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• Rev. Hugh O’Reilly, 'The Temperance Question: Inaugural Address delivered on the occasion of the re-opening of the old Father Mathew Total Abstinence Hall and Reading Room, Rostrevor on the 16th October 1893' (Newry: W. and S. Magowan, Printers, 1893). Printed. 36 pp.
• 'Pioneer Total Abstinence Association of the Sacred Heart / “Christ’s Standard Bearers” by Rev. R. Nash SJ' (Dublin: Pioneer Central Council, 27 Upper Sherrard Street, 1946). Printed, 12 pp.
• 'Sixty-Second Annual Report of the Irish Association for the Prevention of Intemperance' (Dublin, 1941). Printed, 16 pp.
• Draft constitution and rules for a new temperance organisation outlined by a sub-committee appointed by the Father Mathew Union of Temperance Association Priests. Nov. 1952. The draft is endorsed with a note from J.A. Gleeson to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. affirming that the proposed constitution and rules will be put to the Hierarchy for their consideration. 22 Feb. 1953. Typescript, 7 pp.
• Flier re the Alvernian Society, a social guild of tertiaries and members of the Father Mathew Total Abstinence Association, founded to promote charitable works. c.1940. Typescript, 1 p.

File of newspaper clippings mainly re various anniversaries and commemorations connected with Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC and the temperance campaign. The file includes:
• ‘Father Mathew Anniversary / Celebration in Father Mathew Hall / Eloquent Oration by Rev. Dr. Murphy’, 'Cork Examiner', 11 Oct. 1911.
• ‘Fr. Mathew in Galway / How the Great Apostle of Temperance was received in the city’, 'The Connaught Tribute', 14 Oct. 1911.
• ‘The Father Mathew Anniversary’, 'The Leader', 20 Oct. 1906.
• ‘Father Mathew Anniversary’ / Celebrations in Cork’, 'Cork Examiner', 11 Oct. 1905.
• ‘Temperance Laws in an Irish Parliament / Dramatic Measures Outlined’. [c.1912]. Refers to speech by Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. to the Maynooth Union on temperance legislation.
• ‘Father Burke on Intemperance’, 'The Irish World and American Industrial Liberator'. [c.1905].
• ‘The temperance movement in England’, 'Irish Catholic', 16 July 1904.

File of newspaper clippings mainly re various anniversaries and commemorations connected with Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC and the temperance campaign. The file includes:
• ‘The Church’s Peril / Crusade against the drink evil / Glasgow’s Great Welcome to Father Hays’. [c.1905].
• ‘Temperance Legislation for Ireland / The Very Rev. Father Aloysius Travers OSFC’. [c.1912].
• ‘Father Mathew: Leader and Priest / Oration by Very Rev. Father Aloysius Travers OSFC’, 'Irish Catholic', 18 Oct. 1913.
• ‘Intemperance / Powerful Sermon by Fr. Laurence Dowling OSFC’. [c.1912].
• ‘Temperance Cause in Enniscorthy / A Capuchin Father on local topics’. [c.1912]. Refers to a sermon given by Fr. Laurence Dowling OFM Cap.
• ‘Twelve “Half-Ones” / Drunk by a youth of 17’.
• ‘Our Pioneer Column / Pioneer Total Abstinence Association of the Sacred Heart / Annual Meeting’, 'Irish Catholic', 14 Dec. 1912.
• ‘The Temperance Cause / Great Mission by Capuchin Fathers / Demonstration at Graigue, County Kilkenny’.
• ‘Father Mathew’s Day’ / Reminiscences of his visit to the United States’.
• ‘Total Abstinence in Scotland / The League of the Cross in Glasgow’, 'Glasgow Observer', 12 Sept. 1891.
• ‘Father Hays and the Apostolate of Temperance / Father Mathew’s work revived’. 26 Jan. 1901.
• ‘For Total Abstinence / The Rev. Thomas F. Burke CSP preaches in St. Joseph’s Cathedral’, 'The Hartford Daily Times', 7 Aug. 1901.
• ‘The Great Catholic Veteran / Right Rev. Monsignor Nugent’s Long Career’, 'The Monitor and New Era', 27 May 1904.
• ‘The Cause of Temperance / Demonstration in Ardmore’. Refers to a total abstinence mission given by Fr. Laurence Dowling OSFC.

File of newspaper clippings covering commemorations marking the centenary of the inauguration of Fr. Mathew’s temperance campaign. The file includes:
• ‘Father Mathew Feis / Evils worse than intemperance’, 'Irish Catholic', 21 Apr. 1938.
• ‘Father Mathew Centenary in Dublin’, 'Irish Independent', 11 Apr. 1938.
• ‘Father Mathew Centenary Celebrations’, 'Irish Times', 11 Apr. 1938.
• ‘Fr. Mathew Kin at Centenary Mass’, 'The Universe', 14 Apr. 1938. Includes a photograph of Theobald Mathew, grand-nephew of the Apostle of Temperance, with Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. and Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap.
• ‘Apostle of Temperance by Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap.’, 'Irish Press', 9 Apr. 1938.
• ‘Father Mathew Celebrations / Memory honoured in Dublin and Tipperary’, 'Irish Catholic', 20 Apr. 1938.
• ‘Father Mathew Centenary Celebrations’, 'Daily Sketch', 11 Apr. 1938.
• ‘Father Mathew Bridge’, 'Irish Independent', 17 Oct. 1938.

Ledger of income derived from mass intentions at the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny. The title is given on the first page: ‘House Intentions Book’. Entries are listed under the number of masses said and the amount of money received. Monthly totals are also given. A list of bequests with the amount of masses to be said and stipends received is extant on the final pages of the volume. The entries include the Walsh bequest of January 1914 (29 masses said at 2s 6d) and ‘Mrs Fleming’s bequest’ of 8 May 1915 (40 masses at 5s in stipends). A manuscript annotation at the end of this section reads: ‘All above masses have been said, Fr. Aloysius Travers of Cork, Provincial Minister, 7 April 1915’. Entries throughout the volume are periodically signed by the Provincial Minister at visitations.

Letters from Dom Carthage Delaney OCist (1839-1909), Abbot of Mount Mellerary, Cappoquin, County Waterford, and Dom Camillus Beardwood OCist, Abbot of Mount St Joseph’s Abbey, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OSFC, guardian, Capuchin Friary, Walkin Street, regarding invitations to mark the re-opening of St. Mary’s Cathedral in Kilkenny.

Letters regarding a dispute over the editorship of the temperance publication, 'The Father Mathew Record', also known as 'The Irish Home Journal'. The file includes a letter from Brian O’Higgins to Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OSFC, Provincial Minister, complaining about his dismissal as associate editor of the 'Record' by Fr. Joseph Fenlon OSFC who ‘desired to keep politics out of the Journal’. O’Higgins, a member of Sinn Féin, admits that he is ‘on what is known as “the run”’. With notes by Fr. Edwin regarding the proprietorship of the Journal, and the need to reserve the appointment of editor to the council of the Capuchin Franciscan Order in Ireland. Later, Fr. Joseph wrote to Fr. Edwin confirming his resignation from the Presidency of Father Mathew Hall and the temperance sodality. The file also includes a signed notice of a special meeting of the Hall Committee affirming that the ‘"Record" was started by Fr. Aloysius [Travers], President of the Hall … [and] that the Office of the Record was transferred to the Hall premises’. The committee members contended that the 'Record' magazine was the property of the committee ‘and that the Provincial Superiors acted without consideration of the circumstances when … they decided to take it over and have it conducted independently of the committee and its President’. (10 June 1920).

Letters to Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC, Provincial Minister, Fr. Aloysius Travers OSFC, Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OSFC, and other Capuchin friars, regarding requests parish missions and retreats. The file includes letters requesting missions in Cappawhite (Tipperary), Ashbourne (Meath), Cappoquin (Waterford), Belfast, Dunmore East (Waterford), Kingstown (Dún Laoghaire, Dublin), Thurles (Tipperary), Sligo, Greystones (Wicklow), Scarriff (Clare), and Ballybay (Monaghan).

Letters to Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC, Provincial Minister, Fr. Aloysius Travers OSFC, Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OSFC, Fr. Joseph Fenlon OSFC, Fr. Laurence Dowling OSFC and other Capuchin friars, regarding requests for parish missions and retreats. The file includes letters requesting missions in Quin (Clare), Tuam (Galway), Scariff (Clare), Belfast, Crossmaglen (Armagh), Scotstown (Monaghan), Schull (Cork), Frenchpark (Roscommon), Bunbeg (Donegal), Wicklow, and Castledermot (Carlow).