Despite my longtime interest in the Good Templar fraternal temperance
society I had missed the following relevant article until recently
(probably because Good Templar doesn't appear in the title):
 
Catherine McCullough, "'It Wasn't My Cup of Tea, Drinking': A Study
of an Early Twentieth Century Temperance Society in the North of
Ireland," Ulster Folklore 37 (1991): 23-29.  The article is based on
an oral history deposited at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum.
 
Finding the article prompts me to ask: are there oral histories of
other temperance societies (e.g., WCTU)?
 
Years ago the then secretary of a Good Templar organization, the
Grand Lodge of Scotland, told me that a television network taped a
recent annual meeting.  I do not know which television company or whether
the videotape ever was broadcast.
 
David M. Fahey
History Department
Miami University
Oxford, OH 45056-1618, USA
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