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Results for the Father Mathew Feis. The entries are recorded under the headings of competition number, competitor number, ranking or place, name of the competitor and teacher name and school address.

Official results sheets for the Father Mathew Feis. The sheets include entries under the headings of competition title, place or ranking, name of competitor, and signature of the official or adjudicator on duty. Occasional reference is made to the name of the school or teacher of the winning competitors.

• Copy promotional poster for the ‘Father Mathew Schools’ Song Contest’ to mark the bicentenary of the birth of the temperance campaigner in 1990. 3 copies. With a cassette tape recording of the winning entry in the temperance song competition which was organised by Fr. Benedict Cullen OFM Cap.
• Cutting of an article by John Dunne titled ‘The Apostle of Temperance / a born crusader’, 'Cork Examiner', 14 Apr. 1990. The article includes a print of ‘Fr. Mathew receives a pledge breaker’, a painting by Joseph Haverty (1794-1854) held in the National Museum of Ireland.
• Cutting of an article titled ‘Father Mathew / the Apostle of Temperance’, 'Irish Catholic', 19 Apr. 1990. The article includes an image of the Fr. Mathew statue in Cobh, County Cork.
• Cutting of article titled ‘Fr. Mathew’s house should be “a national monument”’, 'Cork Examiner', 11 May 1990. The article refers to a campaign to place the ruins of Thomastown Castle, County Tipperary, on a register of national monuments.

Partial catalogues and lists of material held in the Irish Capuchin Archives relating to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC compiled by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. and Fr. Paul Murphy OFM Cap. The listed material is mostly commemorative in nature and includes temperance association reports, newspaper cuttings covering the temperance movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, speeches, addresses and orations at events celebrating Fr. Mathew’s life, temperance publications and ephemera, and correspondence. Most of the material has been listed elsewhere in this catalogue.

• Photocopies of newspaper cuttings and papers re Fr. Mathew taken from Cork City and County Archives. The file includes:
‘Father Mathew’s tour to Lisbon for his health’, 'Cork Examiner', 21 July 1982.
‘Temperance’, Refers to the state of the temperance movement following Fr. Mathew’s death.
‘Anniversary of the birth of the Apostle of Temperance’, 'Cork Examiner', 13 Oct. 1847.
‘Progress of Temperance / Meeting in St. Patrick’s’, 9 Feb. 1849.
‘Tributes to Fr. Mathew’, 'Cork Examiner', 3 Jan. 1852.
Mathew-Annuity Fund. The printed flier relates to a fund to relieve Fr. Mathew of his debts. The flier is taken from the Dowden Papers in the Cork City and County Archives.
An address of the Friends of Temperance held at the Mayor’s Office, Paradise Place, Cork, on Monday, the 18th day of July 1848. (Dowden Papers, Cork City and County Archives).
‘Father Mathew’s Farewell Address to the Americans’.
‘Father Mathew and his biographer, John Francis Maguire’. The article refers to Fr. Mathew’s ‘pecuniary difficulties’. (1864).
• Notes by Fr. Nessan relating to the numbers of pledge-takers in various parts of Ireland during Fr. Mathew’s temperance campaign from 1839-40. Manuscript, 6 pp.
• A letter from Walter McGrath to Fr. Nessan enclosing a copy of 'Africa / St. Patrick’s Missions', May 1982, which includes an article on the history of the trams in Cork and an early photograph of the Father Mathew Statue on St. Patrick’s Street. The letter is dated 24 Apr. 1982. Manuscript and printed, 18 pp.

Diary of mass celebrants at St. Mary of the Angels.

Programmes for retreats at Ard Mhuire Retreat Centre, Capuchin Friary, Creeslough, County Donegal. The list refers to the groups (both religious and lay) who have booked retreats in the Centre.

A thesis by Treille de Gouallec submitted to University College Cork. The subject of the thesis is the life and temperance campaign of Fr. Theobald Mathew. The volume includes a letter to Fr. Nessan thanking him for the assistance provided in the preparation of the work.