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- 1918-1965 (Creation)
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48 items; Newspaper clippings
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File of newspaper clippings mainly re various anniversaries and commemorations connected with Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC and the temperance campaign. The file includes:
• ‘Rev. Theobald Mathew OSFC / The Apostle of Temperance’, 'Temperance Catholic Advocate', Nov. 1918.
• ‘Another Father Mathew / American Clergyman’s Appeal’, Weekly 'Irish Independent', 6 Oct. 1934.
• ‘Historic Georgian Building on Cork Quay for Auction / South Parish Presbytery’, 'Evening Echo', 7 May 1965. The article refers to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC and the Capuchin Chapel on Blackamoor Lane near the South Gate Bridge in the city.
• ‘Fr. Mathew and the South Liberties / Historic Quarter of Cork Suburbs’, 'Cork Weekly Examiner', 14 June 1941.
• ‘Oratory requiem for Mr. Theobald Mathew’, 'The Universe', 30 June 1939. Theobald Mathew was a great-grand-nephew of the Apostle of Temperance.
• ‘Dublin memorial to Father Mathew’, 'Irish Independent', 10 Oct. 1939. Refers to the installation of a commemorative plaque on Father Mathew (formerly Whitworth) Bridge, in Dublin.
• ‘Night-long travel to honour Fr. Mathew’, 'Evening Echo', 23 June 1956.
• ‘Tipperary honours the noble name of Mathew’, 'The Tipperary Star', 1 July 1939. Refers to the unveiling of a memorial statue of Fr. Mathew in Thomastown, County Tipperary. The memorial was unveiled by Bishop David Mathew, a great-grand-nephew of Fr. Theobald. The ceremony was also attended by Éamon de Valera.
• ‘Work of Father Mathew / Kinsale Priest’s Lecture in Dunmanway’, 'Southern Star', 27 Apr. 1940.
• Fr. David Kelleher OFM Cap., ‘Fr. Mathew and the Young Irelanders’.
• ‘Father Mathew Tower, Glanmire Hill, Cork’, 'Irish Independent', 12 Jan. 1935.
• ‘The Queen and Father Mathew’, 'Irish Press', 10 July 1950.