Reference code
IE CA FM RES/4/4/17
Title
Research Copybooks on Father Mathew
Date(s)
- c.1930-1940 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
124 pp; Manuscript
Name of creator
(18 May 1915-13 July 1997)
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Scope and content
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’.