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Notebook with references and extracts by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. to McKenna’s unpublished history of Fr. Mathew’s temperance movement. The notes are arranged under various headings including:
His piety
His humility
His priestly character
His mode of life
Regarded as a saint
Working cures
Results of his work
His trials in his temperance work
Rules of his society
Manuscript, 41 pp.
• Note by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. re the travels of Fr. Mathew and James McKenna, his principal secretary, from May 1844 to Nov. 1845. Manuscript, 1 p.
• Notes from McKenna’s 'The History of the temperance reformation in Ireland, England and Scotland'. Typescript, 28 pp.
• Notebook containing an index to and summary of James McKenna’s unpublished ‘History of the temperance reformation in Ireland, England and Scotland’. The notes contain references to speeches of Fr. Mathew on temperance and brief summaries of the content of McKenna’s text. Manuscript, 69 pp.

• Notes compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. on Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC from 1841-5. The notes include transcribed copies of letters from Daniel O’Connell to Fr. Mathew (26 Oct. 1844) and from Fr. Mathew to Mr. Buckingham (20 Oct. 1844). The principal source was probably James McKenna’s ‘History of the temperance reformation in Ireland, England and Scotland’. Manuscript, 16 pp.
• Extract from McKenna’s ‘History of the temperance reformation in Ireland, England and Scotland’ re Fr. Mathew’s temperance campaign in Liverpool and his attitude towards distillers. ‘I have no personal hostility to distillers or brewers or vendors of strong drink’. Typescript, 2 pp.
• Extracts from John Francis Maguire’s 'Father Mathew / A Biography' and ‘History of the Temperance Reformation by James McKenna, chief travelling secretary to the Very Rev. Theobald Mathew’ confirming that Fr. Mathew first arrived in Cork in about 1814. The extracts are by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. Typescript, 1 p.

Flier giving a schedule of various events associated with the Father Mathew Centenary in Dublin in October 1890. The flier refers to the ceremony (19 October 1890) for the laying of the top-stone of the pedestal upon which the Father Mathew Statue on Sackville Street will be erected. Other events include a grand concert and public meetings in the Rotunda, Dublin. Printed by the 'Freeman’s Journal', Ltd., Dublin.

A copy report of a temperance procession held in Cork at Easter in 1842. The report provides a list of temperance societies and bands which marched on this occasion. The report may have been transcribed from a newspaper report published during the Father Mathew centenary celebrations in 1890. The report also has a copy of the ‘Centenary Ode’ composed for Fr. Mathew by Eugene Davis which was recited by Fr. Michael O’Flynn, CC, Saint Peter and Saint Paul’s Church, during the commemorations.

File relating to the commemoration of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC at the 1902 Cork International Exhibition. Proposed by Edward Fitzgerald, Lord Mayor of Cork, this exhibition and fair showcased many facets of the industrial revival in Ireland. The exhibition included a pavilion devoted to the life and work of Fr. Mathew. The installation of a Father Mathew Pavilion at the exhibition was primarily the result of work done by Fr. Thomas Dowling OSFC (1874-1951). The Exhibition Pavilion was designed by James F. McMullen, architect. The file includes:
• Letters relating to the loan of exhibits, temperance souvenirs, personal effects, paintings and mementos displayed in the Father Mathew Pavilion at the exhibition. Correspondents include Fr. Thomas Dowling OSFC, Fr. Paul Neary OSFC, Fr. Mathew’s collateral descendants, J.D. Power, James Nugent, Fr. J. Kane, Parish Priest of Culdaff, Derry, Joshua Baily and William O’Connell.
• Letter from Denis Downey, Dawson Street, Dublin, to Fr. Thomas Dowling OSFC regarding a painting of Fr. Mathew in his possession. Downey adds ‘the late Father Columbus [Maher OSFC] of Church Street with Miss Redmond, the artist, called here and sketched the features for the O’Connell Street Statue, and Father Columbus told me he would purchase the picture as soon as he would be free from debt over the building of the Hall in Church Street’. 24 Jan. 1902.
• Letter from Thomas S. Bowdern, Supreme Council of the Knights of Father Mathew, St. Louis, Missouri, to Fr. Thomas Dowling OSFC thanking him for his kindness in sending ‘souvenirs of the Great Apostle of Temperance’. Bowdern wrote ‘I assure you we appreciate very highly these souvenirs and will hand them down to our successors in the Knights of Father Mathew that in the flight of years they will become even more and more highly prized if such is possible’. Reference is also made to the Knights’ intention to build a statue of Fr. Mathew for the World Fair. ‘As it is the desire to make our statue after the one in Cork I have been asked to write to you to have you inquire whether there is a replica or moulds in existence of the Cork monument’. 24 Feb. 1903.
• Copybook containing notes on the provenance of many of the items displayed in the Pavilion including temperance certificates and medals, Fr. Mathew’s stole, portrait paintings, Fr. Mathew’s piano and a model of the Capuchin chapel on Blackamoor Lane, Cork.
• Caption panels for objects displayed in the exhibition. Includes descriptions and provenance details for commemorative plates, teapots and other artefacts associated with Fr. Mathew. One of the captions reads: ‘The marble chimney-place at present in Refectory was also left in Father Mathew’s house when he left it, and was presented to Community by Mrs Ryan’.
• Visitors’ Book to the Father Mathew Pavilion at the Cork International Exhibition in 1902. The visitors included Cardinal Michael Logue, Archbishop of Armagh. A note on the final page by Fr. Thomas Dowling OSFC reads ‘No. of visitors over 4,500’.
• Copy prints showing Fr. Thomas Dowling OSFC outside the Father Mathew Pavilion at the exhibition in 1902. The other print shows the interior of the Pavilion with various artefacts associated with Fr. Mathew on display.

A large bound volume containing photographic prints mainly of individuals and events associated with the Irish Revolution. The images were probably compiled for publication in ‘The Capuchin Annual’. The volume is not paginated. The volume includes the following image content:
• A Home Rule demonstration on Sackville (O’Connell) Street in Dublin.
• Photographs of the 1916 Rising leaders including Tom Clarke, Patrick Pearse, William Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh, Éamon de Valera, and Con Colbert.
• Prints of John Redmond, Michael Collins, Cathal Brugha, Eoin MacNeill, Constance Markievicz, Terence MacSwiney, Erskine Childers, Kevin O’Higgins, Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap., Margaret Pearse, Arthur Griffith, Kevin Barry, Thomas Whelan, Eoin O’Duffy, Seán T. O’Kelly, Dan Breen, Thomas Kelly, Douglas Hyde, Fr. Paschal Robinson OFM, William Gibson, 2nd Baron Ashbourne, Delia Murphy Kiernan, Archbishop William Walsh, James Ryan, William T. Cosgrave, and Timothy Healy.
• Photographs of Royal Irish Constabulary Auxiliaries.
• Images of the Dublin Metropolitan Police.
• Press photographs showing events during the War of Independence.
• Images of Fianna Éireann groups.
• A photograph of the interior of the General Post Office from ‘The Irish Builder’ (25 March 1916).
• Images of the aftermath of the 1916 Rising in Dublin.
• A postcard reproduction of a portrait of Constance Markievicz by the Polish artist Bolesław Szańkowski (1901).
• Images of the destruction in Dublin at the outset of the Civil War.
• Several republican funerals.
• An image of Avondale House in County Wicklow.
• Released republican prisoners (1917).
• Postcard images of the burning of Cork during the War of Independence (1920).
• Images of National (Free State) Army soldiers during the Civil War.
• An image of army veterans at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham in Dublin (c.1890).
• Photographs of the Eucharistic Congress in Dublin (1932).

A large bound volume containing documents, photographs, and newspaper clippings relating to the 1916 Rising. The volume holds an original copy of the 'Irish War News' (25 April 1916) along with original postcard prints, memoriam cards for the Rising’s leaders and other ephemera. Some of the newspaper clippings are of articles reporting on subsequent commemorations of the insurrection. The volume also holds photographs, clippings, and printed ephemera relating to prominent Irish artists and exhibitions of their work.

A bound volume with a manuscript annotation on the spine which reads ‘Art and Artists’. The volume contains newspaper and magazine clippings, correspondence (particularly re reproductions of paintings), printed ephemera (exhibition catalogues), and photographic content relating to prominent Irish artists, and exhibitions of their work. Many of these artists were associated with Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and ‘The Capuchin Annual’. The file also includes colour and black and white reproductions of work by old masters and various continental artists. Includes assorted clippings and some original letters from Jack B. Yeats, and documents re Seán O’Sullivan RHA, Patrick Joseph Tuohy, James Humbert Craig, and the sculptors John Hogan, and Jerome Connor. Also includes some original letters from George Noble Plunkett (1851-1948). With a typescript list of paintings loaned by ‘The Capuchin Annual’ office to the Tuam Art Club exhibition in 1945.

A notebook containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The file contains copies of his personal letters. The notebook was compiled while Fr. Senan was visiting England and receiving medical treatment in a clinic on Wimpole Street in London. Dr. Colm A. McDonnell accompanied him for a portion of his trip. A manuscript annotation on the first page reads ‘Private letters / Father Senan OFM Cap. / June 1954 – September 1954’. Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Fr. Maurice O’Dowd OFM Cap. (Guardian, Church Street Friary, Dublin), T.J. Molloy (art editor, Independent House, Middle Abbey Street, Dublin), Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., Jo Crean (Baymount, Tralee, County Kerry), Fr. Donal O’Connor, Joan Hammond, Rev. John O. Buchmann, Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Archbishop Gerald O’Hara (refers to his sorrow on hearing that O’Hara will be leaving Ireland to take up a new diplomatic appointment in England. Fr. Senan also wrote ‘twenty-six years in an editor’s chair should be a stretch long enough for anyone’, 14/15 June 1954, pp 13-15), Bishop Daniel Mageean, Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Leo Smith (Dawson Gallery, Dublin), Canon J. Lane (Presbytery, Cahersiveen, County Kerry), Sister Mary de Pazzi, Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Thomas MacGreevy, Chief Superintendent Harry O’Mara, Mary Wren, D.L. Kelleher, Bernard Sheppard, and Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap. The volume includes pasted-in newspaper clippings and postcard prints mainly acquired while Fr. Senan was in England. The postcards include images of Cardinal John Henry Newman, the Royal Family, and some views of Stoke-on-Trent.

A volume containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Contains copies of Fr. Senan’s personal letters. Manuscript annotation on the first page reads ‘Father Senan OFM Cap. / Private Letters / November 1958’. Several of the letters refer to Fr. Senan’s desire to expedite his move to Australia. Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Kathleen M. Murphy, Archbishop Redmond Prendiville, Peggy Spillane (gives news of his decision to ‘retire from the Order, devote my remaining years to the writing of books, offer Mass every morning, and live wherever I choose myself’, 3 Dec. 1958), Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap (refers to an offer by Archbishop Prendiville of a chaplaincy appointment at a ‘Sisters of Mercy hospital’ in Australia and communications from Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, re his incardination into the Archdiocese of Perth, 16 Mar. 1959), Bríd Breathnach, L.C.1 Blennerhassett, Fr. Donal O’Connor, Ann O’Connor (Fossa, Killarney, County Kerry), Dr. Anthony Dempsey (Botley, Oxfordshire), Thomas MacGreevy, Monsignor Francis Cremin (St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, County Kildare, refers to his close association for many years with the late Canon Dineen, 7 Apr. 1959), Michael F. Moynihan, Sister Mary de Pazzi, Joan Hammond, Ríona O’Connor (Fossa, Killarney, County Kerry), Chief Superintendent Harry O’Mara, Sister M. Ligouri (Booterstown, County Dublin), Seán O’Connor (Fossa, Killarney, County Kerry), Dr. Colm A. McDonnell, Fr. James O’Mahony (refers to Fr. Senan’s disinclination to remain in Dublin permanently, January 1959), John Shea (Annascaul, County Kerry), and Michael A. Bowles. A copy letter from Fr. Senan to Archbishop Prendiville affirms that he has ‘an enormous amount of private papers to dispose of’ (March 1959).