Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- c.1930-1940 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
c.500 pp; Manuscript and typescript
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Scope and content
Copybooks containing research compiled by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. for his MA thesis on Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The file includes:
• Copybook containing notes on Fr. Mathew’s genealogy and his early education.
• Copybook containing transcripts of Fr. Mathew’s correspondence relating to famine relief. c.1845-7.
• Copybook containing notes compiled by Fr. Nessan relating to Fr. Mathew’s temperance campaign. c.1838-47.
• Notes relating to famine relief efforts particularly in Cork. The notes appear to be transcribed from newspapers (Cork Examiner) and reports from the Cork Relief Committee.
• Copybook containing government reports (Constabulary reports from the State Paper Office) on Fr. Mathew’s temperance movement.
• Photostat copy of a photographic print of Fr. Mathew’s grave. The caption reads: ‘Large cross marks the grave of Father Mathew in Saint Joseph’s Cemetery which he acquired as part of his work for the Catholic people in Cork’.
• Extracts from American newspapers covering Fr. Mathew’s visit to the country in 1849.
• Extracts from official reports from Dublin Castle on the progress of the temperance campaign in Ireland.
• Extracts illustrative of Fr. Mathew’s opinions on housing, wages, landlordism and other social and political issues.