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Framed letter of Lord John Russell (1792-1878), Chatham Place, London, to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC, re the grant of an annual pension of £300 from the Civil List as a mark of approbation for his work in combatting intemperance in Ireland.

Author: Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC
Publisher: [Dublin: William Dirham]
Language: English
Format: Journal; 'The Catholic Luminary and ecclesiastical repertory', no. 1 (June 1840) contains an article titled: ‘A sermon preached on Sunday, 14th June at the consecration of the new Catholic Church at Maynooth … by the Very Rev. Theobald Mathew’ and ‘Proceedings of the Rev. Theobald Mathew in administering the temperance pledge at Maynooth’. 9 pp; Printed stamp on inside front cover reads: ‘T. Burns, Catholic Bookseller, 6 Meeting House St., Coleraine’.
BOUND WITH: Rev. Peter Augustine Baines, 'The substance of a sermon preached at the dedication of the Catholic Chapel at Bradford in the County of York on Wednesday, 27 July 1825' (London: William Eusebius Andrews, printer, 1826). 16 pp. 22 cm.
BOUND WITH: D. Holland, 'The Priest in the Dark Ages' (Belfast: R & D Read, 1854). 41 pp. 22 cm.
BOUND WITH: Charles Forbes René de Montalembert (1810-1870), 'Letter of the Count de Montalembert demolishing the unwarranted assumptions of the Anglican Protestants as expressed by the Camden Society' ([1844?]), 11 pp. 22 cm.
BOUND WITH: Rev. D.W. Cahill, 'Letter to the “seven (soup) champions of Christendom”' ([1855?]), 8 pp. 22 cm.
BOUND WITH: Rev. D.W. Cahill, 'Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Palmerston' ([1855?]), 8 pp. 22 cm.
BOUND WITH: 'Letter from His Eminence Cardinal Wiseman on the Immaculate Conception' (Coleraine: Burns & Stuart, ([1855?]), 4 pp. 22 cm.
BOUND WITH: William Bernard MacCabe, 'Religious Liberty – Proselytism / The Madiai Case from the Weekly Telegraph of November 6th and November 13th, 1852' (Dublin: James Duffy, 1852), 27 pp. 22 cm.

Publisher: Dublin: Catholic Choralist Office, 23 Essex Street
Language: English
Full title: 'The Catholic choralist / for the use of the choir, drawing room, cloister, and cottage ... harmonized and arranged for the voice, band, piano-forte, and organ …'. Manuscript annotations on fly-leaf read: ‘The gift of the good and generous Father Mathew – Apostle of Temperance. June 24th 1843’; ‘To Master L.B. Patten from his friends. Aug. 31, 1885’; ‘Given to Fr. Peter by L.B. Patten’.

Author: Eugene Davis
Publisher: Printed for the Centenary Committee by Guy & Co., Cork
Language: English
Full title: 'Centenary of the Very Rev. Theobald Mathew OSFC / Apostle of Temperance / The Centenary Ode / by Eugene Davis'.

Publisher: [not identified]
Language: English

Publisher: [Dublin: Workmen’s Temperance Committee, Father Mathew Hall, Church Street]
Language: English
Full title: 'Souvenir Programme for Father Mathew Anniversary Demonstration / 8th September 1907'.

Author: Seán Ua Ceallaigh (1872-1957)
Publisher: Baile Átha Cliath [Dublin]: MacGuill
Language: Irish
Full title: 'Beatha an Athar Tiobóid Maitiú /ó láimh Sheáin Uí Cheallaigh / maille le réamhrádh ó láimh An Athar Aguistín'
Ink stamp reads: ‘Father Mathew Memorial Hall, Church Street, Dublin’.
The text has an Introduction in English by Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. (1870-1954).

Publisher: Dublin: Fowler, Crow Street
Language: English
Full title: 'Twenty-Eight Annual Report of the Father Mathew Abstinence Association in honour of the Sacred Thirst in connection with the Church of Our Lady of Angels, Church Street, Dublin, for the year 1907'.

Author: Fr. Aloysius Travers OSFC
Publisher: Dublin: O’Brien & Ards, Parnell Street
Language: English
Full title: 'Maynooth Union, 1912 / Temperance Legislation for Ireland / by Very Rev. Father Aloysius, OSFC'.