This series contains a highly significant collection of artefacts such as original pledge cards, temperance society medals, prints, posters, photographs, temperance memorabilia, manuals, church plate, ephemera and other items and relics associated with Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC and his temperance movement from the 1830s to the 1850s. Many of these items were collected by various Capuchin friars in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with a view to exhibiting them for devotional and historical purposes.
Photographic prints by Arthur Campbell, 11 Magdala Street, University Street, Belfast. Most of the prints are annotated on the reverse. The file includes the following images:
• Quayside bookstall, Dublin.
• Clonmacnoise Monastic Site, County Offaly.
• Clew Bay (with a view of Croagh Patrick), County Mayo.
• Dugort village and Slievemore Mountain, Achill Island.
• Harvesting at Dugort village on Achill Island.
• The grave of W.B. Yeats at Drumcilffe, County Sligo.
• Bantry Bay at Glengarriff, County Cork.
• Boating on the Middle Lake, Killarney, County Kerry.
• Finnis near Dromara, County Down.
• Healy Pass, County Cork.
• Muiredach’s High Cross, Monasterboice, County Louth.
• West Town Harbour, Tory Island off the coast of County Donegal.
• The Dublin Studio of the artist, George Campbell ARHA.
• Knocknarea Mountain, County Sligo.
• Daniel O’Connell’s private chapel, Derrynane, County Kerry.
• Cobh, County Cork.
• Church Bay, Rathlin Island off the coast of County Antrim.
• Quiet Corner, Kinsale, County Cork.
• Gleno village, County Antrim.
• Murlough Bay, County Antrim.
• Queen’s University, Belfast.
• ‘Pocket Zoo’, Gresham Street, Belfast.
• Peat harvesting at Horn Head, County Donegal.
• Peat harvesting at Dunfanaghy, County Donegal.
• Show Day at Ballymena, County Antrim.
• Carnlough Bay, County Antrim.
• Cliffs near Bushmills, County Antrim.
• Cottage on the Inishowen Peninsula, County Donegal.
• Glenveagh Park, County Donegal.
• Moy village, County Tyrone.
• Sketrick Castle, Strangford Lough, County Down.
• Ballyliffin, Inishowen, County Donegal.
• Keel village, Achill Island.
• Fishermen in Arklow Harbour, County Wicklow.
• Fair Head from Ballycastle, County Antrim.
• St. Thomas’s Church, Cathal Brugha Street, Dublin.
• Collage Place North, Belfast.
A copy of a pamphlet titled ‘Arthur Griffith / a study of the founder of Sinn Féin’ (Dublin: Cahill & Co., [c.1917]).
An image of Arthur Griffith and Éamon de Valera leaving the Mansion House Anti-Conscription Conference in Dublin.
A memorial booklet commemorating Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins. Harry Clarke (1889-1931), artist, provided the illustrated cover (which is lacking). Printed in Dublin by Martin Lester. The booklet contains many photographic illustrations and articles by Piaras Beaslai, Eoin MacNeill and others.
Photographic prints by Arthur O’Callaghan. Most of the prints are annotated on the reverse. The file includes the following images:
• Shop Street, Galway.
• Silver Strand, County Wicklow.
• Chapelizod, Dublin.
• Dublin Mountains.
• Lough Corrib, County Galway.
• Slane Castle, County Meath.
• Romanesque Doorway, Castledermot, County Kilkdare.
• Drogheda, County Louth.
• Balbriggan Harbour, County Dublin.
• The Cathedral of the Assumption, Carlow.
• Hollywood Glen, County Wicklow.
• Countryside near Castlecomber, County Kilkenny.
• Prospect Point, Swords, County Dublin.
• Lough Ramor, County Cavan.
• Clonmacnoise, County Offaly.
• Church of the Immaculate Conception, Ballymote, County Sligo.
• Cathedral of Christ the King, Mullingar, County Westmeah.
• St. Patrick’s Well, Oran, County Roscommon.
• River Moy, County Sligo.
• Boyle Abbey, County Roscommon.
• Canal Bridge, Lesson Street, Dublin.
• River Liffey from Knockmaroon Hill, Dublin.
• St. Mel’s Cathedral, Longford.
• Donaghmore Church and Round Tower, County Meath.
• Courthouse, Dundalk, County Louth.
• The Bull Ring, Wexford.
• The Yellow Steeple (St. Mary’s Abbey), Trim, County Meath.
• Thatched cottage near Lusk, County Dublin.
• Bridge across the River Shannon at Drumsna, County Leitrim.
• Trim Castle, County Meath.
• Countryside around Letterfrack, County Galway.
• Ballinasloe, County Galway.
• Dun Laoighaire Harbour, County Dublin.
• Lough Ennell, County Westmeath.
• Taaffe’s Castle, Carlingford, County Louth.
• Market day, Longford.
• Lough Derg, County Tipperary.
• Clogher Head, County Louth.
• Saint Laurence’s Gate, Drogheda, County Louth.
• Lough Derravaragh, County Westmeath.
• Kilcullen, County Kildare.
• Ballyhaunis, County Mayo.
• Baldongan Castle [Baldungan Church], County Dublin.
• Skerries Harbour, County Dublin.
• The Hill of Mael, County Westmeath.
• Charlestown, County Mayo.
• Brittas, County Wicklow.
• Thatched cottage in Rathowen, County Westmeath.
• Maynooth, County Kildare.
• O’Connell Bridge, Dublin.
• Belclare, County Galway.
• Fore Abbey, County Westmeath.
Creator: Arthur O'Brien, John Hickey
File consists of letters from Arthur O'Brien, Rector in St. Michael's, Omeath, County Louth, to John Hickey, Provincial of the Irish Province in the Institute of Charity, regarding general news from St. Michael's, the financial situation in St. Michael's, the examination results of students, and some discussion about the Second World War.
11 January 1948
Arthur Rafferty, Thomas Hickey
A Letter from Arthur Rafferty, Institute of Charity, to Thomas Hickey, Irish Provincial of the Institute of Charity, describing his journey to Tanzania onboard the boat S.S. Empire Trooper, to Port Said, Egypt, before going on to Tanzania.
A portrait photograph of Arthur Woodlock. A manuscript caption dates the print to February 1875.
A draft copy of an article possibly authored by Liam Mac Alasdair.