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Date(s)
- c.1980-1990 (Création/Production)
Niveau de description
Étendue matérielle et support
44 pp; Manuscript, typescript and newspaper cutting
Nom du producteur
Histoire archivistique
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Portée et contenu
• Photocopies of newspaper cuttings and papers re Fr. Mathew taken from Cork City and County Archives. The file includes:
‘Father Mathew’s tour to Lisbon for his health’, 'Cork Examiner', 21 July 1982.
‘Temperance’, Refers to the state of the temperance movement following Fr. Mathew’s death.
‘Anniversary of the birth of the Apostle of Temperance’, 'Cork Examiner', 13 Oct. 1847.
‘Progress of Temperance / Meeting in St. Patrick’s’, 9 Feb. 1849.
‘Tributes to Fr. Mathew’, 'Cork Examiner', 3 Jan. 1852.
Mathew-Annuity Fund. The printed flier relates to a fund to relieve Fr. Mathew of his debts. The flier is taken from the Dowden Papers in the Cork City and County Archives.
An address of the Friends of Temperance held at the Mayor’s Office, Paradise Place, Cork, on Monday, the 18th day of July 1848. (Dowden Papers, Cork City and County Archives).
‘Father Mathew’s Farewell Address to the Americans’.
‘Father Mathew and his biographer, John Francis Maguire’. The article refers to Fr. Mathew’s ‘pecuniary difficulties’. (1864).
• Notes by Fr. Nessan relating to the numbers of pledge-takers in various parts of Ireland during Fr. Mathew’s temperance campaign from 1839-40. Manuscript, 6 pp.
• A letter from Walter McGrath to Fr. Nessan enclosing a copy of 'Africa / St. Patrick’s Missions', May 1982, which includes an article on the history of the trams in Cork and an early photograph of the Father Mathew Statue on St. Patrick’s Street. The letter is dated 24 Apr. 1982. Manuscript and printed, 18 pp.