• Copy letters from Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC to Cornelius Maxwell, Chairman of the United Total Abstinence Societies of Kilkenny, re his attendance at a temperance banquet in Kilkenny. 2 Dec. 1842-10 Dec. 1842. Typescript and manuscript, 7 pp. • Copy letter of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC to the editor of the 'Dublin Monitor' regarding his attitude to William Smith O’Brien. 27 Aug. 1844. Typescript, 1 p. • Note re a charity sermon preached by Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC in Tipperary town on 23 Feb. 1845. Manuscript, 1 p. • Copy letter from Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC dated at Cork, 7 Aug. 1846. Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. notes that the letter was published in the 'Irish Independent' under the title of ‘The Black Famine of 1847 / A Father Mathew Letter’. It reads ‘… I passed from Cork to Dublin, and with an occasional exception, this doomed plant appeared most luxuriant. Returning on 3rd inst. I beheld with sorrow one vast scene of rottenness. In many places the wretched people were seated in the fences of their decaying gardens, wailing bitterly the destruction that has left them foodless’. Manuscript, 2 pp.
The series includes mostly copies of contemporary letters and documents relating to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC and his temperance campaign. Most of the transcriptions of original source material in this series are undated but it can be surmised that they were compiled in the early decades of the twentieth century. Note that the date element refers to the original date of creation of the document or the time-period to which the research pertains. The original material is for the most part described in separate files.
Treasurer’s account book for the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis attached to the Capuchin Friary, Church Street, Dublin. The volume contains a monthly record of subscriptions received from members and monies derived from the sale of Mass Cards, from the shop and library. The expenses relate principally to building works and masses said for members. The entries are signed by Fr. Dermot Lynch OFM Cap., spiritual director of the SFO.
A clipping showing scenes from a makeshift hospital in Dublin Castle following the 1916 Rising. The clipping also has an image of Patrick Pearse ‘styled “Commandant-in-Chief” of the Army of the Republic and “President” of the provisional government’.
A typescript copy of a letter from Sir Francis Vane referring to the Irish Volunteers during the Easter Rising. The letter was originally published in the ‘Freeman’s Journal’ (27 July 1916). (Volume page 34).
Tribute to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. (d. 2 May 1957) in 'The Father Mathew Record'. Includes a tribute from An Taoiseach, Ėamon de Valera dated 23 May 1957
A clipping of a tribute to the Professor William Frederick Paul Stockley published in the ‘Cork University Record (Summer 1944). The tribute was most likely written by Dónall Ó Corcora (Daniel Corkery).
