Книга: Patrick Augustine Sheehan «The Literary Life And Other Essays (1921)»
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Patrick Augustine Sheehan
The Very Rev. Patrick Augustine Canon Sheehan "in Gaelic: An Canónach Pádraig Aguistín Ó Síothcháin" (
Early life
Patrick Augustine Sheehan was born on
As a child, Sheehan was fair-haired and delicate with "large wistful blue eyes". He was described as "a bit of a dreamer, and when other lads were shouting at play, he went alone to some copse or thicket, and with a book, or more often without one, would sit and think, and look dreamily at floating clouds or running stream; and then, with a sigh go back to his desk".
At the age of eleven, Canon Sheehan lost both of his parents in quick succession and, together with his three surviving siblings, became the ward of the Parish Priest of Mallow, Dr. John McCarthy who later became
When Sheehan and his brother Denis, who subsequently joined the Civil Service, had been despatched to secondary school, his sisters entered the Convent of Mercy in Mallow. Margaret Sheehan made religious profession, as Sr. Mary Augustine, on her death-bed before completion of her novitiate. She died on
Hannah Sheehan was professed as Sr. Mary Stanislaus, and became Mistress of Schools at Mallow Convent but died young on
In his Under the Cedars and the Stars Canon Sheehan wrote of his childhood: "Strange I never felt the proximity of father and mother. But of my sisters, one in particular, the only dark-haired in the family, has haunted me through life. I no more doubt of her presence and her light touch on the issues of my life, than I doubt of the breath of wind that flutters the tassel of the biretta on my head. Yet what is strange is not her nearness but her farness".
Early education was received in the Long Room National School in Mallow. Of the school master he later wrote: "His range of attainments was limited, but what he knew he knew well, and could impart it to his pupils. He did his duty conscientiously by constant, unremitting care, and he emphasized his teaching by frequent appeals to the ferule".
One of his classmates there was the journalist and parliamentarian,
Maynooth years
After St Colman's, he passed through "the sphinx-guarded gates", as he called them, of St. Patrick's College
In his essay The Irish Priesthood and Politics Canon Sheehan gives a succinct description of his time in Maynooth: "I remember well that the impression made upon me by Maynooth College then, and afterwards, when I saw its long, stone corridors, its immense bare stony halls, the huge massive tables etc., was one of rude Cyclopean strength, without one single aspect or feature of refinement. So too with its studies. Rentless logic, with its formidable "chevaux-de-frise" of syllogisms, propositions, scholia; Metaphysics, sublime, but hardened into slabs of theories, congealed in medieval Latin; Physics, embracing a course that would have appalled a young Newton or Kepler; and then the vast shadow of four years' Divinity towering above and over-shadowing all!". The Maynooth literature course was hardly any better: "The Graces were nowhere! Even in the English literature or Belles-Lettres class, as it was called, the course seemed to be limited to hard grinding Grammar, and nothing more. During the first "semestre", a few lectures were given on literature. All I can ever remember of that period were the words 'Lake Poets', which the good professor was forever repeating".
In January 1870, Fr. O'Rourke, the Professor of French and English, whom Sheehan describes as a "very gentle, polished man", was obliged to leave the College and go abroad for health reasons. He was replaced by a young priest who was then just finishing his postgraduate research on the Dunboyne Establishment. Canon Sheehan regarded him as "one of the most remarkable, if not one of the most distinguished, students that ever passed through Maynooth". To the "young hero-worshippers, sick and tired of logic-chopping, and the awful dullness of the morning classes, he came as a herald of light and leading".
Swiftly, he opened to their "wondering eyes the vast treasures of European and, particularly, of English literature". It was at his feet that Canon Sheehan first heard the names of Carlyle, Tennyson, and Browning".
Priesthood
Canon Sheehan began his priestly ministry in the Cathedral Parish and in the former abbey church of St. Nicholas in
Canon Sheehan's appointment to Doneraile was an important one and an implicit indication of the trust and confidence placed in him by his bishop. It was the largest territorial parish in the Diocese of Cloyne and incorporated the medieval parishes of Templeroan, Doneraile, Caherduggan, and Rossagh. Bishop Matthew McKenna's Visitation Register of 1785 mentions that the parish of Doneraile had 683 habitations while Cahirduggan possessed 200 and Templeroan 120. It had a long tradition of distinguished pastors since candidates for appointment to Doneraile were often chosen for their ability to promote cordial relations with the St. Legers,
The religious climate in Doneraile, and the support of the St. Legers, had permitted an early restoration of Catholic structures which included a convent and schools (1818), and a fine Catholic Church (1827). The situation was such in Doneraile on August 8, 1869 that
ocial engagement
During his pastorate in Doneraile, Canon Sheehan established the custom of weekly meetings with his parishioners which were held on Sunday afternoons. In the early years, these meetings concentrated on apprising tenants of the conditions of the Land Purchase Acts, and of their concrete application to their circumstances. By 1903, practically all land leases had been bought out by the tenenary in Doneraile parish, without acrimony or agitation and on terms that were satisfactory to both landlord and tenant. From then on, Canon Sheehan concentrated on promoting modern agricultural methods, especially in tillage and dairy farming. The same meetings also resulted in a long series of social improvements in the town of Doneraile which saw the installation of a modern water supply system and the building of an advanced electrification plant.
He also took advantage of the Irish Labourers Act (1883) to pursue a plan to have all cabins demolished and replaced by a modern housing scheme. In all of these enterprises, Canon Sheehan could count on the support of
One of Canon Shehan's inherited pastoral duties in Doneraile, which he well acquitted, was to act as an independent intermediary between Viscount Doneraile and his tenantry; and between the tenantry and their landlord, so as to avoid the levels of agrarian strife experienced on beleaguered estates such as those of the nearby
While something of a traditional expectation of a 19th century Irish Parish Priest, this practical social "engagement" on Sheehan's part needs to be understood in the wider context of the Catholic intellectual response to the challenge thrown down to
As many of the contemporary theological journals published in Germany, Belgium and France make evident, Catholic theologians, rejecting
Writing to the editor of the Irish Ecclesiastical Record in 1913, the then Bishop's Secretary, Fr. William Browne, thus described Sheehan: "He was always courteous and polite, of course, but very silent. When he first came home as a young priest from England, he was stationed here in Queenstown. I rather thought that his silent, reserved manner would have kept people in awe of him, yet when he died, all the older generation had instances to relate of his unostentatious kindness, especially to the poor and sick".
In 1904 he was appointed a Canon of the Chapter of Cloyne and assigned to the prebendary of Kilenemer. He was conferred, "honoris causa", with a doctorate in Divinity in 1902.
Literary career
Canon Sheehan's literary career modestly began in 1881 with a series of essays published in
During this early period, Sheehan began long associations with
He attracted much attention in Ireland, England, on the continent as well as in the United States through his observations in literary and religious magazines on issues related to clerical life, education and philosophy. He wrote a number of children's stories and published works of poetry, his sermons and his collected essays. Several of his books were translated and published in German, French, Irish, Hungarian, Polish, Czech, Slovenian, Spanish and Italian.
Canon Sheehan is best remembered as a novelist; in his novel "My New Curate", recounts an incident of a clerical appointment that may well be autobiographical and refer to his arrival in Doneraile: "The Bishop sent for me and said, with what I would call a tone of pity or contempt, but he was incapable of either, for he was the essence of charity and sincerity: 'Father Dan, you are a bit of a "literateur", I understand. Kilronan is vacant. You'll have plenty of time for poetising and dreaming there. What do you say to it?' I put on a little dignity, and though my heart was beating with delight, I quietly thanked his Lordship. But, when I had passed beyond the reach of episcopal vision, which is far stretching enough, I spun my hat in the air, and shouted like a schoolboy: 'Hurrah!'".
Political activist
Canon Sheehan first became politically engaged after the passing of the
When William O'Brien launched his new movement, the
Canon Sheehan wrote the long editorial for the first issue of the League's new newspaper, O'Brien's radical Cork Free Press in June 1910, which was a manifestation of
Perhaps the most remarkable side of Canon Sheehan was his vision of a reorganised Irish society which he hoped would take shape in an Independent Ireland. His nationalism was neither exclusively Gaelic nor Catholic and best portrayed by him in his novel The Intellectuals (1911), whose archetypical characters of man and women of Catholic and Protestant background from Ireland, England and Scotland, meet to discuss current issues of the day, Sheehan in the preface saying "that his object was to show that there really was no invincible antagonism amongst the people who make up the commonwealth of Ireland that may not be removed by a freer and kindlier intercourse with each other".
Literary celebrity
Lord and Lady Castletown of
A ten-year correspondence ensued, ended only by Canon Sheehan's death. In a letter to the Jesuit Father
Canon Sheehan was diagnosed with a fatal illness in 1910 but refused to undergo surgery, carrying out his parish duties until he died of cancer on the evening of Rosary Sunday,
Publications
* Religious Instruction in Intermediate Schools. In: "The Irish Ecclesiastical Record", September 1881.
* The Effects of Emigration on the Church. In: "The Irish Ecclesiastical Record".
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* Emerson's Philosophy. In: "The Irish Ecclesiastical Record"
* Free-Thought in America. In: "The Irish Ecclesiastical Record".
* Education at German Universities. In: "The Irish Ecclesiastical Record".
* The German and Gallic Muse. In: "The Irish Ecclesiastical Record"
* Recent Works on St. Augustine. In: "The Dublin Review", July 1888.
* Geoffrey Austin, Student (1895)
* The Triumph of Failure (1901)
* My New Curate (1899) ISBN 0-85342-877-8
* Mein neuer Kaplan: Erzählung aus dem irischen Priesterleben, Cologne 1900
* Mariae Corona
* Collection of Sermons and Essays
* Luke Delmege(1901)
* Mon Nouveau Vicaire, Éditions Pierre Dumont, Limoges 1901
* The Canticle of the Magnificat, Dublin 1901
* Under the Cedars and the Stars(1902)
* Lost Angel of a Ruined Paradise. A Play (1903)
* Glenanaar (1904) ISBN 0-86278-195-7
* Geoffrey Austin (German translation), Cologne 1904
* A Spoiled Priest and Other Stories (1905)
* "Early Essays and Lectures". London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1906.
* Der Erfolg des Misserfolgs, Kalenkirchen 1906
* Succès dans l'Échec, Éditions P. Lethielleux, Paris 1906
* Mūj Nový Kaplan, Otto, Prague 1906
* Lisheen (1907)
* Ange Egaré d'un Paradis Ruiné, Éditions P. Lethielleux, Paris 1907
* Das Christtagskind, Styl, c.1907
* Parerga (1908)
* Mi Nuevo Caodjutor: Sucesos de la vida de un anciano parroco irlandés; traduccion espanola por M.R. Blanco del Monte, Friburgo de Bresgovia (1908)
* The Blindness of Dr. Gray, or, The Final Law (1909)
* Dolina Krvi (Glenenaar), Lubliana 1909
* Pohozené Dítě: Novella, Kotrab, Prague 1909
* Mi Nuevo Coadjutor, Madrid 1910
* The Intellectuals. An Experiment in Irish High Club-Life (1911)
* The Queen's Fillet (1911)
* Von Dr. Grays Blindheit, Einsiedeln 1911
* Miriam Lucas (1912)
* Lukas Delmege, Regensburg 1912
* Lukáš Delmege, Kralín, Prague 1912
* Lisheen oder Der Průfstein der Geister, Einsiedeln 1914
* The Graves at Kilmorna (1915)
* Miriam Lucas (German translation), Einsiedeln 1918
* Der Ausgestoßener, Saarlouis 1920
* Die Gräber von Kilmorna, Einsiedeln 1926
* Das Haarband der Königin, Einsiedeln 1919
* Cithara Mea. Poems
* Our Personal and Social Responsibilities, Dublin
* Thoughts on the Immaculate Conception, Dublin 1924
* Mnisi z Trabolganu, Warsaw 1924
* Sprawa Odłożna; Mnisi z Trabolganu: Opowiadnia, Warsaw 1924
* Tristram Lloyd, (1928)
* The Greatest Doctor, Dublin 1930
* Tristram Lloyd, Éditions P. Lethielleux, Paris 1930
* Gleann an Air: Uirsceal ar Shaoghal i nEirinn, Dublin 1931
* Luke Delmege (Spanish translation), Castellano, Londres 1932
* How Character is Formed, Dublin 1933
* An Sagart Óg, Dublin 1935
* Tristram Lloyd (Spanish translation), Madrid
* Tristram Lloyd, (Italian translation), Alba 1942
* Il Mio Nuovo Cappellano, Roma 1954
* Il Trionfo dell'Insuccesso, Francavilla-al-mare 1968
* La Benda della Regina, Milano 1970
Bibliography
* Anonymous: "Der Erfolg des Mißerfolges". In: "Stimmen aus
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* Lizzie Twigg: "Songs and Poems ... With introduction by ... Canon Sheehan". Longmans & Co.: London, 1905.
* Cardinal Désiré Félicien François Joseph Mercier, Archbishop of Malines: "Cardinal Mercier’s Conferences delivered to his Seminarists at Mechlin in 1907". Translated from the French by J. M. O’Kavanagh. With an introduction by the Very Rev. P. A. Canon Sheehan. London: R. & T. Washbourne 1910.
* Et Cetera. In: "The Tablet", October 22, 1913.
* "The souvenir of Canon Sheehan being extracts from his writings made by a Sister of the Presentation Convent, Doneraile". London: Burns and Oates, 1914.
* Herman Joseph Heuser: "Canon Sheehan of Doneraile: the story of an Irish parish priest as told chiefly by himself in books, personal memoirs, und letters". New York: Longmans & Co., 1917
* Francis Boyle (Curate of Cooley, Carlingford): "Canon Shehan: a Sketch of his Life and Works". Dublin: M. H. Gill & Son 1927.
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* Joseph Metzger: "Das Katolische Schrifttum im heutigen England". Munich 1935
* Michael P. Linehan: "Canon Sheehan of Doneraile: Priest, Novelist, Man of Letters". Dublin: Talbot Press 1952.
* John Hennig: "A Note on Canon Sheehan's Interest in German Literature". In: "The Modern Language Review", 49 [1954] , pp. 352-355.
* Kenneth Macgowan: "Canon Sheehan of Doneraile". [With a portrait.] . Dublin: Catholic Truth Society of Ireland 1963.
* Brendan Clifford: "Canon Sheehan: A Turbulent Priest". Millstreet, Co. Cork: Aubane Historical Society; Dublin: Irish Heritage Society, 1990. ISBN 1-873063-00-8
* Michael Barry: "By Pen and Pulpit: Life and Times of the Author Canon Sheehan". Saturn Books, 1990. ISBN 0-9515387-1-3
* David Henry Burton (Hrsg.): "Holmes-Sheehan Correspondence: The letters of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and Canon Patrick Augustine Sheehan". Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1976. ISBN 0804691649 Revised edition: Fordham University Press 1993. ISBN 0823215253
* Catherine Candy: "Priestly Fictions: Popular Irish Novelists of the Early 20th. Century; Patrick A. Sheehan, Joseph Guinam, Gerald O'Donovan". Dublin: Wolfhound Press 1995. ISBN 0-86327-334-3
* Robert Forde: "Canon Sheehan: Unpublished Manuscripts 1". In: "Journal of the Mallow Field Club", no. 13 [1995]
* Ruth Fleischmann: "Catholic Nationalism in the Irish Revival: A Study of Canon Sheehan 1852-1913". Basingstoke: Palgrave McMillan 1997. ISBN 0-333-68943-7 ; ISBN 0-312-17366-0
* Gerard Moran (editor): "Radical Irish Priests, 1660-1970". Dublin: Four Courts Press 1998. ISBN 1-85182-249-6; ISBN 1-85182-281-X
* Robert Forde: "Canon Sheehan: Unpublished Manuscripts 2". In: "Journal of the Mallow Field Club", no. 20 [2002]
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