| Collection Description | The Pioneer Total Abstinence Association (PTAA) was founded in Dublin in the Presbytery of St Francis Xavier Church,
Gardiner Street in December 1898 by Fr James Cullen, SJ. Present at that first meeting were four well known Dublin
women, Mrs Anne Egan, Miss Lizzie Power, Mrs Mary Bury and Mrs A.M. Sullivan. Although little is known of these
four women they formed the first group of an Association that would grow to become one of the most prominent
Catholic movements in the first half of the twentieth century in Ireland. An essential component of the Association was
devotion to the Sacred Heart with a focus on the spiritual element in the work of the PTAA. [UCD Archives] |
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