Inscribed on the bowl: Feis Maitiú. Three- and Four-Part Choir’. The base includes silver shields indicating winners from 1994-97: ‘Beaufort, Clongowes Wood College, St. Louis High School’.
Syllabus for the 1997 Feis Maitiú, Cork. The syllabus includes an appreciation for Br. Paul O’Donovan OFM Cap. who was stepping down as President of the Feis, a position he had held since 1970. The appreciation was written by Claire O’Halloran and includes a photographic print of Br. Paul
Copy letter from Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, to Fr. Declan McFadden OFM Cap. regarding the closure of the Temperance Hall at Rochestown.
Flier seeking funds (£800) to complete the building of the Father Mathew Hall, Church Street. The opening paragraph affirms that ‘this Total Abstinence Hall, for one of the poorest and most crowded districts of Dublin, will cost £3,000. It will seat 1,200 people, and the building will also contain a gymnasium, reading rooms, a room for bagatelle and other games, a library, a coffee bar and a caretaker’s apartment’.
Resolution of the Father Mathew Hall Committee admonishing a Mr. Nicolls who ‘has violated the custom of this committee by publishing what purports to be the details of our private deliberations’. The resolution also defends the rights of Fr. Columbus Maher OSFC as President of the Sacred Thirst Sodality and avers that Mr. Nicolls ‘was the only member who ever introduced politics here’.
Draft resolution forwarded by Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC, Vice-President, Father Mathew Hall. Fr. Angelus suggest that the resolution ‘asks two things … first to endorse the work of the Irish Temperance Association and secondly to appeal for further financial support to enable the Hall Committee to extend their temperance propaganda’. The resolution refers to efforts to curtail the sale of alcohol on Sundays. The report notes that ‘we have Sunday drinking not in the interest of the public but in the interest of the publican’.
