File 3 - Programme for Father Mathew Commemoration at The Brompton Oratory

4 copies; 20 pp; Printed

Programme for an event at The Brompton Oratory, London, to mark the 150th anniversary of Fr. Mathew’s death. The programme provides an illustrated history of the life of Fr. Mathew and the subsequent commemorations of his temperance campaign. The programme includes photographic prints of:
The Father Mathew Tower, Cork.
The Father Mathew Statue by John Foley, erected on 10 Oct. 1864.
The Father Mathew statue, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, erected in 1876.
The Father Mathew Statue by Mary Redmond, O’Connell Street, Dublin, unveiled in 1893.
The chalice presented by Lady Elizabeth Mathew to her kinsman, Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC, now held in Holy Trinity Church, Cork.
Charles Lysaght, barrister and collateral descendant of Fr. Mathew, in St. Joseph’s Cemetery in Cork.