Copy print of an engraving showing Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC administering the pledge to Daniel O’Connell. The print is surrounded by various temperance-related vignettes and images including the cruciform version of the pledge. The print has a typescript note by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. attached. It reads: ‘April 1927, "The Father Mathew Record", p. 110. Engravings re temperance crusade. Mr. Charles McCarthy (Cork) presented to Fr. Francis [Hayes] (Rochestown) two very valuable engravings re the temperance campaign. These engravings are the work of Mr John Brown, heraldic artist, Patrick Street, Cork, and were executed by him in the year 1845 as suitable illustrations for the temperance cards then being distributed by Fr. Mathew’.
Photostats of letters from Henry and Richard Doyle to their father on the occasion of Fr. Mathew’s visit to London in 1843. The letters date to August 1843 and have illustrations showing scenes from Fr. Mathew’s visit. The volume was presented to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. (1870-1957) to mark the centenary of Fr. Mathew’s death on 6 December 1856.
Contemporary copy confirmation of the election of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC as Provincial Minister for three years at a chapter held in the Church Street Chapel. The confirmation reads: ‘Rev. James L. O’Riordan was elected first definitor having 12 votes Rev. Mr. McCarthy of the Convent of Kilkenny 10 votes Rev. G.J.M. Brennan 10 votes Rev. Mr. MacLeod 7 votes … the election of Provincial was then proceeded with … [and] that the ex-Provincial was re-elected there being for him all the votes except two which were given one for Rev. Mr. McLeod [and] the other for Rev. G. Brennan’.
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’.
The series contains correspondence, publications, posters, circulars, newspaper cuttings and ephemera relating to various commemorations of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC from the late nineteenth century onward. The series has been divided into seven sub-series relating to a particular anniversary (centenary or bicentenary) or commemoration of Fr. Mathew and his temperance crusade.
Copies of the 'Cork Examiner' (11 Oct. 1886) and the 'Cork Daily Herald' (11 Oct. 1886) with articles noting local commemorations of the anniversary of Fr. Mathew’s birthday.
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.
