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’.
Flier for Brian Boru Fete and prize draw ‘to reduce a heavy debt of £3,800’ on Father Mathew Hall, Church Street. The first prize is a pony trap and harness, ‘a gift of a friend (the harness, a gift of J. Donnelly, North King Street)’.
'Fáilte / Organ of Aonach na Bealtaine / Grand Temperance Fete / Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, Dublin / 1907'. Publisher: Baile Atha Cliath: Ó Bruain & Árthr Bound in contemporary soft covers with printed title to front cover.
Two photographs of the Father Mathew Hall Orchestra on stage. The group includes Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. (front row, fifth from the right). Ink stamp on the reverse of one the prints reads: ‘Thomas Mathews, photographer, 6 Wynnfield Rd., Rathmines, Dublin’.
Programmes for the Father Mathew Feis, Church Street. The printed programmes include timetables and syllabuses of competitions, souvenir publications and official prize lists. The programmes list the dates and times of the competitions and the names of the various judges and adjudicators. The adjudicators at the 1913 Feis included Sinéad Ní Fhlannagáin (1878-1975) and Seán S. Ó Ceallaigh (otherwise known as ‘Sceilg’, 1872-1957). Eoin MacNeill (1867-1945) was a literary judge at the 1910 Feis. The programmes for 1909 and 1911 are copy prints from 'The Father Mathew Record'. Programmes for the following years are not extant in the file: 1912; 1932-39.
Hall-marked silver and bronze Father Mathew Feis medals of uniform Celtic Cross design. Some of the medals have an orange ribbon fastener. The medals are engraved on the reverse with: • ‘1st prize Drawing & Designing (Class B). 1924’. • ‘Club Swinging Seniors. 1929’. • ‘Physical Culture – 1928-29-30. Maggie Hamilton’ (digital image above). • ‘Swedish Drill. Maggie Hamilton. 1930’. • ‘2nd Prize / Domestic Science / Crochet / 1925’. • ‘2nd Prize / Domestic Science/ Overall / 1925’. • ‘2nd Prize / Sewing / Class D / 1926’. • ‘Senior Club Swinging / 1930’. • ‘Senior Club Swinging / 1931’. • ‘Physical Culture / 1931’. • ‘Senior English Elocution / 1931 / Second’. Three of the Celtic Cross Feis Maitiú medals have no engraving on the reverse. The file also includes the metal die used to strike the Feis medal.
Photographic print of the exterior of Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, showing the old ‘Halla Maitiú’ sign (now extant in the Irish Capuchin Archives).