Knights of Father Mathew
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The Knights of Father Mathew was a Catholic temperance society founded by Fr Theobald Matthew in Ireland which promoted complete abstinence from intoxicating liquors.
Statue of Father Mathew in St. Patrick's Street, Cork, Ireland
Father Mathew
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Theobald Mathew was an Irish Catholic priest, member of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, and teetotalist reformer, popularly known as Father Mathew. He was born at Thomastown, near Golden, County T
Knights of Father Mathew
…The Knights of Father Mathew was a Catholic temperance society founded by Fr Theobald Matthew in Ireland which promoted complete abstinence from intoxicating liquors. It was founded in Cork in 1838 by Theobald Mathew, a Capuchin friar – generally…
Theobald Mathew, by Edward Daniel Leahy
The Father Mathew monument in its former location on Dublin's O'Connell Street
Commemoration plaque of Father Mathew Bridge over the River Liffey