Colour print showing Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC administering the pledge (probably at the Custom House, Dublin). The caption reads: ‘The Very Revd. Theobald Mathew / Administering the Temperance Pledge / I promise to abstain from all intoxicating drinks &c except used medicinally, and by order of a medical man, and to discountenance the cause and practice of intemperance / Prayer / May God bless you and enable you to keep your promise’. The frame backing has a printed flier from the ‘Association of Men of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus / Church of St. Kevin, Harrington Street, A.D. 1914’.
Two framed temperance medals. Both of the medals have ribbons attached (purple and green). The purple ribbon has the following inscription: ‘Approach them once a month / Live worthy of them the entire month / They loose and bind in heaven’. The medal with the green ribbon has an image of St. Patrick with the motif ‘Apostle of Ireland / Pray for Us’. The inscription above reads ‘Temperance / Perseverance’.
An original framed total abstinence pledge card of Mary Farrell dated 18 Nov. 1840. The pledge card is signed by Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The certificate has been colour tinted by hand.
An original total abstinence pledge card of Jonathon Murphy dated 4 Nov. 1839. The card is signed by Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. Manuscript annotations on the card indicate that the pledge was renewed on 31 Aug. 1860 and 17 Mar. 1864.
An original total abstinence pledge card of Walter Walsh dated 28 Feb. 1842. Manuscript annotation on frame reads ‘Presented by J. Walsh, 38 Killeen Road, Rathmines, grandson of the recipient’. The frame backing has a manuscript annotation: ‘February 1936’.
A clipping of an image of Francis Sheehy-Skeffington who was shot dead in Portobello Barracks in Dublin during the 1916 Rising, after having been detained by British soldiers.
The issue of 'Franciscan Annals and Tertiary Record, Organ of the Guild of St. Anthony', xl, no. 474 (June 1916). The 'Annals' was a publication associated with the Third Order of St. Francis., a lay confraternity. The issue carried a commentary titled ‘Franciscan Notes and News’, referring to the work done by Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. and Fr. Columbus Murphy OFM Cap. during the Easter Rising (pp 182-5).
