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File relating to cures associated with visits to the grave of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC in St. Joseph’s Cemetery in Cork. The file was compiled by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. The file includes:
• Statements from Hannah Keohane regarding her son who was cured through the intercession of prayers at the grave of Fr. Theobald. (18 Mar. 1943).
• Letters to Fr. Stanislaus from Fr. Mel Farrell OFM Cap. and Fr. T.J. Walsh re Annie Nolan, 21 Abbey Street, Cork, who reputedly recovered her sight through the intercession of Fr. Theobald.
• Statements and correspondence re Madge Twomey whose throat condition was cured through visits to the grave.
• Letters relating to Mrs Kathleen Skillington (née Walsh) whose leg was cured following a visit to Fr. Theobald’s grave. The file includes the testimony of Dr D. F. Hegarty, surgeon. 5 Jan 1938.
• Letter from Fr. Paul Neary OFM Cap. to Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. referring to the cause of Fr. Mathew. He wrote ‘It is to be regretted that there is no one of ourselves free and willing to take an interest in the cause – as according to rumours a great many things occur at the grave. The people come from a distance. No one has any knowledge of themselves, the favours they have received or where they come from’. 28 Jan. 1932. Manuscript, 2 pp.
• ‘Father Mathew / Leader and Priest / Cures wrought at his tomb’. The text of a speech given by Fr. Aloysius Travers OSFC on the occasion of the 123rd anniversary of the birth of Fr. Mathew. Oct. 1913. Typescript, 8 pp.
• Prayer for the beatification of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. It is noted that this prayer was submitted to the Most Rev. Daniel Coholan, Bishop of Cork, for ecclesiastical approval in May 1928. Typescript, 1 p.

• Rev. Hugh O’Reilly, 'The Temperance Question: Inaugural Address delivered on the occasion of the re-opening of the old Father Mathew Total Abstinence Hall and Reading Room, Rostrevor on the 16th October 1893' (Newry: W. and S. Magowan, Printers, 1893). Printed. 36 pp.
• 'Pioneer Total Abstinence Association of the Sacred Heart / “Christ’s Standard Bearers” by Rev. R. Nash SJ' (Dublin: Pioneer Central Council, 27 Upper Sherrard Street, 1946). Printed, 12 pp.
• 'Sixty-Second Annual Report of the Irish Association for the Prevention of Intemperance' (Dublin, 1941). Printed, 16 pp.
• Draft constitution and rules for a new temperance organisation outlined by a sub-committee appointed by the Father Mathew Union of Temperance Association Priests. Nov. 1952. The draft is endorsed with a note from J.A. Gleeson to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. affirming that the proposed constitution and rules will be put to the Hierarchy for their consideration. 22 Feb. 1953. Typescript, 7 pp.
• Flier re the Alvernian Society, a social guild of tertiaries and members of the Father Mathew Total Abstinence Association, founded to promote charitable works. c.1940. Typescript, 1 p.

File of newspaper clippings covering commemorations marking the centenary of the inauguration of Fr. Mathew’s temperance campaign. The file includes:
• ‘Father Mathew Feis / Evils worse than intemperance’, 'Irish Catholic', 21 Apr. 1938.
• ‘Father Mathew Centenary in Dublin’, 'Irish Independent', 11 Apr. 1938.
• ‘Father Mathew Centenary Celebrations’, 'Irish Times', 11 Apr. 1938.
• ‘Fr. Mathew Kin at Centenary Mass’, 'The Universe', 14 Apr. 1938. Includes a photograph of Theobald Mathew, grand-nephew of the Apostle of Temperance, with Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. and Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap.
• ‘Apostle of Temperance by Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap.’, 'Irish Press', 9 Apr. 1938.
• ‘Father Mathew Celebrations / Memory honoured in Dublin and Tipperary’, 'Irish Catholic', 20 Apr. 1938.
• ‘Father Mathew Centenary Celebrations’, 'Daily Sketch', 11 Apr. 1938.
• ‘Father Mathew Bridge’, 'Irish Independent', 17 Oct. 1938.

Correspondence of Fr. Paul Neary OSFC, and Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC, with the Catholic Bishops of Derry, Ferns, Waterford and Lismore, Down and Connor, Dromore, Clogher, Kilmore, the Archbishop of Tuam, the Archbishop of Dublin, and Cardinal Michael Logue, Archbishop of Armagh, re the publication of the Capuchin Franciscan 'Temperance Manual', the establishment of temperance sodalities in the various dioceses, and the general progress of the temperance crusade conducted by the friars. The draft letter from Fr. Paul Neary OSFC to Archbishop William Walsh (1841-1921) refers to the good work Fr. Aloysius Travers OSFC is doing among the trades’ societies and artisan classes in Dublin (10 Apr. 1906).