Father Mathew and the Irish Temperance Movement
Author: Colm Kerrigan
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 258
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Author: Colm Kerrigan
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 258
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paul A. Townend
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 344
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Capuchin friar's temperance campaign from 1838 to 1848, says Townend (British and Irish history, U. of North Carolina- Wilmington) was the single most extraordinary social movement in pre-famine Ireland, and a unique mass mobilization in modern European history as measured by the number of people it involved and its impact on the social fabric and the evolving national consciousness. Mathew (1790-1856) campaigned in Ireland and in Irish diaspora communities in Scotland, England, and America. The book is distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: John F. Quinn
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 288
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"For centuries, the Irish have been famed, and often derided, for their attachment to alcohol. Yet in the 1830s and 1840s, Ireland became a temperance stronghold. The man almost singlehandedly responsible for this surprising transformation was Father Theobald Mathew (1790-1856), a popular Franciscan friar. Over a ten-year period, five million Irish men, women, and children took the pledge at his hands, while hundreds of public houses were forced to shut their doors or switch to selling coffee and tea. By the end of the 1840s, however, Mathew's "miracle" was already coming undone. The Great Famine was ravaging Ireland and Mathew's years of nonstop campaigning had left him sick, exhausted, and bankrupt. Undeterred, he traveled to the United States in 1849 to generate support and administer the pledge to as many new immigrants as he could find. Failing health forced him to return to Ireland where he died in 1856, leaving behind a weak and fragmented movement. In the late nineteenth century, several Irish priests revived Mathew, s crusade. In the United States, Irish American bishops supported the Catholic Total Abstinence Union (CTAU) and joined hands with the Women's Christian Temperance Union in their war against liquor. In Ireland, Father James Cullen formed the Pioneers, a total abstinence association for devout Catholics. While the CTAU languished after the United States Congress passed the Prohibition Amendment in 1919, the Pioneers continued to thrive in Ireland into the 1960s. Although the group, s membership has declined in recent years, there are still today a large number of Irish teetotallers."--Publisher's website.
Author: John Joseph Repcheck
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 280
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Published: 1844
Total Pages: 56
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Published: 1863
Total Pages: 584
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Published: 1840
Total Pages: 86
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Published: 1840
Total Pages: 86
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frank J. Mathew
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Published: 1890
Total Pages: 234
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 206
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