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 wooden crucifix used by Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The underside of the base has a manuscript annotation: ‘Father Mathew’s Cross, used in his sick calls &c and in cholera cases, 1831-2’.
Publisher: Dublin: Powell Press, 22 Parliament Street Language: English Full title: 'The Father Mathew Total Abstinence Association / object, means and constitution of the Association'
Publisher: St Louis, Missouri: W.H. O’Brien, 1013 Pine Street Language: English Full title: 'Constitution and by-laws of the Knights of Father Mathew / incorporated July 18th, 1881 / revised edition'. Ink stamp on front cover reads: ‘Library OFM Cap., Church Street’. Inserts include bulletins from the Knights with details of the financial accounts of the organisation.
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: August Ljunggren Publisher: Stockholm: Oskar Eklund Language: English Full title: 'Central Association for Instruction in Temperance / origin, organisation and spheres of work / a short survey by commission of the Central Association for the 12th International Anti-Alcohol Congress in London, 18-24 of July 1909'.
Author: Louisiana Murphy Publisher: [Publisher not identified] Language: English BOUND WITH: Eugene Davis, 'The Centenary Ode' (Cork: Guy & Co., 1890), 14 pp.
A pair of gold candlesticks gifted to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The base of the candlesticks are engraved: ‘Very Revd. T. Mathew President / Very Rev. J.J. Murphy Vice-President / Cork Total Abstinence Benefit Society / AD January 1842’.
