be the origin of the extraordinarily rare Conoulty variant of the surname McNulty.

Red Branch houses

Hence, according to manifold researchers, the namesake of Ulster or it their namesake and in ancient Irish lore claimed descended of the mythological Irish heroes of the Red Branch or Ulster Cycle, the McNulty as a parent house in the branch line leading to the O’Garveys or through the Donlevy house’s Cú-Ulahd are also as Irish rulers last of historic record among Ulster’s Red Branch royal houses (Irish, the “Craobh Ruadh”) of the Kingdom of Ulidia, that is of the “rigdamnai” of that portion of Ireland of the legendary earthen mound building Red Branch Knights of Ulster for whom Constance Markievicz, originally, named the Irish patriot organization “Na Fianna Éireann”.

MacDonlevy (dynasty) royals in exile

Finally, some McNulty may, otherwise, be MacDonlevy or of other septs displaced from Ulidia (kingdom). Sources besides O’Hart state that the clanna Mac an Ultaigh, its septs and its Anglicization Mac or McNulty evolved during the middle age without the area of the Kingdom of Ulidia, which was again located in the extreme southeast of Ulster province. They contend that the surname first appeared, instead, in the Kingdom of Tirconnell, which is located in the northwest of Ulster province, which is a portion of Ulster that for centuries thereto had not been the territory of the Ulaid. Ancient Tirconnell (I. Tir Chonaill or the land of the O’Donnell) had a land area roughly concurrent with that of the modern County Donegall in the Republic of Ireland.

Two sources, P. McNulty and E. Neafsey, go so far as to propose that the McNulty are not by that name an actual Irish clanna at all and that the Irish surname Mac or Nic an Ultaigh and, therefore, remotely, its Anglicization Mac or McNulty, arises from an Irish language nickname given during the Middle Ages only to persons who relocated to other portions of Ireland, most notably, again, Tirconnell, from the area of the former Kingdom of Ulidia in extreme southeastern Ulster after its fall. This Irish nickname was “Ultach”, in variant spellings also “Ultagh”, “Ultaig”, “Ultaigh” and “Ultacháin” (English Ulsterman or Ulsterite), the singular of the Gaelic “Ulaid”, “Ulaidh” or “Uladh” and English “Ulsterites” and Latinized “Ultonian” or “Ulidian”, for a member of the Uluti tribe, that is the Ulaid Nation or people. P. McNulty, among other of his supporting arguments, states first under section “Early Ulster (Ulaid, Ulidia, Ultonia) … McNultys (Mac an Ultaigh) … the name was applied only to those who had left early Ulster.”, then at section “Origin of Names” … “McNulty (Mac an Ultaigh, son of the Ulsterman), which is based on the location of their ancestors in early Ulster and their subsequent departure from that location (Appendix 1, p 17).” and, later, “McNulty name was applied only to those Gaelic families who fled Down after 1177 (Table 4, Appendix 4, p 18)”. E. Neafsey concurs in measure, while in citing to Woulfe, infra, noting “Woulfe describes MacNulty as a Donegal family …”.

Notably, the nickname “Ultach” was given by the indigenous populations of the western Ireland Kingdom of Tirconnell, the last standing Gaelic sovereignty and stronghold, to the MacDonlevy royalty upon their arrival in flight there after the substantial fall of their eastern Ireland Kingdom of Ulidia at Downpatrick in 1177. As stated in the now out of copyright year 1893 Dictionary of National Biography, ”As the family originally came from Ulidia, the lesser Uladh, or Ulster, the members of it are often called in Irish writings, instead of MacDonlevy, Ultach, that is Ulsterman, and from this the name McNulty, Mac an Ultaigh, son of the Ulsterman is derived.” Ultaigh and Ultagh are variant spellings of I. Ultach for an individual of the Ulaid nation or race. Ultach is anglicized to Ulsterite and from L. Ultonii to Ultonian or Ulidian. To a historical certainty, the MacDonlevy royalty did adopt this nickname Ultach as an agnomen (additional surname), while in asylum in Tir after their 1177 defeat by the forces of de Courcy named to the high Gaelic status of "ollahm leighis" or the official physicians to the O’Donnells dynasty Kings of Tirconnell (variant spelling Tyrconnell and sometimes abbreviated “Tir”). The MacDonlevy were the last line of historical Kings of Ulster and the Dál Fiatach, which thrones were actually restricted to this family’s lineage after 1137. The MacDonlevy (again, anglicized from Gaelic language Mac or Ó Duinnshléibhe) were, also, one of the ancient hereditary medical families of Ireland.

Emigration

Belfast's reminder of "An Gorta Mór", the Great Famine (Ireland) or the genocide by starvation

The wrenching parting of Henry Doyle's 1868 Emmigrant's Leave Ireland

Some of the first McNulty immigrants to North America arrived in Philadelphia and New York City in the very early 19th century and, later, more numerously, in both Philadelphia and New York City between 1840 and 1860, during which period the great Irish Potato Famine occurred. By 1980, there were 19,469 persons surnamed McNulty in the United States Social Security Administration data base. The surname McNulty was, then, the 2332 most frequently occurring surname in that database. There are an estimated 421 persons surnamed McNulty in Australia.

Remaining frequency in United Kingdom

In Great Britain the surname McNulty is shared by an estimated 7,888 people and is approximately the 1329th most popular surname in the country.

In modern history and contemporary affairs

Whatever their true appellation, persons surnamed McNulty, who as earlier noted, number no more than a few tens of thousands of the hundreds of millions in the English speaking world, include, modernly, a significant number of noteworthy individuals. Among these persons are venerated Irish nationalists, prominent statesmen, top level national and provincial government officials, famed entertainers, combat distinguished U.S. and/or British naval and army commanders, numerous other distinguished U.S., British, Australian and Canadian war heroes, Roman Catholic Church prelates and celebrated professional and amateur sports figures. In the U.S., persons of this surname also have an illustrious tradition as academics, in U.S. naval and martial history and, throughout the world, as journalists and in literature and the theatre. Persons surnamed McNulty are, too, less, but, still notably, visual artists, musical composers, instrument makers, engineers and inventors, pioneering computer scientists and technologists, intelligence operatives, jurists, chief executives of major corporations and/or financial exchanges, beauty pageant winners and in cinema.

Some people of general note

Dennis Day (1916-1988)
Dennis Day, the stage name of crooner, comic and radio and television personality Owen Patrick Eugene McNulty

Poster for Blondie Takes a Vacation (1939), starring Penny Singleton (1908-2003), the stage name of motion picture actress and radio personality Marianna Dorothy Agnes Letitia McNulty

Dr. Sir Arthur MacNalty (sometimes, McNalty) (1880-1969) was the 8th Chief Medical Officer (United Kingdom) (1935-1941) and a historian. A ground breaking medical scientist, he teamed with the Welshman Thomas Lewis (cardiologist) in 1908 to demonstrate that tracings from then nascent electrocardiography (ECG) could be used as a tool for diagnosing Heart block. This use of electrocardiography to diagnose heart block was the earliest application of ECG technology in cardiology and clinical medicine. Above is an illustration of a turn of the 20th century laboratory set up of the string galvanometer for the taking of an electrocardiograph. Many of Sir Arthur’s histories, including his Henry VIII: The Difficult Patient (1952) and Mary, Queen of Scots: The Daughter of Debate (1960), remain relevant for scholars. At the behest of his friend Winston Churchill, Sir Arthur also served as editor-in-chief for compilation of the monumental over 20 volume Official Medical History of the Second World War (1968).

• Ann McNulty, a stage, radio and recording artist, who appeared with her children Eileen McNulty and Peter McNulty as "The McNulty Family's Irish Showboat Revue"
• Anthony F. McNulty, a turn of the 19th century member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania
• Arthur MacNalty, the 8th Chief Medical Officer (United Kingdom)
• Arthur George McNalty, a British Army Brigadier general field commander during the First World War
• Arthur McNulty, an English football player
• Bernard McNulty, an Irish-American literary figure and U.S. based Irish nationalist, who first organized the Fenians in the United States
• Bill Conoulty (1899 or 1901 – 1961), a legendary automotive engineer, automobile manufacturer and automobile racer of Australia
• Bill McNulty, a U.S. major league baseball player, who was also in Japan's Pacific League
• Billy McNulty, a Scottish Football player
• Caleb J. McNulty (fl. c. 1840) (D), a Democratic Party (United States) politician and a scandalous early 19th-century Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives
• Carl McNulty, a NBA basketball player
• Charles McNulty, a journalist, the chief theater critic for The Los Angeles Times newspaper
• Chris McNulty, an internationally recognized Australian jazz vocalist, who is resident in New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Ciaran McKnulty, a footballer
• Daniel Naulty, a U.S. major league relief pitcher, who played on the NY Yankees' 1999 World Series winning team
• Daniel McNulty, a musician and composer of sacred music
• Deborah McNulty, an Emmy Award winning Make-up artist
• Dennis Day, a stage name of singer and radio and television personality Owen Patrick Eugene McNulty
• Des McNulty, a 3 term Labour Party member of the Scottish Parliament
• Doug McEnulty (U.S. football), a NFL football player
• Edward McNulty, an Irish playwright and novelist, called a "genius" by the Nobel laureate in literature George Bernard Shaw
• Elizabeth McNulty, a Miss Louisiana (Miss USA Pageant)
• Enda McNulty, a Gaelic footballer
• Evie Rafalko McNulty, a Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania elected government official prominent in the national Democratic Party (U.S.A.)
• F. Lynn McNulty (1939 - 2012), Lt. Col. (USAR), Central Intelligence Agency operative and first Director of Information Systems Security, U.S. State Department
• Faith McNulty, an American non-fiction author
• Francis J. McNulty, a turn of the 19th century Delaware state legislator
• Frank McNulty (Colorado legislator), (R), a multi-term member of the Colorado House of Representatives and a former Speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives
• Frank McEnulty, a 2008 right wing fringe party U.S. presidential candidate, who garnered fewer than 1000 votes
• Geoff Nulty, an English footballer
• Geraldine McNulty, a British stage and television actress
• Henry J. McAnulty, a USAF Lt. Col., Roman Catholic priest, military chaplain, American academic and the 9th president of Duquesne University
• James McNulty (footballer)
• James McNulty (Canadian MP), a former 4 term Liberal member of Canadian House of Commons and a former Canadian Minister of Labor
• James Barrett McNulty, (D), a flamboyant and nationally conspicuous Mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania
• James F. McNulty (chief executive), a U.S. Army Colonel (United States) and a Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chief Executive Officer and President of Parsons Corporation
• James J. McNulty, a C.E.O. of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange
• James T. Nulty, a turn of the 19th century U.S. inventor and Pennsylvania state legislator
• Jim McNulty (hockey player)
• Joe McNulty, an Irish footballer
• Joel McNulty, an American hurdler
• John McNulta, a Civil War era Illinois attorney and, later, 1 term Republican U.S. Congressman
• John McNulty (journalist), an American writer and prominent figure in the development of Literary journalism, who was acclaimed in posthumous eulogy by James Thurber
• John McNulty (football coach), a NFL football coach
• John McNulty (artist)
• John F. McNulty, Jr., a college athletic coach
• John J. McNulty, Jr. (1922 – 2009), a Sheriff of Albany County, New York, U.S.A. and a Northern New York State political power broker during 7 decades
• John K. McNulty, a legal scholar and educator
• John L. McNulty, an American Roman Catholic prelate and the 13th president of Seton Hall University
• John M. McNulty (baseball player), (b. 1894), a circa 1918 U.S. baseball player
• Justin McNulty, a Gaelic footballer
• Kathleen McNulty, a mathematician and pioneer computer scientist (original programmer of ENIAC)
• Kathleen McNulty Rooney (1904 - 1982) was long matriarch of the Rooney family. She was the wife of Pittsburgh Steelers founder Art Rooney and the mother of the former United States Ambassador to Ireland and current Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Dan Rooney. She is the grandmother of the actresses Rooney Mara and Kate Mara and United States Congressman Thomas J. Rooney (R, FL).
• Kevin Nalty, a comic and entrepreneur
• Kevin McNulty (actor), a film and television actor
• Liam Mac an Ultaigh, a Chief Scout of the Fianna Éireann
• Marc McNulty, a Scottish footballer
• Mark Nulty, an Irish cricketer
• Mark McNulty, a professional golfer
• Mark McNulty (footballer)
• Martin McNulty Crane,(D), the Lt. Governor of Texas (1893-1895) and the Texas Attorney General (1894-1898)
• Matthew McNulty, an English film and television actor with numerous credits
• Mary McNulty, a Miss Indiana (Miss America Pageant)
• Neil McNulty, a BBC Scotland soap opera actor, who plays Fraser Crozier in River City
• Pat McNulty, a U.S. major league baseball outfielder
• Patricia McNulty, a television actress
• Paul McAnulty, a U.S. major league baseball player
• Paul McNulty, a former U.S. Deputy Attorney General
• Paul McNulty, an American piano maker, who is resident in Eastern Europe
• Patrick Nulty, a member of the Dáil (Parliament) of Ireland
• Penny Singleton, a stage name of Marianna Dorothy Agnes Letitia McNulty, a radio personality and motion picture actress
• Peter McNulty (film editor)
• Peter McNulty (Gaelic Footballer)
• Peter H. McNulty, a turn of the 19th century multi term New York state legislator
• Phil McNulty, a journalist, the chief sports writer at BBC Sport
• Raymond J. McNulty, a Vermont Commissioner of Education
• Roy McNulty, a former Chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority (United Kingdom)
• Síghle Nic an Ultaigh, the eighth president of the Camogie Association
• Steve McNulty, an English footballer
• Thomas McNulty, an English footballer
• Thomas Francis McNulty, the composer of the now iconic children's song The Old Grey Mare
• Tony McNulty, a former multi-term English Labour Party M.P. and U.K. Minister of State
• William Charles McNulty, an American artist
• William E. McAnulty, Jr., a Justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court
• William N. McNulty, a Roman Catholic priest and the hero of the 1880 Garret Mountain May Day riot
• William B. Nulty, a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
• Damon Nalty, An Irish American historian and author of the book Browns of Mandoza.
• John Nalty, An American stand up comedian who uses the stage name Johnny Corn and son of Damon Nalty
• Kevin Nalty, An American stand up comedian best known under the stage name Nalts

Fictional characters

Thelma Ritter (1902-1969), as Ellen McNulty
from the trailer for The Mating Season (1951)

The motion picture actor Ray Milland, here, portraying Don Birnam in The Lost Weekend (1945), later, portrayed Prof. Ray McNulty in the early 1950s TV series Meet Mr. McNulty.

• Jimmy McNulty, a character on HBO drama The Wire
  • Elena McNulty (Jimmy’s estranged wife), Sean James McNulty (Jimmy’s and Elena’s eldest son) and Michael Barnes McNulty (Jimmy’s and Elena’s youngest son) also appear as characters on The Wire.
• Liam McNulty, a fictional character in BBC Scotland soap opera River City
• Middenface McNulty, post apocalyptic science fiction character
• McNulty Rugrats
  • There are 7 McNulty characters in the Emmy nominated animated TV series.
  • 5 McNulty brother Rugrats (Timothy, Todd, Ty, Teddy and Terry)
  • The brothers' grandfather Conan
  • The brothers' mother Colleen
• Lt. Ray McNulty and his son Van McNulty are characters in the U.S. TV series Smallville
• Meet Mr. McNutley was a successful CBS television network series that ran 44 episodes from 1953-1955. The show's title and the last name of its main character were changed to "McNulty" in the second episode. The show was, later, again, retitled the Ray Milland Show. As noted in the Wikipedia article Ray Milland filmography, Milland played the show's main character Prof. Ray McNulty. The U.S. television actress Phyllis Avery played the professor's wife Peggy McNulty.
• Stephen Graham (actor) played the character Peter McNulty in 2 episodes of the TV series Jump.
• Thelma Ritter won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Ellen McNulty in the 1951 film the Mating Season.
• Actress Gene Tierney played Maggie Carleton McNulty in the Mating Season (1951).
• There is a McNulty character in both the movie Trancers and its sequel Trancers II. In both movies the McNulty character is portrayed by actor Art LaFleur.
• Maggie Cline became famous in Vaudeville singing popular Irish songs, including How McNulty Carved His Duck.
• There is a Moshi Monsters moshling character in the puppies set named McNulty.

20th and 21st Century U.S. Representatives

Capitol dome

Frank Joseph McNulty

William Brodhead

Michael R. McNulty

• Frank Joseph McNulty, the U.S. labor leader and President of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (1903-1918), was in 1922 elected to the United State’s Sixty-Eighth Congress as a Democrat from New Jersey.
• James F. McNulty, Jr., who was born in Brockton, Massachusetts, was in 1982 elected to a term in the United States House of Representative as a Democrat from Tucson, Arizona.
• Michael R. McNulty served 10 terms as a Democratic Party (United States) member of the U.S. House before his retirement from the U.S. Congress in 2009. Michael “Mike” McNulty is a member of what the Wikipedia article Green Island, New York calls in titled section the "McNulty political dynasty" of northern New York. The “dynasty” was founded by Mike's father John J. McNulty, Jr., a long term local Albany County, New York politician or, arguably, his father, John J. McNulty, Sheriff of Albany County, New York in the 1930s. The "dynasty" includes manifold other McNulty family members, who hold or have held local political office in New York's Albany and Niagara counties. Other McNulty holding prominent federal offices in the northern New York and the New Jersey area are David L. McNulty, the U.S. Marshall for the Northern District of New York, and Kevin McNulty (judge), a United States District Court Judge and the brother-in-law of New York’s U.S. Senator Charles Schumer.
• William McNulty Brodhead was a 4 term Democratic Party member of the U.S. House from Michigan.

Roman Catholic Bishops

• James A. McNulty, the American Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Paterson from 1953-1963 and, later, upon transfer, American Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo from 1963-1972

• John Francis McNulty, the English Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nottingham from 1932-1943

• Thomas Nulty, the Irish Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Meath from 1866-1898

In U.S. nautical and naval history

Notable naval personnel and mariners

This is an aerial view of United States Merchant Marine Academy. Then Commodore Robert R. McNulty, the Supervisor of the Merchant Marine Cadet Corps, founded the Academy during the Second World War and served as its 3rd Superintendent. The Kings Point, New York campus grew from a 12 acre property that was once the water front estate of Walter Chrysler. The estate's main house, "Forker House", is now the Academy's Wiley Hall.

This is the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. The College was established in 1884. The College is the U.S. Navy research and educational institution charged with developing and disseminating to its officers new methods of naval warfare. Rear Admiral (then Captain (naval)) James F. McNulty was the institutions Chief of Staff in the 1970s. McNulty was particularly knowledgeable in the area of anti-submarine warfare. After his retirement from the U.S. Navy, Rear Admiral James F. McNulty became the Superintendent of the Great Lakes Maritime Academy in Michigan.

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Victory Medal of Awards and decorations of the United States Merchant Marine granted to United States Merchant Marine WWII combat veterans

"Acta Non Verba" ("Deeds Not Words"), the motto of the United States Merchant Marine Academy, founded 1943

• Richard R. McNulty of Glouster, Massachusetts (1899-1980), Vice Admiral USMS, Rear Admiral USN, is the WWII veteran, who founded the United States Merchant Marine Academy, King’s Point, NY, which is the latest of the United States Service academies. The Academy's McNulty campus is named for the Vice Admiral. As have its officer graduates, the Academy's midshipman or members of its cadet corps have served and sometimes died in every major U.S. military conflict from WWII and are privileged to carry a regimental battle standard.

• James F. McNulty (Rear Admiral USMS) of Lawrence, Massachusetts (1929-2006) is the combat decorated naval surface warfare officer and naval educator, who served on destroyers during both the Korean War and the Vietnam War. He, later, commanded the destroyer USS Farragut (DDG-37). Still, later, as a Captain (naval) USN, McNulty was Chief of Staff of the U.S. Naval War College and, even, later, as a United States Maritime Service Rear Admiral was superintendent of the Great Lakes Maritime Academy.

• William K. MacNulty of Antrim, Pennsylvania (1892-1964) is the US Marine Corps Brigadier General (United States) and recipient of the Navy Cross, who commanded the U.S. Marine Corp defense of Guam against overwhelming Japanese Imperial forces during the Battle of Guam (1941), the first WWII Japanese land action against the United States. Brig. Gen. McNulty, thereafter, also, heroically suffered the atrocities of being taken a Japanese Prisoner of war for the duration of the Second World War.

• Willard J. McNulty of Spokane, Washington (fl. c. 1945-1965), Captain (naval) (USN), had a number of high profile ship commands. He commanded both the storied escort destroyer, the USS Tabberer (DE-418) (4 Battle stars for service in WWII) and the, also, storied hydrographic survey and oceanographic research ship, the USS Maury (AGS-16), namesake of the famed astronomer and hydrographer Matthew Fontaine Maury. Originally, an Artemis-class attack cargo ship named the USS Renate (AKA-36), this latter ship was renamed the USS Maury on July 12, 1946 and, thereafter, converted for hydrographic missions. As a hydrographic survey and oceanographic research ship with the U.S. Atlantic Fleet (1948-1959), the USS Maury's studies of the North Atlantic's weather patterns added to meteorological knowledge, particularly with regard to hurricanes.

• John McNulty (steamboat captain) (fl. c. 1860), U.S. pioneer steamboat captain, an “old salt” who went to sea from his native Dublin, Ireland when just a young boy, by the time McNulty captained steamboats in the U.S. Northwest, he was a seaman of such extraordinary nautical skills that he transported passengers and cargo through the U.S. Columbia River’s then treacherous the Cascades and The Dalles rapids on large steamboat “palaces” for over 3 decades during the heyday of Northwest U.S. steamboat river transport without a single accident. The Northwest U.S.A. community of McNulty, Oregon is named for the Captain.

Ships & their namesakes

USS McNulty (DE-581) National Archives

The USS McNulty (DE-581) was a WWII escort destroyer named for Lt. (j.g.) John Thomas McNulty of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (born April 23, 1897), a 24 year Naval veteran, who died in combat in WWII while serving on the USS Astoria (CA-34) during the Battle of Savo Island on August 9, 1942. The U.S.S. McNulty was sponsored by his widow Helen K. McNulty, and, thereafter, received two battle stars for WWII service.

A Rudderow class destroyer escort, the USS McNulty was laid down on November 17, 1943. When launched on January 8, 1944, the USS McNulty (DE-581) had a length from stern through keel of 306 feet and a displacement of 1450 tons. Her beam was 36 feet and 10 inches, and she had a draft of 9 feet and 8 inches. She had 16 guns, 3 torpedo tubes, 8 depth charge throwers, 2 depth charge racks and 1 Hedgehog depth bomb thrower. Her compliment was 186 men. Her speed was 24 knots.

A completion photograph of the vessel in waters outside Boston Navy Yard on April 5, 1944 appears at section right.

Navy Cross recipients

For “Extraordinary heroism in combat not justifying the Medal of Honor” - the second highest medal of valor awarded to members of the U.S. Navy and its U.S. Marine Corps

• WW I (U.S. 1917-1918) John McNulty (U.S. Marine Corps gunnery) of Revere, Massachusetts, Gunner, U.S. Marine Corps, 66th Company, 6th Machine-Gun Battalion, 6th Regiment (Marines), 2d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, “Navy Cross is presented to John McNulty … for extraordinary heroism … in action between Blanc Mont and St. Etienne, France, October 4, 1918. Although he was severely wounded during an enemy counterattack, Gunner McNulty voluntarily remained on the firing line under heavy artillery and machine-gun fire, operating a machine-gun, the crew of which had all been killed or wounded … until the enemy was repulsed and he was ordered to the rear by his commanding officer …”

• 2nd Nicaraguan Campaign (1927-1933) William K. MacNulty of Willsboro, Pennsylvania (born Antrim, Pennsylvania), Captain, U.S. Marine Corps, 57th Company, 2d Battalion, 11th Regiment, “Navy Cross is presented to William K. MacNulty for distinguished service in the line of his profession as commander of a patrol operating in the vicinity of Bromoderos, Nicaragua, on 27 February 1928. Captain MacNulty, while on a mission assigned by his Battalion Commander, upon receiving word that a platoon of the 57th Company had been ambushed by a numerically superior force, immediately upon his own initiative proceeded to the scene, made a night march over unknown, most difficult terrain, in a bandit-infested area. Upon arrival at the spot, Captain MacNulty disposed his patrol with such military ability and strategy as to successfully defeat and put to rout the bandit force, thereby saving the lives of the remaining few of the beleaguered patrol, which were at that time greatly outnumbered."

U.S. naval recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross (United States)

For “Distinguishes himself by extraordinary heroism not justifying the Medal of Honor” - a second highest medal of valor that may be awarded U.S. Marines

• 1st Sgt. John McNulty (U.S. Marine Corps gunnery) (WWI), American Expeditionary Forces

U.S. naval recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)

For “Heroism and extraordinary achievement while participating in an actual flight”

• Francis Joseph “Frank” McNulty (1939-2008) U.S. Marine Corps (Vietnam War), in his three tours in Vietnam also awarded Bronze Star Medal, Distinguished Service Medal and Purple Heart

• John S. McNulty, Jr. U.S. Marine Corps (Korean War), for heroism and extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight in action against enemy forces, in Blakeney Heroes of the U.S. Marine Corps

• Walter J. McNulty U.S. Navy (WWII)

U.S. naval Silver Star recipients

For “gallantry in action against an enemy of the United States”

• Sgt. John McNulty (U.S. Marine Corps gunnery) (WWI) was awarded 2 Silver Stars each for separate actions and each of these actions distinct from his October 4, 1918 valiantness between Blanc Mont and St. Etienne, France, for which as also noted in this article, this Sgt. John McNulty was awarded both the Navy Cross and the Distinguished Service Cross. 1."By direction of the President, under the provisions of the act of Congress approved July 9, 1918 (Bul. No. 43, W.D. 1918), Gunner John McNulty (MCSN: 150063), United States Marine Corps, is cited by the Commanding General, SECOND DIVISION, American Expeditionary Forces, for gallantry in action and a silver star may be placed upon the ribbon of the Victory Medals awarded him. Gunner McNulty distinguished himself while serving with the 66th Company, Fifth Regiment (Marines), 2d Division, American Expeditionary Forces at Chateau-Thierry, France, 6 June to 10 July 1918." (FIRST Citation) 2."By direction of the President, under the provisions of the act of Congress approved July 9, 1918 (Bul. No. 43, W.D., 1918), Gunner John McNulty (MCSN: 150063), United States Marine Corps, is cited by the Commanding General, SECOND Division, American Expeditionary Forces, for gallantry in action and a silver star may be placed upon the ribbon of the Victory Medals awarded him. Gunner McNulty distinguished himself while serving with the Sixth Machine-Gun Battalion, 2d Division, American Expeditionary Forces at Blanc Mont, France, 1–10 October 1918." (SECOND Citation)

• Sgt. Thomas J. McNulty, U.S. Marine Corps (WWI) McNulty was severely wounded in the action.

• Maj. William McNulty U.S. Marine Corps (WWII) Citation: "The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Major William McNulty (MCSN: 0-6303), United States Marine Corps Reserve, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity while attached to the Third Battalion, First Marines, FIRST Marine Division, in combat against enemy Japanese forces on Cape Gloucester, New Britain, 27 and 28 December 1943. When the left assault company lost contact with the unit on its right, Major McNulty courageously worked his way alone through enemy territory despite hostile fire and succeeded in locating the endangered troops. Guiding them to a strategic position which closed the gap in our lines, he skillfully disposed his men along the battalion's left flank to provide protection against counterattack. The next day when the objective had been reached, he again visited the front lines and, exposing himself to enemy fire, aided the commanding officer in reorganizing the troops and protecting the battalion's left flank. By his timely assistance and outstanding tactical skill, Major McNulty contributed to the success of this hazardous operation, and his heroic conduct was in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service"

Duke University war memorial

USN Ensign (rank) Frank Bacon McNulty, Jr., the son of Dr. and Mrs. Frank Bacon McNulty, Sr., 223 Cathedral Mansions, Ellsworth Ave., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and a class of ’43 Duke alumni, who fell in naval action during WWII

In U.S. Army History

Notable WWII field commanders

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Colonel William A. McNulty

• Lt. Col. William A. McNulty of Roanoke City, Virginia (1910-2005) was a battalion commander of General George S. Patton’s 3rd Army command. Lt. Col. McNulty was commanding officer of the 3rd Battalion, 301st Infantry Regiment, 94th Infantry Division, which in face of withering defensive artillery, tank, antitank and machine gun fire and with McNulty heroically at its lead, forded in the dead of winter on February 23, 1945 the icy and swollen Saar River in southwest Germany at the then Siegfried Line to become the first Third Army (United States) troops to enter upon German soil, seizing the east bank German city of Serrig and establishing the vital bridgehead, which the balance of the Third Army used to sweep into the German Saarland, thereafter, taking the German cities of Trier, Coblenz, Bingen, Worms, Mainz. Kaiserslautern and Ludwigshafen, while killing or wounding 99,000 German troops and capturing another 140,112 of them, which represented virtually all of the remnants of the German First Army and the German Seventh Army.

Notable U.S. Civil War field commanders

• Lieutenant John R. McNulty was the Maryland Line (CSA) war hero, who while at the Battle of Old Town (U.S. Civil War 1864 Valley Campaign) positioned perilously close to Union Army troops and under a hail of their musket fire, directed from the guns of his Baltimore Light Artillery command a single strategic shot, which saved Brig. Gen. (CSA) John McCausland’s element of the Army of Northern Virginia from entrapment behind Union (American Civil War) lines on return route from raids into Maryland and Pennsylvania and their despicable sacking and burning of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania in retaliation for the Union Army burning of the Virginia Military Institute and as part of the Valley Campaigns of 1864. Lt. McNulty’s shot has been called “one of the most brilliant achievements of the war.” While always referenced in histories as “Lieutenant” or “the Lieutenant”, McNulty was repeatedly promoted during the war and, actually, held the rank of major by the close of the Army of Northern Virginia’s combat.

• Lieutenant Owen McNulty rose through the enlisted ranks of the Union Army’s Irish Brigade (U.S.) (known for their Irish language battle cry “fág an bealach” or “clear the way”). His command was known for its discipline in formation under fire. McNulty commanded his men at the Battle of Antietam, Battle of Fredericksburg, Battle of Chancellorsville, Battle of Gettysburg and until the Union (American Civil War)’s final engagement against the Army of Northern Virginia, the Battle of Appomattox Court House. He was father to also Irish Derry born U.S. labor leader, U.S. diplomat and U.S. Representative Frank Joseph McNulty.

U.S. Army recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross (United States)

For “Distinguishes himself by extraordinary heroism not justifying the Medal of Honor” - the second highest medal for valor awarded to members of the U.S. Army

Prisoners on the march from Bataan to the prison camp, May 1942. (National Archives).

• Pvt. Clarence J. McNulty (WWI), U.S. Army, Medical Detachment, 128th Infantry Regiment, 32d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, Date of Action: October 7, 1918, Citation: "The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Clarence J. McNulty, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Gesnes, France, October 7, 1918. When his battalion was forced to retire under heavy artillery and machine-gun fire, Private McNulty, accompanied by Private William A. Jacobson, went out in front of the battalion, administering first aid and bringing in the wounded who had been left lying in exposed positions. While they were carrying back a wounded soldier, Private Jacobson was wounded, whereupon Private McNulty alone carried the wounded man to the dressing station and then immediately returned to assist Private Jacobson."

• Lt. Herman L. McNulty (WWI), American Expeditionary Forces, killed in action

• 1st Sgt. William B. McNulty (WWII), McNulty was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross (United States) for his extraordinary heroism, exemplary leadership and achievement in spearheading an attack against the Japanese early at the Battle of Bataan, which occurred in the Philippines from December 22 through April 9 of 1941. During the U.S. forces’ delaying action at the Layac Line, 1st Sgt. William McNulty led the point squad more than 100 yards in front of Capt. Thompson’s L Company as it advanced against the Japanese into heavy fire. L Company succeeded in scattering and stalling the Japanese forces on the right, thereby, forcing them to continue their advance to the left into Bataan’s formidable mountain spine where the 26th U.S. Calvalry awaited them on high ground, though the Japanese did eventually force this body’s and the 31st Regiment’s withdrawal. Sgt. McNulty sadly did not survive the war. He perished in Japanese captivity in the subsequent Bataan Death March or at Camp O'Donnell, (section “History"), the final stop on the Bataan Death March, where 21,600 Filipino and American held captive by the Japanese died with many beheaded in front of open graves.

U.S. Army Silver Star Recipients

For “gallantry in action against an enemy of the United States”

• Lt. Col. James M. McNulty, Jr. (Army Air Force) (WWII) Lt. Col. James Matthew McNulty, Jr. was awarded the Silver Star for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action. Still, no other detail is known for this award, resulted from orders of the Army Air Force's Iceland headquarters. There did, though, exist an Army Air Forces Antisubmarine Command.

• PFC Lyle E. McNulty (WWII) Citation: "The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Private First Class Lyle E. McNulty (ASN: 37558761), United States Army, for gallantry in action while serving with Headquarters Company, 242d Infantry Regiment, 42d Infantry Division. On 9 January 1945, near Hatten, France, when wire communications between two battalions were disrupted, Private McNulty with other members of the crew repeatedly re-established communications by laying wire under intense enemy artillery and mortar fire."

• Capt. Peter H. McNulty (United States Army Air Service) (WWI), Pilot, 88th Aero Squadron, American Expeditionary Forces, for distinquishing himself by gallantry in flight in action near Dun-Sur-Meuse, France October 28, 1918 while on photographic mission.

• Robert W. McNulty (Korean War)

• Warren E. McNulty (WWII)

• Lt. Col. (later Colonel) William Anderson McNulty (WWII) Citation: "The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Lieutenant Colonel (Infantry) William A. McNulty (ASN: 0-18871), United States Army, for gallantry in action against the enemy while serving with Headquarters, 301st Infantry Regiment, 94th Infantry Division, in action in Germany, on 23 February 1945. Colonel McNulty, after making a personal reconnaissance of the crossing site, fearlessly led the assault elements of his command across the Saar River near Serrig, Germany. Inspiring his men by his gallant leadership, he pressed forward in the face of withering enemy fire and directed the capture of the town of Serrig and the establishment of a vital bridgehead. Colonel McNulty's utter disregard for his own safety and courageous, aggressive actions reflect great credit upon himself and the military service." The Colonel was also awarded the Legion of Merit.

Missing in action

F-80Cs of the 8th Fighter-Bomber Group Korean War

• 1st Lieutenant Richard L. McNulty (b. 1929) was originally with the Rhode Island Air National Guard, but became a USAF F-80 Pilot with the 8th Fighter-Bomber Wing, 80th Fighter-Bomber Squadron at outbreak of the Korean War. While during the Korean War flying wing for his squadron leader and major, McNulty was credited with a confirmed kill of a technically superior Russian MiG-15 and awarded the Air Medal for a single act of heroism. During the entire Korean War, fewer than 6 MiG-15s were shot down by these even then archaic and outclassed WWII era design Lockheed F-80 Shooting Stars, the first jet fighters ever used operationally by the old United States Army Air Force. McNulty later received 2 oak leaf clusters for 2 subsequent awards of the Air Medal. The primary mission of fighter-bomber squadron is to fly ground troop support against communication and supply lines at low altitude, over often difficult terrain, often, also, in midst of heavy anti-aircraft fire and while laden with high explosives and napalm. 1st Lt. McNulty failed to return from a January, 1952 mission against Yangdok, North Korea. It is believed that he was shot down by Soviet MiG-15 ace Sergei Kramarenko. See section "Credits for aerial victories of Sergei Makarovich Kramarenko" of that Wikipedia article for details. The Lieutenant left a daughter Karen, and a son, Patrick, who was born while the Lieutenant was serving in Korea and who the Lieutenant had never seen.

Buried at Arlington National Cemetery

• USN Captain James F. McNulty (Rear Admiral USMS), Legion of Merit;
• U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel John F. McNulty, Jr., Bronze Star Medal;
• U.S. Army Special Forces (Ranger badge) Master Sergeant Michael L. McNulty (1968-2005), who was awarded more than 20 U.S. Army medals including 3 Bronze Star Medals (1 with Valor device) and a Purple Heart Medal and who died in combat felled by small arms fire during Operation Iraqi Freedom;
• USN Rear Admiral Richard R. McNulty, Legion of Merit.

In U.S. military intelligence service and U.S. intelligence operations

This is the CIA Memorial Wall when with 83 stars. One of these stars honors Wayne J. McNulty.

This is the corresponding CIA Book of Honor 1950-2005. The 5th entry down in the second column of the open page on the reader's left is for the 1968 death of Wayne J. McNulty.

• Col. John J. McNulty, III, was the Chief of the U.S. Army's U.S. House Liaison Division, The Pentagon, during the Gulf War and the Somali Civil War.
• Lt. Col. F. Lynn McNulty (USAR), a Central Intelligence Agency operative, U.C. Berkeley graduate and computer information technologist, was the first Director of U.S. State Department Information Systems Security.
• Kathleen McNulty, was a mathematician, pioneer computer scientist and one of the first team of programmers of ENIAC. The vacuum tube Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer or ENIAC, the first electronic computer, was developed during WWII at the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Engineering as a classified project code named “Project PX” for purpose of calculating artillery firing tables for the United States Army Ballistics Research Laboratory, but, was instead first put to use for also classified calculations for the hydrogen bomb.
• Captain (naval) Willard J. McNulty (USN) commanded the hydrographic survey ship the USS Maury (AGS-16) in Southeast Asian waters from July, 1961 – August, 1962. During this period of Capt. McNulty’s command the Maury (AGS-16) gathered environmental intelligence on the Gulf of Siam, Strait of Malacca, and Andaman Sea in prelude to U.S. troop and war ship involvement in Vietnam. The USS Maury (AGS-16) (six battle stars for her service in the Vietnam War), later, saw significant action in the Vietnamese War from 1966-1969, particularly in the Mekong Delta. Its sound boat GS-16-2 was there deployed, and the Maury continued there to serve U.S. Vietnam combat operations urgent needs for environmental intelligence for riverine warfare and amphibious operations. The Office of Naval Intelligence or ONI (est. 1882) is the oldest member of the United States Intelligence Community, the U.S. Navy early realizing that environmental intelligence could be vital to the success of naval combat operations.

On CIA Memorial Wall

“In Honor of those Members of the Central Intelligence Agency Who Gave Their Lives in the Service of Their Country”

103 stars representing CIA agents who died in service of their country are carved into the Memorial’s white Vermont marble on the north wall of the original CIA headquarters building. One of these stars honors CIA operative Wayne J. McNulty, paramilitary Special Activities Division, National Clandestine Service (responsible for covert operations), who died in action in 1968 in South Vietnam or Laos.

WWII and Post WWII Heroes of His or Her Majesty’s and Commonwealth forces

• SGT. Alan Barry McNulty, DCM Australian Army, Vietnam War, Distinguished Conduct Medal, 4th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, “for outstanding conduct and personal courage”

Citation:

”On the 11th May, 1969 a platoon of A Company was pinned down in a heavy contact against an enemy battalion headquarters position. The platoon commander was seriously wounded ten yards in front of the enemy position and could not be extracted despite several frontal attacks. Sergeant McNulty, leading eleven men, made repeated attempts over a period of five hours to outflank the enemy and assault from the rear. Each attempt was met by heavy and accurate rocket, claymore, and machine gun fire. Despite the risk of almost certain death or wounding, Sergeant McNulty could not be deterred in his efforts to rescue the platoon commander. He finally succeeded in getting himself and a soldier with a flame thrower into a position from which effective fire could be delivered into the enemy long enough to achieve the recovery of the officer.

In July, 1969, Sergeant McNulty was an adviser with a company of the Army of The Republic of Vietnam. The company came under sudden and heavy attack from an enemy company. The violence of the initial enemy rocket and machine gun fire caused seven casualties and created confusion amongst the friendly troops. Without regard for his own safety Sergeant McNulty advised and assisted the company commander in the organisation of his defences and the collection and evacuation of the wounded. As the enemy attack intensified Sergeant McNulty called for and calmly directed for several hours helicopter gunships and artillery, forcing the enemy to withdraw. His personal courage and professional advice was responsible for saving the South Vietnamese troops from further severe casualties and the possibility of being overrun by the enemy assault.

In August, 1969, Sergeant McNulty's platoon was engaged in two separate major contacts with superior size enemy forces entrenched in bunkers. On both occasions Sergeant McNulty inspired all ranks with his aggressiveness and courage which by now had become expected of him in all contacts with the enemy. On the 21st August, 1969 while attacking an enemy battalion position, over fifteen members of his platoon including Sergeant McNulty were wounded. Sergeant McNulty covered the withdrawal of other members of his platoon, assisted in their evacuation and was finally wounded a second time during his own evacuation.

Sergeant McNulty's outstanding conduct and personal courage has been inspirational to all members of his battalion and to South Vietnamese allies. His exemplary actions reflect great credit on himself, The Royal Australian Regiment and the Australian Army."

• Then brevet SGT., CPL. Edward John McNulty, MM Australian Army, Korean War, Military Medal, 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, “for act of gallantry and devotion to duty under fire”

Citation: “On the night of 10/11 December 1952, Sergeant McNulty commanded the reserve section and the assault pioneer group of the force which assaulted enemy positions on 'Flora' (CT 161208). As the force approached the objective it came under heavy enemy small arms and grenade fire. It quickly became apparent that the enemy holding the position was in far greater strength than anticipated. Sergeant McNulty's force was immediately committed in a mopping-up role. With his small party he searched for and located many enemy shelters and bunkers, inflicting casualties and serious material damage on the enemy. It was due to his energetic and courageous action during this period that many enemy posts, which had been bypassed in the initial assault, were destroyed, thus keeping friendly casualties to a minimum. As his force cleared the objective, an enemy machine-gun opened up, wounding one man. Sergeant McNulty helped to move the wounded man to safety but, in doing so, was struck by a bullet, which was fortunately deflected by his armored jacket. With complete disregard for his own safety and despite being shaken by his near miss, he personally assaulted the position with grenades and killed the crew. He then began the collection of wounded in the area, moving freely through the enemy defensive fire that was now beginning to fall. When the order for the withdrawal was given, Sergeant McNulty checked his troops through and waited until all had cleared the position before he himself withdrew from the area. Through his personal courage and disregard for his own safety he significantly contributed to maintaining the momentum of the assault. He set a splendid example to his men and infused them with a determination which contributed largely to the success of the operation.”

• Air Crew Wireless Officer Gordon Patrick McNulty, DFC (1920-2011) Royal Canadian Air Force, WWII, Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom), "for an act or acts of valour, courage or devotion to duty whilst flying in active operations against the enemy"

Died valorously in action

• In Volume III of Ab Jansen Wespennest Leeuwarden at page 167, SGT. Peter McNulty (then aged 21 years) Royal Air Force, WWII, bomber tail gunner who died on board a British Allied Forces Short Stirling MK1 heavy bomber in air over the Dutch coast on May 4, 1943 during his 6th aerial mission. He is buried on the Continent in a marked grave at Midwolda, Groningen (province). Such airmen repeatedly went to air in defense of their country, family and other loved ones knowing that the life expectancy of a British bomber crewman in WWII was just 12 missions and for a tail gunner like Peter McNulty much, much shorter.

Places & their namesakes

This is a nighttime view of McNulty Hall, which is Seton Hall University's Technology and Research Center. The famed "Atom Wall" mural, depicting God, gifting scientific knowledge to man, can be viewed in the building's atrium. McNulty Hall also houses an observatory and large amphitheater.

The McAnulty School of Liberal Arts building at Duquesne University.

• There exists a McNulty Building, which was built in 1898 and which originally housed the McNulty Grocery and Dry Goods Company, in the Gay Street (Knoxville) Commercial Historic District.
• McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts at Duquesne University is named for the Reverend Lieutenant Colonel Henry J. McAnulty, the University’s 9th President.
• McNulty Gulch is a feature of granite porphyry near Leadville, Colorado in the U.S. Ten Mile Mining District. McNulty Gulch is an integral part of the western United States’ and Colorado’s gold rush history, being the 1861 site of one of the earliest of the gold finds in Colorado that precipitated the Colorado Gold Rush. The McNulty surname also figures prominently elsewhere in the U.S. West during its gold rush era. Pioneer William McNulty was an 1849 California Gold Rush immigrant from Mansfield, Ohio. In 1852, McNulty was elected a member of the first Sacramento County, California Board of Supervisors. A merchant by trade and alternately fluctuating between boom wealth and affluence and bust poverty, McNulty died by his own hand.
• McNulty Campus at the United States Merchant Marine Academy lies on that United States Service academies academy grounds at King's Point, NY near the grounds' Northern border. It is named for Vice Admiral Richard R. McNulty, the Academy’s “father” and its 3rd Superintendent.
• McNulty Hall, a residence hall at Johnson and Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island is named for Lieutenant Colonel John F. McNulty, Jr., who was the University’s Dean of Students for near 3 decades and its Athletic Director.
• McNulty Hall, which is Seton Hall University’s Technology and Research Center is named for Monsignor John L. McNulty, the University’s 13th President.
• McNulty Lake is a lake in Lee County, Arkansas, USA.
• The community of McNulty, Oregon is named for Oregon pioneer John McNulty (steamboat captain), as are the Warren, Oregon headquartered McNulty Water Association, which serves some 700 families in Columbia County, Oregon west of St. Helens, Oregon and McNulty Way in St. Helens, Oregon.
• McNulty Reservoir Dam in Eagle County, Colorado, named for Colorado's McNulty family cattle ranchers, who settled in Eagle County, Colorado in the 1880s, eventually, operating a 2500 acre cattle ranch there near Leadville, Colorado
• McNulty Reservoir (Malheur County, Oregon, USA), named for the Northwest USA pioneer John McNulty (steamboat captain)
• Downtown McNulty Station in St. Petersburg, Florida is named for John T. McNulty, who became Chief of the St. Petersburg Fire Department in the year 1913. During McNulty’s 23 year tenure as St. Petersburg Fire Chief, the then Evening Independent newspaper called him “The most dedicated ‘smoke eater’ of them all.” and “One of the ablest firefighters in the South.” Born in Mineral Point, Missouri in 1881, McNulty began his firefighting career at 13 years old in Meridian, Mississippi by holding City firemen’s horses at blazes. By age 16, he was the Chief of the Meridian, Mississippi Fire Department and commanding men decades his elders.
• Upper McNulty Reservoir in Oregon, USA, namesake of Columbia River pioneer John McNulty (steamboat captain)

McNulty rhyolite

Found in a single location on the earth’s surface, that is McNulty Gulch near Leadville Colorado, McNulty rhyolite is a comparatively rare gem rock (geology) quality variety of rhyolite rock. McNulty rhyolite appears in the official U.S. Department of Interior, United States Geological Survey Lexicon of Geological Names of the United States.

See also

Legion of Merit

There are more notable McNulty United States Armed Forces Legion of Merit medal recipients listed in this Wikipedia article (5 total recipients) than persons of any other surname. Among these McNulty recipients are Richard R. McNulty (Rear Admiral USN), founder of the United States Merchant Marine Academy, James F. McNulty (Rear Admiral USMS), the U.S. Navy surface warfare officer, who, later, became chief of staff of the Naval War College, the U.S. Navy research and educational institution charged with developing and disseminating to its officers new methods of naval warfare, and U.S. Army Colonel William A. McNulty, the battalion commander, who in face of fierce defensive machine gun and tank, anti-tank and other artillery fire, led Patton's U.S. 3rd Army troops across the Saar river to establish the bridgehead at Serrig from which the U.S. 3rd Army swept into Germany's Saarland to decimate Nazi Germany's 1st and 7th Armies (also, awarded Silver Star and the Croix de guerre 1939-1945 (France) for same action). The Legion of Merit medal is awarded by the U.S. for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services and achievements.

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• [59] Here for view courtesy of BBC is Clare Collas' oil on canvas portrait of Dr. Sir Arthur Salusbury MacNalty in elder life, hanging in the collection of the Royal College of Physicians, London
• [60] Here is the U.K. National Health Service official site's photograph portrait of Dr. Sir Arthur Salusbury MacNalty (there listed as Arthur McNalty #8) along with portraits of all of the other of the U.K.'s Chief Medical Officers since Victorian times.
• [61] Here are several photographs of the USS McNulty (DE 581) and a photograph in naval uniform of that ship's namesake Lt. (j.g.) John Thomas McNulty, from navsource.org.
• [62] Here is a post WWII photograph portrait and detail for U.S. Army Col. William Anderson McNulty from findagrave.com.
• [63] Photographs of Rear Admiral (then Commander) James F. McNulty and some early biography detail are here available for view.