McAnulty explained

McAnulty is a surname. It is a variant of McNulty.^{[1] [2]}

Notable people with the name include:

• Dara McAnulty (born 2004), Northern Irish naturalist and writer
• George McAnulty (played in 1952), New Zealand Association football player
• Henry J. McAnulty (1915–1995), Roman Catholic priest and American academic
• James P. McAnulty (in office 2013-2015), American diplomat
• John McAnulty (died 1989), Northern Irish Catholic who was murdered
• Kieran McAnulty (born 1985), New Zealand politician
• Nicholas McAnulty, actor in Australian/British 2009 film The Boys Are Back
• Paul McAnulty (born 1981), American baseball outfielder
• Sarah McAnulty (active 2011-), American squid biologist and science communicator
• William E. McAnulty Jr. (1947–2007), justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court

See also

• McNulty
• McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts, part of Duquesne University, Pennsylvania, United States

References

1. Edward MacLysaght, Irish Families – Their Names, Arms and Origins, © 1972 Allen Figgis and Co. Ltd., in U.S.A., New York, Crown Publishers, Inc. p. 244 “MacNULTY … An older anglicized form of the name, now rare, is MacAnulty.”
2. Rev. Patrick Woulfe, Priest of the Diocese of Limerick, Member of the Council, National Academy of Ireland, Irish Names and Surnames, © 1967 Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, in Irish and English, p. 110, 319 (not to be confused with the unrelated McAnalty and MacConallta also at p. 110)