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The Very Reverend Patrick Augustine Canon Sheehan (in Irish: ''An Canónach Pádraig Aguistín Ó Síothcháin''; 17 March 1852 – 5 October 1913) was an Irish Catholic priest, author and political activist. He was invariably known and referred to as Canon Sheehan of Doneraile, having been appointed on 4 July 1895 as Parish Priest of Doneraile, where he wrote almost all of his major works. ==Early life== Patrick Augustine Sheehan was born on St Patrick's Day, 1852, at 29 New Street in Mallow in the north of County Cork. Third eldest of five children born to Patrick Sheehan, owner of a small business, and to Joanna Regan, he was baptised by The Very Reverend Dr. John McCarthy, the sponsors being Timothy Cronin and Mary Ann Relehan. 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". Canon Sheehan's father died on 13 July 1863 and his mother died on 6 February 1864. Following the loss of his parents, together with his three surviving siblings, he became the ward of the Parish Priest of Mallow, Dr. John McCarthy who later became Bishop John McCarthy of Cloyne. Responsibility for the Sheehan household devolved on his older sisters Hannah and Margaret. 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 7 November 1868. Hannah Sheehan was professed as Sr. Mary Stanislaus, and became Mistress of Schools at Mallow Convent but died young on 17 December 1871. John, the youngest of the family, died at the age of five.〔Cf. ''Autobiographical Note'' in James O'Brien, ''The Collected Letters of Canon Sheehan of Doneraile 1883–1913, pp. 293–295, SMENOS Publications (Wells) 2013ISBN 9780957552111〕〔Matthew Russell, ''The Author of My New Curate'' in ''The Dolphin'', pp. 12–20, no. 1, January 1902〕 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, William O'Brien M.P., with whom he was to ally himself in later years. He completed secondary education in St Colman's College, Fermoy, at a time which coincided with the Fenian Rising, the events of which were to have a profound effect on him. He returned to the theme of violent insurrection in several of his novels, most notably ''The Graves at Kilmorna'', recounting Fenian incidents witnessed by him while a student in Fermoy. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Patrick Augustine Sheehan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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