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Record book chronicling the work of the National Temperance Crusade undertaken by the Capuchin friars at the request of the Irish Catholic bishops. The volume contains brief accounts of the various missions and the numbers who took the pledge in the various dioceses. The volume is paginated, and the information is arranged alphabetically by diocese name. It appears that the volume was left unused as a large portion of the content is left blank. A two-page manuscript insert by Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC refers to the origins of the temperance crusade and to the request from the Catholic bishops to the Irish Capuchins to formally begin their temperance missions in October 1905.

• Notes re the provenance of temperance medals held in the Irish Capuchin Archives. The text refers to a large gold medal (CA FM RES/9/3/6) with the following engraving on the rim: ‘P.P. Daly took the Total Abstinence Pledge, May 20th 1840’. It is affirmed that this medal was ‘bought from a jeweller, who was going to melt it, for £7’. Reference is also made to a large silver medal presented to the Capuchins by a Miss Gibson from Ballyglass in County Mayo. A cross, also gifted to the Capuchins by Miss Gibson, belonged to the Youghal Roman Catholic Total Abstinence and Religious Society founded on 19 May 1839. Another silver medal has a large green ribbon attached to it and was presented by a Miss Tobin, 13 Killarney Street, Dublin. A smaller silver medal is engraved on the rim: ‘Presented to L.S. Gore Jones by the Rev. T. Mathew’. It was given to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. by Fr. Laurence Kelly, Catholic Curate, St. Michan’s Church, Halston Street, Dublin. [c.1915]. Manuscript and typescript, 8 pp.
• Letters and notes re the provenance of temperance medals sent to the Capuchin friars. One of the letters to Fr. Maurice O’Dowd OFM Cap. refers to a medal gifted by a Mrs Lyons of 29 Clarence Street North. The letter states that ‘it belonged to her father-in-law Maurice Lyons who is dead over 40 years’. The letter is dated 10 Apr. 1938. Another note states that a medal given to Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap. by a Dr O’Mahony on 30 Aug. 1930 and was found ‘in a secret drawer belonging to his uncle the late Dr Shanahan’. Manuscript, 7 pp.
• Newspaper cutting of an article by Michael Kenny titled ‘Discovering the National Museum’, 'Irish Times', 5 April 1981. The article refers to the National Museum’s collection of temperance medals and dies from which the medals were struck. The article reads ‘Given the great numbers enrolled it is hardly surprising that a huge number of medals were struck of widely varying design and legend. A few were struck in gold and silver, but the vast majority in bronze and white metal, particularly the latter. Many contemporary medallists were involved in their production … particularly Isaac Parkes of Dublin …’. With letters to the editor responding to Michael Kenny’s article. 5 Apr. 1981-19 Apr. 1981. Clipping, 5 pp.

• Notes by Séamus Ó Casaide (dated 26 June 1930) referring to extracts from the 'Spirit of the Freeholder' (Cork), 1823-3. The extracts refer to the Society of St. Joseph connected with Fr. Mathew and the South Friary and to the possible donation of an altar for Fr. Mathew’s new church (Holy Trinity) in Cork. One of the extracts reads: ‘The new shop opened by Father Mathew at the “Botany” Garden’s, as they are called, is doing a world of all business. So beloved is this Holy Friar, it would seem as if people die purposely to encrease [sic] his custom – not an hour in the day but you’ll see a corpse walking to its long lane. "Freeholder", 19th March 1831’. Manuscript, 4 pp.
• Letter from Séamus Ó Casaide to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. referring to a copy of the ‘pulpit criticism’ of Fr. Mathew. 23 June 1930. Manuscript, 2 pp.
• Copy extracts from 'The Freeholder', re the early life of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC as a preacher in Cork. The extracts date from 23 Dec. 1825-31 Mar. 1828. Typescript, 3 pp.
• An essay by Clodagh Murphy, St. Leo’s Convent of Mercy, Carlow, on the life of Fr. Theobald Mathew. Manuscript, 5 pp.
• Note re the register of ascribed members of the Institute of Charity (Rosminians) which notes the enrolment of Fr. Mathew on 27 June 1846. Manuscript, 1 p.
• 'The Catholic Bulletin', xxi, no. 8 (Aug. 1931). An article by Mrs William O’Brien titled ‘A tragic pair’ refers to a letter from the wife of Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. Printed, pp 737-832.
• Letter from Henry Smyth to a Mr Kelly referring to the potential to publish a memoir of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. Smyth affirms that it first appeared in the 'Church of Ireland Gazette'. 27 Sept. 1909. Manuscript, 3 pp.
• Letter to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. claiming that Fr. Mathew held his first instruction on Drinan Street ‘opposite his own house’ in Cork. The letter is undated and unsigned. Manuscript, 4 pp.

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.

Letters to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. from James Coleman FRSAI, 2 Rosehill Terrace, Queenstown, County Cork, concerning information on the predecessor to the Old Capuchin chapel on Blackamoor Lane, Cork. Coleman also expresses his satisfaction to find ‘a member of the Capuchin Order really interested in its history … [as] a large number of the Order now in Cork and Rochestown show nothing in the way of literary production any more than the secular priests who to my mind were never more illiterate than they are now’. With manuscript and typescript copies of the Coleman’s letters compiled by Fr. Angelus and a newspaper clipping of Coleman’s letter to the 'Cork Examiner' (19 Apr. 1924), referring to the chapel on Blackamoor Lane which was in use from 1771-1850.

Weekly receipt and expenditure book for the Capuchin community, Church Street, from 1930-1960. The pages are pre-paginated in the volume. Titled to the spine: ‘Day Book’. Details are given of the date of receipt of goods, names of persons or firms supplying goods in respect of expenses. Entries for receipts relate primarily to income derived from masses, retreats, alms, donations, and bequests. The title page is annotated: ‘Commenced January 1930 (Fr. Angelus, Guardian); Ended May 1960 (Fr. Virgilius, Guardian)’.