File 9 - Newspaper cuttings commemorating Father Mathew

16 items; Newspaper clippings

File of newspaper clippings mainly re various anniversaries and commemorations connected with Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC and the temperance campaign. Many of the articles refer to sermons and talks on temperance made by Fr. Thomas Dowling OSFC (1874-1951). The file includes:
• ‘The anniversary celebration at St. Mary’s Cathedral Temperance Hall’. Refers to a lecture on the Apostle of Temperance by Fr. Thomas Dowling OSFC. 'Cork Examiner', Oct. 1899.
• ‘The vigil of Father Mathew’s Anniversary / Rejoicing in the city’, 'Evening Echo', 10 Oct. 1899.
• ‘Father Mathew Anniversary / Oration by Very Rev. Fr. Thomas OSFC / References to Home Rule / Brilliant Discourse’, 'Cork Examiner', 12 Oct. 1912.
• ‘Mathew Anniversary / Father Mathew Hall’, 'Evening Echo', 11 Oct. 1917.
• ‘Has prohibition a heretical tendency / A Franciscan on temperance’. Refers to an address by Fr. Thomas Dowling OSFC in Dublin on the anniversary of Fr. Mathew’s birth. 'Catholic Herald', 15 Oct. 1921.
• ‘Address at Father Mathew Anniversary Celebration’, 'Freeman’s Journal', 11 Oct. 1921.
• ‘Father Mathew Anniversary / Cork’s distinguished son honoured / imposing procession’, 'Cork Examiner', 18 Oct. 1902.
• ‘Mathew Celebrations / Fr. Mathew Hall’, 'Cork Examiner', 12 Oct. 1918.

Some of the clippings in this file are extremely fragile. Careful manual handling is required.