Copybooks containing research compiled by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. for his MA thesis on Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The file includes: • Copybook containing notes on Fr. Mathew’s genealogy and his early education. • Copybook containing transcripts of Fr. Mathew’s correspondence relating to famine relief. c.1845-7. • Copybook containing notes compiled by Fr. Nessan relating to Fr. Mathew’s temperance campaign. c.1838-47. • Notes relating to famine relief efforts particularly in Cork. The notes appear to be transcribed from newspapers (Cork Examiner) and reports from the Cork Relief Committee. • Copybook containing government reports (Constabulary reports from the State Paper Office) on Fr. Mathew’s temperance movement. • Photostat copy of a photographic print of Fr. Mathew’s grave. The caption reads: ‘Large cross marks the grave of Father Mathew in Saint Joseph’s Cemetery which he acquired as part of his work for the Catholic people in Cork’. • Extracts from American newspapers covering Fr. Mathew’s visit to the country in 1849. • Extracts from official reports from Dublin Castle on the progress of the temperance campaign in Ireland. • Extracts illustrative of Fr. Mathew’s opinions on housing, wages, landlordism and other social and political issues.
The interior of Corcomroe Abbey, an early thirteenth-century Cistercian monastery situated in the Burren region of County Clare. The image shows detail from the stonework in the interior of the abbey, looking east through the choir and into the presbytery. An annotation on the reverse indicates that the photographer was T. F. Geoghegan.
The subseries contains files relating to the commemoration of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC at the 1902 International Exhibition held in Fitzgerald Park in Cork city.
A clipping of a report on the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Cork city at which the local regiment of Irish National Volunteers honoured the ‘400 Volunteers who are fighting for Ireland in the trenches’. The article is taken from the ‘Daily News’ (18 March 1916).
A view of Farren's Quay and Pope's Quay in Cork in about 1945. The tower of the Church of St. Anne in the Shandon district of the city is visible in the image.
File of fliers, programmes, posters and promotional ephemera associated with the Cork Temperance Weekend, Oct. 2006. The event was organised to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Fr. Mathew’s death. Includes a copy of 'Pioneer', Vol. LVII, No. 9 (Oct. 2006) promoting the event. With texts of homilies and speeches by Fr. Dermot Lynch OFM Cap. and Fr. Brendan O’Mahony OFM Cap. at a conference held in Cork on 8 Oct. 2006. The file also includes a flier for a conference titled ‘Fr. Mathew / A balanced lifestyle for contemporary Ireland’ held in Croke Park, Dublin, on 30 Sept. 2006.
Inscribed on the bowl: ‘Corn an Athar Mhic Amhlaoib. Buchaillí Fé 12 Bl’ [Boys’ Under 12]. The base includes silver shields denoting winners from 1969-1997.
