• Notes compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. on Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC from 1841-5. The notes include transcribed copies of letters from Daniel O’Connell to Fr. Mathew (26 Oct. 1844) and from Fr. Mathew to Mr. Buckingham (20 Oct. 1844). The principal source was probably James McKenna’s ‘History of the temperance reformation in Ireland, England and Scotland’. Manuscript, 16 pp.
• Extract from McKenna’s ‘History of the temperance reformation in Ireland, England and Scotland’ re Fr. Mathew’s temperance campaign in Liverpool and his attitude towards distillers. ‘I have no personal hostility to distillers or brewers or vendors of strong drink’. Typescript, 2 pp.
• Extracts from John Francis Maguire’s 'Father Mathew / A Biography' and ‘History of the Temperance Reformation by James McKenna, chief travelling secretary to the Very Rev. Theobald Mathew’ confirming that Fr. Mathew first arrived in Cork in about 1814. The extracts are by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. Typescript, 1 p.
This file contains notes on sets of correspondence between Gastaldi -[Bertelti] and Philips - Kennedy.
Denis Gwynn
This sub-fond is divided into three files the first of which contains research notebooks on Gentili's letters and his diary. The second file consists of a draft of 'Father Luigi Gentili and his mission.' The third file is a typescript copy of 'Father Luigi Gentili and his mission.'
Some of the items are in Italian and some letters state that the originals are held at Stresa.
Denis Gwynn
These notebooks contain information such as the 1839 reorganisation of the Apostolic Vicarates and also contains transcriptions of Gentili's letters, prayer book and his diary. Three of the notebooks may contain early drafts of the work.
detailed boxlist of contents of this Subseries.
bullet point biography of Nano Nagle's life; inquiries into "Favours" of Nano Nagle; booklet entitled "Sources for Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries Historical Studies in Special Collections Boole Library University College Cork" (1995).
The subseries contains material assembled with a view to undertaking a beatification process for Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The files include evidence and investigations into cures attributed to the intercession of prayers at Fr. Mathew’s grave in St. Joseph’s Cemetery in Cork.
Three copybooks of Fr. Nessan containing extracts from Fr. Mathew’s correspondence principally relating to his organisation of the temperance campaign. The copybooks contain partial indexes to the contents. The topics covered include ‘political attitudes’, ‘pecuniary embarrassments’, ‘temperance medals’, ‘temperance bands’, ‘English temperance mission’, ‘Legislative aid for temperance’, and ‘Fr. Mathew’s attitude to the abolition of slavery’.