Canon Sheehan of Doneraile the Story of an Irish Parish Priest, As Told Chiefly By Himself (Classic Reprint)

Patrick Augustine Sheehan is that of a modest country pastor in the south of I reland who made a great name as a writer of fiction, poetry, and thoughtful essay. Between 1895 and 1910 he had published fifteen volumes. They are: Geoffrey Austin The Triumph of Failurey My New Cura UyL uke Delmegey The Blindness of Dr. Grayj Glenanaarj Lisbeen, Miriam Lucas The Slueens Fillet Under the Cedars and the Starsy Parerga The Intellectuals Citbara Mea (a volume of poems), and Mariae Corona (sermons in honor of Our Lady). Besides these, he wrote a number of Essays and Criticisms. A nother novel, dealing with the I rish uprising in 1867, and bearing the title The Graves at Kilmornay was published after his death. Some of his books gained at once an international reputation, and were translated into German, French, I talian, Spanish, Dutch, Hungarian, Slavonic, and Russian (R uthenian). These writings not only reveal his special gifts as a thinker and writer, but they allow us to form a fair estimate of his character as a man; of his aims and ideals as a priest and pastor of souls; and they record many actual experiences which gave direction and emphasis to these aims. Canon Sheehan wrote his novels as a travelled man tells his adventures to young folk. His poetic gift made him clothe the incidents in the vesture of romance, with a moral vista behind the action of his story, to draw the attention of the reader to higher things.
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