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• Copy print of a portrait of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The reverse has a letter to An tAtair Micheál Ó Se OFM Cap. from Fr. Dermot O’Reilly OFM Cap. regarding a retreat in County Cork. Printed, 1 p.
• Postcard print of the People’s Café Hotel Dining Room, Trimgate Street, Navan, County Meath. The premises presumably served as a meeting-room for a local temperance association. 13.5 cm x 9 cm.
• Photographic prints of Thomastown Castle, the childhood home of Fr. Mathew, and Ratheloheen House, County Tipperary. See also Glass Plate Negative at CA PH-1-21. Print size: 11.5 cm x 9 cm; 10.5 cm x 8 cm.
• Postcard print of a bust of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC in Father Mathew Hall, Dublin. The bust has the following inscription: ‘Fra. Theobald Mathew / Ord. Cappuccin / J. Hogan fecit, 1834’. 2 copies.
• Photographic copies of the pledge of the Father Mathew Total Abstinence Association. 2 pp.
• Postcard print of a portrait of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC titled: ‘For happy homes, for Ireland, for God / Fr. Mathew OSFC, Apostle of Temperance’. 20 copies.
• Photographic print of the Father Mathew statue on O’Connell Street, Dublin. Black and white print, 25.5 cm x 19 cm.
• Negative photographic print showing Fr. Theobald Mathew’s house at No. 8 Cove Street, Cork. An annotation on the covering envelope reads: ‘Negative of a photo of Fr. Mathew’s House, No. 8 Cove Street – as it was in 1902 / The roof has since then been altered / Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap., Aug. 20, 1928’. With two (positive) photographic prints of the same image. 3 prints.
• Copy portrait print (on card) of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. 25 cm x 20 cm.

Framed manuscript quoting a passage from Romans Ch. 14, verse 21 which reads ‘It is good not to eat flesh, and not to drink wine nor anything whereby thy brother is offended or scandalized, or made weak’. The passage is signed by Fr. Theobald Mathew and is dated at Cork, 5 Feb. 1845.

Framed letter of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC, Imperial Hotel, Dublin, to Richard Dowden referring to the harsh sentence handed down to a sailor at a court martial in Cove (Cobh) Harbour. Fr. Mathew wrote ‘Strict discipline it is true, must be enforced in Her Majesty’s Fleet, but from the Report of the Trial, it is evident that the miserable culprit, was a habitual drunkard, and consequently a lunatic, and should be treated as such …’.

Framed letter of Lord John Russell (1792-1878), Chatham Place, London, to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC, re the grant of an annual pension of £300 from the Civil List as a mark of approbation for his work in combatting intemperance in Ireland.

• Note by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. on the founding in 1819 by Fr. Mathew of ‘an association which was the precursor of the St. Vincent de Paul Society’. The Josephian Society ‘was a body of young men who taught catechism and instructed poor children to read and write’. Manuscript, 1 p.
• Notebook containing entries relating to Fr. Mathew’s temperance crusade extracted from 'Battersby’s Catholic Directory', 1840-7. The entries were compiled by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. Manuscript, 10 pp.
• Letter from Sr. Mary Aquin, Convent of Mercy, Cobh, County Cork, to Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. re ‘a tradition in the Convent that one Sister saw him [Fr. Mathew] frequently in his last illness and were edified by his holy dispositions’. 4 June 1930. Manuscript, 2 pp.
• Letter from Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. to Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. confirming that the Christian Brothers ‘have a quite a lot of matter re Fr. Mathew in their records’. Fr. Bonaventure also refers to his efforts to locate unbound and missing editions of 'The Father Mathew Record'. 9 Feb. 1939. Manuscript, 2 pp.
• Note by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. re the numbers who took the Total Abstinence Pledge from 1839-52. The figure for 1839 is given as 63,387. The figure for 1852 is 6,486,851. Manuscript, 1 p.
• Note by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. re references to Fr. Mathew, Apostle of Temperance in 'Bullarium Ordinis FF. Minorum Francisci Capucinorum', Vols X-XII (1841). Manuscript, 2 pp.
• Note by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. on Bishop John England (1786-1842). ‘From the sermon of the Most Rev. Dr. [Francis] McCormack [1833-1909], Bishop of Galway, at the celebration of the centenary of Carlow College, Sunday, Sept. 23, 1888’. MS, 2 pp.

• Copybook containing extracts of Irish Capuchin interest taken from the 'Kilkenny Journal', March 1847-May 1849. Many of the extracts refer to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC and his temperance campaign. Other notes refer to famine relief, to Fr. John Murphy OSFC, to Fr. Peter Joseph Mulligan OSFC and to the rebuilding of the Capuchin Church of St. Francis on Walkin Street, Kilkenny. The notes were compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. Manuscript, 44 pp.
• Notebook containing extracts of Irish Capuchin interest taken from the 'Kilkenny Journal', May 1849-Nov. 1849. Most of the entries relate to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC and his temperance campaign. The notes were compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap.
Manuscript, 40 pp.
• Notes compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. relating to extracts of Irish Capuchin interest in the 'Kilkenny Journal' from c.1846-52. Most of the entries refer to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC, the progress of his temperance campaign, and events associated with the Capuchin Church of St. Francis in Kilkenny. Manuscript, 14 pp.

• Letter from M. Hendrick to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. re a temperance certificate belonging to his late father dated 12 Apr. 1840. He writes ‘This pledge was taken when Fr. Mathew was visiting North Wexford that year in Gorey chapel yard outside the old chapel (now St. Michael’s Cemetery)’. 14 Oct. 1915. Manuscript, 3 pp.
• Letter from Margaret Cave to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. re an old print of Fr. Mathew. 19 Oct. 1915. Manuscript, 1 p.
• Letter from [J. Glennon?] to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. re a letter from Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC to David Leahy Arthur from November 1846 which she would like to offer (for sale) to the Capuchins. 17 Oct. 1915. Manuscript, 2 pp.
• Letter from Bridget McInerney to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. re a temperance medal dated 10 April 1838. The letter is dated 19 Oct. 1915. Manuscript, 2 pp.
• Letter from Mrs Richard Burke to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. re some temperance medals and certificates in her possession. She affirms that Fr. Mathew visited Loughrea, County Galway, in March 1840. [Oct. 1915]. Manuscript, 2 pp.
• Letter from P. McKenna to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. re James McKenna, Fr. Theobald Mathew’s principal private secretary. 18 Apr. 1923. Manuscript, 4 pp.
• Notes by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of Father Mathew’s birth. The notes outline the life and temperance campaign of Fr. Mathew. Oct. 1915. Manuscript, 4 pp.
• Letter to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. from Sister Mary de Sales O’Leary, Presentation Convent, Gerald Griffin Street, Cork, affirming that she was the last child Fr. Mathew gave a blessing to before his death. She wrote ‘I was sent down to him with my brother, then an ecclesiastical student. Fr. Mathew was lodging in a house on the Beach, and died very soon after’. 15 Oct. 1915. Manuscript, 4 pp.
• Letter from Christine O’Dowd, Drumcondra Park, Dublin, to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap., referring to some letters in the handwriting of Fr. Mathew in her possession. 23 May [1915?]. Manuscript, 1 p.
• An article by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. titled ‘Father Mathew, the Apostle of Temperance / His Work in Wexford’. Typescript, 6 pp.
• Note by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. transcribing an article from 'The Nation', 23 Aug 1845, describing a monument to the memory of Francis and Thomas Mathew, brothers of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. Manuscript, 2 pp.
• An article by Fr. Angelus Healy titled ‘The Life and Work of Father Mathew’. Typescript, 20 pp

The sub-series contains research notes, document transcriptions, correspondence and publications on Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC compiled by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. (1915-1997). The Waterford-born Capuchin friar, Brother (later Father) Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. completed a thesis titled ‘The Life and Times of Fr. Theobald Mathew’ for an MA degree in University College Cork in 1939. He retained a life-long interest in the subject and accumulated a large number of documentary sources, publications and notes pertaining to Fr. Mathew and his campaign against intemperance.