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• Cutting of an article by Fr. Nessan titled ‘Today is the Birthday of Fr. Mathew’, 'Evening Echo', 10 Oct. 1977. The article refers to the early life and education of Fr. Mathew.
• An article by Fr. Nessan titled ‘Early life of Fr. Mathew before the Temperance Campaign’. The article appears to be draft for the piece published in the 'Evening Echo' in Oct. 1977. Typescript, 3 pp.
• An article by Fr. Nessan titled ‘Pastoral work of Fr. Mathew in Cork, 1814-1838’. With a cutting of the article as it appeared in the 'Evening Echo', 10 Apr. 1970. The article was titled ‘Temperance successes outshone magnificent pastoral work of Fr. Theobald Mathew’. Typescript and cutting, 4 pp.
• Cutting of an article by Fr. Nessan titled ‘The Making of a Great Apostle’ published in 'The Father Mathew Record', Vol. 47, No. 10 (Oct. 1954), p. 6.
• Copy flier and poster from Cork City and County Archives titled The Sacred Cause of Temperance reporting speeches by Lord Morpeth, the Governor of New South Wales, and the Most Rev. Nicholas Wiseman referring to the work of Fr. Theobald Mathew. The poster is titled Important Letter from the Mayor of Limerick to the Rev. Theobald Mathew, 24 Sept. 1839. Copy print, 2 pp.
• A biographical article on Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC written by Fr. Nessan for a publication titled 'International Capuchin Figures'. Typescript, 8 pp.

• Letter from M. Holland to Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. referring to an article in the 'Cork Examiner' on the Botanic Gardens in Cork. He writes ‘It is a pity a more detailed history has not been written as the cemetery contains many most interesting monuments of historical interest to Cork people’. 18 July 1930. Manuscript, 1 p.
• Note re the ‘New Cemetery’ (St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Cork) established by Fr. Mathew. It reads ‘To put a stop to the loathsome custom of exposing the dead poor in coffins outside their miserable dwellings until alms sufficient to meet the expenses of their burial were laid on the lids of the coffins I set apart a portion of the Cemetery for the free internment of the destitute’. Typescript, 1 p.
• Cutting of an article by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. titled ‘Why Fr. Mathew bought the burial ground?’, 'Cork Examiner', 8 Dec. 1981. The article refers to the purchase of St. Joseph’s Cemetery (part of the Botanic Gardens) in 1830. Fr. Nessan notes that it ‘became the first public cemetery in Cork’. Clipping, 1 p.
• Cutting of an article by William Howitt titled ‘Memoir of Father Mathew’ published in 'The People’s Journal', 1847. The article has an engraving of Fr. Mathew by H. Anelay dated 15 Aug. 1846. The article refers to the establishment of St. Joseph’s Cemetery in Cork by Fr. Mathew. It reads ‘Fr. Mathew purchased the Botanic Gardens, and allowing them to retain their former agreeable walks and statuary, the best specimens of the native genius of Hogan, he converted them into a cemetery, not for Catholics alone, but for members of every other Christian denomination. To the poor burial is allowed gratis, and the moderate fees derived from others are all devoted to charity’. With typescript copy extracts from the article. Printed and typescript, 11 pp.
• Copy clipping of an article by Richard I. Henchion on St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Cork, 'Holly Bough', Dec. 1986. The article refers to the history of the cemetery and graveyard inscriptions. Clipping, 2 pp.
• Cutting of an article by Charlie Wilkins titled ‘Botanical Gardens of Lilliput’ referring to the history of St. Joseph’s Cemetery (formerly the Botanical Gardens) established by Fr. Theobald Mathew in 1830. 'Cork Examiner', 9 Jan. 1997.
• Photocopy from Sr. Evelyn Bolster, 'A history of the Diocese of Cork / from the Penal Era to the Famine' (Cork: Tower Books, 1989), pp 278-9. The extract refers to Fr. Mathew’s role in establishing St. Joseph’s Cemetery. Copy print, 2 pp.

• Cutting of an article by Fr. Nessan titled ‘Much-loved Holy Trinity and the Cork Capuchins’, 'Cork Examiner', 26 Mar. 1982. The article provides an illustrated history of the church.
• Copy article titled ‘Father Mathew’s Church / Blessing of a new Bell’, 'Cork Examiner', 27 Apr. 1896. An annotation by Fr. Nessan notes that Humphrey O’Donovan, the bell’s donor, died on 7 May 1904 aged 49 years. Typescript, 3 pp.
• Copy article titled ‘Opening and blessing of the sanctuary extension in Holy Trinity Church’, 'Cork Examiner', 20 Apr. 1906. Typescript, 4 pp.
• Timeline of important events in the history of Holy Trinity, Church, Cork. The timeline refers to important architectural extensions and embellishments to the church. Typescript, 1 p.
• Photocopy of a booklet commemorating the re-opening and blessing of Holy Trinity Church following its interior renovation. 28 Nov. 1982. The booklet provides a short ‘historical retrospect’ in relation to the church. Copy print, 2 pp.

• Photocopy of an article by Colm Kerrigan, ‘Temperance and the Irish in West Ham’, 'Essex Journal', Spring 1982, pp 20-3.
• Photocopy of an article by Colm Kerrigan, ‘Father Mathew and teetotalism in London, 1843’, 'London Journal', 11, No. 2 (1985), pp 107-114. With a copy of the article transcribed by Fr. Nessan. Typescript, 13 pp.
• Cutting of an article by James A. Whelan titled ‘When Fr. Mathew toured America’, 'Evening Echo', 2 Jan. 1980.

Notebook with references and extracts by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. to McKenna’s unpublished history of Fr. Mathew’s temperance movement. The notes are arranged under various headings including:
His piety
His humility
His priestly character
His mode of life
Regarded as a saint
Working cures
Results of his work
His trials in his temperance work
Rules of his society
Manuscript, 41 pp.
• Note by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. re the travels of Fr. Mathew and James McKenna, his principal secretary, from May 1844 to Nov. 1845. Manuscript, 1 p.
• Notes from McKenna’s 'The History of the temperance reformation in Ireland, England and Scotland'. Typescript, 28 pp.
• Notebook containing an index to and summary of James McKenna’s unpublished ‘History of the temperance reformation in Ireland, England and Scotland’. The notes contain references to speeches of Fr. Mathew on temperance and brief summaries of the content of McKenna’s text. Manuscript, 69 pp.

• Notes compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. on Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC from 1841-5. The notes include transcribed copies of letters from Daniel O’Connell to Fr. Mathew (26 Oct. 1844) and from Fr. Mathew to Mr. Buckingham (20 Oct. 1844). The principal source was probably James McKenna’s ‘History of the temperance reformation in Ireland, England and Scotland’. Manuscript, 16 pp.
• Extract from McKenna’s ‘History of the temperance reformation in Ireland, England and Scotland’ re Fr. Mathew’s temperance campaign in Liverpool and his attitude towards distillers. ‘I have no personal hostility to distillers or brewers or vendors of strong drink’. Typescript, 2 pp.
• Extracts from John Francis Maguire’s 'Father Mathew / A Biography' and ‘History of the Temperance Reformation by James McKenna, chief travelling secretary to the Very Rev. Theobald Mathew’ confirming that Fr. Mathew first arrived in Cork in about 1814. The extracts are by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. Typescript, 1 p.

Three copybooks of Fr. Nessan containing extracts from Fr. Mathew’s correspondence principally relating to his organisation of the temperance campaign. The copybooks contain partial indexes to the contents. The topics covered include ‘political attitudes’, ‘pecuniary embarrassments’, ‘temperance medals’, ‘temperance bands’, ‘English temperance mission’, ‘Legislative aid for temperance’, and ‘Fr. Mathew’s attitude to the abolition of slavery’.

• Letter to Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. from the Public Record Office of Ireland sending on information in relation to Fr. Mathew’s family history and ancestry. 28 June 1939. Manuscript, 1 p.
• Copy article by the Most Rev. David Mathew titled ‘Father Mathew’s family / The Mathews in Tipperary’, 'The Capuchin Annual' (1956-7), pp 143-52. Copy print, 10 pp.
• An article by Fr. Nessan titled ‘The Mathews of Thomastown’. Typescript, 5 pp.
• Cutting of an article by Padraig Ó Maidin titled ‘“Grand George Mathew” and Thomastown’.
• 'The Father Mathew Record', Vol. 49, No. 1 (Jan. 1957). The publication is a souvenir edition which includes articles covering the Father Mathew centenary celebrations. The cover has a photograph of the Fr. Mathew marble bust by John Hogan.
• Cutting of an article titled ‘Thurles honours Diana’s ancestor’, 'Cork Examiner', 5 Feb. 1990. The article refers to Lady Elizabeth Butler, an ancestor to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC and supposedly Diana, Princess of Wales.
• Copy of an article by Fr. Nessan titled ‘A Great Irish Capuchin’, published in 'The Capuchin' magazine. The article refers to the celebrations in 1988 of the 150th anniversary of the inauguration of the temperance campaign by Fr. Mathew. With typescript copy, 5 pp.
• The Mathew family tree compiled by Fr. Nessan. Manuscript, 1 p.
• Letter to Fr. Nessan from Rev. Christy O’Dwyer, President of St. Patrick’s College, Thurles, enclosing a copy of an entry in the Skehan Index of Clergy, re Fr. Theobald Mathew (1834-1872), a nephew of the Apostle of Temperance. 8 Feb. 1994. Typescript, 2 pp.
• Copy cutting of an article advertising the Ursuline Convent School in Thurles. The advertisement notes that prospectuses can be obtained from Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. 'Cork Examiner', 22 May 1844.
• Copy extracts from the archives of the Ursuline Convent, Thurles, re the presentation of Fr. Mathew’s sister as a boarding pupil at the school, and to a donation made by him to the Ursuline Sisters. 1815-45. Copy manuscript, 3 pp.
• Copy newspaper cutting of an article by Nicholas Farrell titled ‘Dickensian litigant quits Bar for the pub’. The article refers to the legal travails of Thomas Mathew, a great-grandson of Sir J.C. Mathew who was a descendant of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. (1991). Cutting, 1 p.
• Notes by Fr. Nessan on Elizabeth Poyntz (1587-1673) who became Lady Thurles in 1608 when she married Thomas Butler, Viscount Thurles. The notes refer to her genealogical relationship with Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. Typescript, 3 pp.

Notes by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. on the life of Fr. Mathew and events connected with the temperance campaign. The file also includes some material relating to the general history of the Capuchins in Ireland. Includes:
• Note re the foundation of the Total Abstinence Association on Halston Street by Fr. Columbus Maher OSFC in c.1880. The note also refers to the foundation of The Father Mathew Record (1908), the Father Mathew Feis (1909), the opening of Father Mathew Park, Fairview, Dublin, by Fr. Aloysius Travers OSFC on 10 April 1910, and the establishment of the Young Irish Crusaders in 1909.
• Letter from the Public Record Office of Ireland to Fr. Nessan regarding a document (1840) in the Chief Secretary Office’s papers referring to an application from the Irish Temperance Union for the use of Smithfield Penitentiary. The letter reads ‘The application is based on the fact that the number of prisoners detained in the Richmond Bridewell was reduced from 313 in September 1839 to 191 in November 1840 “between these two periods the Temperance Reformation had greatly extended itself throughout the city”’. The letter is dated 15 Feb. 1955.
• Photostat copy from Fr. Thomas C. Butler OSA, The Augustinians in Cork, 1280-1985 (1986). The extracts refer to the presence of the Capuchin friars in Cork from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries.
• Photostat copy from Desmond Bowen, 'Paul Cardinal Cullen and the shaping of modern Irish Catholicism' (Dublin, 1983). The extracts refer to the relationship between Cardinal Cullen and the temperance campaigner.
• Notes by Fr. Nessan re places visited by Fr. Mathew in support of his temperance campaign in 1842.
• Letter from Michael O’Connell to Fr. Nessan re the preaching of Fr. Mathew at the dedication of Blackrock parish church in Dublin in Sept. 1845. The letter is dated 25 Jan. 1992.
• Note titled ‘The façade and spire of Holy Trinity Church, Cork’. The note provides a general history of the completion of work on the church for the centenary of Fr. Mathew’s birth and also refers to the blessing of the new bell in the church on 26 Apr. 1896. The note reads ‘Having “baptized” the Bell, the Bishop [of Cork] rounded it, being followed by the sponsors Mr Humphrey Donovan (the donor) and Miss H. Donovan, his sister’.
• Note by Fr. Nessan titled ‘O’Connell and Repeal, 1840-47’.
• Cutting from 'The Standard', Dec. 1949, surveying various Catholic churches in Dublin. The article includes photographic prints of St. Michan’s Church, Halston Street. The article also refers to nearby Newgate Prison on Green Street. It reads ‘In 1863 the prison was substantially demolished and converted into fruit market which gave way, in 1893, to St. Michan’s Park, where the statue of Erin stands, with the plaques of Lord Edward Fitzgerald and the Sheares brothers on the pedestal’. The article also refers to the Capuchin chapel on Church Street. It reads ‘In 1720, they [the Capuchins] moved to Church Street, where their chapel in 1749 “had an Altar-piece showing the Crucifixion; though formerly it was a painting of Our Saviour taken down from the Cross, which piece is much esteemed by connoisseurs”. The Capuchin Church, in Church Street, of 1720, was taken down in 1868, and the present church was erected on its site and completed in 1881’.

Research compiled by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. and used for his MA thesis on the life of Fr. Mathew. The topics include Fr. Mathew’s upbringing and education, and genealogical research. The file also includes a copybook containing sources illustrative of social conditions in Ireland at the time of Fr. Mathew’s temperance crusade.