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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’.

Register of masses at the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny. The entries include the signatures of the celebrants. Monthly totals of masses are added to some of the entries. The entries were routinely signed by the Provincial Minster at visitations. Masses for notable benefactors are also mentioned including John O’Connell (1843-1905) for whom 170 masses were said in 1905. A note on the final page of the volume specifies that a total of 400 masses are to be said for O’Connell. (See also IE CA KK/4/1/2).

Register of masses at the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny. A manuscript annotation notes that the volume was ‘commenced after the Provincial Chapter of 1925’. The entries include the signatures of the celebrants. The entries were also routinely signed by the guardian.

Register of masses at the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny. The entries include the signatures of the celebrants. The entries were also routinely signed by the Provincial Minister at visitations. Gilt title to front cover: ‘Ledger’.

Register of masses at the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny. The entries include the signatures of the celebrants. With monthly totals. The entries were routinely signed by the guardian. The first portion of the volume is comprised of a ledger of income derived from mass stipends from April 1948-Sept. 1952. (See IE CA KK/1/1/3/6).

Register of masses at the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny. The entries include the signatures of the celebrants. With monthly totals of masses. The entries were also routinely signed by the guardian.

Author: Katharine Tynan (1859-1931)
Publisher: London: MacDonald and Evans
Language: English
Series: The St. Nicholas Series / edited by Rev. Dom Bede Camm OSB
Includes a frontispiece (portrait of Fr. Mathew) and colour plates.
The Irish Capuchin Archives holds both the 1908 and 1910 editions.

Publisher: Dublin: Catholic Total Abstinence Federation of Ireland, 56 Middle Abbey Street
Language: English
Full title: 'Catholic Total Abstinence Federation / A call to Ireland / Report of the third triennial congress of the Catholic Total Abstinence Federation/ 1923'

Autobiographical memoir of Canon James Casey (1824-1909). At pp 21-6 reference is made to Casey having taken the pledge from Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC on 22 Sept. 1840. He writes ‘I remember well the crowds and the crushing. … The people were got to kneel down in rows while enthusiastic priests rode among the vast multitude to keep order. The great and special graces showered down that day will never be known till the day of judgement’.

• An article by D. Holland titled ‘Father Mathew / The Great Temperance Apostle described by an able writer who knew him intimately’. The preface states that article appeared in the 'Irish Catholic', 19 Aug. 1905. Typescript, 10 pp.
• A copy article by Justin McCarthy (1830-1912), the historian and politician, on Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The article appeared in the 'Catholic Times', 17 Oct. 1890. Typescript, 2 pp.
• Copy speech of J.F. Maguire MP, Lord Mayor, at the unveiling of the Statue of Father Mathew on St. Patrick’s Street, Cork, on 10 Oct. 1864. The speech is taken from the 'Cork Examiner', 10 Oct. 1864. Typescript, 4 pp.
• An article by Jeremiah Dowling titled ‘Father Mathew’, 'The New Ireland Review', Vol. X, (Nov. 1898), pp 140-8. Printed.
• Cutting of an article by Rev. M. Gallagher titled ‘Father Mathew’ published in 'The Irish Rosary' [c.1900]. Printed, 5 pp.
• Cutting of an article titled ‘Monument to the Memory of Father Mathew / Grand Moral Demonstration – Father Conaty’s Oration’. The article refers to the erection of a statue of Fr. Mathew in Salem, Massachusetts. The article includes an engraving of the statue. The Salem chapter of the Father Mathew Catholic Total Abstinence Society was organized in 1875 and purchased its headquarters, the Tucker estate, in 1896. A statue of Father Mathew was erected in 1887 in Salem in his honor. In 1916, the statue was moved from Central and Charter Street to its present location, the corner of Derby and Hawthorne Boulevard (also known as Bertram Park). Printed, 7 pp.
• An article by Davida Franklin, Loreto College, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin, titled ‘Father Theobald Mathew’. Typescript, 4 pp.
• Notes re the appointment of Provincial Ministers, Definitors, and Guardians of Irish Capuchins houses from 1836-57. The notes include numerous references to the appointment of Fr. Mathew as superior. In 1849 it was noted that Fr. Mathew was departing for the United States and appointed Fr. Francis Murphy OSFC as Vicar Provincial. In 1854, Fr. Mathew made an assignment of the Church of the Most Holy Trinity, Cork, to Fr. Louis Reardon OSFC, Fr. Vincent McLeod OSFC and Fr. Bonaventure Buckley OSFC. Typescript, 4 pp.
• Copy inventory of items loaned to the Cork Public Museum, Fitzgerald Park, Cork, by the Capuchins for purposes of an exhibition on the life of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The items included Fr. Mathew’s missal, a tea pot, dinner plate and a cup decorated with temperance symbols, a trumpet used in Fr. Mathew’s band, temperance medals and pledge certificates, a cross made from a portion of Fr. Mathew’s confessional, and portions of wood from Fr. Mathew’s piano. 22 Feb. 1945. Typescript, 3 pp.
• Booklet for a Solemn Mass of Thanksgiving in honour and commemoration of the foundation of the first Mercy Convent on Rutland Street, Cork, on 6 July 1837. Reference is made to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC assisting the Sisters in establishing a community in the city. July 1987. Typescript, 10 pp.