Arial Father Mathew's crusade : temperance in nineteenth-century Ireland and Irish America / John F. QuinnArial Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2002 Introduction 1 Ch. 1 Ireland in the 1830s 10 Ch. 2 Drink and Temperance before Mathew's Crusade 40 Ch. 3 Mathew's "Miracle," 1838-1840 57 Ch. 4 "Temperance Principles Are All but Universal," 1841-1844 86 Ch. 5 Temperance in Crisis, 1844-1845 116 Ch. 6 The Famine Years, 1846-1849 129 Ch. 7 Mathew's American Tour and Final Years, 1849-1856 154 Ch. 8 Mathew's Legacy: Temperance after 1880 172   Notes 195   Bibliography 239   Index 257 viii, 262 p., [12] p. of plates