Talk:Matt Talbot

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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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.