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Inscribed on the bowl: ‘John McCormack Cup’. On reverse of the bowl: ‘Presented to the Feis Maitiú on behalf of the John McCormack Society of Ireland on 19/4/1994 by Mr. Liam Breen Hon. President’. The base is engraved with the winners in 1995 and in 1997.

James McKenna (d. 1846) played a key role in the founding of the Cork Total Abstinence Society (CTAS) in 1838. He also acted as Fr. Mathew’s principal travelling secretary during the early years of his campaign. McKenna made extensive efforts to publicise the movement through newspaper advertising, the printing of posters, pamphlets and handbills but the most comprehensive expression of his temperance philosophy is preserved in his manuscript history of the movement. McKenna kept his voluminous records of the CTAS’s progress in his 'History of the Temperance Reformation in Ireland, England and Scotland by James McKenna, Chief Travelling and Confidential Secretary to the Very Reverend Theobald Mathew'. This eclectic, meticulously hand-written collection of hundreds of outsized pages of transcribed material was woven together in McKenna’s own strident presentation. The text recorded very many of the activities connected Fr. Mathew’s temperance campaign from 1838 to 1846. McKenna intended to publish his account, as the definitive, triumphal and popular history of what seemed like a permanent social revolution. McKenna’s sudden death (in Cork in 1846), and the temperance crusade’s rapid retreat, likely combined to prevent the manuscript’s publication. Although of dubious literary merit, McKenna’s manuscript represents an extremely important source for Fr. Mathew’s temperance crusade. The text is preserved in the Irish Capuchin Archives.

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 to McKenna’s unpublished history of Fr.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.

The series contains correspondence, publications, posters, circulars, newspaper cuttings and ephemera relating to various commemorations of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC from the late nineteenth century onward. The series has been divided into seven sub-series relating to a particular anniversary (centenary or bicentenary) or commemoration of Fr. Mathew and his temperance crusade.

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.