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Author: Susan Gavan Duffy (1847-1933)
Publisher: Dublin: Catholic Truth Society, 24 Upper O’Connell Street
Language: English
Ink stamp on front cover reads: 'Library OFM Cap., Church Street’.

File relating to the commemoration of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC at the 1902 Cork International Exhibition. Proposed by Edward Fitzgerald, Lord Mayor of Cork, this exhibition and fair showcased many facets of the industrial revival in Ireland. The exhibition included a pavilion devoted to the life and work of Fr. Mathew. The installation of a Father Mathew Pavilion at the exhibition was primarily the result of work done by Fr. Thomas Dowling OSFC (1874-1951). The Exhibition Pavilion was designed by James F. McMullen, architect. The file includes:
• Letters relating to the loan of exhibits, temperance souvenirs, personal effects, paintings and mementos displayed in the Father Mathew Pavilion at the exhibition. Correspondents include Fr. Thomas Dowling OSFC, Fr. Paul Neary OSFC, Fr. Mathew’s collateral descendants, J.D. Power, James Nugent, Fr. J. Kane, Parish Priest of Culdaff, Derry, Joshua Baily and William O’Connell.
• Letter from Denis Downey, Dawson Street, Dublin, to Fr. Thomas Dowling OSFC regarding a painting of Fr. Mathew in his possession. Downey adds ‘the late Father Columbus [Maher OSFC] of Church Street with Miss Redmond, the artist, called here and sketched the features for the O’Connell Street Statue, and Father Columbus told me he would purchase the picture as soon as he would be free from debt over the building of the Hall in Church Street’. 24 Jan. 1902.
• Letter from Thomas S. Bowdern, Supreme Council of the Knights of Father Mathew, St. Louis, Missouri, to Fr. Thomas Dowling OSFC thanking him for his kindness in sending ‘souvenirs of the Great Apostle of Temperance’. Bowdern wrote ‘I assure you we appreciate very highly these souvenirs and will hand them down to our successors in the Knights of Father Mathew that in the flight of years they will become even more and more highly prized if such is possible’. Reference is also made to the Knights’ intention to build a statue of Fr. Mathew for the World Fair. ‘As it is the desire to make our statue after the one in Cork I have been asked to write to you to have you inquire whether there is a replica or moulds in existence of the Cork monument’. 24 Feb. 1903.
• Copybook containing notes on the provenance of many of the items displayed in the Pavilion including temperance certificates and medals, Fr. Mathew’s stole, portrait paintings, Fr. Mathew’s piano and a model of the Capuchin chapel on Blackamoor Lane, Cork.
• Caption panels for objects displayed in the exhibition. Includes descriptions and provenance details for commemorative plates, teapots and other artefacts associated with Fr. Mathew. One of the captions reads: ‘The marble chimney-place at present in Refectory was also left in Father Mathew’s house when he left it, and was presented to Community by Mrs Ryan’.
• Visitors’ Book to the Father Mathew Pavilion at the Cork International Exhibition in 1902. The visitors included Cardinal Michael Logue, Archbishop of Armagh. A note on the final page by Fr. Thomas Dowling OSFC reads ‘No. of visitors over 4,500’.
• Copy prints showing Fr. Thomas Dowling OSFC outside the Father Mathew Pavilion at the exhibition in 1902. The other print shows the interior of the Pavilion with various artefacts associated with Fr. Mathew on display.

Genealogical notes compiled by Veronica Mathew, a great great great grand-niece of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The articles are titled ‘The Irish Mathews’ and ‘The Mathew family and their affection for Landaff’. The notes trace the ancestry of the Mathew family and include remarks re notable persons in the family tree and lore associated with the Mathews.

• Copy print of a portrait of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The reverse has a letter to An tAtair Micheál Ó Se OFM Cap. from Fr. Dermot O’Reilly OFM Cap. regarding a retreat in County Cork. Printed, 1 p.
• Postcard print of the People’s Café Hotel Dining Room, Trimgate Street, Navan, County Meath. The premises presumably served as a meeting-room for a local temperance association. 13.5 cm x 9 cm.
• Photographic prints of Thomastown Castle, the childhood home of Fr. Mathew, and Ratheloheen House, County Tipperary. See also Glass Plate Negative at CA PH-1-21. Print size: 11.5 cm x 9 cm; 10.5 cm x 8 cm.
• Postcard print of a bust of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC in Father Mathew Hall, Dublin. The bust has the following inscription: ‘Fra. Theobald Mathew / Ord. Cappuccin / J. Hogan fecit, 1834’. 2 copies.
• Photographic copies of the pledge of the Father Mathew Total Abstinence Association. 2 pp.
• Postcard print of a portrait of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC titled: ‘For happy homes, for Ireland, for God / Fr. Mathew OSFC, Apostle of Temperance’. 20 copies.
• Photographic print of the Father Mathew statue on O’Connell Street, Dublin. Black and white print, 25.5 cm x 19 cm.
• Negative photographic print showing Fr. Theobald Mathew’s house at No. 8 Cove Street, Cork. An annotation on the covering envelope reads: ‘Negative of a photo of Fr. Mathew’s House, No. 8 Cove Street – as it was in 1902 / The roof has since then been altered / Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap., Aug. 20, 1928’. With two (positive) photographic prints of the same image. 3 prints.
• Copy portrait print (on card) of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. 25 cm x 20 cm.

• Copy inventory of the works of John Hogan (1800-1858), sculptor. The photocopy is from John Turpin, 'John Hogan, Irish neoclassical sculptor in Rome, 1800-1858 / a biography and catalogue raisonné' (Dublin, 1982). The extract refers to the busts of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. Reference is made to No. 41, a marble bust of Fr. Mathew in the Capuchin Friary, Church Street, Dublin [now in the National Museum of Ireland]. The bust is inscribed ‘Hogan’ in monogram. No. 43 is described as a plaster bust of Fr. Mathew in the Capuchin Friary, Church Street, Dublin. It is inscribed ‘Fr. Theobald Mathew, Ord. Capuchin. He is wearing the Capuchin habit with folded hood. The face is slightly more uneven and less glassy than the marble, for which it is principally a study. W. Strickland, "Dictionary of Irish Artists", in his list of Hogan’s works, mentions a bust of Fr. Mathew in the collection of H.J. Maguire, Anglesea Road, Dublin, which may have been identical to this one …’. With photographic print of Hogan’s marble bust of Fr. Mathew (21.5 cm x 16.5 cm).
• Copy prints of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC.
• A photographic print of the grave of Fr. Theobald Mathew in St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Cork. Fr. Matthew Flynn OFM Cap. is seen standing beside the grave. c.1960. 11 cm x 6.5 cm.

The print shows Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC (in a black frock-coat) administering the pledge to a large crowd with a church dome in the background. The print is titled ‘Father Mathew administering the pledge of temperance’. Printed by W. Kohler, lithographer, 22, Denmark St., Soho, London. Published by William Spooner, 377, Strand, London.

Author: John Francis Maguire
Publisher: London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green
Language: English
Edition: Second Edition
Physical condition: Bound in contemporary hard covers with gilt title to spine. The volume is in poor condition. The spine cover has completely disintegrated and front cover is partially detached from the text block. Foxing to opening pages. The page-edges are frayed and brittle. Very careful manual handling is required.

Author: Katharine Tynan (1859-1931)
Publisher: London: MacDonald and Evans
Language: English
Series: The St. Nicholas Series / edited by Rev. Dom Bede Camm OSB
Includes a frontispiece (portrait of Fr. Mathew) and colour plates.
The Irish Capuchin Archives holds both the 1908 and 1910 editions.