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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.

Programme for an event at The Brompton Oratory, London, to mark the 150th anniversary of Fr. Mathew’s death. The programme provides an illustrated history of the life of Fr. Mathew and the subsequent commemorations of his temperance campaign. The programme includes photographic prints of:
The Father Mathew Tower, Cork.
The Father Mathew Statue by John Foley, erected on 10 Oct. 1864.
The Father Mathew statue, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, erected in 1876.
The Father Mathew Statue by Mary Redmond, O’Connell Street, Dublin, unveiled in 1893.
The chalice presented by Lady Elizabeth Mathew to her kinsman, Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC, now held in Holy Trinity Church, Cork.
Charles Lysaght, barrister and collateral descendant of Fr. Mathew, in St. Joseph’s Cemetery in Cork.

• Notes re the provenance of temperance medals held in the Irish Capuchin Archives. The text refers to a large gold medal (CA FM RES/9/3/6) with the following engraving on the rim: ‘P.P. Daly took the Total Abstinence Pledge, May 20th 1840’. It is affirmed that this medal was ‘bought from a jeweller, who was going to melt it, for £7’. Reference is also made to a large silver medal presented to the Capuchins by a Miss Gibson from Ballyglass in County Mayo. A cross, also gifted to the Capuchins by Miss Gibson, belonged to the Youghal Roman Catholic Total Abstinence and Religious Society founded on 19 May 1839. Another silver medal has a large green ribbon attached to it and was presented by a Miss Tobin, 13 Killarney Street, Dublin. A smaller silver medal is engraved on the rim: ‘Presented to L.S. Gore Jones by the Rev. T. Mathew’. It was given to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. by Fr. Laurence Kelly, Catholic Curate, St. Michan’s Church, Halston Street, Dublin. [c.1915]. Manuscript and typescript, 8 pp.
• Letters and notes re the provenance of temperance medals sent to the Capuchin friars. One of the letters to Fr. Maurice O’Dowd OFM Cap. refers to a medal gifted by a Mrs Lyons of 29 Clarence Street North. The letter states that ‘it belonged to her father-in-law Maurice Lyons who is dead over 40 years’. The letter is dated 10 Apr. 1938. Another note states that a medal given to Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap. by a Dr O’Mahony on 30 Aug. 1930 and was found ‘in a secret drawer belonging to his uncle the late Dr Shanahan’. Manuscript, 7 pp.
• Newspaper cutting of an article by Michael Kenny titled ‘Discovering the National Museum’, 'Irish Times', 5 April 1981. The article refers to the National Museum’s collection of temperance medals and dies from which the medals were struck. The article reads ‘Given the great numbers enrolled it is hardly surprising that a huge number of medals were struck of widely varying design and legend. A few were struck in gold and silver, but the vast majority in bronze and white metal, particularly the latter. Many contemporary medallists were involved in their production … particularly Isaac Parkes of Dublin …’. With letters to the editor responding to Michael Kenny’s article. 5 Apr. 1981-19 Apr. 1981. Clipping, 5 pp.

Bound collection of pamphlets associated with the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association (PTAA). The collection includes:
Rev. J.A. Cullen SJ, ‘The Pioneer Movement / its story and origin’.
Most Rev. Dr. Collier, ‘The Pioneer Association is a necessary organisation’.
Most Rev. Dr. Mageean, ‘Speech at Annual Meeting, Pioneer TAA, 1935’.
Rev. F.M. Browne SJ, ‘The Pioneer is a happy warrior’.
Rev. L. Gallagher SJ, ‘The Responsibility of the Individual Pioneer’.
Rev. J. Stokes, ‘The Pioneer Apostolate’.
Rev. J. Taggart, ‘The motives of the Pioneer’.
The file also includes annual reports of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association from 1935-40 and copies of rules and regulations of the PTAA.

The series contains a large collection of published works and biographical accounts dealing with the life of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The collection also includes works relating to various teetotal and temperance movements in Ireland from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. Many of the publications listed below are connected with the temperance revival of the late nineteenth century exemplified by the foundation of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association by Fr. James Cullen SJ in 1898. The works are listed in chronological order by date of publication.

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’.

Register book of the Sacred Thirst Sodality attached to the Total Abstinence Hall, Halston Street, Dublin. The register includes lists of male and female members of the sodality, minutes of meetings, newspaper cuttings and printed leaflets inserted into the volume. Includes:
• Statement re the number of public houses in Dublin and the number of arrests for drunkenness in Aug. 1880.
• Cutting from the 'Catholic Times', 11 Nov. 1881, referring to a meeting of the Sodality presided over by Fr. Albert Mitchell OSFC, President.
• ‘Theobald Mathew / Anniversary Commemoration / Lecture by Very Rev. J.T. Murphy / Speech by John Dillon MP, 'Freeman’s Journal', 10 Dec. 1901.
• ‘Archbishop McCabe on Drunkenness’, 'Freeman’s Journal', 14 Feb. 1882.
• 'First Annual Report of the Father Mathew OSFC Total Abstinence Sodality and Hall, Halston Street, Dublin', signed by Fr. Albert Mitchell OSFC, President. Feb. 1882. Printed, 2 pp.
• 'The Archbishop of Dublin on drunkenness'. Letter of the Most Rev. Edward McCabe, Archbishop of Dublin. The letter is addressed to Fr. Albert Mitchell OSFC and refers to the work of the Total Abstinence Society associated with the temperance hall on Halston Street, Dublin. 22 Feb. 1882. Printed, 1 p.
• Cutting of a letter by Michael Dwyer to the editor of the 'Freeman’s Journal', 23 Feb. 1882. An annotation reads ‘This Mr. Dwyer is the secretary of the Publicans and has had the insolence to attack the statement of his Grace the Archbishop in his letter to me [Fr. Albert Mitchell OSFC] of Feb. 22, 1882’. With a cutting of Fr. Mitchell’s reply dated 24 Feb. 1882.
• Cutting of an article titled ‘Total Abstinence – what the doctors say of the use of drink’. The article takes the form of a letter to the editor of the 'Kilkenny Journal' from ‘An advocate of Total Abstinence’.
• ‘The prayers of the members on requesting the following intentions for the conversion of a son of a husband, of a sister and her son, of a father and mother, of a friend a long-time from their duty, of a husband drinking and neglecting his duty …’. Sept. 1880-Jan. 1881.

Publisher: Dublin: Catholic Total Abstinence Federation of Ireland

Publisher: [Publisher not identified]
Language: English
Full title: 'Report of the Ladies’ Visiting Temperance Society / attached to the Church of the Holy Trinity, Cork / President: Rev. Fr. Matthew O’Connor OSFC'.

The sub-series contains research notes, correspondence and publications on Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. (1875-1953). Fr. Angelus was considered an authority on the history of the Irish Capuchins. The section includes transcripts, correspondence, published articles and research notes pertaining to Fr. Mathew and his temperance campaign.