Talk:Matt Talbot

New article
OK. I just wrote my first Wikipedia article. On the fifth link there is a (battered) picture of him but I didn't know how to extract it and put it in here. I've never seen another photo of him. It would be a good addition. I also didn't know how to footnote. There is dispute about when he was made venerable- some sources say 1973; others 1975. The sixth link gives a precise date of October 3 1975. I don't know whether the analogy with the de Niro character in The Mission is appropriate for Wikipedia but I put it in anyway.El Gringo 04:59, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Matt Talbot in 1913 Lockout
Does anyone know if it's true that Matt Talbot was a scab during 1913 lockout?
 * As a member of the ITGWU, he couldn't have scabbed even if he wanted to. This is just one of those nasty rumours that people like to put about. Scolaire 13:33, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Temperance
In the second part of his autobiography, The History of an Irish Rebel, Brendan Behan discusses Matt Talbot. He mentions that Talbot was a figure of ridicule  in working class Dublin due to his piousness, interestingly Behan (as a contemporary) believed that Talbot's image was highjacked by middleclass catholics to encourage temperance among the working classes, an image that has been cultivated and is still in use today by catholic publications.

Father Ted: Mattie Hislop
Is the fictional self-denying Mattie Hislop based on Matt Talbot? The resemblances are strong, and Graham Linehan went to Catholic University School, Dublin, where there was a strong respect for Matt Talbot.
 * Ha, that's exactly what I was thinking.86.1.196.156 (talk) 03:41, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Infobox
I've made a start on an infobox, but I've run into a couple of problems: Any help appreciated. Scolaire 20:23, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) Technical: adding the image puts "center]]" to the right of the box (I've left a query in template talk too).
 * 2) On a Google search I cannot tell whether his feast day is 18th or 19th of June.
 * Technical problem now fixed. Thanks, Csernica.

A man of sobriety
On 1 April (is the date a coincidence?) an IP changed "His father was a heavy drinker, as later were most of his brothers" to "His father was a man of sobriety, yet most of his brothers were heavy drinkers." In the absence of citations, it is reasonable to assume that the original text was correct. Scolaire (talk) 14:45, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

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