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Fr. Theobald Mathew: Research and Commemorative Papers
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Temperance Society Medals

The sub-series contains an important collection of original temperance society medals. Most of the medals in the collection are associated with Fr. Mathew’s campaign but some relate to temperance activities before and after him. The Cork Total Abstinence Society’s medals were important because they served as important reminders of the pledge, and also as miniature temperance catechisms for the many illiterates who took the pledge. Fr. Mathew’s medals were large and inscribed with familiar religious symbolism. Most were of pewter, although some silver and gold medals were also available for particularly distinguished members. Generally, one side had the words of the pledge within a shining cross, together with Fr. Mathew’s name and the Society’s founding date (10 April 1838). The reverse depicted a well-dressed man, carrying a banner, ‘prosperity’, and a woman, ‘domestic comfort’, stood next to a lamb, surmounted by a cross and an angel. This scene was overlaid by the Latin phrase, In hoc signo vinces (‘by this sign shall you conquer’).

Total Abstinence Society of Ireland Medals

Face (front): Profile view of the head of Fr. Mathew. Along outer edge: ‘The Very Rev. Theobald Mathew’.
Obverse: Cruciform formula of pledge: ‘I / Promise / by the / Help of / God/ to abstain from all / intoxicating drinks / except used medicinally / and to discountenance the / cause and practice / of / intemperance’. Outer edge inscription reads: ‘The Total Abstinence Society of Ireland’.
One of the medals has fragments of a white ribbon and pin attached.

Josephin Society Medal

Josephin Society Medal
1821
Diameter: 5.3 cm
Silver Medal
Physical Description:
• Josephin (var. Josephian) Society Medal. The medal is inscribed ‘Josephin Society / Patron / Very Rev. T. Mathew / 1821’. The reverse shows a cleric assisting two young boys with the legend ‘Children come and hear me and I will teach you the fear of the Lord’. The medal is topped with a crucifix.

Temperance Medal
1833
Diameter: 4.5 cm
Pewter Medal
Physical Description:
• Face (front): Man and woman bearing banners with the words ‘Sobriety’ and ‘Domestic Comfort’. The both support a shield with five panels. Above the shield a lamb with a cross rests on a bar from which hangs a pendant with the word ‘Religion’ beneath. Underneath the ‘floor’ upon which the people stand there is a three-part ribbon suspended with the words ‘be thou / faithful / unto death’.
Under the ribbon along the edge are the words ‘Temperance Society’. On the upper edge of the medal are the words ‘Peace on earth and good will to Man’.
Obverse: Outer edge inscription: ‘Temperance Declaration Instituted A.D. 1833. Inner edge: Evergreen leaves and two hands clasped. Centre inscription reads ‘We agree / to abstain from all / intoxicating liquors / except for / medicinal purposes / and religious / ordinances’.

St. Paul’s Temperance Society Medal
1839
Diameter: 4.4 cm
Pewter Medal
Physical Description:
• Face (front): Centre: Man and woman on pedestal on which two children are seated. The adults carry a shield surmounted by a cross, with an angel above. The upper part of the shield has a lamb bearing a banner. The man bears a banner with the words ‘sobriety’. The woman bears a banner with the words ‘Domestic Comfort’. Outer-edge inscription reads: ‘In hoc signo vinces’.
Obverse: Cruciform text of pledge. Outer edge inscription reads: ‘St. Paul’s Temperance Society Very Rev. Yore, President’. Inner rim inscription reads ‘Founded Nov. 3rd 1839’.
An annotation on the covering envelope reads ‘Presented to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. by Mrs Weldon, Post Office, Rush. She also gave Certificate of Ballbriggan Temperance Society belonging to her grandfather’. For more information on St. Paul’s Temperance Society see the 'Journal of the American Temperance Union', Vols. 1-4 (1837) at p. 78 at https://books.google.ie

Cork Total Abstinence Society Medals
1838
Diameter: 4.3 cm
Three Silver Medals
Physical Description:
• Face (front): Centre: Man and woman on pedestal on which two children are seated. The adults carry a shield surmounted by a cross, with an angel above. The upper part of the shield has a lamb bearing a banner. The man bears a banner with the words ‘sobriety’. The woman bears a banner with the words ‘Domestic Comfort’. Outer-edge inscription reads: ‘In hoc signo vinces’.
Obverse: Cruciform text of pledge. Outer edge inscription reads: ‘Cork Total Abstinence Society, The Very Rev. T. Mathew, President’. Inner rim inscription reads ‘Founded 10 April 1838’.
One of the medals was found in an annotated envelope which reads ‘Rev. Fr. Stanislaus [Kavanagh] OFM Cap. / Silver medal of Fr. Mathew for sale’.

Total Abstinence Society Medals
c.1840-1850
Diameters: 4.4 cm; 3.2 cm
Five silver medals
Physical description:
• Face (front): Centre: Man and woman on pedestal on which two children are seated. The adults carry a shield surmounted by a cross, with an angel above. The upper part of the shield has a lamb bearing a banner. The man bears a banner with the words ‘sobriety’. The woman bears a banner with the words ‘Domestic Comfort’. Outer-edge inscription reads: ‘In hoc signo vinces’.
Obverse: Cruciform text of pledge. Outer edge inscription reads: ‘Total Abstinence Society, The Very Rev. T. Mathew, President’. Inner rim inscription reads ‘Founded 10 April 1838’.

Pyx and Holy Oils Stock used by Father Mathew

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’.

Commemorative Silver Plaque

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’.

Research by Fr. Nessan Shaw on Father Mathew

Notes by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. on the life of Fr. Mathew and events connected with the temperance campaign. The file also includes some material relating to the general history of the Capuchins in Ireland. Includes:
• Note re the foundation of the Total Abstinence Association on Halston Street by Fr. Columbus Maher OSFC in c.1880. The note also refers to the foundation of The Father Mathew Record (1908), the Father Mathew Feis (1909), the opening of Father Mathew Park, Fairview, Dublin, by Fr. Aloysius Travers OSFC on 10 April 1910, and the establishment of the Young Irish Crusaders in 1909.
• Letter from the Public Record Office of Ireland to Fr. Nessan regarding a document (1840) in the Chief Secretary Office’s papers referring to an application from the Irish Temperance Union for the use of Smithfield Penitentiary. The letter reads ‘The application is based on the fact that the number of prisoners detained in the Richmond Bridewell was reduced from 313 in September 1839 to 191 in November 1840 “between these two periods the Temperance Reformation had greatly extended itself throughout the city”’. The letter is dated 15 Feb. 1955.
• Photostat copy from Fr. Thomas C. Butler OSA, The Augustinians in Cork, 1280-1985 (1986). The extracts refer to the presence of the Capuchin friars in Cork from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries.
• Photostat copy from Desmond Bowen, 'Paul Cardinal Cullen and the shaping of modern Irish Catholicism' (Dublin, 1983). The extracts refer to the relationship between Cardinal Cullen and the temperance campaigner.
• Notes by Fr. Nessan re places visited by Fr. Mathew in support of his temperance campaign in 1842.
• Letter from Michael O’Connell to Fr. Nessan re the preaching of Fr. Mathew at the dedication of Blackrock parish church in Dublin in Sept. 1845. The letter is dated 25 Jan. 1992.
• Note titled ‘The façade and spire of Holy Trinity Church, Cork’. The note provides a general history of the completion of work on the church for the centenary of Fr. Mathew’s birth and also refers to the blessing of the new bell in the church on 26 Apr. 1896. The note reads ‘Having “baptized” the Bell, the Bishop [of Cork] rounded it, being followed by the sponsors Mr Humphrey Donovan (the donor) and Miss H. Donovan, his sister’.
• Note by Fr. Nessan titled ‘O’Connell and Repeal, 1840-47’.
• Cutting from 'The Standard', Dec. 1949, surveying various Catholic churches in Dublin. The article includes photographic prints of St. Michan’s Church, Halston Street. The article also refers to nearby Newgate Prison on Green Street. It reads ‘In 1863 the prison was substantially demolished and converted into fruit market which gave way, in 1893, to St. Michan’s Park, where the statue of Erin stands, with the plaques of Lord Edward Fitzgerald and the Sheares brothers on the pedestal’. The article also refers to the Capuchin chapel on Church Street. It reads ‘In 1720, they [the Capuchins] moved to Church Street, where their chapel in 1749 “had an Altar-piece showing the Crucifixion; though formerly it was a painting of Our Saviour taken down from the Cross, which piece is much esteemed by connoisseurs”. The Capuchin Church, in Church Street, of 1720, was taken down in 1868, and the present church was erected on its site and completed in 1881’.

Notecards relating to Father Mathew research

Notecards compiled by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. on various aspects of Fr. Mathew’s life and his temperance campaign. Some of the note cards are given subject-headings including ‘Education’, Franciscanism’, ‘Poverty’, ‘Intemperance’, ‘appearance of Fr. Mathew’, and ‘Fr. Mathew’s ideas on capital punishment’.

Research by Fr. Nessan Shaw on Father Mathew

Research compiled by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. and used for his MA thesis on the life of Fr. Mathew. The topics include Fr. Mathew’s upbringing and education, and genealogical research. The file also includes a copybook containing sources illustrative of social conditions in Ireland at the time of Fr. Mathew’s temperance crusade.

Research on the early pastoral work of Father Mathew

• Cutting of an article by Fr. Nessan titled ‘Today is the Birthday of Fr. Mathew’, 'Evening Echo', 10 Oct. 1977. The article refers to the early life and education of Fr. Mathew.
• An article by Fr. Nessan titled ‘Early life of Fr. Mathew before the Temperance Campaign’. The article appears to be draft for the piece published in the 'Evening Echo' in Oct. 1977. Typescript, 3 pp.
• An article by Fr. Nessan titled ‘Pastoral work of Fr. Mathew in Cork, 1814-1838’. With a cutting of the article as it appeared in the 'Evening Echo', 10 Apr. 1970. The article was titled ‘Temperance successes outshone magnificent pastoral work of Fr. Theobald Mathew’. Typescript and cutting, 4 pp.
• Cutting of an article by Fr. Nessan titled ‘The Making of a Great Apostle’ published in 'The Father Mathew Record', Vol. 47, No. 10 (Oct. 1954), p. 6.
• Copy flier and poster from Cork City and County Archives titled The Sacred Cause of Temperance reporting speeches by Lord Morpeth, the Governor of New South Wales, and the Most Rev. Nicholas Wiseman referring to the work of Fr. Theobald Mathew. The poster is titled Important Letter from the Mayor of Limerick to the Rev. Theobald Mathew, 24 Sept. 1839. Copy print, 2 pp.
• A biographical article on Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC written by Fr. Nessan for a publication titled 'International Capuchin Figures'. Typescript, 8 pp.

Research Copybooks on Father Mathew

Three copybooks of Fr. Nessan containing extracts from Fr. Mathew’s correspondence principally relating to his organisation of the temperance campaign. The copybooks contain partial indexes to the contents. The topics covered include ‘political attitudes’, ‘pecuniary embarrassments’, ‘temperance medals’, ‘temperance bands’, ‘English temperance mission’, ‘Legislative aid for temperance’, and ‘Fr. Mathew’s attitude to the abolition of slavery’.

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