Date: 1847 Publisher: A. Fullarton and Co., Dublin, London, and Edinburgh Full title: 'The Holy Bible; translated from the Latin vulgate: diligently compared with the Hebrew, Greek, and other editions in divers languages; The Old Testament, first published by the English college at Douay, A.D. 1609, and the New Testament first published by the English college at Rheims, A.D. 1582, with useful notes, critical, historical, controversial and explanatory selected from the most eminent commentators, and the most able and judicious critics by the Rev. Geo. Leo Haydock. Volume 2'.
The file contains the following edition of this local newspaper: 1 Jan. 1868 (No. 68,857). The edition has a manuscript annotation ‘Mr. Bibby’ referring to an article by Rev. Wm. Andrews titled ‘Roman Catholic Proselytism’.
The file contains the following edition of this local newspaper: 3 May 1930 (Vol. 324, No. 30). The edition includes a lengthy obituary for Fr. Matthew O’Connor OFM Cap., former Provincial Minister (16 July 1859-27 Apr. 1930).
Newspaper cutting reporting on the memorial service on the 19th anniversary of the deaths of Captain Thomas Hennessy and Commander Michael Dermody who died on Walkin Street on 21 Feb. 1921 in a clash with Crown Forces.
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’.
Printing block used to reproduce the shield symbol of the Father Mathew Total Abstinence Association. The printing block was probably used in the production of pledge certificates in the mid-twentieth century.
Pioneer Total Abstinence Medal from the Diocese of Dromore issued to the mark the silver Jubilee of the local PTAA in 1940. A red and white ribbon (5.5 cm x 4.5 cm) is attached to the medal.
