Photocopies of Temperance Reports held in the State Paper Office (now the National Archives of Ireland). The reports are part of the Official Papers Collection (OP/1840/131/10). Police and magistrates in the southern counties of Ireland submitted detailed reports on the progress of the temperance crusade in their districts at the beginning of 1840 in reply to a circular (12 March 1840) from the Chief Inspector of the Constabulary in Dublin. These replies (the Temperance Reports) have survived in the original handwriting of the police officers and magistrates. The counties covered in the reports include Waterford, Limerick, Kerry, Tipperary, Wexford, Cork, Clare and Galway. The file also includes a copy of the ‘Rules of Saint Mary’s Temperance and Mortality Society established July 28th, 1839, in Limerick’. The photocopies were acquired by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. in March 1982. The file also includes notes (compiled by Fr. Nessan) taken from evidence found in the Temperance Reports particularly in respect of the locations visited by Fr. Mathew and the numbers pledged.
Membership form for the Associate Members’ Guild of the Father Mathew Feis. Invitations are to be sent to Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap., President, Father Mathew Hall.
‘Irish View Scenery’ cards issued by Gallaher Cigarette Company Ltd. The cards are numbered: ‘No. 60: Father Mathew’s R.C. Church, Cork’; ‘No. 310: Father Mathew Statue, Cork’. The cards were issued by Gallaher Ltd. between 1908 and 1910. The complete set runs to 600 cards. Many of the photographs were taken by Robert John Welch from Belfast, and by William Lawrence, a Dublin-based photographer and studio owner. With a cover letter (dated 18 June 1982) to Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. from Walter McGrath explaining their provenance.
Letters to Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. mainly from authors re articles due to appear in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1965). The file includes letters from Fr. F.X. Martin OSA, James Lyons, T.E. Gorman, Dorothea Barclay, Máirin bean uí Mhurchadha, Fr. Colga O’Riordan OFM Cap., ‘Redmond O’Hanlon’, Sister Mary Gertrude Cain RSHM, President of Marymount College, New York, Basil Payne, J.J. Stuart, John P. Barton, Desmond Fennell, Michael McDonald, Alison King, Joseph Foyle, Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap., J.F. Dempsey, Sean Ó Síocháin, Patrick J McLaughlin, Augustine Martin, Vivion de Valera and Frank Murphy.
Copy letters of Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., mainly to authors and contributors re articles to be published in 'The Capuchin Annual'. Other letters refer to orders and request for the 'Annual', advertising, and expressions of gratitude for complimentary copies. The file also includes several original letters to Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. The correspondents include from Geoffrey Coulter, Professor J. Weingreen, The Advocate Press (Melbourne), Alison King, Rev. William Grattan Flood, James Lyons, Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Professor Desmond O’Connor, Kevin Faller, Bishop Michael Anthony Harty, Bishop Cathal Daly, Padriac Fiacc, James Lyons, Heinrich Böll, Maura Scannell, T. Ryle Dwyer, Fr. Nelson J. Ruppert OFM Cap., Alan Denson, Fr. Donatus McNamara OFM Cap., Máire Ní Ceallaig, Fr. Paschal Larkin OFM Cap., Arthur Mitchell, Fr. Salvator Quinn OFM Cap., Ethna Waldron, Professor J.J. Moore SJ, Professor James C. Brindley, Mannix Joyce, Donal Brennan, Fr. Brendan O’Mahony OFM Cap., T. Ryle Dwyer, Desmond Parish, Sr. Bernard Boran, Jim Fahy ('Tuam Herald'), Walter McGrath ('Cork Examiner'), Bryan MacMahon, Maire Scannell, Fr. Cyril Barrett SJ, Mary Mathews, Michael W. Murphy, Dr John P. Cullinane, Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap., Professor James P. Carney, Fr. Carthage Ruth OFM Cap., Alan Denson, Arthur Mitchell and Charles J. Haughey.
• A letter to Fr. Carthage Ruth OFM Cap. provides some detail on the work of the Irish Capuchin friars in Cape Town, South Africa. (4 Dec. 1973).
• A letter from Fr. Owen O’Sullivan OFM Cap. refers to Fr. Jeremiah Joseph O’Reilly OSFC (1799-1880), the first resident Catholic priest in Wellington, New Zealand (10 May 1973).
• A letter from Fr. Salvator Quinn OFM Cap. gives information on Irish Capuchin missionary work in Zambia (16 Mar. 1973).
A volume (Browne’s Whole Page Diary for 1948) containing drafts of outgoing letters written by Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. The volume contains letters to: John English Ltd., printers, Sr. Mary Anastasia MMM, Fr. Michael Glynn, Joy Walda, A.J. O’Reilly, Arthur M. Campbell, Robert Ostermann, Daphne Pochin Mould, Alison King, ‘Simon Pederek’, J.R. Bainbridge, Doran Hurley, Thomas F. McNamara, Fr. Sylvester O’Brien OFM, Kenneth MacGowan, Edward Daly, Donal O’Cahill, Fr. Francis X. Dent, Sean Neeson, Most Rev. Patrick Collier, Bishop of Ossory, Most Rev. James Moynagh, Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Rockwell Newman, Fr. Aquinas Carroll OFM Cap., Most Rev. David Mathew, Rev. David Mathew, Rev. David O’Driscoll, Fr. Brian Browne OFM Cap., Beatrice McCahill, Rev. Aubrey Gwynn SJ, Clare Thornton, Seamus MacManus, D.L. Kelleher, Michael J. Lennon, K.M. Murphy, Richard J. King, Diarmuid Breathnach, Jean Norton, Beda Herbert, James Rice, Fr. Colga O’Riordan OFM Cap., Fr. Carthage Ruth OFM Cap., Desmond Cryan, Basil Clancy, Rev. Anthony J. Cleary, Most Rev. Charles H. Helming, Fr. Aidan McGrath, John Nagel, Vincent J. Walker, Dr. Joseph Szoverffy, Fr. Terence Connolly SJ, Rev. Patrick Rogers, Rev. T.J. Walsh, and Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap.
Letter to Lena May Murphy, Cork, from Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. (23 Nov. 1918). It reads: ‘I must thank you very sincerely for your great kindness to my dead father in his last illness. All at home are never done telling everybody of you and your wonderful goodness’. This letter was sent by [Maire] Murphy, 35 Mercier Park, Curragh Road, Cork, to Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. (13 Nov. 1991), explaining that Lena May Murphy was her late aunt. With a copy photograph of Lena May Murphy, and notes by Fr. Nessan re Lena May who worked as a nurse caring for elderly patients.
Letter from Padraig Ó Caoimh, General Secretary of the GAA, to Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap., expressing his happiness on hearing that the bodies of Fr. Albert and Fr. Dominic will be repatriated to Ireland. He adds: ‘I had the honour and pleasure of serving mass for Fr. Dominic while in Parkhurst. Up to the time of the truce he was only allowed to say it every Sunday and after that daily … We were life long friends … the night before he left Cork and Ireland – he came to see me in a house where I was on the run’. Ó Caoimh joined the Irish Volunteers in 1916; three years later he gave up school teaching to become an officer with the Cork Brigade of the IRA. In 1920 he was appointed manager of the Employment Bureau established by the First Dáil. Soon afterwards, he was captured by the British and sentenced to 15 years penal servitude. He was released in 1922. In 1929 he resigned from his position as manager of a tobacco company following his appointment as General Secretary of the GAA, a position he held until 1964.
• Programme for an International Seminar organised by the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association (PTAA) to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the inauguration of Fr. Mathew’s temperance crusade. The seminar was held in the Hotel Metropole, Cork, from 23-5 September 1988. With a copy of the 29th Annual Report of The Father Mathew Union PTAA (1987-8), itineraries, posters and newspaper clippings from the 'Cork Examiner' and the 'Southern Star', 24 Sept. 1988, covering the event. Printed, typescript and clipping, 37 pp.
• Inventory of photographs relating to Fr. Mathew loaned by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. to the Cork Public Museum in Aug. 1988. Includes images of Fr. Mathew’s grave, the statue on St. Patrick’s Street, Cork, Fr. Mathew’s house on Cove Street, and Blackamoor lane, the site of a former Capuchin Chapel. Manuscript and typescript, 8 pp.
• Copy flier for an exhibition on Father Mathew and the temperance movement, 1838-1988’, held in the Cork Museum, Fitzgerald Park, from 18 Sept.-28 Oct. 1988. Copy print, 1 p.
• Cutting of an article on the Fr. Mathew commemoration in Cobh, County Cork, on 10 Apr. 1988. 'Cork Examiner', Apr. 1988.
• Letters to Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. re a Father Mathew commemoration hosted by the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association / Father Mathew Union in Golden, County Tipperary in April 1988. Fr. Nessan gave a lecture on Fr. Mathew and the temperance movement at the commemoration. 17 Mar 1988-21 Mar. 1988. Manuscript and typescript, 4 pp.
• Cutting of an article, ‘A pioneering priest who kept his pledge’, 'Cork Examiner', 8 Apr. 1988.
• Cutting of an article by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. on Fr. Theobald Mathew published in 'The Fold / Diocesan Magazine of Cork and Ross' (Apr. 1988), pp 3-4.
• Notes for a homily by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. on the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Cork Total Abstinence Society by Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The homily was given in St. Patrick’s Church, Kilfeacle, County Tipperary, on 10 Apr. 1988. Typescript, 7 pp.
• A letter from Denis Holland, Munster Pioneer Council, to Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. regarding a loan of items and relics of Fr. Mathew for exhibition purposes in County Tipperary. 14 June 1988. Manuscript, 2 pp.
• Cutting of an article by Mary Hassett titled ‘Golden reclaims Fr. Mathew’, 'Tipperary Star', 16 Apr. 1988.
• Cutting of an article from 'The Nationalist', 16 Apr. 1988. The article refers to commemorative events at the Father Mathew Statue in Thomastown Cross and at St. Patrick’s Church, Kilfeacle, County Tipperary.
• Cutting of an article by Sylvester O’Sullivan titled ‘Now a gaunt ruin – the early grandeur of Fr. Mathew Tower’, Evening Echo, 19 Mar. 1975. The article refers to the history and the then current condition of the Father Mathew Memorial Tower near Glanmire in Cork. Cutting, 1 p.
• Cutting of an article by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. titled ‘An anniversary tribute / the power of Fr. Theobald Mathew’, Evening Echo, 10 Apr. 1975.
• Cutting of an article by ‘C.J.F.’ titled ‘The saga of the “Mathew Tower” / Monument High Over Lee is a vandalised ruin – Can it be saved?’, 'Evening Echo', 10 Aug. 1978. Cutting, 1 p.
• Newspaper cutting of an article by Anthony Blinco titled ‘Now and then’ referring to the Father Mathew statue in Cork. 'Evening Echo', 10 Mar. 1980.
• Cutting of an article by Edward Garner titled ‘Fr. Mathew and the travel empire of Thomas Cook’, 'Evening Echo', 17 July 1982. With a letter from Edward Garner to Fr. Nessan confirming that the 'Dictionary of National Biography' was his principal source for the article. 25 Aug. 1982. Manuscript and cutting, 3 pp.
• Cutting of an article by James A. Whelan titled ‘Priceless relics at great Manchester Mass’, referring to Fr. Theobald Mathew preaching at St. Patrick’s Church in Manchester in 1843. 'Evening Echo', 1 June 1982.
• Newspaper cutting of an article by M. O’Neill titled ‘125 years a-watching’, marking the anniversary of the unveiling of the Father Mathew statue in Cork. 'Cork Examiner', 7 Oct. 1989.
• Cutting of an article titled ‘Fury at statue vandals’, 'The Nationalist', 4 Oct. 1997, referring to the destruction of the Fr. Mathew statue at Thomastown Cross, County Tipperary. The article reads ‘Only the plinth remains of the monument which attracts hundreds of tourists to the area every year. The Fr. Mathew figure was smashed into three pieces’. It was reported that local county councillor, Michael Fitzgerald, has insisted that the statue should be restored.
• Cutting of an article relating to Fr. John Spratt, a Carmelite priest and his role in the Hibernian Temperance Society in Dublin. 'Irish Times', 17 Aug. 1991.
• Copy cutting of an article titled ‘The Irish 100’, 'Irish Sunday Mirror', 11 Mar. 2001, listing the ‘top 100’ most influential Irish men and women in history. Fr. Mathew is listed at No. 82. Copy cutting, 2 pp.
• Cutting of an article by Ellen Hanna titled ‘The Dublin sculptor of Fr. Mathew’, 'Ireland’s Own', 30 Sept. 2005. The article refers to the life and sculptural works of Mary Redmond, Cutting, 2 pp.
• Cutting of an article by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. titled ‘Legacy of Fr. Mathew lives on’, 'Cork Examiner', 11 Apr. 1994. Cutting, 2 pp. 2 copies.
• Newspaper cutting of an article titled ‘Father Mathew tower on sale with house’, 'Cork Examiner', 1 Oct. 1994.