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A bound volume containing publishing works by Fr. Michael O’Hickey. Includes some clippings and manuscript additions. The inside front cover has a print of Fr. O’Hickey with a manuscript annotation which reads ‘Born at Carrickbeg, Carrick-on-Suir, 12th March 1961. Died at Portlaw, Co. Waterford 19th November 1916. Ordained priest in Waterford 1884. Appointed Professor of Irish, Maynooth College 1896’. A later annotation on the opening page reads ‘Very rare / unique’. Printed title to spine reads ‘Writings of Rev. Dr. O’Hickey’. The volume includes:
• ‘A Great Gaelic Scholar / Death of the Very Rev. Dr. O’Hickey’ (‘Clonmel Nationalist’, 22 Nov. 1916).
• ‘Primary schools and their management / by Sacerdes and Sagart’ ([privately printed], 1907). 64 pp.
• ‘The True National Idea by Rev. M.P. O’Hickey / A lecture delivered in the hall of the Catholic Commercial Club, Dublin, on November 3rd, 1898, under the auspices of the Central Branch of the Gaelic League’. (Dublin, Gaelic League Pamphlets, Third Edition, 1898). 8 pp.
• ‘The Irish language movement: its genesis, growth and progress / by Rev. Michael P. O’Hickey’ ([Dublin, Gaelic League, 1902]). 15 pp.
• ‘The nationalisation of Irish education / by Rev. M.P. O’Hickey’. ([Dublin, Gaelic League, 1902]). 23 pp.
• ‘An Irish university, or else / by Rev. Michael P. O’Hickey. (Waterford, M.H. Gill & Son, 1909). 20 pp.
• ‘The Irish language and Irish intermediate education / VII / Dr. O’hickey’s reply to Dr. Mahaffy, Dr. Gwynn and Dr. Atkinson (Dublin: Gaelic League Pamphlets – no. 17, [c.1902]). 14 pp.
• ‘The Future of Irish in the National Schools / by Rev. M.P. O’Hickey’ (Dublin: Gaelic League Pamphlets – no. 9, 1900). 12 pp.
• ‘The Golden Age of the Irish Church / A lecture by Rev. Michael P. Hickey’ (Glasgow, P. Donegan & Co., 1890). 32 pp.
• ‘Wanted – an Irish university; also essays on university and kindred subjects / Collected and edited by an Irish priest’ (Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker, 1909). 128 pp.
• ‘Further documents bearing on the dismissal of Rev. Dr. O’Hickey from the Irish Chair of St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth’. ([Privately printed, c.1909]).
• ‘Memorandum dealing with the constitution, history and authority of the Board of Trustees of St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth: with some account of the visitors, past and present’. ([Privately printed, c.1909]). 31 pp.

The series contains a large collection of published works and biographical accounts dealing with the life of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The collection also includes works relating to various teetotal and temperance movements in Ireland from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. Many of the publications listed below are connected with the temperance revival of the late nineteenth century exemplified by the foundation of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association by Fr. James Cullen SJ in 1898. The works are listed in chronological order by date of publication.

Fliers setting out the aims and objectives of the Irish Loyal and Patriotic Union. Reference is also made to the work done by the Association in the election campaigns of 1885 and 1886. The flier dated October 1887 provides a list of selected names from the 1886 subscriptions list to the organisation.

Bound collection of pamphlets associated with the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association (PTAA). The collection includes:
Rev. J.A. Cullen SJ, ‘The Pioneer Movement / its story and origin’.
Most Rev. Dr. Collier, ‘The Pioneer Association is a necessary organisation’.
Most Rev. Dr. Mageean, ‘Speech at Annual Meeting, Pioneer TAA, 1935’.
Rev. F.M. Browne SJ, ‘The Pioneer is a happy warrior’.
Rev. L. Gallagher SJ, ‘The Responsibility of the Individual Pioneer’.
Rev. J. Stokes, ‘The Pioneer Apostolate’.
Rev. J. Taggart, ‘The motives of the Pioneer’.
The file also includes annual reports of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association from 1935-40 and copies of rules and regulations of the PTAA.

‘Kodak film wallet / MacSweeny’s Photographic Supply Store, Cork’. The file contains eight plates showing groups of Capuchins, including some images of friars at a Provincial Chapter in the Church Street Friary, Dublin. Includes images of Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap. (1874-1938). Fr. Edwin was Provincial Minister from 1926-9 and from 1931-7.