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Report by Fr. Benignus Brennan OSFC on temperance missions given in various part of the country. The report includes the location of the mission, frequently terse information on the success (or otherwise) of the preaching including the numbers taking the pledge, and the general state of the temperance cause in the locality. The report includes references to missions held in Burtonport, Dungloe, Gweedore, Falcarragh, Dunfanaghy, Ballyshannon, Athleague, Westport, Achill and Ballygar. The report for Achill Island (where a mission was held from 9-12 Nov. 1906) reads as follows:
‘Ochone, ochone, the memory of it is enough to make one laugh or weep. The people are moral but absolutely indifferent, if not worse. About 330 took the pledge in this district and most of the people didn’t come near the church at all, so our exhortations to come to the retreat the old woman would answer – “musha may I would and may be wouldn’t”. To give a triduum in Achill and thereby do good would require the eloquence of St. Chrysostom, the strength of a Jerome and the support of the cat o’ nine tails, with which to drive the semi junipers to church. “Sure”, say they, “if our priests can’t do their work, let them pay others to do it out of their own pockets”. The parish priest was a splendid curser and in mortal terror of Fr. P[au]l’.

Letters from the Most Rev. Patrick O’Donnell (1856-1927), Bishop of Raphoe, to Fr. Paul Neary OSFC, Provincial Minister, re the progress of temperance work in County Donegal.

File relating to a temperance mission in the parishes in the deanery of Dungarvan, County Waterford. The file includes correspondence from Fr. Prendergast, Parish Priest, Dungarvan, and a summary listing of the dates and arrangements for the proposed mission (conducted by the Capuchin friars) in various parishes in Waterford.

Letter from Fr. William OSFC, Franciscan Monastery, Crawley, Sussex, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. enclosing a copy of a blessing from Pope Pius X. It reads: ‘… the Friars Minor Capuchin of the Irish Province, charged by the Bishops of Ireland, to spread the apostolate of Temperance, have had the happy idea of aggregating to such a society even the children, and at the present moment there about two hundred thousand young members who promise to abstain throughout their lives from alcoholic beverages …’.

Minutes of a meeting of Irish Capuchin Missionary friars appointed to conduct the temperance crusade. The minutes refer to the correct ceremonials, forms of sermons and procedures in relation to the taking of the total abstinence pledge, and the formation of total abstinence sodalities at missions conducted by the friars.

Address on temperance delivered by Fr. Paul Neary OSFC (1857-1939) in Dublin on 10 Dec. 1905. The address was published as an 'Irish Supplement to the Bulletin' in January 1906.

A flier titled ‘A few Suggestions for Temperance Work approved provisionally by the Standing Committee of Bishops in January 1906’. The flier refers to the temperance crusade and related mission work undertaken by the Capuchin friars in various dioceses around the country.

Blank pledge cards, affiliation diplomas and (decorative) membership certificates associated with the Father Mathew Temperance Association, Church Street, Dublin.

File of clippings relating to temperance demonstrations, parades and meetings in Dublin, Cork, Wexford, Drogheda, Galway and elsewhere (particularly involving workingmen’s’ associations and trade unions). Some of the articles also refer to the sermons preached by various Capuchin friars and to societal problems associated with intemperance. The file includes the following cuttings:
• Report on a meeting of the Sodality of the Sacred Thirst, St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin ('Irish Catholic', 30 May 1899).
• Report on a large demonstration of trade associations in Cork in support of temperance ('Cork Examiner', 15 Oct. 1906).
• Report on a meeting of the Workmen’s Temperance Committee, Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, Dublin ('The Anglo-Celt', 3 November 1906).
• Opening of Aonach na Bealtaine in Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, Dublin, in 1907.
• 'The Peasant and Irish Ireland' (14 Sept. 1907).
• Report of a lecture by Fr. Lawrence Dowling OSFC during a temperance mission in Father Mathew Hall, Queen Street, Cork. ('Cork Examiner', 21 Oct. 1912).
• ‘Public opinion and the housing problem’. A report of a talk on this subject by Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. ('The Catholic Times', 24 Oct. 1913).
• 'The Alliance News and Temperance Reformer / the Organ of the United Kingdom Alliance' (30 Oct. 1913).
• Reports of meetings of the Father Mathew Total Abstinence Association.