Father Mathew's Crusade Temperance in Nineteenth-Century Ireland and Irish America |
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| Author:
| Quinn, John F. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-55849-340-7 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2002 |
| Publisher: | University of Massachusetts Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $27.95 |
Book Description:
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A chronicle of the mercurial rise, fall and revival of the Irish temperance movement. It examines how a popular Franciscan friar, Father Theobald Mathew, was almost single-handedly responsible for the transformation of Ireland into a temperance stronghold in the 1830s and 40s.
A chronicle of the mercurial rise, fall and revival of the Irish temperance movement. It examines how a popular Franciscan friar, Father Theobald Mathew, was almost single-handedly responsible for the transformation of Ireland into a temperance stronghold in the 1830s and 40s.