Life
1856-1925; ‘servant of God’; ed. O’Connell CBS; alcoholic, left Board of Ports and Docks in disgrace; Pledge of total abstinence, 1884; gave up tobacco; ascetic practices; room in Gloucester St.; spiritual guidance from Dr. Hickey of Clonliffe; worked in Martin’s timberyard; read socialist literature incl. joined in 1913 strike, but remained inactive; disability benefit of 37.5p.; collapsed Granby Row, and was discovered to be wearing chains on waist, arm, and leg; declared ‘Venerable’ 1976; plaque at Rutland Buildings; new Liffey Bridge named after him; he is the subject of play by Thomas Kilroy. DIB FDA OCIL
1856-1925; ‘servant of God’; ed. O’Connell CBS; alcoholic, left Board of Ports and Docks in disgrace; Pledge of total abstinence, 1884; gave up tobacco; ascetic practices; room in Gloucester St.; spiritual guidance from Dr. Hickey of Clonliffe; worked in Martin’s timberyard; read socialist literature incl. joined in 1913 strike, but remained inactive; disability benefit of 37.5p.; collapsed Granby Row, and was discovered to be wearing chains on waist, arm, and leg; declared ‘Venerable’ 1976; plaque at Rutland Buildings; new Liffey Bridge named after him; he is the subject of play by Thomas Kilroy. DIB FDA OCIL
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Criticism
Joseph Aloysius Glynn, A Life of Matt Talbot (1926) [var. 1928: DIW].
M. G. Carroll, The Story of Matt Talbot (Cork 1948).
Mary Purcell, Matt Talbot and His Times, with foreword by John Charles McQuaid, Archb. of Dublin (Dublin: Gill & Son 1954), 278pp.
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Notes
Seamus Deane, gen. ed., Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (Derry: Field Day 1991), Vol. 3: remarks at pp.1141, 1307.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)