Gems of Architecture

By Damian Murphy The Tipperary-born Father Theobald Mathew (1790–1856) established the Knights of Father Mathew, a Catholic temperance society, in 1838. Such was the interest in his cause—three million had taken the pledge by the mid-1840s—and such was its impact on society, particularly in the reduction in crime, that he was celebrated in his day … Read more