Arial Father Mathew, temperance and Irish identity / Paul A. TownendArial Dublin ; Portland, OR : Irish Academic Press, 2002 Introduction: The Temperance Crusade in Ireland, 1838-1848 1 1 A Moral Revolution 9 2 The Movement Explodes 33 3 Temperance Triumphant: A Moral Revolution Achieved 55 4 The Rhetorical Consensus: The Ideology of Temperance 83 5 Temperance Ritual and Practice 114 6 The Cork Total Abstinence Society and the Church 139 7 The Confluence of Temperance and Repeal 192 8 Temperance in Decline, 1843-1856 235   Conclusion 261   Notes 271   Bibliography 307   Appendix 316   Index 325 viii, 327 p. : maps ; 24 cm ISBN 0716527375