A trumpet, music sheet and laurel leaf motif is engraved on the bowl. The wooden base has a silver shield indicating that the cup was presented by the Loreto Nelson School of String Playing. With shields indicating the winners of the competition from 1990-97.
A view of the Chaine Memorial Tower on the shores of Larne Lough, County Antrim, in about 1935.
Author: Eugene Davis
Publisher: Printed for the Centenary Committee by Guy & Co., Cork
Language: English
Full title: 'Centenary of the Very Rev. Theobald Mathew OSFC / Apostle of Temperance / The Centenary Ode / by Eugene Davis'.
Eileen M. Egan (compiler), ‘The Catholic Writer Guidebook’ (Pittsburgh, 1953)
Publisher: [Philadelphia: Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America]
Language: English
Full title: 'The Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America / What it is, and why you should join it'.
Author: Rev. Michael Kelly
Publisher: Dublin: Browne & Nolan, Nassau Street
Language: English
Full title: 'The Catholic Temperance Movement / the surest way to its success / Reprinted from the "Irish Ecclesiastical Record"'.
Copies of ‘The Catholic Record of Waterford and Lismore’ from May 1916 (Vol. IV, No. 39) to Oct. 1916 (Vol. IV, No. 44). The editions contain tributes to the late Fr. Richard Henebry written by Fr. Michael Sheehan.
A bound volume with a manuscript title to the spine which reads ‘The Catholic Press’. The volume contains varied clippings relating to the international Catholic Press and periodical literature particularly in the United States, Canada, and Australia. There are a few clippings which reference the writer Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953).
The front cover of ‘The Catholic Mirror’ (March 1945). The illustration is titled 'Saint Patrick's arrival in Ireland, at early dawn'. The bound volume includes some extracts from an article on the life of Saint Patrick published in the periodical.
Author: Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC
Publisher: [Dublin: William Dirham]
Language: English
Format: Journal; 'The Catholic Luminary and ecclesiastical repertory', no. 1 (June 1840) contains an article titled: ‘A sermon preached on Sunday, 14th June at the consecration of the new Catholic Church at Maynooth … by the Very Rev. Theobald Mathew’ and ‘Proceedings of the Rev. Theobald Mathew in administering the temperance pledge at Maynooth’. 9 pp; Printed stamp on inside front cover reads: ‘T. Burns, Catholic Bookseller, 6 Meeting House St., Coleraine’.
BOUND WITH: Rev. Peter Augustine Baines, 'The substance of a sermon preached at the dedication of the Catholic Chapel at Bradford in the County of York on Wednesday, 27 July 1825' (London: William Eusebius Andrews, printer, 1826). 16 pp. 22 cm.
BOUND WITH: D. Holland, 'The Priest in the Dark Ages' (Belfast: R & D Read, 1854). 41 pp. 22 cm.
BOUND WITH: Charles Forbes René de Montalembert (1810-1870), 'Letter of the Count de Montalembert demolishing the unwarranted assumptions of the Anglican Protestants as expressed by the Camden Society' ([1844?]), 11 pp. 22 cm.
BOUND WITH: Rev. D.W. Cahill, 'Letter to the “seven (soup) champions of Christendom”' ([1855?]), 8 pp. 22 cm.
BOUND WITH: Rev. D.W. Cahill, 'Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Palmerston' ([1855?]), 8 pp. 22 cm.
BOUND WITH: 'Letter from His Eminence Cardinal Wiseman on the Immaculate Conception' (Coleraine: Burns & Stuart, ([1855?]), 4 pp. 22 cm.
BOUND WITH: William Bernard MacCabe, 'Religious Liberty – Proselytism / The Madiai Case from the Weekly Telegraph of November 6th and November 13th, 1852' (Dublin: James Duffy, 1852), 27 pp. 22 cm.