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Transcribed Documents relating to Father Mathew

• Copy flier for Portraits of Father Mathew painted by Dr. Lees. It is noted that the ‘drawing will take place on the 1st of September 1845, at Lister’s Temperance Hotel, West End, Leeds’. Copy print, 1 p.
• Copy invitation to a festival organised by the Shamrock Temperance Hall, Blarney Lane, Cork. It is noted that Fr. Mathew, the Apostle of Temperance, will attend. Copy print, 1 p.
• Photostat copy of entries in the House Account Book of the Presentation Brothers’ South Monastery, Douglas Street, Cork. The entries refer to payments made to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC from 1843-4. Copy print, 2 pp.
• Extracts from Samuel Carter Hall, 'Retrospect of a Long Life / From 1815 to 1883' (London: R. Bentley, 1883), referring to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. Printed, pp 497-512.
• Photocopy from 'County and City of Cork Post Office General Directory' (1844-5). The entry refers to the Capuchin friars in Blackamoor Lane, Cork. They are: Very Rev. Theobald Mathew (Provincial Minister), Cove Street; Rev. Denis McLeod, Rev. G. Brennan, Rev. James Reardon, and Rev. J. O’Connell (Guardians). Copy print, 1 p.
• Photocopy of a letter from Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC to Fr. William Keane, Parish Priest, Midelton, County Cork, referring to the history of St. Joseph’s Cemetery in Cork city. The letter reads ‘The insults offered to Catholic priests who were grossly outraged in Protestant Church Yards, the large fees demanded from the very poorest for the internment of their Relatives, induced me to open my present large and beautiful burial grounds. … The Cemetery was blessed by the late Archbishop, the Most Rev. Dr. Laffan, assisted by the late Vicar General, Archdeacon Keeffe at the period of the Month’s Mind of the late admirable Bishop Coppinger …’. The letter is dated 22 May 1847. A compliments’ slip indicates that the original was held by Fr. Bertie Troy (1930-2007), Parish Priest of Holy Rosary Church, Midleton, County Cork. Copy manuscript, 5 pp.
• A timeline relating to Fr. Mathew’s ministry as Provincial Superior of the Irish Capuchins from 1822-1852. Typescript, 1 p.
• Photocopies of letters from Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC to Mother De Pazzi Leahy, Superior, South Presentation Convent, Douglas Street, Cork, to a Mrs Bernard and to a Mrs Cronin. A covering note on the copies by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. states that two of the letters were written by Fr. Mathew whilst he was in New Orleans, Louisiana, and that the originals are held in the Archives of the South Presentation Convent in Cork. The letters date from 24 July 1846-18 Mar. 1851. Copy manuscript, 8 pp.
• Copy extract from a letter from Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC to the editor of the 'Cork Constitution' dated 27 Apr. 1843. The letter reads: ‘I do not arrogate to myself the merit of having originated the Temperance Society, on the contrary I have ever given my predecessors in this Sacred Cause the highest degree of approbation …’. Typescript, 4 pp.
• Copy photographic print of a letter from Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC to Richard Foley dated 31 May 1854. The prints measure 7 cm x 4.2 cm. Prints, 3 pp.
• Photocopies of documents from the State Paper Collection relating to female emigration to Australia. The documents are notices issued by a committee (among whose 16 members was Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC) offering free passage on a ship to New South Wales, Australia, in May 1836. Copy print, 4 pp.
• Photocopy of a letter from Fr. Theobald Mathew dated 23 July 1845. Fr. Nessan Shaw notes that the original is the possession or Rev. Con O’Donovan CC, Convent Hill, Mitchelstown, County Cork. The letter refers to an ‘inspired sermon’ which was sent to Fr. Mathew and which he intends to circulate to teetotallers. Copy manuscript, 2 pp.
• Extracts by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. taken from 'The Nation' newspaper relating to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. 6 Mar. 1847-4 Sept. 1847. Manuscript, 8 pp.

Musical Scores

• 'The song of the river / A tribute to temperance societies / dedicated by permission to the Very Rev. Theobald Mathew by Haydn Corri' (Dublin: Haydn Corri’s Musical Academy, 3 Hamilton Row, Merrion Square). 2 copies. One of the copies has a manuscript annotation on the front cover: ‘With the composer’s best regards’.
• 'The Mathew Quadrilles for the piano forte / composed and respectfully dedicated to the Very Reverend Theobald Mathew / the bright morning star of temperance / by Henry Devlin' (London: T.C. Bates, 6 Ludgate Hill).
• 'Temperance Melodies for the Teetotallers of Ireland by William MacNamara Downes' (Cork: Albion Printing Office, 35 Great George’s Street, 1843). 24 pp.

History of the Temperance Reformation

‘History of the Temperance Reformation by James McKenna, chief travelling secretary to the Very Rev. Theobald Mathew’. The volume commences with a piece titled ‘National effects produced by temperance in Ireland; general decrease of crime taken from the assizes; returns, statements and testimony of judges; returns from the police officers; general decrease of disease and sick in hospitals and infirmaries …’. Returns from assizes and police officials are given from various parts of the country from 1839-41. The volume includes a large number of testimonials and addresses from various members of the aristocracy, landed gentry, politicians (including Daniel O’Connell), the clergy and other public figures referring to the beneficial effects of Fr. Mathew’s temperance crusade. With copy testimonials and letters from Lord Morpeth, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Lord Bishop of Norwich and other prominent individuals. The volume also includes articles and reflections on the history and progress of the temperance movement, pledge-taking statistics, and descriptions of Fr. Mathew’s meetings and rallies in cities, towns and villages all over Ireland. ‘A history of the temperance movement and progress in England’ by James McKenna is extant from pp 563-895. Copy testimonials, letters and addresses from England, Scotland, the United States and Canada are transcribed from pp 961-88. A comprehensive index to the volume is included from pp 987-1,005 pp.

Father Mathew Centenary (1890)

The sub-series includes files relating to events (particularly in Dublin and Cork) organised in 1890 to mark the centenary of the birth of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC.

Documents relating to the Father Mathew Centenary

• Flier from the Father Mathew Centenary Committee seeking subscriptions for a fund for the completion of Holy Trinity (Father Mathew) Memorial Church, Cork. The flier includes a list of subscribers and the amounts given to the fund. March 1889. Printed, 1 p.
• Copy programme for a ‘Grand Vocal and Instrumental Concert in aid of the Father Mathew Centenary Celebration’ performed by the Cork Amateur Orchestral Society in the Opera House, Cork, on 9 Oct. 1889. The programme includes a recital of the Centenary Ode by Fr. Michael O’Flynn, CC, Saint Peter and Saint Paul’s Church, Cork. Copy print, 1 p.
• Copy obedience to Br. Masseo Hyland OSFC (d. 18 May 1908) allowing him to travel to the United States with Fr. Mathew O’Connor OSFC to receive subscriptions for the celebrations of the centenary of the Father Theobald Mathew and the completing of the Church of the Most Holy Trinity in Cork …’. The obedience is signed by Fr. Paul Neary OSFC, Provincial Minister, and is dated at Rochestown, 18 Oct. 1889. With a copy of a similar obedience (in Latin) to Fr. Mathew O’Connor OSFC. Manuscript, 3 pp.
• Notes re the Fr. Mathew ephemera and relics used in the Centenary Exhibition in 1890. The exhibited items included:
A banner painted by a sister from the South Presentation Convent.
A lock of Father Mathew’s hair which was loaned by Frank Driscoll, Garrick Street, Covent Garden, London. It is affirmed that ‘it was given to a Mr Regan, a devoted follower of Fr. Mathew, a few months before he died’.
A pair of heavy silver spectacles.
Temperance medals and cards including ‘the first medal sold in Cork by Fr. Mathew – sold to Wm. Kelly, and sent in by his daughter, Mrs Daly of Evergreen Street’.
A bible lent by Mrs Donegan, Monkstown. It had been given to Fr. Mathew by Mrs Donegan’s Aunt.
The file also includes notes by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. on the wider centenary celebrations of Fr. Mathew’s birth in 1890. Many of the extracts appear to have been taken from the 'Cork Examiner'. Manuscript and typescript, 9 pp.
• Copybook containing extracts from 'The Standard' (14 Oct. 1889) and the 'Freeman’s Journal' (25 Oct. 1889) reporting on a meeting of a committee organising the commemorations of the centenary of the birth of Fr. Mathew. The article in 'The Standard' reads ‘As a rule the inhabitants of the sister island find it anything but easy to discover a common ground on which they may meet each other without fear of dispute. The names of famous Irishmen are usually rather emblems of discord than national rallying cries. According as the great men in Irish history were Protestant or Catholic loyal or disloyal men of the North, or men of the South so did they receive the sympathy or dislike of the various sections of the population. Hardly one of them is capable of uniting even for a moment the sentiment of the whole country … . The zealous and single-hearted priest whom the Irish race with its love of picturesque phraseology knows as the “Apostle of Temperance” is one of the very few persons whom the whole country agrees to honour. That Father Mathew was a brave and good man, and that he did his best to succour and to raise the peasantry is a fact which is never disputed in Ireland’. Extensive reference is also made to the plan to erect a statue on O’Connell Street commemorating the temperance campaigner. Manuscript, 23 pp.
• 'The Father Mathew Centenary / by John Francis Maguire / 1890' (Cork: Irish Temperance League, 1890). Printed, 8 pp.
• An article from 'The Shamrock' on the unveiling of the statue of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC on O’Connell Street, Dublin. It reads ‘Father Mathew needs no statue to perpetuate his memory … but it is only proper that in the Capital of his Nation a grateful people should testify by some public memorial their recognition of his services, and should set his image in their streets as a witness of their gratitude. … Father Mathew would never have been suspected of being a clergyman from his dress. He wore no clerical coat or hat. He dressed like a gentleman of the time in a frock coat, hessian boots and a tall hat. Yet it was as a Capuchin Friar he did his marvellous work, and it is quite appropriate that in the statue which has been just unveiled in Dublin he should appear in the habit of that order. The statue is a fine work of art. It is by Irish hand, and the sculptor, to whom we offer our congratulations, is Miss Mary Redmond’. The article includes a sketch of the statue and of Thomastown Castle, Fr. Mathew’s birthplace. Feb. 1893. Printed, 4 pp.

Minute Book of the Father Mathew Centenary Committee

Minute book of the Father Mathew Centenary Committee which had the responsibility for financing and erecting the statue of the Apostle of Temperance on Sackville (later O’Connell Street), Dublin. The Centenary Committee was made up of Catholics, Anglicans and other Protestant denominations and notably received the support of the Most Rev. William Plunket, Baron Plunket, the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin: ‘Most thoroughly do I sympathize in any movement for honouring the memory of one to whom the cause of temperance in this land is so largely indebted’. (10 Oct. 1889).
Prominent public (non-clerical) figures in the committee included:
George Noble Plunkett (1851-1948) an Irish nationalist and father of Joseph Plunkett, one of the executed leaders of the 1916 Rising.
John Redmond MP (1856-1918), an Irish home rule nationalist, later leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party.
Michael Davitt (1846-1906), a nationalist and agrarian campaigner.
Thomas Sexton MP (1848-1932), Lord Mayor of Dublin.
William Martin Murphy MP (1844-1919), a businessman and politician.
Timothy Charles Harrington MP (1851-1910), a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party.
The minute book reveals that from the outset committee members were in support of resolutions which would place the statue in a prominent public place in the city. For instance, Thomas Connolly suggested that a ‘statue should be erected similar to the O’Connell [monument], and that it should be placed at the other end of O’Connell Street so that people might be reminded by the two monuments of the two great men who were in a sense the complement of one another …’. (Oct. 1889).
• This intent was formalised in a resolution forwarded by the Committee to Dublin Corporation on 1 May 1890 ‘requesting them to grant a site in Upper O’Connell Street, Dublin, for the erection of the Memorial Statue to Father Theobald Mathew’. (1 May 1889).
• The aim of the Centenary Committee was from the beginning to site the statue in the most prominent space available in the city linking the historically concurrent campaigns undertaken by Fr. Mathew (temperance) and O’Connell (emancipation and repeal). It should also be noted that the Corporation was unanimous in granting the O’Connell Street site. (15 May 1890).
• An application was made to the boundary surveyor to obtain ‘the consent of the Corporation for a 16 feet square space on the site known as the “Retreat” in Upper O’Connell Street which has been already allotted to the Committee for the erection of the Father Mathew Centenary Memorial’. (5 June 1890).
The siting of an Fr. Mathew Statue on the main thoroughfare (St. Patrick’s Street) running through Cork city in 1864 influenced the Dublin Committee: Henry Brown reminded the Committee that the ‘citizens of Cork had already placed Father Mathew’s Statue in their city, where he remembered standing on the platform in Patrick’s Street, while the Mayor of Cork, John Francis Maguire MP was unveiling Foley’s exquisite statue’. (Oct. 1889). By October 1892 a total of £1,114 5s 3d had been collected by the Centenary Committee (13 Oct. 1892). The minute book includes subscription lists, accounts and pasted-in newspaper clippings re meetings of the committee and its efforts to raise funds for the memorial. Funding was sourced from various local temperance societies (both Protestant and Catholic), workingmen’s clubs, national schools and colleges, and public and professional bodies (corporations and the police force). Donations were received from across Ireland and from Irish emigrant communities in America, Canada, Australia and elsewhere.
The resolutions adopted at the official unveiling of the statue on 8 February 1893 reflected the widespread appeal of the Fr. Mathew commemoration and the ‘placing of a statue among the public monuments of the metropolis’:
• ‘That as the Rev. Theobald Mathew loved his countrymen of all creeds and laboured zealously for their moral improvement and temporal prosperity, this great meeting rejoices that this public monument to his memory has been erected to remind our people of what he accomplished in the cause of total abstinence’.
• ‘That the Centenary Statue of the Rev. Theobald Mathew having been erected by subscriptions from men of all parties, and regardless of religious distinctions, it is appropriate that it be now unveiled by the Right Hon. James Shanks as Lord Mayor of the City of Dublin’. (2 Feb. 1893).
Reference is also made in the Centenary Committee minute book to the very novel nature of the award of the commission to a female sculptor. Count Plunkett, a leading member of the Committee, referred to ‘the merit which characterizes the design of Miss Redmond, a young artist who had made her mark, not only in this country but on the continent, in spite of her youth’. (1 May 1890).

Letter book of the Father Mathew Centenary Committee

The volume contains approximately 489 copy letters written by members of the Father Mathew Centenary Committee mostly relating to the raising of subscriptions for the Father Mathew Statue on Sackville (later O’Connell) Street, Dublin. The volume is partially indexed by recipient. Correspondents include the Lord Mayor of Dublin, the editors of the 'Freeman’s Journal', the 'Irish Times' and other national newspapers, various local temperance societies and associations, the Irish National Foresters’ Benefit Society, George Noble Plunkett, Mary Redmond (sculptor), John Redmond MP, various trades councils and societies, the Most Rev. William Walsh, Archbishop of Dublin, Alfred Webb MP, and Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne. Most of the letters are carbon copies and some are partially illegible.

Catalogues of Exhibited Artefacts

Catalogues of objects and souvenirs held in the Father Mathew Museum (‘Hall Room No. 6’). A note appended to the list by Fr. Martin Hyland OSFC, Guardian of Holy Trinity Friary, Cork, is dated 27 Dec. 1920. A later note affirms that these items were apparently returned to the friary on 8 March 1921. The lists include many portraits and pictures, temperance medals and pledge cards, the original design and plans for Holy Trinity Church by E.W. Pugin and George Coppinger Ashlin, letters of Fr. Mathew, a model of the old friary chapel on Blackamoor Lane, a model of Holy Trinity Church, cups, teapots and plates commemorating temperance, missals, Fr. Mathew’s walking sticks, the visitors’ book to the Father Mathew Pavilion at the Cork Exhibition in 1902, Fr. Mathew’s piano and other ephemera. It appears that many of these objects were previously displayed at the Cork Exhibition in 1902.

Hyland, Martin, 1881-1933, Capuchin priest

Centenary Souvenir Album

Printed photographic album relating to the commemorations of the centenary in 1938 of the inauguration by Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC of his temperance campaign. Includes images of celebrations and services in St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin, Holy Trinity Church, Cork, and at Thomastown Castle, County Tipperary. Reprint of a photographic supplement in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1939), pp 177-208. The cover shows a bust of Fr. Mathew by John Hogan ‘Fra. Theobald Mathew, Ord. Cappuccin / J. Hogan fecit, 1834’.

Documents relating to the bicentenary of Father Mathew’s birth

Fliers, invitations, correspondence, press cuttings and notices connected with events to celebrate the bicentenary of Fr. Mathew’s birth in October 1990. The file includes:
Notices for masses celebrated in Holy Trinity Church, Cork, on 8-9 Oct. 1990. The principal celebrant was Fr. Simeon Breen OFM Cap.
An invitation card to a con-celebrated mass marking the anniversary in St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin, on 8 Dec. 1990. The principal celebrant was Bishop Desmond Williams with a sermon by Fr. Robert Noonan OFM Cap. The text of Fr. Noonan’s sermon is included in the file.
An invitation card and flier to a seminar on ‘Underage Drinking – Our Concern’ in Father Mathew Hall, Cork. The seminar was opened by the Most Rev. John Buckley, Auxiliary Bishop of Cork and Ross. Fr. Michael Cleary was the principal speaker.
Notes from meetings of a Capuchin committee established to organise events for the bicentenary celebration including the ‘Father Mathew Bicentenary Song Contest’ held in Father Mathew Hall, Cork, on 23 January 1991.
Tape cassettes with audio recordings of various entries for the ‘Father Mathew Bicentenary Song Contest’ held in Cork in January 1991.
VHS cassette tape with recordings of items on 'News at One' and on 'Jo-Maxi' (RTÉ) relating to the bicentenary commemorations. Fr. Benedict Cullen OFM Cap. appears in the recordings.
Cutting of an article by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. marking the anniversary titled ‘Father Mathew /a man for all seasons’, 'Cork Examiner', 10 Oct. 1990.
'Alert News', Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring 1991). A news-sheet published by the Capuchin friars in Dublin, highlighting the dangers of alcohol and drug dependency.

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