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Genealogical notes compiled by Veronica Mathew, a great great great grand-niece of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The articles are titled ‘The Irish Mathews’ and ‘The Mathew family and their affection for Landaff’. The notes trace the ancestry of the Mathew family and include remarks re notable persons in the family tree and lore associated with the Mathews.

Testimonials for Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC in relation to his claim of 'fama sanctitatis' (a cleric with a reputation for holiness). It appears that the testimonials were compiled in 1937-8. The file includes:
• Statement re a resolution of the Provincial Chapter of August 1927 which decided ‘to take definite steps regarding the introduction of the Cause of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC, the Apostle of Temperance’.
• Testimony of John Francis Maguire, biographer of Father Mathew.
• Tribute of the Lord Mayor of Cork, John Francis Maguire, at the unveiling of the statue of Father Mathew in the chief street in Cork.
• Tribute of Mr. Thomas Crosbie, editor and proprietor of the chief newspaper in Cork.
• Tribute of Denny Lane, prominent Catholic public man and author.
• Interview with the late Bishop of Cork, the Most Rev. Thomas Alphonsus O’Callaghan OP. The interview was conducted by Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., Irish Capuchin Minister Provincial, in 1913-4. It reads ‘On the occasion when the Bishop made the statement, he said that as I was interested in Father Mathew it was right he should mention a criticism which he heard about him. Some seemed to think that he [Fr. Mathew] was not sufficiently interested in his Order: on occasion his attention was drawn to some matter affecting the interests of his Province or community, and he was supposed to have made the remark that it was not his concern but Father [Louis] O’Connell’s’.
• Testimony of William Smyth O’Brien.
• Testimony of the Catholic Archdeacon of Cork.
• Extracts from the diary of James McKenna, secretary to Fr. Mathew.
• Extracts from the records of hospitals referring to cures attributed to Fr. Mathew.
• Interview with Denis Dennehy, caretaker of St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Cork, burial-place of Fr. Mathew.
• Sworn statement of Mr. Murphy, 3 Burke’s Avenue, Cork, referring to a cure for her daughter Kathleen, which she attributes to visits to the grave of Fr. Mathew.
• The file also includes a ‘General Statement’ in relation to Fr. Mathew’s reputation as a priest of ‘exceptional holiness and of wonderful zeal and charity’.

• Flier for a concert celebrating the anniversary of Fr. Mathew’s birth. The concert was held in George’s Hall, South Great George’s Street, Dublin on 10 Oct. 1908. The event included a speech by John Gore titled ‘Father Mathew’s Temperance Work and its Results’. Printed, 2 pp.
• ‘The Amethyst / A Temperance Lecture’, published in 'The Irish Monthly', June 1894. Printed, 2 pp.
• 'Temperance Rallying Songs' published by 'The Father Mathew Record' office, Church Street, Dublin. Words by Brian O’Higgins with music by Arthur Darley. Printed, 4 pp. 18 copies.
• The Old Girl’s Song by Mrs. Armel O’Connor from Mary’s Meadow Press, Ludlow, Shropshire. Printed, 1 p.
• Letter from Cobh Urban District Council to Fr. Justin Hyland OFM Cap., Guardian, Holy Trinity Friary, Cork, re the erection of a plaque to honour ‘the memory of Fr. Theobald Mathew, Apostle of Temperance, who died at 18 West Beach, Cobh, on the 8th December 1856’. 12 December 1946. Typescript, 1 p.

Register book of the Sacred Thirst Sodality attached to the Total Abstinence Hall, Halston Street, Dublin. The register includes lists of male and female members of the sodality, minutes of meetings, newspaper cuttings and printed leaflets inserted into the volume. Includes:
• Statement re the number of public houses in Dublin and the number of arrests for drunkenness in Aug. 1880.
• Cutting from the 'Catholic Times', 11 Nov. 1881, referring to a meeting of the Sodality presided over by Fr. Albert Mitchell OSFC, President.
• ‘Theobald Mathew / Anniversary Commemoration / Lecture by Very Rev. J.T. Murphy / Speech by John Dillon MP, 'Freeman’s Journal', 10 Dec. 1901.
• ‘Archbishop McCabe on Drunkenness’, 'Freeman’s Journal', 14 Feb. 1882.
• 'First Annual Report of the Father Mathew OSFC Total Abstinence Sodality and Hall, Halston Street, Dublin', signed by Fr. Albert Mitchell OSFC, President. Feb. 1882. Printed, 2 pp.
• 'The Archbishop of Dublin on drunkenness'. Letter of the Most Rev. Edward McCabe, Archbishop of Dublin. The letter is addressed to Fr. Albert Mitchell OSFC and refers to the work of the Total Abstinence Society associated with the temperance hall on Halston Street, Dublin. 22 Feb. 1882. Printed, 1 p.
• Cutting of a letter by Michael Dwyer to the editor of the 'Freeman’s Journal', 23 Feb. 1882. An annotation reads ‘This Mr. Dwyer is the secretary of the Publicans and has had the insolence to attack the statement of his Grace the Archbishop in his letter to me [Fr. Albert Mitchell OSFC] of Feb. 22, 1882’. With a cutting of Fr. Mitchell’s reply dated 24 Feb. 1882.
• Cutting of an article titled ‘Total Abstinence – what the doctors say of the use of drink’. The article takes the form of a letter to the editor of the 'Kilkenny Journal' from ‘An advocate of Total Abstinence’.
• ‘The prayers of the members on requesting the following intentions for the conversion of a son of a husband, of a sister and her son, of a father and mother, of a friend a long-time from their duty, of a husband drinking and neglecting his duty …’. Sept. 1880-Jan. 1881.

• 'The Catholic Register' (1857) containing a biographical sketch of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC at pp 248-54. Also contains biographical notes re the Right Rev. Dr. Egan, Bishop of Kerry, the Right Rev. Dr. Murphy, Bishop of Ferns, and the Right Rev. Dr. Murphy, Bishop of Cloyne. Printed, 11 pp.
• Copybooks containing ‘A sermon preached on Sunday, 14th of June 1840 at the Consecration of the new Catholic Church at Maynooth / Dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary by the Very Rev. Theobald Mathew’. Copied from 'The Catholic Luminary and Ecclesiastical Repository', Vol. 1, 20 June 1841. 2 copies. Manuscript, 114 pp.
• Copy letter from Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC to Mrs Carville regarding the ‘sacred cause’ of temperance. The letter is dated 11 Oct. 1844. Typescript, 1 p.
• Copy letter from Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC, Nashville, Tennessee, to Sr. Magdalen, South Presentation Convent, Cork, affirming that ‘the excessive labour attendant on my mission has enfeebled me’. 28 Apr. 1851. Typescript, 1 p.
• Copy letters of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC to Mr Dowden and to Miss [Kinaghan?] referring to the harsh sentence handed down to a sailor at a court martial in Cove Harbour and the disposition of Indian Meal for the relief of the destitute in Cork during the famine. 12 June 1847. Typescript, 5 pp.
• 'A Letter to Irish Temperance Societies concerning the present state of Ireland, and its connexion with England by S.C. Hall Esq.' (London, 1843). Published in the 'Dublin University Magazine', No. CXXVII, Vol. XXII (July, 1843), pp 748-52.
• ‘Rev. Theobald Mathew / Born 1790 – Died 1856’. Biographical sketch of the temperance campaigner. Printed, 4 pp.
• Notes from the South Presentation Convent Annals re the death of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC on 8 Dec. 1856. It reads ‘He was Superior and Confessor to this Community for several years and always entertained for the Sisters a sincere respect and esteem’. It is noted that these Annals were written by Mother de Pazzi who knew Fr. Mathew personally. Reference is also made to Mother Aloysius Nagle ‘who was brought by Father Mathew to the South Presentation Convent, and was a relative of his. She celebrated her Golden Jubilee in 1911, and died in 1914’. The notes were compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. in July 1928. Typescript, 2 pp.
• Notes from the Ursuline Annals, Cork, re the death of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC on 8 Dec. 1856. Typescript, 1 p.
• Account from Sr. M. Ignatius Moore, Presentation Convent, Mountmellick, County Laois, re the blessing given to her sister by Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC in 1841. It is noted that Sr. Ignatius was ‘born in the same year and is still living’. Typescript, 1 p.

Photostats of letters from Henry and Richard Doyle to their father on the occasion of Fr. Mathew’s visit to London in 1843. The letters date to August 1843 and have illustrations showing scenes from Fr. Mathew’s visit. The volume was presented to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. (1870-1957) to mark the centenary of Fr. Mathew’s death on 6 December 1856.

• Photostat copy a Memorial to Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, from Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC, re ‘a loan, not to exceed £4,000, towards finishing a Catholic place of worship’ in Cork. The memorial is dated 19 Aug. 1834. The copy was obtained from the original in the Chief Secretaries’ Office. The reference number is CSORP/1834/3428. Copy print, 3 pp.
• Photostat copy a ‘Memorial of Revd. Theobald Mathew respecting payment of a loan made by the Commission of Public Works for a Chapel at Cork’. The document reads ‘That memorialist expended of his own private resources, in the erection of such building over £4,500, and obtained from benevolent individuals of all persuasions (including the loan of £1,000 hereinafter mentioned about £9,000, all of which was expended on the building which, is in a very advanced state, having been roofed in. The memorial seeks a loan of £4,000 to enable him to complete the building. The memorial is dated 21 Jan. 1840. The copy was obtained from the original in the Chief Secretaries’ Office papers now held in the National Archives of Ireland. The reference number is CSORP/1840/W1044. Copy print, 10 pp.
• Copy documents relating to the ‘Father Mathew Annuity Fund’. The documents refer to the work of a committee established to secure a sum of £7,000 ‘to procure a Life-Annuity of £800 for the Rev. Theobald Mathew, in order to enable him to continue, during his mortal life the great Temperance Movement …’. The file includes lists of subscribers to the fund. 1843-8. Copy print, 12 pp.

• ‘Hymn to Fr. Mathew’ Air: “Tara Hall”. A song honouring the Apostle of Temperance published in the 'Analecta Ordinis Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum', VI (1890), p. 220. Manuscript, 2 pp.
• Copy letter from Daniel Horgan, Lord Mayor of Cork, to Fr. Louis of Urbino OSFC re the work of the Father Mathew Centenary Committee. 16 Oct. 1890. Manuscript, 3 pp.
• Extracts from 'The Munster Journal' (1890) referring to planning for the celebration of the Father Mathew Centenary in Cork. Reference is also made to the contract for the completion of the façade of Holy Trinity (Father Mathew) Memorial Church ‘in accordance with the plans prepared by the architect Mr. D.J. Coakley’. It is noted that the contract was obtained by John Sisk, a Cork builder, for the sum of £5,769. The solemn ceremony for the blessing and laying of the corner-stone of the façade of the Church by the Most Rev. Thomas Alphonsus O’Callaghan OP, Bishop of Cork, took place in May 1890. It is also noted that ‘the spire of the Father Mathew Memorial Church, Cork, was completed on the 15th November [1890] and surmounted by a cross which had been previously blessed by Very Rev. Father Paul [Neary], the superior. The work has been suspended for the present for lack of funds. The sum of about £2,500 is still wanting to complete the Church’. The notes were compiled by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. Manuscript, 4 pp.
• Original memorial to Thomas Sexton MP, Lord Mayor of Dublin, requesting that the ‘centenary of Father Theobald Mathew be celebrated in the Irish metropolis by the erection of a public statue of the Apostle of Temperance’. The memorial has circa forty signatories including John Redmond MP (1856-1918), Timothy Daniel O’Sullivan MP (1827-1914), Tim Healy (1855-1931), and Alfred Webb (1834-1908). [c.1889]. Manuscript, 2 pp.
• Public letter from the committee for the Father Mathew Centennial Celebration seeking funds for the completion of Holy Trinity (Father Mathew) Memorial Church in Cork. It reads ‘As the most fitting memorial that we could raise, we have selected to complete the Church which he, himself, commenced, but was forced to abandon owing to the advent of the Great Famine. It will cost us close on £7,000. We have already received about £3,000 chiefly from the citizens of Cork and our exiled countrymen in the United States. We are still about £4,000 short of the required amount’. Printed. 2 pp.
• Extracts from contemporary newspapers reflecting on the centenary celebrations of the birth Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC in Oct. 1890. The file includes extracts from:
'Catholic Times', 17 Oct. 1890
'The Weekly Freeman', 18 Oct. 1890
'Daily Herald', 14 Oct. 1890
'Cork Constitution', 18 Oct. 1890.
Typescript, 5 pp.

A volume containing newspaper clippings mainly concerning the commemorations, processions, exhibitions and events connected with the centenary of the birth of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The file includes cuttings re the completion of Holy Trinity (Father Mathew Memorial) Church in Cork, the Fr. Mathew statues in Cork and Dublin, and printed fliers re the commemorations. Includes:
• Clipping of a photograph of the Very Rev. Antoninus Keane OP.
• Clipping of an engraving of the original design for Holy Trinity Church, Cork.
• The exhibition of Father Mathew souvenirs at the Crawford Municipal School of Art in Cork. The collection included portraits, medals, autograph letters, and various artefacts formerly in the possession of Father Mathew. The article reads ‘Very prominent among the collection of souvenirs is a curious banner, described as painted by a religious in the South Presentation Convent in 1838, and presented to Fr. Mathew to be borne in the great temperance processions that year’.
• ‘The Monster Meeting on the Grand Parade / Centennial Oration by Sir John Pope Hennessy’, 'Cork Examiner', 11 Oct. 1890.
• ‘Father Mathew’s House, Cove Street, Cork’.
• ‘The Mathew Statue in Cork’.
• Clipping of a photograph of Fr. Mathew’s grave in St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Cork.
• The Mathew Commemorative Tower, Glanmire, Cork. The article reads ‘It owes its erection to an enthusiastic admirer and personal friend of the Apostle of Temperance, Mr William O’Connor’.
• Clippings of photographs of the Very Rev. Canon Maguire and John Francis Maguire MP.
• Clippings of a portrait of the Most Rev. William Delaney, appointed Bishop of Cork in 1847, and the Most Rev. Thomas Alphonsus O'Callaghan OP, appointed Bishop of Cork in 1886.
• Clipping of a photograph of Fr. Mathew O’Connor OSFC, Charlotte Quay, Cork.
• Clipping of a photograph of Canon Sheehan, Saint Peter and Saint Paul’s Church, Cork.
• Flier for the Grand Vocal and Instrumental Concert for the Father Mathew Centenary Celebration at the Opera House, Cork, 9 Oct. 1890.
• Clippings of letters from Denny Lane, Daniel Horgan and other prominent Cork politicians referring to the commemorations.