A silver pyx (diameter: 4.8 cm) with the Christogram IHS engraved on cover. The initials ‘TM’ are engraved on case. With silver Holy Oils Stock. The stock has three parts engraved with ‘I, B, C’.
Silver memorial plaque presented to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The inscription reads: ‘Presented to the Very Rev. Theobald Mathew by Messrs Dugdale and McClean in the name of the Catholic and Scottish Union for the Suppression of Intemperance / Patronized by the Right Hon. The Earl of Stanhope in token of their esteem for him as the honoured instrument under God for the Destruction of Intemperance and the Moral Renovation of Mankind / 29th Sept. 1847’. The obverse shows a man and woman either side of a shield. The man bears a banner with the words ‘sobriety’. The woman bears a banner with the words ‘Domestic Comfort’. The shield is flanked with a ribbon with the words ‘Peace on Earth and Good Will to Men / Be Thou Faithful to Death’.
Newspaper clipping relating to the Father Mathew Anniversary celebration in Cork in October 1901. The article reports an address by Rev. Bernard Vaughan SJ. 'Cork Examiner', October 1901.
Author: W.J. Kearney Publisher: Cork: Printed by W. Scraggs at the Patent Machine, Patrick Street Language: English Full title: 'Leisure hours at sea and ashore / containing “The Log”, “The Vision”, etc., etc. / dedicated by permission to the Very Rev. Theobald Mathew by W.L. Kearney'. Manuscript annotation on title page reads: ‘Mary Sullivan’.
Author: Sister Mary Francis Clarke [Margaret Cusack (1829-1899); called ‘the Nun of Kenmare’] Publisher: Dublin: James Duffy and Sons, 15 Wellington Quay Language: English Annotation: Printed stamp on fly leaf reads: ‘Ex Libris Monsignor Dean Langan DD, PP, VG’.
Author: Joseph Poole Addey Publisher: [Dublin]: 'Freeman’s Journal' Ltd. Language: English Full title: 'Father Mathew centenary / Dublin Celebrations / Prize Centenary Ode to Father Mathew'. Illustration of the Father Mathew Statue on Sackville Street, Dublin, on the front cover.
Author: Rev. Thomas Langan DD Publisher: Dublin: 'Freeman’s Journal' Ltd. Language: English Full title: 'Life and times of Father Mathew / Apostle of Temperance'.
Author: Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America Publisher: New York: Temperance Publication Bureau, 415 West 59th Street Language: English Full title: 'Temperance truths from many pens / a series of essays or addresses covering various phases of the temperance question / Volume II'.