Minute book of the committee organising the annual prize draw in aid of the Capuchin Publications Office. The principal prize was an automobile (either a Volkswagen or Austin car). The minute book covers routine organisational meetings from 1955 to 1967. With typescript inserts in the volume.
Twelfth annual report of the Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, in 1891. The report notes that ‘in a few days prior to our last annual meeting, this whole building was formally opened by His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin for the advancement of the Total Abstinence cause, and of our Holy Religion in this district of the city’. The report refers to the various fundraising efforts undertaken in support of the local temperance movement. The file also includes a supplemental report (1892). The supplemental report states that an annual meeting ‘should have been held on the third Sunday in January but … His Eminence Henry Edward Cardinal Manning, Archbishop of Westminster, had gone to reap in a better world the reward of a saintly life in this’. The reports include references to attendances at weekly temperance meetings and to the staging of various lectures, exhibitions and performances in the Hall.
Publisher: Dublin: Humphrey & Armour Language: English: Full title: 'Irish Association for the Prevention of Intemperance / twenty-ninth annual report for the year 1907'. Label on front cover reads: ‘£150 extra per annum required’.
Annual reports and statements of accounts of Father Mathew Hall, Church Street. The booklets provide reports on annual general meetings, activities, speeches and events held in the Hall and provide annual accounts of receipts and expenditure. The 1901 report (pp 20-3) gives an account of a speech by Pádraig Pearse in the Hall on 2 March 1902 commending the giving of classes ‘for the study of our native language, and forms of self-culture amongst our members.’ He added ‘There is a certain bad old tradition that one cannot be a good Irishman unless he “takes a dhrop”. Now, I think you will all allow if there is one body in Ireland which is concerned more than another for the maintenance of genuine Irish traditions, that body is the Gaelic League … [and] in the ranks of no body in Ireland will you find proportionally so many total abstainers as in those of the Gaelic League’. Pearse suggested that there should be more cooperation between the Gaelic League and the temperance movement. In 1906, it was reported (p. 20) that ‘owing to several exceptional expenses, rendered necessary by the increase of membership and the extension of temperance work, we have not been able to reduce our indebtedness to the Bank’. The statement of accounts noted that £1,405 6s 5d was owed to the National Bank by December 1906. The front covers of the booklets have ink drawings of the Hall fronting onto Church Street.
Date(s): 1902-1969; 1984-1988 Publisher: Dublin: Frank Byrne / Browne & Nolan Ltd; Drogheda: Independent Co. Ltd.; Wexford: John English & Co. Language: English Portrait of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC on front covers; Ink stamp: ‘Father Mathew Memorial Hall, Church Street’ on some copies. There are multiple copies of some of the reports but the run is not complete. The reports from 1957-67 are missing as are the reports from 1970-83.
This record is part of the list of all the missions preached by the Passionist Fathers in St. Patricks Province (Ireland and Scotland), from 1927 up until 1965. It is just an electronic list with no physical counterpart. It has been made available to aid research into the Passionists.
