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’.
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
Author: P. McTeague Publisher: London: R. Bentley Language: English Format: Originally published as 'Bentley’s miscellany of stories'. Only vol. 3, ‘Father Mathew, by P. McTeague’ is extant. The title page is missing. Ink stamp on fly-leaf reads: ‘Franciscan Capuchin Order, Ireland’.
Publisher: Dublin: M.H. Gill & Son, Upper Sackville Street Language: English Full title: 'The League of the Cross Magazine and Crusade Journal, Catholic Temperance Gazette' Ink stamp reads: ‘Library OFM Cap., Church Street’. The volume contains the following editions: Mar. 1883 (no. 3), Feb. 1885 (no. 14), Apr. 1885 (no. 16), June 1885 (no. 18), Sept. 1885 (no. 21), and Oct. 1885 (no. 22).
Author: Frank J. Mathew Publisher: London: Cassell & Company Ltd. Language: English Frontispiece (portrait of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC); Ink and printed stamp on inside front cover reads: ‘Franciscan Capuchin Library, Church Street, Dublin’.
