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File of newspaper cuttings covering the centenary celebrations of the inauguration by Fr. Theobald Mathew of the temperance campaign in April 1838. The file includes cuttings from the 'Irish Independent', 'Tipperary Star', 'Saturday Herald', 'Nationalist', 'Irish Press', 'The Pilot', 'The Standard', 'The Cambridge Chronicle' (Massachusetts), 'The Universe', 'Seraphic Home Journal', 'The Derry Journal',' Cork Examiner', 'Kilkenny Journal', 'Catholic Times', and 'Evening Echo'.
• The articles refer to the re-naming of the Church Street (formerly Whitworth) Bridge as Father Mathew Bridge over the River Liffey, Dublin, in October 1938, to various ceremonies held to mark the anniversary (particularly in Dublin and Cork, and in Thomastown Castle, County Tipperary, Fr. Mathew’s birthplace), and to the Father Mathew Centenary stamp designed by Sean Keating RHA.
• The file also includes an article by Bridie Maguire, ‘Noted Irish Sculptress / Mary Redmond, who wrought the figure of Father Mathew in O’Connell Street’, 'Saturday Herald', 9 Apr. 1938.
• Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. delivering an address at the annual meeting of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association in the Theatre Royal, Dublin. 'Irish Independent', 16 Nov. 1938.

A group of four Capuchin friars in the garden of Holy Trinity Friary, Cork. The cover indicates that the friars are (from left) Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. (1876-1965), Fr. John Butler OFM Cap. (1873-1950), Fr. Bernadine Harvey OFM Cap. (1874-1953) and Fr. Joseph Fenlon OFM Cap. (1875-1963). The original glass plate of this image is at CA PH/1/58.

Letter from Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. to Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap., referring to his difficult journey from Ireland to England and to his on-going ill-health. With cover, postmarked at Ilford.

Letter from Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., St. Benedict’s Rectory, 320 West 53D Street, New York, to Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap., Church St., Dublin, referring to his arrival in New York and his meeting with Fr. Solanus Casey OFM Cap. He also refers to a letter or photograph of letter ‘written by P.H. P[earse] to Joe Pl[unkett], 1916, and which I gave you to keep. I promised a copy of it to Mrs Tom Clarke … I would be grateful if can would, at your convenience, make a copy of it and send it to her or to Miss Daly, Bakery, Sarsfield St., Limerick for her’.

Letter from Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. to Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap., referring to his difficult conditions in California. He wrote ‘The heat and I suppose change of food and water have told on me this month. I haven’t been well at all and have spent some days in bed’. Some mention is made of the political situation in Ireland: ‘Wasn’t D[e Valera]’s address after release wonderful? No word of bitterness from start to finish’. Reference is also made to Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. and the opening of a house of studies in California. With cover.

Newspaper cuttings book compiled and annotated by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. Printed stamp on inside front cover: ‘Franciscan Capuchin Library, Church Street, Dublin’. The pages have been numbered by Fr. Stanislaus. The book includes on pp 39-43; 95; 125: cutting of a photographic print of Tomas MacCurtain, Lord Mayor of Cork with Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. 19 Mar. 1920. Reports on the hunger strikes of Republican prisoners in Mountjoy Jail and later Terence MacSwiney in Brixton Prison in 1920. With cuttings of photographic prints of Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. and references to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. 'Daily Sketch', 14-16 Apr. 1920; 'Evening Herald', 7 Oct. 1920. On p. 46 there is a cutting of photographic print of Muriel MacSwiney leaving Brixton Prison just before her husband’s death. 'Daily Graphic', 26 Oct. 1920.