Bestanddeel 1 - Documents relating to the Father Mathew Centenary

• Souvenir programme for the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association Father Mathew Centenary Celebrations in Cork on Sunday, 24 June 1956. Printed, 25 pp.
• Souvenir programme for centenary celebrations for the death of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The events took place in City Hall in Cork on 9 Dec. 1956 and included an address by the Most Rev. David Mathew, Titular Bishop of Apamea. Printed, 3 pp. 2 copies.
• Newspaper clippings relating to the centenary of Fr. Mathew’s death. The file includes:
Fr. Hilary McDonagh OFM Cap., ‘The mighty moral miracle wrought by Father Theobald Mathew’, 6 Dec. 1956.
‘Cork Centenary Celebrations’.
Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., ‘The secret of Father Theobald Mathew – Capuchin / What his Franciscianism meant to him’, 'Evening Echo', 7 Dec. 1956.
‘Fr. Mathew: One of the great men of history’, 'Cork Examiner', 10 Dec. 1956.
‘Ireland’s Great Tribute to the Apostle of Temperance’, 'Cork Examiner', 25 June 1956. A pictorial supplement.
’60,000 Pioneers pay tribute to Fr. Mathew’, Cork Examiner, 25 June 1956. Clippings, 12 pp.
• Letter from Rev. Patrick J. Hamell, Honorary Secretary of the Father Mathew Union, St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., re preparations for the celebration of the Father Mathew Centenary. 15 Sept. 1956. Typescript, 2 pp.
• Offprint of an article by Fr. Matthew Flynn OFM Cap., ‘Theobald Mathew OFM Cap. / A Centenary Tribute’, published in the 'Irish Ecclesiastical Record' (1956). Printed, 13 pp.