Canon Sheehan Research Volume

A bound volume compiled by Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. containing letters, clippings, and ephemera relating to Canon Patrick Sheehan. A manuscript note by Fr. Senan on the opening page reads ‘Canon P.A. Sheehan / 1852-1913’. Some of the commemorative material is original and was seemingly collected by Fr. Senan and pasted into the volume. The file includes: • A postcard portrait print of Canon Sheehan titled ‘The Author of ‘My New Curate” etc’. • ‘Supplement to the “Cork Free Press”, October 18t

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Date
c.1890-1952
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2
Extent and medium
54 pp; 31.5 cm x 7.5 cm; Bound volume; manuscript; typescript; postcard print; photographic print
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A bound volume compiled by Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. containing letters, clippings, and ephemera relating to Canon Patrick Sheehan. A manuscript note by Fr. Senan on the opening page reads ‘Canon P.A. Sheehan / 1852-1913’. Some of the commemorative material is original and was seemingly collected by Fr. Senan and pasted into the volume. The file includes: • A postcard portrait print of Canon Sheehan titled ‘The Author of ‘My New Curate” etc’. • ‘Supplement to the “Cork Free Press”, October 18th, 1913 / The Late Canon Sheehan, P.P., D.D. Doneraile’. • Postcard prints of the ‘Lady Altar and War Memorial, the Cathedral Church of St. Mary and St. Boniface, Plymouth’. • Clippings and correspondence relating to ‘The Capuchin Annual’ prize for an essay on Canon Sheehan marking the centenary of his birth (1952). The correspondents include Sister M. Stanislaus (Presentation Convent, Doneraile, County Cork), Winefride Nolan (Aughrim, County Wicklow), Thomas MacGreevy, P. Invers Rigney, Liam Brophy, and Fr. John O. Buchmann (Saint Leo’s Rectory, Irvington, New Jersey). • Letter from Francis William Doyle Jones, sculptor, 2 Wentworth Studios, Manresa Road, Chelsea, London, to a Mr. Gallagher, returning the books and photographs which he had sent him. Doyle Jones completed a memorial statue of Canon Sheehan in Doneraile in 1925. The letter is dated 12 Oct. 1925. • Letters from Sister M. Conception and Sister M. Benignus (Presentation Convent, Doneraile, County Cork) to Fr. Senan forwarding information, recollections, clippings, notes, and suggestions for content on Canon Sheehan to be published in ‘The Capuchin Annual’. (Sept.-Oct. 1951; Feb. 1952). • Letter from Sophie Raffalovich O’Brien to Fr. Senan regarding her article on Canon Sheehan. (3 Oct. 1951). • Clipping of an article titled ‘Canon Sheehan at home in Doneraile’ published in ‘The Irish Monthly’ (Aug. 1915). • Clipping of an article by P. Thompson titled ‘Canon Sheehan / Priest and Novelist / The Mission of a Great Munsterman’. (‘Cork Examiner’, 20 Jan. 1934). • Poem titled ‘In Memory of Rev. Canon Sheehan’ by “Lis Mor” published in ‘The Leader’ (6 Feb. 1915). • Clipping of an article by Professor William Frederick Paul Stockley titled ‘Canon Sheehan and his People’ (‘The Kerryman’, 21 Mar. 1934’). • Clipping of an article titled ‘Concerning the author of “Luke Delmege”’ published in ‘The Irish Monthly’ (Dec. 1902). • Postcard print of Lisdoonvarna with annotations (by Fr. Senan) identifying Fr. Tim O’Keeffe, Fr. Horgan PP, and Canon Patrick Sheehan. The photograph was most likely taken at Lisdoonvarna Spa in County Clare (c.1905). • Typescript article by D.L. Kelleher titled ‘Canon Sheehan: Philosopher and Friend’. Includes a transcript of a letter from Sheehan to Kelleher dated 27 Aug. 1913. • Memoriam card for Canon Patrick Sheehan ‘who died on the 5th October 1913 / aged 61 years’. • Clipping of a poetic tribute by Maurice R. Cussen to the late Canon Sheehan ‘for the unveiling of his memorial statue at Doneraile’ (‘Weekly Examiner’, Oct. 1925). • Clippings of photographic prints of the unveiling of the statue (by Francis William Doyle Jones) of Canon Patrick Sheehan in the churchyard in Doneraile (‘Cork Examiner’, 19 Oct. 1925). Manuscript notes identifying the individuals present in the photographs are attached. The notes were probably written by Sister M. Conception, Presentation Convent, Doneraile. • Clipping of article reporting on the funeral of Canon Patrick Sheehan (‘Weekly Free Press’, 15 Oct. 1913). • Typescript copy of a ‘Resolution of Regret from the Charleville Irish Land and Labour Association’ on the death of Canon Sheehan. Taken from the Weekly Free Press (18 Oct. 1913). • Copy reflections on the life of Canon Sheehan by Sister M. Ita O’Connell and Sister M. Conception (Presentation Convent, Doneraile, County Cork). • Photographic print of the three-storey parochial house in Doneraile, the former home of Canon Patrick Sheehan. (c.1951). • Clippings from the ‘Cork Examiner’ re the centenary celebrations of the birth of Canon Sheehan in Mallow, County Cork. (10 Nov. 1952). • Photographic prints of a bust of Canon Sheehan by Joseph Higgins (1885-1925).
Physical characteristics
The front cover of the volume is badly torn and frayed at the edges. Internally, most of the documents are firmly secured but ripped pages from the volume has weakened the spine binding. Careful manual handling is required.
General note
Biographical Information Thomas MacGreevy: https://www.dib.ie/biography/macgreevy-thomas-a5218 Francis William Doyle Jones: https://www.dib.ie/biography/jones-francis-william-doyle-a4323 Sophie Raffalovich O’Brien: https://www.dib.ie/biography/obrien-sophie-raffalovich-a6495 Joseph Higgins: https://www.adams.ie/irish-artist-directory/joseph-higgins-art-sold-at-auction
Repository
Irish Capuchin Archives
Context
Irish Capuchin Archives > Papers of 'The Capuchin Annual' and the Irish Capuchin Publications Office > Papers of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. > Papers relating to Canon Patrick Sheehan

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  • IN MEMORY OF REV. CANON SHEEHAN.
  • P. H. Canon Sheehan
  • A white marble beltic cross, outside the Parish Church of Doneraile, marks the grave of Canon Sheehan. The epitaph, selected by himself — "Master where dwellest thon? But Jesus ans…
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Lisdoonvarna. skelter. P.P. T. Tim Mr. Horsar Canon Shelby

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THE AUTHOR OF "MY NEWCURATE" ETC."

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KEN. 8358. 2, WENTWORTH STUDIOS, MANRESA ROAD, CHELSEA. LONDON, S.W. OCT 12. 1925. Dear Mr Gullagher / Kenneth books or photographs & copy of paper you kindly sent me earlier for which many thanks Yours faithfully Fr Doyle Gover /

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IN MEMORY OF REV. CANON SHEEHAN. How shall we mourn his passing—scholar, poet, saint, How do him honour who no honour sought? He fled from praise, but now unsealed our lips' restraint To chant a pæan o'er the work he wrought For God and Land—all else he heeded not. The glamour of the world was nought to his great soul— He shunned life's garish ways—that prayerful heart Found peace in solitude, for there he saw unroll Those visions of the saint's and poet's art Which only to the few their light impart. Two loves absorbed his soul: God and his native land— The essence of the saint's—the patriot's creed; They were his very being, thus his magic wand Showed us the higher things, taught us the need Of nobler lives for faith and country freed. Austere and calm—he walked and prayed in lonely ways, Prayed while he mourn'd o'er his loved country's fate, Yet seer-like saw, with proud and kindling gaze, The dawn of glory o'er the night of hate— Then that calm heart beat strong and passionate. For from his boyhood's hour he sighed and hoped for her, Through failure, doubt, despair, he saw hope's star— Prayed at the sacred altar as God's minister Her faith should triumph in a bloodless war, And spread her glories o'er the earth afar. And only one regret o'er-shadowed that great heart Ere on its weariness the great Light shone, That from his own dear isle his wistful soul should part Before the shadows of the night had gone Beneath the glories of its Freedom's dawn. And so he slept on Mary's Feast—the Rosary— Be sure for that he prayed, he loved her so From that ecstatic hour, when hoping trustingly He felt th' anointing oil awake the glow None but the chosen Levite e'er may know. Not Ireland's only he: the Celtic world claims him; From Southern Cross to where the North winds rave, Our race prays for his soul, and many an eye grows dim, And turns all wistful towards his far-off grave In Desmond's vale by gentle Mullagh's wave. Here where his wondrous genius at its zenith glowed, Each spot he loved shall whisper of his fame— The stream, the bridge, the village street, the shady road, The wood, the Convent mount repeat his name— So fond tradition shall his worth proclaim. "Twas fitting here his faithful soul should pass to God, Here where he toiled death broke its prison bars, "Twas here amongst his own he wished his last abode— Hushed in Earth's mantle from life's fretting jars, He sleeps " beneath the Cedars and the Stars." Leaden 6.2.1915 "LIS MOR," Dublin.

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