Catch-my-Pal

[3] While he was on a tour of the United States Patterson told the Springfield Republican about the organisation's founding: … there were 32 men in my study … some of the biggest blackguards and boozers and drunkards in the town were there.

When we grew a little bigger we changed the ‘City’ to ‘County’ and then we dropped the first two words of the title altogether and [in October 1910], we had over 130,000 enrolled members.

[5] The organisation flourished in the years before the First World War, in which many of its members fought, and continued in existence in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Australia through the 1950s and 1960s.

While the last actual club closed in 1970,[6] there is a snooker hall in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland bearing the name Catch-my-Pal but it is not a temperance organisation.

[7] A 'Blue Plaque' historical marker was erected on the facade of The Mall Meeting House, Armagh, to Robert Patterson on 20 September 2019 and was unveiled by the Moderator of the General Assembly, Rev.