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Large-format schedule outlining mission and retreats to be given by the Capuchin friars. The entries are listed under the dates of the mission, parish, diocese, the name of parish priest, the friars engaged on the mission, and remarks.

Letters to Fr. Paul Neary OSFC, Provincial Minster, requesting parish missions and retreats. The file includes letters requesting missions in Waterford, Carlingford (Louth), Clonmel (Tipperary), Carrick-on-Shannon (Leitrim), Rathmines (Dublin). The file also includes requests for missions for Irish emigrant communities in Glasgow and Sunderland.

Letters to Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC, Provincial Minister, Fr. Paul Neary OSFC, and other Capuchin friars, regarding requests for parish missions and retreats. The file includes letters requesting missions in Letterkenny (County Donegal), Dungarvan (Waterford), Newry (Down), Kingwilliamstown (Ballydesmond, Cork), Ballymahon (Longford), Frenchpark (Roscommon), Fermoy (Cork), Drumshanbo (Leitrim), and Abbeylara (Longford).

The series includes mostly copies of contemporary letters and documents relating to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC and his temperance campaign. Most of the transcriptions of original source material in this series are undated but it can be surmised that they were compiled in the early decades of the twentieth century. Note that the date element refers to the original date of creation of the document or the time-period to which the research pertains. The original material is for the most part described in separate files.

The subseries contains files relating to the commemorations organised in 1956 to mark the centenary of the death of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC.

The sub-series includes research chronicling the life and temperance crusade of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. Much of the research focuses on narratives of Fr. Mathew’s campaign.

Autobiographical memoir of Canon James Casey (1824-1909). At pp 21-6 reference is made to Casey having taken the pledge from Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC on 22 Sept. 1840. He writes ‘I remember well the crowds and the crushing. … The people were got to kneel down in rows while enthusiastic priests rode among the vast multitude to keep order. The great and special graces showered down that day will never be known till the day of judgement’.

• An article by D. Holland titled ‘Father Mathew / The Great Temperance Apostle described by an able writer who knew him intimately’. The preface states that article appeared in the 'Irish Catholic', 19 Aug. 1905. Typescript, 10 pp.
• A copy article by Justin McCarthy (1830-1912), the historian and politician, on Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The article appeared in the 'Catholic Times', 17 Oct. 1890. Typescript, 2 pp.
• Copy speech of J.F. Maguire MP, Lord Mayor, at the unveiling of the Statue of Father Mathew on St. Patrick’s Street, Cork, on 10 Oct. 1864. The speech is taken from the 'Cork Examiner', 10 Oct. 1864. Typescript, 4 pp.
• An article by Jeremiah Dowling titled ‘Father Mathew’, 'The New Ireland Review', Vol. X, (Nov. 1898), pp 140-8. Printed.
• Cutting of an article by Rev. M. Gallagher titled ‘Father Mathew’ published in 'The Irish Rosary' [c.1900]. Printed, 5 pp.
• Cutting of an article titled ‘Monument to the Memory of Father Mathew / Grand Moral Demonstration – Father Conaty’s Oration’. The article refers to the erection of a statue of Fr. Mathew in Salem, Massachusetts. The article includes an engraving of the statue. The Salem chapter of the Father Mathew Catholic Total Abstinence Society was organized in 1875 and purchased its headquarters, the Tucker estate, in 1896. A statue of Father Mathew was erected in 1887 in Salem in his honor. In 1916, the statue was moved from Central and Charter Street to its present location, the corner of Derby and Hawthorne Boulevard (also known as Bertram Park). Printed, 7 pp.
• An article by Davida Franklin, Loreto College, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin, titled ‘Father Theobald Mathew’. Typescript, 4 pp.
• Notes re the appointment of Provincial Ministers, Definitors, and Guardians of Irish Capuchins houses from 1836-57. The notes include numerous references to the appointment of Fr. Mathew as superior. In 1849 it was noted that Fr. Mathew was departing for the United States and appointed Fr. Francis Murphy OSFC as Vicar Provincial. In 1854, Fr. Mathew made an assignment of the Church of the Most Holy Trinity, Cork, to Fr. Louis Reardon OSFC, Fr. Vincent McLeod OSFC and Fr. Bonaventure Buckley OSFC. Typescript, 4 pp.
• Copy inventory of items loaned to the Cork Public Museum, Fitzgerald Park, Cork, by the Capuchins for purposes of an exhibition on the life of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The items included Fr. Mathew’s missal, a tea pot, dinner plate and a cup decorated with temperance symbols, a trumpet used in Fr. Mathew’s band, temperance medals and pledge certificates, a cross made from a portion of Fr. Mathew’s confessional, and portions of wood from Fr. Mathew’s piano. 22 Feb. 1945. Typescript, 3 pp.
• Booklet for a Solemn Mass of Thanksgiving in honour and commemoration of the foundation of the first Mercy Convent on Rutland Street, Cork, on 6 July 1837. Reference is made to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC assisting the Sisters in establishing a community in the city. July 1987. Typescript, 10 pp.

• Letter from James A. Clark, St. John’s Seminary, Brighton, Massachusetts, to Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap., requesting information on sources pertaining to Fr. Mathew’s temperance campaign in the United States. With a copy reply from Fr. Stanislaus giving an outline of the relevant sources extant in the Irish Capuchin Archives in Dublin. Fr. Stanislaus refers to James McKenna’s 'History of the temperance reformation in Ireland, England and Scotland'. He notes that McKenna 'recorded Fr. Mathew’s activities from 1838 to 1844. He died in Cork in 1846. This MS volume is at present in our Archives here in Dublin’. 19 Apr. 1953-17 June 1953. Typescript, 3 pp.
• Notes taken from 'The American Tour of Fr. Mathew' by James A. Clark. The extracts were compiled by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. Manuscript, 1 p.
• Letters from Diarmuid O’Donovan, Crawford School of Art, to Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. re busts of Fr. Mathew executed by the sculptor, John Hogan. O’Donovan writes ‘Are your busts both marble? It has been suggested to me that one of yours is a plaster cast’. He also enquires whether the two low-relief masks in stone on either side of the west door of Holy Trinity Church are Hogan’s work. 11 Sept. 1954-16 Nov. 1954. Manuscript and typescript, 3 pp.
• List of errata in 'Father Theobald Mathew: Apostle of Temperance' by Rev. Patrick Rogers (1945). The list was compiled by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. Manuscript, 1 p.
• Note by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. re a lady named Mrs White from Commons’ Road in Cork who was a frequent visitor to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. Reference is also given to an entry in a 'Cork Directory' for 1844 which notes that Fr. Denis McLeod OSFC was resident in 41 Cove Street, Fr. George Brennan OSC in 42 Cove Street, Fr. Mathew at 7 Cove Street and Fr. J.P. O’Connell OSFC at 3 Blackamoor Lane. Manuscript, 1 p.
• Extracts from Rev. James Birmingham’s 'A memoir of the Very Rev. Theobald Mathew / with an account of the rise and progress of temperance in Ireland' (Dublin, 2nd edition, 1840). The extracts were compiled by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. Typescript, 6 pp.

An unpublished ‘Memoir of Father Theobald Mathew OSFC / The Apostle of Temperance’ compiled by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. The title page gives a date of 17 March 1929 at the Capuchin Friary, Church Street, Dublin. A list of mainly published sources is given for the text. The memoir is comprised of two parts. Part I: Testimonies and Part II: Father Mathew before 1838.