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Father Mathew Feis Results Book
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Results copy book for the Father Mathew Feis, Church Street. The entries are listed under the headings of competition number, competitor number, name of student and school or home address. Standard exercise copybook.
Musical scores and arrangements
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Scores, sheet music and arrangement for pieces performed at the Father Mathew Feis, Church Street. The file includes sheet music for works by Beethoven, Handel, Shostakovich and Mendelssohn. Some choral pieces (with piano accompaniment) are also extant.
Minute Book of the Father Mathew Centenary Committee
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Minute book of the Father Mathew Centenary Committee which had the responsibility for financing and erecting the statue of the Apostle of Temperance on Sackville (later O’Connell Street), Dublin. The Centenary Committee was made up of Catholics, Anglicans and other Protestant denominations and notably received the support of the Most Rev. William Plunket, Baron Plunket, the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin: ‘Most thoroughly do I sympathize in any movement for honouring the memory of one to whom the cause of temperance in this land is so largely indebted’. (10 Oct. 1889).
Prominent public (non-clerical) figures in the committee included:
George Noble Plunkett (1851-1948) an Irish nationalist and father of Joseph Plunkett, one of the executed leaders of the 1916 Rising.
John Redmond MP (1856-1918), an Irish home rule nationalist, later leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party.
Michael Davitt (1846-1906), a nationalist and agrarian campaigner.
Thomas Sexton MP (1848-1932), Lord Mayor of Dublin.
William Martin Murphy MP (1844-1919), a businessman and politician.
Timothy Charles Harrington MP (1851-1910), a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party.
The minute book reveals that from the outset committee members were in support of resolutions which would place the statue in a prominent public place in the city. For instance, Thomas Connolly suggested that a ‘statue should be erected similar to the O’Connell [monument], and that it should be placed at the other end of O’Connell Street so that people might be reminded by the two monuments of the two great men who were in a sense the complement of one another …’. (Oct. 1889).
• This intent was formalised in a resolution forwarded by the Committee to Dublin Corporation on 1 May 1890 ‘requesting them to grant a site in Upper O’Connell Street, Dublin, for the erection of the Memorial Statue to Father Theobald Mathew’. (1 May 1889).
• The aim of the Centenary Committee was from the beginning to site the statue in the most prominent space available in the city linking the historically concurrent campaigns undertaken by Fr. Mathew (temperance) and O’Connell (emancipation and repeal). It should also be noted that the Corporation was unanimous in granting the O’Connell Street site. (15 May 1890).
• An application was made to the boundary surveyor to obtain ‘the consent of the Corporation for a 16 feet square space on the site known as the “Retreat” in Upper O’Connell Street which has been already allotted to the Committee for the erection of the Father Mathew Centenary Memorial’. (5 June 1890).
The siting of an Fr. Mathew Statue on the main thoroughfare (St. Patrick’s Street) running through Cork city in 1864 influenced the Dublin Committee: Henry Brown reminded the Committee that the ‘citizens of Cork had already placed Father Mathew’s Statue in their city, where he remembered standing on the platform in Patrick’s Street, while the Mayor of Cork, John Francis Maguire MP was unveiling Foley’s exquisite statue’. (Oct. 1889). By October 1892 a total of £1,114 5s 3d had been collected by the Centenary Committee (13 Oct. 1892). The minute book includes subscription lists, accounts and pasted-in newspaper clippings re meetings of the committee and its efforts to raise funds for the memorial. Funding was sourced from various local temperance societies (both Protestant and Catholic), workingmen’s clubs, national schools and colleges, and public and professional bodies (corporations and the police force). Donations were received from across Ireland and from Irish emigrant communities in America, Canada, Australia and elsewhere.
The resolutions adopted at the official unveiling of the statue on 8 February 1893 reflected the widespread appeal of the Fr. Mathew commemoration and the ‘placing of a statue among the public monuments of the metropolis’:
• ‘That as the Rev. Theobald Mathew loved his countrymen of all creeds and laboured zealously for their moral improvement and temporal prosperity, this great meeting rejoices that this public monument to his memory has been erected to remind our people of what he accomplished in the cause of total abstinence’.
• ‘That the Centenary Statue of the Rev. Theobald Mathew having been erected by subscriptions from men of all parties, and regardless of religious distinctions, it is appropriate that it be now unveiled by the Right Hon. James Shanks as Lord Mayor of the City of Dublin’. (2 Feb. 1893).
Reference is also made in the Centenary Committee minute book to the very novel nature of the award of the commission to a female sculptor. Count Plunkett, a leading member of the Committee, referred to ‘the merit which characterizes the design of Miss Redmond, a young artist who had made her mark, not only in this country but on the continent, in spite of her youth’. (1 May 1890).
Letter book of the Father Mathew Centenary Committee
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
The volume contains approximately 489 copy letters written by members of the Father Mathew Centenary Committee mostly relating to the raising of subscriptions for the Father Mathew Statue on Sackville (later O’Connell) Street, Dublin. The volume is partially indexed by recipient. Correspondents include the Lord Mayor of Dublin, the editors of the 'Freeman’s Journal', the 'Irish Times' and other national newspapers, various local temperance societies and associations, the Irish National Foresters’ Benefit Society, George Noble Plunkett, Mary Redmond (sculptor), John Redmond MP, various trades councils and societies, the Most Rev. William Walsh, Archbishop of Dublin, Alfred Webb MP, and Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne. Most of the letters are carbon copies and some are partially illegible.
Catalogues of Exhibited Artefacts
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Catalogues of objects and souvenirs held in the Father Mathew Museum (‘Hall Room No. 6’). A note appended to the list by Fr. Martin Hyland OSFC, Guardian of Holy Trinity Friary, Cork, is dated 27 Dec. 1920. A later note affirms that these items were apparently returned to the friary on 8 March 1921. The lists include many portraits and pictures, temperance medals and pledge cards, the original design and plans for Holy Trinity Church by E.W. Pugin and George Coppinger Ashlin, letters of Fr. Mathew, a model of the old friary chapel on Blackamoor Lane, a model of Holy Trinity Church, cups, teapots and plates commemorating temperance, missals, Fr. Mathew’s walking sticks, the visitors’ book to the Father Mathew Pavilion at the Cork Exhibition in 1902, Fr. Mathew’s piano and other ephemera. It appears that many of these objects were previously displayed at the Cork Exhibition in 1902.
Hyland, Martin, 1881-1933, Capuchin priest
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Printed photographic album relating to the commemorations of the centenary in 1938 of the inauguration by Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC of his temperance campaign. Includes images of celebrations and services in St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin, Holy Trinity Church, Cork, and at Thomastown Castle, County Tipperary. Reprint of a photographic supplement in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1939), pp 177-208. The cover shows a bust of Fr. Mathew by John Hogan ‘Fra. Theobald Mathew, Ord. Cappuccin / J. Hogan fecit, 1834’.
Documents relating to the bicentenary of Father Mathew’s birth
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Fliers, invitations, correspondence, press cuttings and notices connected with events to celebrate the bicentenary of Fr. Mathew’s birth in October 1990. The file includes:
Notices for masses celebrated in Holy Trinity Church, Cork, on 8-9 Oct. 1990. The principal celebrant was Fr. Simeon Breen OFM Cap.
An invitation card to a con-celebrated mass marking the anniversary in St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin, on 8 Dec. 1990. The principal celebrant was Bishop Desmond Williams with a sermon by Fr. Robert Noonan OFM Cap. The text of Fr. Noonan’s sermon is included in the file.
An invitation card and flier to a seminar on ‘Underage Drinking – Our Concern’ in Father Mathew Hall, Cork. The seminar was opened by the Most Rev. John Buckley, Auxiliary Bishop of Cork and Ross. Fr. Michael Cleary was the principal speaker.
Notes from meetings of a Capuchin committee established to organise events for the bicentenary celebration including the ‘Father Mathew Bicentenary Song Contest’ held in Father Mathew Hall, Cork, on 23 January 1991.
Tape cassettes with audio recordings of various entries for the ‘Father Mathew Bicentenary Song Contest’ held in Cork in January 1991.
VHS cassette tape with recordings of items on 'News at One' and on 'Jo-Maxi' (RTÉ) relating to the bicentenary commemorations. Fr. Benedict Cullen OFM Cap. appears in the recordings.
Cutting of an article by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. marking the anniversary titled ‘Father Mathew /a man for all seasons’, 'Cork Examiner', 10 Oct. 1990.
'Alert News', Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring 1991). A news-sheet published by the Capuchin friars in Dublin, highlighting the dangers of alcohol and drug dependency.
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A scrapbook compiled by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. containing fliers, newspaper cuttings and ephemera associated with the commemorations of the bi-centenary of the birth Fr. Mathew. The file includes correspondence and fliers for student competitions, symposiums and publications for the bicentenary. The volume includes:
Letter from Fr. Angelus O’Neill OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, re the work of the Capuchin commission set to co-ordinate events for the bicentenary. 12 Jan. 1990.
Newspaper cutting referring to the cleaning of the Father Mathew Statue on St. Patrick’s Street, Cork, in anticipation of the commemorations.
Fliers re events to combat under-age drinking in Cork.
Cuttings re the sale of the Father Mathew Tower, Glanmire, County Cork. Nov. 1990.
Cuttings referring to the launch of a video on Fr. Mathew titled ‘Here goes, in the name of God’ commissioned by the Capuchin friars. The video was scripted and produced by Fr. Liam O’Driscoll on behalf of Icon Communications Ltd.
A typescript copy of ‘Oblivion’ by Ultan McDonnell, the winning entry in the temperance schools’ song competition held in Father Mathew Hall, Cork.
Shaw, Nessan, 1915-1997, Capuchin priest
'Here goes, in the name of God!'
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
VHS tapes containing recordings of a documentary (titled ‘Here goes, in the name of God!’) on the life and temperance campaign of Fr. Mathew produced by Icon Communications Ltd. for the bicentenary of his birth. The documentary ‘traces the story of Fr. Mathew and his crusade from 1838 until his death in 1856, and examines some of the works of the Capuchin friars today, as they follow in the footsteps of their single-minded and dedicated predecessor’.
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
File of fliers, programmes, posters and promotional ephemera associated with the Cork Temperance Weekend, Oct. 2006. The event was organised to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Fr. Mathew’s death. Includes a copy of 'Pioneer', Vol. LVII, No. 9 (Oct. 2006) promoting the event. With texts of homilies and speeches by Fr. Dermot Lynch OFM Cap. and Fr. Brendan O’Mahony OFM Cap. at a conference held in Cork on 8 Oct. 2006. The file also includes a flier for a conference titled ‘Fr. Mathew / A balanced lifestyle for contemporary Ireland’ held in Croke Park, Dublin, on 30 Sept. 2006.