The series includes records relating to temperance missions preached by the Irish Capuchin friars in the late nineteenth century and in the early years of the twentieth century. In October 1905 the Irish Catholic hierarchy called upon the Capuchins to undertake a nationwide temperance crusade. The friars preached dozens of temperance missions in parishes throughout the country. It was noted in 1912 that their ‘labours in the parishes partook much of the character of short missions or spiritual exercises, sometimes for three days, often times for a week, and not infrequently a fortnight … going from parish to parish, as consecutively as possibly, over a district. Experience proves that in the question of drink, the influence of one locality tells very much for good or for evil’ (CA MR-1-2-1-4). The series includes local mission reports, subscription and pledge-taking records, correspondence, publicity material, ephemera and newspaper reports relating to the temperance crusade.
Letter and subscription list re the erection of a new temperance hall in Sligo Town. Subscriptions are directed to be sent to either the parish priests in the town or to the Most Rev. John Clancy, Bishop of Elphin.
Listing compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC of the dates of temperance missions and the numbers taking the pledge in various parishes including Ballinrobe, Westport, Louisburgh, Clare Island, Clonmel and Kells. Remarks are also included in relation to the existence of a temperance hall and the names of the Capuchin friars involved in the mission.
A membership volume associated with the League of Young Irish Crusaders. Lists of promoters of the League are given on the opening pages of the volume. The promoters are mainly drawn from Counties Dublin, Tyrone, Longford, Fermanagh, Roscommon and Wicklow. The membership entries are listed alphabetically under surname, address and age. The membership of the Crusaders was confined to children and young adults who promised to abstain from taking an intoxicating drink. Members were expected to join the Father Mathew Total Association and to become members of a local Sacred Thirst Sodality. A good number of pages in the volume remain blank.
List of approximately two and half thousand names and addresses of those who took the total abstinence pledge for life at a mission given by the Capuchin friars at St. Joseph’s Church, Limerick, in Autumn 1910. The date given on the title page is 18 Sept. 1910.
Lists of pledge-takers in the parish of Schull in County Cork. The lists include those who took the pledge under the parish priest, Fr. John O’Connor. The second list identifies those who took the pledge for life or for one year, and the names of the Young Irish Crusaders.
Record book chronicling the work of the National Temperance Crusade undertaken by the Capuchin friars at the request of the Irish Catholic bishops. The volume contains brief accounts of the various missions and the numbers who took the pledge in the various dioceses. The volume is paginated, and the information is arranged alphabetically by diocese name. It appears that the volume was left unused as a large portion of the content is left blank. A two-page manuscript insert by Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC refers to the origins of the temperance crusade and to the request from the Catholic bishops to the Irish Capuchins to formally begin their temperance missions in October 1905.
Copies of ‘Diarmuid Ó Donnabháin Rosa, 1831-1915 / souvenir of public funeral to Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, August 1st, 1915'. Includes commemorative essays and poems by Patrick Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh, Arthur Griffith, James Connolly, Brian O’Higgins, and others. The roster of the O’Donovan Rossa Funeral Committee is extant on p. 24. Published in Dublin (Patrick Mahon, printer, 3 Yarnhall Street), in 1915.
