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Lease from John Lecky, merchant, Cork, to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC, ‘Provincial of the Order or Society of Capuchin friars, Cork’, of a plot of ground, stores, linnies, tenements and premises situated on Morrison’s Island (otherwise Island Nagay), parish of Holy Trinity, Cork, for 840 years at the yearly rent of £80. With attached sketch map of the said plot which measured 105 feet at the frontage onto Charlotte Quay; 190 feet fronting onto Queen Street; and bordered to the west (140 feet) and north (93 feet) by His Majesty’s Ordnance Stores. With counterpart.

• Letter from Patrick Forrestal to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. giving his father’s recollections of Fr. Mathew. He writes ‘My father was born in 1832 in the Parish of Ramsgrange, Wexford. … . He took the pledge from Father Mathew and kept it about 16 years. … It was very remarkable the multitude that gathered around him, the platform was enormous, something like ten thousand. He [Fr. Mathew] walked off the platform to where my father stood and told him you are very young may God bless you and placed his two hands around his head …’. [c.1902]. Manuscript, 6 pp.
• Copy article from the 'Cork Examiner' on Fr. Mathew’s birthplace. 27 Oct. 1931. Typescript, 1 p.
• Note by Fr. Francis Hayes OFM Cap. re two contemporary engravings of Fr. Mathew in the possession of Charlie McCarthy. Fr. Francis notes that they were engraved and designed by John Brown, Patrick Street, Cork, heraldic artist for Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC, 1845. Typescript, 1 p.
• Note on the inscription on the Daniel O’Connell memorial window in Holy Trinity (Father Mathew Memorial) Church in Cork. It reads: ‘Sacred in gratitude and affection to the memory of Daniel O’Connell, liberator of his fellow Catholics from the inflictions of the Penal Code and assertion of equal rights of all communities to civil and religious freedom, RIP’. Manuscript, 1 p.
• Cuttings referring to the visit of Fr. Mathew to Kilkenny where he had ‘17,000 adherents to the total abstinence principles’ and a similar visit to Limerick. 'Morning Register', 23 Jan. 1840; 'Saunder’s News-Letter', 23 Mar. 1840. Pasted onto card, 2 pp.
• Copy excerpts from the 'Quarterly Review', December 1840-Mar. 1841, referring (negatively) to the relationship between the Fr. Mathew’s temperance movement and ‘Romanism in Ireland’. Typescript, 1 p.
• Notes by Fr. Paul Neary OSFC re Fr. Mathew taken from 'The Nation'. Manuscript, 10 pp.
• Letter from Deborah Webb to Fr. Silvester Mulligan OSFC enclosing her recollections of a meeting with Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC in Rathfarnham, Dublin. 25 Oct. 1913. Manuscript, 5 pp.
• Extracts relating to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC in the Life of Catherine MacAuley. Typescript, 1 p.
• Extracts from 'Tuckey’s Cork Remembrances' (Cork, 1838), John D’Alton, 'History of the County of Dublin' (Dublin, 1838), 'The Irish Magazine', and 'Dublin University Magazine' re the Capuchins in Cork and Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. One of the extract reads ‘10 Oct. 1810: The corporation determined to improve this city, by pulling down the houses on the right of Blackamoor Lane, and continuing Sullivan’s Quay to the South Bridge’. Manuscript, 8 pp.
• Extract from An Irishman’s diary by Quidnunc in the 'Irish Times', 9 Aug. 1943, referring to visit to London by Fr. Mathew in Aug. 1843. ‘Led off by prayer and a speech, the temperance pioneer received pledges from 3,000 abstainers during one day, of which number about one-half were Irish’. Typescript, 1 p.

Publisher: Dublin: Richard Coyne
Full title: 'Missale Romanum ex decreto sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini restitutum, Pii V maximii jussu editum, et Clementis VIII, primum, nunc denuo Urbani, papæ VIII, auctoritate recognitum; et novorum festorum missis hucusque concessis auctum: his accedunt festa, quæ ex indulto apostolico in regno Hiberniæ celebrantur: huic denique editioni nunc primum subjungitur index amplissimus missarum et orationum quæ in libro continentur'.
Typed insert in the volume reads ‘Missal used by Father Mathew’.

This section includes records relating to the construction and repair history of buildings held by the Capuchin Franciscans in Cork. The sub-series includes specifications for buildings, correspondence, bills of costs for construction, property upkeep and improvement, and contracts for repair and servicing.

An account of ‘expenditure at chapel from Saturday 9th to Friday 15th November 1833’. The account gives the names of masons, carpenters, labourers, quarrymen, stonecutters, plasters, watchmen and other workmen involved in the construction, in addition to the number of days worked and their wages. Total expenditure is noted as £107 19s 5d.

• Photostat copy a Memorial to Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, from Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC, re ‘a loan, not to exceed £4,000, towards finishing a Catholic place of worship’ in Cork. The memorial is dated 19 Aug. 1834. The copy was obtained from the original in the Chief Secretaries’ Office. The reference number is CSORP/1834/3428. Copy print, 3 pp.
• Photostat copy a ‘Memorial of Revd. Theobald Mathew respecting payment of a loan made by the Commission of Public Works for a Chapel at Cork’. The document reads ‘That memorialist expended of his own private resources, in the erection of such building over £4,500, and obtained from benevolent individuals of all persuasions (including the loan of £1,000 hereinafter mentioned about £9,000, all of which was expended on the building which, is in a very advanced state, having been roofed in. The memorial seeks a loan of £4,000 to enable him to complete the building. The memorial is dated 21 Jan. 1840. The copy was obtained from the original in the Chief Secretaries’ Office papers now held in the National Archives of Ireland. The reference number is CSORP/1840/W1044. Copy print, 10 pp.
• Copy documents relating to the ‘Father Mathew Annuity Fund’. The documents refer to the work of a committee established to secure a sum of £7,000 ‘to procure a Life-Annuity of £800 for the Rev. Theobald Mathew, in order to enable him to continue, during his mortal life the great Temperance Movement …’. The file includes lists of subscribers to the fund. 1843-8. Copy print, 12 pp.

Lease from Mary Murray, Moville, County Donegal, spinster, to Patrick Joseph Nolan, Mary’s Lane, Dublin, woollen draper, of a ‘dwelling house, messuage or tenement situate and lying in Upper Church Street, City of Dublin, known by the name of the Swan Inn … formerly in the possession of Felix Leonard, late of the City of Dublin, Cooper …’ at the yearly rent of £12 for 99 years. With a manuscript copy compiled by Thomas F. Bergin, solicitor, 49 Henry Street.

Date: 1834
Author: Rev. John Gother
Publisher: B. Smith, 46 Mary Street, Dublin
Full title: 'Instructions on the epistles and gospels of all the Sundays and festivals throughout the year, and of every day during the Holy season of Lent. … Two volumes complete in one'.

• Notebook with extracts by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. from John Francis Maguire’s 'Father Mathew / A Biography'. The notebook also contains a transcript of letter from Fr. Mathew to Mary Shackleton dated at Cork, 4 Aug. 1841. With extracts from the 'Cork Examiner', 21 Apr. 1848, the 'Southern Reporter', 14 Oct. 1848 and the 'Cork Examiner', 10 Oct. 1864. The latter newspaper extract refers to the unveiling of the Father Mathew Statue in Cork and the speech of John Francis Maguire. [c.1910]. Manuscript, 30 pp.
• Clipping from 'The Standard', 12 October 1929, referring to a bust of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC in Father Mathew Hall, Dublin. The bust has the following inscription:
‘Fra. Theobald Mathew, Ord. Cappuccin / J. Hogan fecit, 1834’.
The article explains that the bust was presented by Fr. Francis Mahony ‘to Cardinal Micara, Minister General of the Capuchin Franciscan Order, who was an admirer of the Apostle of Temperance. … It has been ever since preserved in the Convent of the Immaculate Conception, known as the Barberini Convent. … Some months ago, the Father Provincial of the Roman Province very gracefully and generously donated to his confreres this memorial of the illustrious Capuchin Friar’.
With a letter to Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. re the sending of this bust of Fr. Mathew from Rome as a gift of Fr. Ottavio d’Alatri OFM Cap., Provincial Minister of the Capuchin Roman Province. 7 Mar. 1929. Typescript, 1 p.
• Copy letters from Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. to the Rev. Mother, Sisters of Mercy Convent, Cobh, County Cork, seeking information on cures associated with Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC, and a Mr. J.R. O’Flanagan who was acquainted with the Apostle of Temperance. 26 May 1930-2 June 1930. Typescript, 2 pp.
• Notes by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. on the American tour of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The sources include John Francis Maguire, Fr. Mathew’s biographer, Thomas Crosbie, proprietor of the 'Cork Examiner' at the inaugural meeting of the Committee for the Centennial Celebrations in 1889, and Denny Lane, a Cork-born poet and contemporary of Fr. Mathew. [c.1930]. Manuscript and typescript, 10 pp.
• Copybook containing notes relating to the Irish Capuchins, Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC and his temperance campaign taken from 'Battersby’s Catholic Directory', 1846-7. The notes were transcribed by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. Manuscript, 51 pp.

Date: 1834
Author: Virgil; William Duncan (editor)
Publisher: Edinburgi: Stirling & Kenney
Full title: 'P. Virgilii Maronis Opera: interpretatione et notis illustravit Carolus Ruæus ... Juxta ipsius auctoris editionem parisiensem. Huic editioni accessit index accuratissimus, ante editis longe locupletrio. Accessit insuper Clavis metrico-Virgiliana, sive difficultatum præcipuarum in Virgilii versificatione solutio; nunquam antea edita: studio et cura Gulielmi Duncan'.