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Four plates showing images of seventeenth century Irish Capuchin manuscripts. The plates are probably images of manuscripts by Fr. Nicholas Archbold OSFC (1589-1650) and/or Fr. Robert O'Connell OSFC (c.1623-1678). The plates are by Mayne, Lord Edward Street, Dublin. The plates are labelled a-d.

Memorandum re the need for temperance reform and the establishment of the Total Abstinence Association and the Catholic Total Abstinence Union. The report was read in the Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, Dublin. It is noted that the organisation shall be ‘Catholic and non-political’.

Report of the executive committee of the Catholic Total Abstinence Federation of Ireland, 1923-26. The agenda for the fourth triennial Congress of the Federation, (held on 24-25 June 1926) is also attached.

An address to Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC and Fr. Benignus Brennan OSFC from the members of the Kilcormac Temperance Hall in King’s County (Offaly). The address commends the friars’ temperance mission in the parish.

Report of the Ladies’ Visiting Temperance Society attached to the Capuchin Church of the Most Holy Trinity, Cork. The President of the Association was Fr. Matthew O’Connor OSFC.

Correspondence (including draft replies) with the Capuchin Procurator General in Rome mainly re indulgences for the temperance campaign. The letters also refer to permissions to establish confraternities and total abstinence sodalities in Cork and in Dublin.

A notebook containing extracts from letters received from parish priests and other individuals (mostly religious) referring to retreats and temperance missions given by Capuchin friars from 1913-19. The volume was compiled by Fr. Albert Bibby OSFC, Provincial Secretary. Most of the letters refer to requests for friars to conduct missions and (in some cases) to the need for the priests to converse in Irish. The volume includes:
• A letter from Fr. Innocent Ryan, Parish Priest, Fethard, County Tipperary, affirms that the local men ‘have safely ridden the storm of temptation that blew over the place on the occasion of the “old fair” on Friday last. Bucket fulls of coffey [sic] were consumed; and even Bovril (Friday and all!) was, under false ideas of permission, brought into requisition’. Nov. 1913.
• A letter from Rev. Phelan, Parish Priest, Glenmore, County Waterford, to Fr. Augustine Hayden OSFC, notes that the ‘harvest was threshed without drink and the farmers and labourers were perfectly happy. Only in two cases out of possibly 200 threshings was an attempt made to break through the pledge’. (17 Jan. 1914).
• A letter from Rev. J. Flavin, Parish Priest, Arklow, County Wicklow, to Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC, Provincial Minister, refers to his desire to have Fr. Laurence Dowling OSFC for a mission. He added ‘I did not mind who came with him provided he was not a Sinn Feiner’. (28 Dec. 1917).

A ceremonial produced by the Irish Capuchin friars for missions and retreats associated with the temperance crusade. The ceremonial includes instructions regarding sermons, the registering of pledge-takers, the distribution of total abstinence badges and certificates, and the organisation of temperance sodalities at missions.

Newspaper clippings assembled by Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC relating primarily to temperance missions given by the Irish Capuchin friars. A manuscript index compiled by Fr. Angelus is inserted into the front of the volume giving the title of the newspaper, the event referred to in the article, and the date. Other clippings refer to anniversary commemorations of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC, lectures, sermons and retreats given by Fr. Angelus and other friars (some refer to the death of Michael Davitt and commemorations of the Manchester Martyrs), ordinations, the Croagh Patrick pilgrimage, the mission to Ireland of the Most Rev. Ignatius Perisco OSFC (1823-1896), the jubilee of Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, Dublin, and items of topographical and local history interest.