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File of newspaper clippings mainly re various anniversaries and commemorations connected with Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC and the temperance campaign. The file includes:
• ‘The New Father Mathew Movement’, 'Irish Catholic', 4 Jan. 1902.
• ‘The Life and Work of Father Mathew’, 'The Bulletin of the Catholic Abstinence Union of America', Jan. 1908.
• ‘Father Mathew / Lecture by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. at the Annual Meeting of the Pioneer Association’, 'Irish Catholic', 1 Dec. 1938.
• James Maher, ‘Father Mathew and the Author of Knocknagow’, 'Kilkenny People', 1 July 1939.
• Alexander Flanigan, ‘Father Mathew / The Apostle of Temperance’, 'Irish Times', 21 Dec. 1956.
• ‘Father Mathew Anniversary / Celebrations in Queen Street Hall / Oration by Very Rev. Fr. Angelus [Healy] OSFC’, 'Cork Examiner', 15 Oct. 1915.
• ‘Over 60,000 Pioneers for Big Cork Rally / Celebrating Centenary of Fr. Mathew’s Death’, 'Cork Examiner', 6 June 1956.
• ‘Cork Bishop’s Tribute to Father Mathew / Centenary Lecture in Dublin’, 'Evening Echo', 10 Oct. 1956.
• ‘Public Enemy No. 1’, 'The Evening News', 18 July 1957.

Letters of Fr. Declan McFadden OFM Cap. (1901-1979). The correspondents include Fr. Kevin Moynihan OFM Cap. Provincial Minister; Fr. Kieran O’Callaghan OFM Cap., Provincial Secretary. The subjects include: Fr. Declan’s first impressions of the South African mission; negotiations with Bishop Bernard Cornelius O’Riley (1868-1956), Vicar Apostolic of the Cape of Good Hope; Fr. Declan’s efforts to open a mission school in Claremont Parish, Cape Province, South Africa. Fr. Declan also refers to arrangements for the opening of the Irish Capuchin mission in Northern Rhodesia. He wrote ‘Looking at the map it may strike you that the Cape is a long way from N. Rhodesia – it’s nearly two thousand miles. Yet it’s quicker and at least as cheap, if not cheaper, for our men to land at the Cape and rail to N. Rhodesia’. (27 Feb. 1931). Fr. Declan also provides an account of Irish missionary activity for Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap., Provincial Archivist. (25 Sept. 1931). Reference is also made to the missionary activities of Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap. and Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. in Barotseland.