Partial catalogues and lists of material held in the Irish Capuchin Archives relating to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC compiled by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. and Fr. Paul Murphy OFM Cap. The listed material is mostly commemorative in nature and includes temperance association reports, newspaper cuttings covering the temperance movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, speeches, addresses and orations at events celebrating Fr. Mathew’s life, temperance publications and ephemera, and correspondence. Most of the material has been listed elsewhere in this catalogue.
A cheque for £35 11s 9d, payable to ‘Poblacht na hÉireann’, and signed by Cathal Brugha. The cheque was drawn on Bannc na Talmhan Teoranta (the National Land Bank) in Dublin and is dated 2 May 1922.
A clipping of a photograph of Cathal O’Shannon and Fr. Augustine Hayden OSFC at the Mater Hospital in Dublin where the former was receiving treatment. The clipping was used to illustrate an article on O’Shannon’s personal recollections of the 1916 Rising published in the ‘Empire News’ (4 September 1953).
A clipping of an article the memorial windows designed by Catharine O’Brien for Lissadell Church in County Sligo. The commission was given to O’Brien by Lady Gore-Booth. The article was published in the ‘Evening Mail’ (4 November 1950).
