File 17 - Research Copybooks on Father Mathew

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IE CA FM RES/4/4/17

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Research Copybooks on Father Mathew

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  • c.1930-1940 (Creation)

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124 pp; Manuscript

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Shaw, Nessan, 1915-1997, Capuchin priest
(18 May 1915-13 July 1997)

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Irish Capuchin Archives

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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’.

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