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An unpublished ‘Memoir of Father Theobald Mathew OSFC / The Apostle of Temperance’ compiled by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. The title page gives a date of 17 March 1929 at the Capuchin Friary, Church Street, Dublin. A list of mainly published sources is given for the text. The memoir is comprised of two parts. Part I: Testimonies and Part II: Father Mathew before 1838.

• Letter to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. from Sister M. Monica enclosing notes outlining Fr. Mathew’s involvement in bringing the Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy to Birr, County Offaly in 1840. The letter is dated 31 Jan. 1941. Manuscript and typescript, 4 pp.
• Notes by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. re portraits of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The principal source for the notes appears to be Walter G. Strickland’s 'A Dictionary of Irish Artists' (1913). The file includes references to the following:
Edward David Leahy (1797-1875). ‘He painted a portrait of Fr. Mathew in 1846. Held in the National Portrait Gallery’.
Daniel MacDonald (1821-1853). ‘He painted a portrait of Fr. Mathew and engraved it in mezzotint ….’.
Samuel West (b. about 1810, d. after 1867). ‘Portrait of Fr. Mathew, belonged to the late Sir James Mathew. It was engraved by W.O. Geller’.
Cutting from the 'Cork Examiner', 3 Nov. 1931, referring to a drawing of Fr. Mathew by George Cruikshank which had recently been sold at auction in Sotheby’s in London. A note attached to the drawing read: ‘This sketch was made before I became a pump myself. But I am happy to say that I have been a total abstainer for 26 years, up to this date, July 26th, 1873’.
[c.1915]. Manuscript and cutting, 8 pp.
• Letter from Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. to Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. referring to Fr. Augustine Hayden’s contention in his 'Footprints of Father Mathew' that Fr. Mathew ‘resigned the office of Provincial Minister’. 19 Jan. 1948. Typescript, 1 p.

• Letters of Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. to Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. re James McKenna’s unpublished history of Fr. Mathew’s temperance movement. Fr. Nessan also refers to Fr. Mathew’s ancestry and genealogy and to work on his MA thesis. July 1939-Dec. 1939. Manuscript, 7 pp.
• Letters from J. Neiland, General Post Office, Waterford, to Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. enclosing ‘an old Police record of Father Mathew’s visits to Waterford’ in December 1839 and May 1840. 7 May 1937-28 Nov. 1938. Manuscript and typescript, 4 pp.
• Copybook containing notes by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. on the history of temperance societies in Cork, Fr. Mathew’s role in organising the temperance movement, conditions for the poor in Ireland, and the onset of the famine. The notes appear to be derived from the surviving manuscripts of James McKenna, Fr. Mathew’s secretary. Manuscript, 44 pp.
• Copybook containing notes by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. titled ‘Fr. Mathew – I. Franciscans / II. Spiritual life and priestly administration’. The notes refer to Fr. Mathew’s education, his spirituality, and the Capuchins in Ireland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Includes references and notes from the account book of the Capuchin Friary in Cork from 1821 to 1857. Manuscript, 52 pp.
• Notes by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. referring to the completion of Holy Trinity (Father Mathew Memorial) Church, Cork. The notes read ‘In consultation with Mr. George C. Ashlin … a competition was organized amongst architects of repute for a design which would be suitable for the completion of the Church. From the many entries received that of Mr. D.J. Coakley of Cork city was accepted … [as] being possible with the limits of their financial resources – fixed at £6,000. Mr. John Sisk, the successful Cork builder, was declared the contractor’. The Church spire was finally completed on 4 Aug. 1891. Typescript, 6 pp.
• Letter to Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. from Jim O’Brien, 12 St. Ann’s Park, Turners’ Cross, Cork, referring to his father’s temperance medal and to his father’s role in the Father Mathew Players in Cork in 1918. Manuscript, 1 p. [c.1985].

Letters to Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. relating to his research on the life and temperance campaign of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. Most of the letters refer to sources tracing Fr. Mathew’s ancestry. The correspondents include:
• Fr. E. Dowling, Cathabawn, Johnstown, County Kilkenny. Re Theobald Mathew’s early education in the Kilkenny Academy from 1803-7.
• Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. Re a list of Fr. Mathew’s siblings.
• David Mathew. Re the ancestry and genealogy of Fr. Mathew.
• Rev. Wallace Clare. Re the genealogy of Fr. Mathew.
• Fr. Gervase Mathew OP, Blackfriars, Oxford. Re Fr. Mathew’s genealogy and the disposition of the Mathew family papers in their possession.
• Br. De Sales. Enclosing extracts relating to Fr. Mathew from the diary of W.J. O’Neill Daunt (1807-1894).
• Fr. Brendan O’Callaghan OFM Cap. Enclosing brief extracts from the General Capuchin Archives in Rome re Fr. Mathew.
• Fr. T.J. Walsh, South Presbytery Cork. Enclosing a note from Jack J. O’Shea re the poems of John Paul Dalton (a Cork-born poet) titled ‘The Centenary of Father Mathew’ and ‘A Legend of Father Mathew’.

Author: Rev. James Birmingham of Borrisokane
Publisher: Dublin: Milliken and Son, Grafton Street
Language: English
Edition: Second Edition
Full title: 'A memoir of the Very Rev. Theobald Mathew / with an account of the rise and progress of temperance in Ireland'. Ink stamp on title page: ‘Franciscan Capuchin Order, Ireland’;

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: Rev. Thomas J. Conaty DD, President of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of the United States
Publisher: Liverpool: ‘The Catholic Times’ Printing Works
Language: English
Full title: 'An Address to the Father Mathew OSFC Total Abstinence League of the Sacred Thirst in connection with Church of Our Lady of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin … delivered in the Father Mathew OSFC, Total Abstinence Hall, Halston Street, Dublin'.

Author: Sir John Pope Hennessy (1834-1891)
Publisher: Cork: Guy & Co. Ltd., 70 Patrick Street
Language: English
Full title: 'Temperance and Nationality / The Father Mathew Centennial Oration / Delivered in Cork, 10th October, 1890'.

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.

Publisher: Dublin: Catholic Total Abstinence Federation of Ireland, 56 Middle Abbey Street
Language: English
Full title: 'Catholic Total Abstinence Federation / A call to Ireland / Report of the third triennial congress of the Catholic Total Abstinence Federation/ 1923'