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The sub-series contains research notes, document transcriptions, correspondence and publications on Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC compiled by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. (1915-1997). The Waterford-born Capuchin friar, Brother (later Father) Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. completed a thesis titled ‘The Life and Times of Fr. Theobald Mathew’ for an MA degree in University College Cork in 1939. He retained a life-long interest in the subject and accumulated a large number of documentary sources, publications and notes pertaining to Fr. Mathew and his campaign against intemperance.

Letters to Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. relating to his research on the life and temperance campaign of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. Most of the letters refer to sources tracing Fr. Mathew’s ancestry. The correspondents include:
• Fr. E. Dowling, Cathabawn, Johnstown, County Kilkenny. Re Theobald Mathew’s early education in the Kilkenny Academy from 1803-7.
• Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. Re a list of Fr. Mathew’s siblings.
• David Mathew. Re the ancestry and genealogy of Fr. Mathew.
• Rev. Wallace Clare. Re the genealogy of Fr. Mathew.
• Fr. Gervase Mathew OP, Blackfriars, Oxford. Re Fr. Mathew’s genealogy and the disposition of the Mathew family papers in their possession.
• Br. De Sales. Enclosing extracts relating to Fr. Mathew from the diary of W.J. O’Neill Daunt (1807-1894).
• Fr. Brendan O’Callaghan OFM Cap. Enclosing brief extracts from the General Capuchin Archives in Rome re Fr. Mathew.
• Fr. T.J. Walsh, South Presbytery Cork. Enclosing a note from Jack J. O’Shea re the poems of John Paul Dalton (a Cork-born poet) titled ‘The Centenary of Father Mathew’ and ‘A Legend of Father Mathew’.

Notes by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. on various aspects of Fr. Mathew’s life and ministry. The notes were prepared for Fr. Nessan’s thesis on Father Mathew and were arranged under the following headings:
• Genealogy
• Family of Fr. Theobald Mathew
• Intemperance before 1838 / Chapter IV
• Ireland / Nineteenth Century / Political / Chapter II
• Nineteenth-century Repeal movement
• Fr. Mathew’s pecuniary embarrassments
• Effects of his temperance campaign
• ‘Father Mathew / the Man’
• Work aside from temperance
• Total Abstinence Campaign / Chapter VI
• Temperance / Progress / Difficulties / Testimonies

• Cutting of an article by Fr. Nessan titled ‘Political difficulties of Fr. Mathew’s Association’, 'Irish Press', 10 Apr. 1970.
• An article by Fr. Nessan titled ‘Dublin Castle and the Temperance Movement’. An annotation affirms that this was published in the 'Evening Echo' in 1982. Typescript, 5 pp.
• An article by Fr. Nessan titled ‘Political difficulties of Fr. Theobald Mathew’. This article was published in the 'Irish Press', 10 Apr. 1979. Typescript, 4 pp.
• An article by Fr. Nessan titled ‘Temperance and toleration / Father Mathew’s formula for national unity’. The article was published in 'The Pioneer' (Apr. 1985), pp 26-8. Typescript, 5 pp.
• Photocopy of an article on the ‘Great Temperance Rally at Cork’, 'The Father Mathew Record', Mar. 1926, pp 71-5. Copy print, 5 pp.
• Newspaper cutting of a letter from Peter Scott titled ‘Fr. Mathew and the North’. The author responds to a recently-published article by Fr. Nessan.
• An article by Fr. Nessan on the Total Abstinence Society founded in Cork on 10 Apr. 1838. The article was submitted to the 'Cork Examiner' in Apr. 1988 but was unpublished. Typescript, 3 pp.
• Copy extracts from the State Paper Office referring to the legality of holding meetings of Temperance Societies. 13-14 Mar. 1840. Typescript, 1 p.
• Outline for a lecture by Fr. Nessan on the Cork Total Abstinence Society founded by Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. An annotation suggests that the lecture was given at a Pioneer Seminar in Cork on 24 Sept. 1988. Typescript, 9 pp.
• Copies of reviews by Fr. Nessan and Pat O’Keeffe of 'Father Mathew and the Irish Temperance Movement, 1838-1849' by Colm Kerrigan (Cork, 1992). Typescript and cutting, 4 pp.
• Extracts from the Income and Expenditure Account Book of the Cork Temperance Society, 1 Jan. 1848-31 Dec. 1848. Typescript, 2 pp.

• A list of short extracts from H.F. Kearney, ‘Fr. Mathew / Apostle of Modernization’ in A. Cosgrave and D. McCartney (eds), 'Studies in Irish History / Presented to R. Dudley Edwards' (Dublin, 1979), pp 164-75. Typescript, 1 p.
• A timeline of major events in the life of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC compiled by Fr. Nessan. Typescript, 2 pp.
• An article (or draft lecture) on the life of Fr. Theobald Mathew by Fr. Nessan. Typescript, 17 pp.
• An index to Fr. Nessan’s research (and sources) on the life and temperance campaign of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The index has various sub-headings corresponding to different facets of Fr. Theobald’s life including his education, his ministry as a Capuchin friar, his inauguration of the temperance crusade, his work in England and in the United States, and the decline of his movement. Typescript, 14 pp.
• Letter from William Callanan, Secretary, Rebel Cork Benevolent Association, San Francisco, to Fr. Nessan enclosing a photocopy of a page from the minute book of the association referring to donation of $25 towards a fund to ‘assist in the erection of a church in Cork dedicated to the memory of the Rev. Father Mathew of temperance fame’. The entry is dated 11 Aug. 1890. With a newspaper cutting referring to the said donation. 'Cork Examiner', 11 Feb. 1983. Typescript, manuscript, cutting, 4 pp.
• Notes compiled by Fr. Nessan for a homily on Fr. Mathew and temperance at Páirc Uí Chaoimh, Cork, on 8 Dec. 1996. Typescript, 1 p.

• 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.

• Letter from Walter McGrath to Fr. Nessan enclosing a photocopy of an article by John F. Quinn, ‘The “Vagabond Friar” / Father Mathew’s difficulties with the Irish Bishops, 1840-1856’, 'Catholic Historical Review', 78 (Oct. 1992), pp 542-56. The letter is dated 19 Dec. 1997. Manuscript and printed, 18 pp.
• Draft of an article by Fr. Nessan on Fr. Theobald Mathew published in the 'Cork Examiner', 10 Oct. 1990. Typescript, 4 pp.
• Draft of a lecture by Fr. Nessan titled ‘Fr. Theobald Mathew and Youth’, for a commemoration of the 155th anniversary of the founding of the Cork Total Abstinence Society in 1993. Typescript, 6 pp.
• Draft lecture by Fr. Nessan titled ‘The Spirituality of Fr. Mathew’. Typescript, 10 pp.
• Notes for talks by Fr. Nessan on various aspects of the life and temperance campaign of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. Typescript, 45 pp.
• Photocopy of an article by Fr. Nessan published in the 'Cork Examiner' to mark the 137th anniversary of the inauguration of the temperance campaign. (1975). Copy cutting, 1 p.
• List of sources for the life of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC compiled by Fr. Nessan. The list includes unpublished manuscript sources, contemporary published works, pamphlets, periodicals, and published biographies. Typescript, 4 pp.
• Photocopies and notes by Fr. Nessan re sources pertaining to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC taken from 'Manuscript Sources for the History of Irish Civilisation' (1965) and 'Sources for the History of Irish Civilisation: Articles in Irish Periodicals' (1970) compiled by Richard J. Hayes. Copy print and manuscript, 8 pp.

This subseries contains research into the ancestry and family history of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. Fr. Mathew was born in Thomastown Castle near Golden in County Tipperary in October 1790. His father James Mathew was steward on the Thomastown estate which belonged to his relative, Francis Mathew (1738-1806), who was created Earl Landaff in 1797. There is some uncertainty about the parentage of James Mathew. One account, repeated by Fr. Mathew himself, affirmed that he was the child of an undocumented second marriage of Lord Landaff’s great uncle, James Mathew of Borris. Another account, which enjoyed some currency at the time, suggested that he was the natural son of Earl Landaff’s father Thomas Mathew. The files include research notes, genealogical tables and other information relating to Mathew family history.

Genealogical notes compiled by Veronica Mathew, a great great great grand-niece of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The articles are titled ‘The Irish Mathews’ and ‘The Mathew family and their affection for Landaff’. The notes trace the ancestry of the Mathew family and include remarks re notable persons in the family tree and lore associated with the Mathews.