Copy of a special supplement to the 'Cork Examiner' commemorating its 50,000th edition. The supplement includes a section titled ‘Remembering Father Mathew’ at p. 11.
Publisher: Dublin: Printed by Richard Grace, 45 Capel Street Language: English Full title: 'An accurate report of the proceedings of the Very Rev. Theobald Mathew, in Dublin, in the cause of temperance ... With the sermon preached by him in the Church of the Conception, Marlborough Street'. BOUND WITH: Rev. Thomas Maguire, 'Important Lecture in answer to a Protestant, on Images and Relics delivered by the Rev. T. Maguire, on Good Friday evening last, in Adam and Eve Chapel' (Dublin: McMullen, 14 Upper Stephen Street, 1840). 11 pp; 18.5 cm x 11.2 cm
An original total abstinence pledge card of Master Patrick O’Connor dated 1 Aug. 1844. The card is signed by Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC, President of the Cork Total Abstinence Society.
A silver pyx (diameter: 4.8 cm) with the Christogram IHS engraved on cover. The initials ‘TM’ are engraved on case. With silver Holy Oils Stock. The stock has three parts engraved with ‘I, B, C’.
Silver memorial plaque presented to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The inscription reads: ‘Presented to the Very Rev. Theobald Mathew by Messrs Dugdale and McClean in the name of the Catholic and Scottish Union for the Suppression of Intemperance / Patronized by the Right Hon. The Earl of Stanhope in token of their esteem for him as the honoured instrument under God for the Destruction of Intemperance and the Moral Renovation of Mankind / 29th Sept. 1847’. The obverse shows a man and woman either side of a shield. The man bears a banner with the words ‘sobriety’. The woman bears a banner with the words ‘Domestic Comfort’. The shield is flanked with a ribbon with the words ‘Peace on Earth and Good Will to Men / Be Thou Faithful to Death’.
Writ of summons to John Hyland, Clonmoran, County Kilkenny, executor of the will of the late Margaret Delahunty (d. 21 July 1894), to appear at the High Court of Justice, probate division, to state whether he will bear the burden of the execution of said will. The guardian (Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC) of the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny, is named is named as one of the beneficiaries of the will.
