Publisher: Dublin: Browne and Nolan Ltd. Language: English Full title: 'Rules of the Father Mathew Health Insurance Society / Approved by the National Health Insurance Commissioners (Ireland) / Office of the Society: Father Mathew OSFC Memorial Hall, Church Street, Dublin'.
Author: Rev. P. Coffey Publisher: Dublin: CTA Federation of Ireland Language: English Full title: 'The Temperance Movement /and the CTA Federation of Ireland / by the Rev. P. Coffey / A lecture given under the auspices of the Portarlington T.A. Society / Reprinted from the Irish Catholic, May 29th, 1915'.
An original framed total abstinence pledge card of Mary Farrell dated 18 Nov. 1840. The pledge card is signed by Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The certificate has been colour tinted by hand.
An original total abstinence pledge card of Walter Walsh dated 28 Feb. 1842. Manuscript annotation on frame reads ‘Presented by J. Walsh, 38 Killeen Road, Rathmines, grandson of the recipient’. The frame backing has a manuscript annotation: ‘February 1936’.
A pledge medal of the Dublin Total Abstinence Association dating to 1840. The front (face) shows the Good Shepherd. The outer-rim inscription reads ‘I have found the sheep that was lost Luke Chap. 15 v. 6’. The obverse has a cruciform text of the pledge and reads: ‘I have voluntarily promised in the presence of the Revd. Dr. Spratt to abstain from all spiritous liquors and intoxicating drinks except used medicinally and then by order of a medical man and the discountenance of all the vices and practices of intemperance and also to attend to my religious duties’. The outer-rim inscription reads ‘The Dublin Total Abstinence Pledge The Very Revd. Dr. Spratt Patron 1840’. The maker of the medal was J. Taylor.
A commemorative statuette (or figurine) of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The statuette is inscribed on the base: ‘Rev. Father Mathew’. The figurine shows Fr. Mathew in a long black frock coat holding a top-hat in his left hand.
A decorative silver trowel commemorating the laying of the top-stone of the Father Mathew Statue on Sackville (O’Connell) Street, Dublin, on 13 Oct. 1890. The inscription on the trowel reads: ‘The Father Mathew Centenary / Presented to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of Dublin on the occasion of the laying of the top stone of the pedestal of statue to the Great Apostle of Temperance Rev. Theobald Mathew. Signed on behalf of the Committee / Charles A. Cameron FRCSI, Archibald J. Nicolls LLB, George Noble Plunkett, Henry Wigham. Hon. Secs., Central Committee, Mansion House, Dublin, 13th Oct. 1890’. The silver is hallmarked.