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Bound volume containing a record of alleged cures at the grave to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC in St. Joseph’s Cemetery in Cork. The title page is signed by Fr. Martin Hyland OSFC, Guardian of Holy Trinity Friary, Cork, and is dated 10 Aug. 1922. Includes records of those visiting the grave from 9 June 1922 to 28 Aug. 1922, from 1 Feb. 1926 to 31 Dec. 1926, and from 12 Apr. 1929 to 28 Oct. 1929. The inventories of visits to the grave were compiled by Fr. Michael O’Shea OFM Cap. The introduction to the volume reads: ‘A view of Fr. Mathew’s grave gives us interesting matter for consideration. Twice weekly the caretaker clears away votive offerings left on the large stone covering his grave. These consist of beads, medals, crucifixes, curios, candles etc. All of which are usually buried near and around the grave. The number of crutches left by those cured had increased so much that the stem of the tee over the grave was completely covered with them’. The end pages of the volume include details of specific cases investigated by Fr. Michael from 1926 to 1932 including Annie Crowley, 3 Sober Lane, Cork, and Kathy Galway, 18 Pope’s Quay, Cork.

This series contains a highly significant collection of artefacts such as original pledge cards, temperance society medals, prints, posters, photographs, temperance memorabilia, manuals, church plate, ephemera and other items and relics associated with Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC and his temperance movement from the 1830s to the 1850s. Many of these items were collected by various Capuchin friars in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with a view to exhibiting them for devotional and historical purposes.

Author: William Carleton
Publisher: Dublin: James Duffy & Sons, 15 Wellington Quay
Language: English
Full title: 'Art Maguire / or, The broken pledge / a narrative'.

Date(s): 1902-1969; 1984-1988
Publisher: Dublin: Frank Byrne / Browne & Nolan Ltd; Drogheda: Independent Co. Ltd.; Wexford: John English & Co.
Language: English
Portrait of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC on front covers; Ink stamp: ‘Father Mathew Memorial Hall, Church Street’ on some copies.
There are multiple copies of some of the reports but the run is not complete. The reports from 1957-67 are missing as are the reports from 1970-83.

Publisher: Dublin: Humphrey & Armour
Language: English:
Full title: 'Irish Association for the Prevention of Intemperance / twenty-ninth annual report for the year 1907'.
Label on front cover reads: ‘£150 extra per annum required’.

Author: Rev. Thomas J. Conaty DD, President of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of the United States
Publisher: Liverpool: ‘The Catholic Times’ Printing Works
Language: English
Full title: 'An Address to the Father Mathew OSFC Total Abstinence League of the Sacred Thirst in connection with Church of Our Lady of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin … delivered in the Father Mathew OSFC, Total Abstinence Hall, Halston Street, Dublin'.

Publisher: Dublin: Printed by Richard Grace, 45 Capel Street
Language: English
Full title: 'An accurate report of the proceedings of the Very Rev. Theobald Mathew, in Dublin, in the cause of temperance ... With the sermon preached by him in the Church of the Conception, Marlborough Street'.
BOUND WITH: Rev. Thomas Maguire, 'Important Lecture in answer to a Protestant, on Images and Relics delivered by the Rev. T. Maguire, on Good Friday evening last, in Adam and Eve Chapel' (Dublin: McMullen, 14 Upper Stephen Street, 1840). 11 pp; 18.5 cm x 11.2 cm

Author: D.T. Barry
Publisher: Cork: Shandon Printing Works, 37 South Mall
Language: English
Full title: 'Alcohol: its work / a lecture delivered before St. Finbarr’s Total Abstinence Society by D.T. Barry, MD, FRCS (Eng.), DPH, Professor of Physiology, Queen’s College, Cork'.
Manuscript annotation on front cover reads: ‘Fr. Alphonsus [Carroll] OSFC’.

Author: Rev. James Birmingham of Borrisokane
Publisher: Dublin: Milliken and Son, Grafton Street
Language: English
Edition: Second Edition
Full title: 'A memoir of the Very Rev. Theobald Mathew / with an account of the rise and progress of temperance in Ireland'. Ink stamp on title page: ‘Franciscan Capuchin Order, Ireland’;

The sub-series contains files relating to the commemoration in 1988 of the 150th anniversary of the inauguration of the temperance campaign by Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC.