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Publisher: Dublin: Powell Press, 22 Parliament Street
Language: English
Full title: 'The Father Mathew Total Abstinence Association / object, means and constitution of the Association'

Publisher: Dublin: Mahon
Language: English
Full title: 'Rules of the Father Mathew Health Insurance Society / being a society approved for the purposes of the National Insurance (Health) Acts, 1911-1927'

Author: Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. (1870-1954)
Publisher: Dublin: M.H. Gill and Son Ltd.
Language: English
Full title: 'Footprints of Father Theobald Mathew OFM Cap. / Apostle of Temperance'

This series contains a highly significant collection of artefacts such as original pledge cards, temperance society medals, prints, posters, photographs, temperance memorabilia, manuals, church plate, ephemera and other items and relics associated with Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC and his temperance movement from the 1830s to the 1850s. Many of these items were collected by various Capuchin friars in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with a view to exhibiting them for devotional and historical purposes.

The sub-series contains a collection of original Total Abstinence Society pledge cards. Most of the cards are signed by the pledge-taker and by Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The cards were decorated with various temperance symbols and vignettes. An illustration on one side of the cards depicted a scene warning of the dangers of intemperance – a man driven by alcohol to beat his wife. Another illustration showed a scene of temperance – a happy family reading together by the hearth. The cards are listed in chronological order.

Framed National Total Abstinence Society pledge card of Mathew Gorman dated 3 Oct. 1830. The pledge reads ‘I voluntarily agree to abstain from all intoxicating drinks (except by medical direction) and will not give or offer, and to discountenance the cause and practice of intemperance’. A small seal is attached to the card.

An original total abstinence pledge card of James Keegan dated 3 Mar. 1840. The card is signed by Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC.

An original total abstinence certificate of William Hook dated 22 Mar. 1840. The certificate is signed by Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC.

An original total abstinence pledge card of Mary Anne O’Reilly dated 4 Apr. 1840. The card has been hand-coloured.