Father Mathew's crusade : temperance in nineteenth-century Ireland and Irish America / John F. Quinn.

Amherst ; Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, [2002], ©2002.

viii, 262 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-255) and index.

Ireland in the 1830s -- Drink and Temperance before Mathew's Crusade -- Mathew's "Miracle," 1838-1840 -- "Temperance Principles Are All but Universal," 1841-1844 -- Temperance in Crisis, 1844-1845 -- The Famine Years, 1846-1849 -- Mathew's American Tour and Final Years, 1849-1856 -- Mathew's Legacy: Temperance after 1880.