Item 4 - Opening of Temperance Hall at Rochestown

1 p.; clipping

A clipping of a newspaper report detailing the formal dedication and opening of the new Temperance Hall in Rochestown, County Cork. It describes the structural details of the hall (built west of the monastery, holding 300 people, containing under-stage committee rooms, and illuminated by an acetylene gas plant). The article credits the organizing labour of Father Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap. and notes that the packed opening event was presided over by the Lord Mayor of Cork (Alderman Henry O’Shea), listing numerous attending clergy and notable civic figures (including Fathers Edwin, Adrian, Kevin, Martin, Pius, Fiacre, Matthew, Clement, Bonaventure, Finbarr, and physician H. Corby). The clipping is taken from the ‘Cork Weekly Examiner’ (21 December 1912).