File 4 - Research relating to Father Mathew

Reference code

IE CA FM RES/4/3/4

Title

Research relating to Father Mathew

Date(s)

  • c.1838-1856 (Creation)

Level of description

File

Extent and medium

95 pp; Manuscript, typescript, cutting and print

Name of creator

(26 February 1875-20 August 1953)

Archival history

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Scope and content

• Letter to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. from Madeline Hanly enclosing a photographic print of a portrait of Fr. Mathew belonging to her father John P. Hanly. She explains that it was ‘presented to his grandmother, Mrs Mary Cahill … by Fr. Mathew himself in January 1842’. 28 Oct. 1915. Manuscript and print, 3 pp.
• Letter from Michael Carew to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. referring to a temperance medal belonging to his grandfather. 21 Oct. 1915. Manuscript, 1 p.
• Letter from William R. Wigham, Irish Association for the Prevention of Intemperance, to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. enclosing information re temperance pledge cards, medals, pictures and other artefacts associated with Fr. Mathew’s campaign. 29 Nov. 1915. Typescript, 3 pp.
• Letter from Julia M. Brennan to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. referring to her great-grandfather’s temperance medal (not extant). She affirms that he took the pledge in Mountrath Parish and never broke it during his life. 3 Feb. 1916. Manuscript, 3 pp.
• Letter from Eugene [McPhelan?], St. Mary’s, Derrytrasna, Lurgan, County Armagh, to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. enclosing a cutting from the 'Scottish Temperance Review' (1848) and a note re Fr. Mathew’s visit to Banbridge in June 1841. The letter is dated 9 Nov. 1915. Manuscript, 5 pp.
• Letter from James Duffy to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. re a picture, plate and medal associated with Fr. Mathew’s temperance campaign. 11 Jan. 1916. Manuscript, 2 pp.
• Letter from P.J. Sheehan to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. sending a Father Mathew temperance medal (not extant). 25 Oct. 1915. Manuscript, 1 p.
• Letters from Mabel M. Maguire to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. affirming that ‘the bust of Father Mathew is still here’. 13 Nov. 1929. With letters from O’Keeffe and Lynch, solicitors, stating that the Maguire family would like to gift the bust to the Capuchin friars of Church Street. 21 Oct. 1943-22 Oct. 1943. The letters also make reference to the gift by Mabel Maguire of some original correspondence of Fr. Mathew. These letters are now listed at CA FM COR/2771-2776. Manuscript and typescript, 5 pp.
• Letter from Margaret Dent, Castledermot, County Kildare, to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. re a temperance medal which belonged to her grandfather. 29 Oct. 1915. Manuscript, 2 pp.
• Letters from Bridget O’Sullivan to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. re a copy of Rev. W.H. Cologan’s book on the life of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. 6 Nov. 1915-4 Jan. 1916. Encloses a copybook containing a transcription from 'Father Mathew / The Apostle of Temperance / 1790-1856' by Rev. W.H. Cologan. Manuscript, 56 pp.
• Letters from Katherine Kiernan to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. re a temperance medal belonging to her paternal grandfather. Oct. 1915. Manuscript, 7 pp.
• Letters from Charles Murphy, 3 Prospect Row, Limerick, regarding a temperance certificate and medal belonging to his deceased father dated 4 Nov. 1839. He writes ‘My poor father walked from Limerick to Cork to take the pledge. It was considered a pilgrimage and the proper thing to do …’. He also refers to his father’s role in founding St. Michael’s Temperance Society. 30 Oct. 1915-6 Dec. 1915. Manuscript, 7 pp.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

Conditions governing access

Conditions governing reproduction

Language of material

Script of material

Language and script notes

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

Finding aids

Existence and location of originals

Existence and location of copies

Related units of description

Related descriptions

Alternative identifier(s)

Subject access points

Place access points

Name access points

Genre access points

Description identifier

Institution identifier

Rules and/or conventions used

Status

Level of detail

Dates of creation revision deletion

Language(s)

Script(s)

Sources

Accession area

Related subjects

Related people and organizations

Related genres

Related places