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MAHONY, FRANCIS SYLVESTER (18o4-1866)

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MAHONY, See also:FRANCIS See also:SYLVESTER (18o4-1866) , known as " See also:Father See also:Prout," Irish See also:priest and author, son of a woollen manufacturer, was See also:born in See also:Cork in 1804. His classical See also:education was chiefly obtained at a Jesuit See also:college at See also:Amiens, and after studying in See also:Paris he entered the Jesuit college at See also:Rome and was admitted into the Society of Jesus. He served inv See also:Switzerland and at Clongoweswood, See also:Ireland, where he was See also:prefect of studies and subsequently See also:master of See also:rhetoric. Here he was involved in scandals that led to his resignation. On going to See also:Italy he was told at See also:Florence that he was expelled from the Society. He succeeded, however, in obtaining priest's orders at Rome in 1832, and returned to Ireland, but subsequently went to See also:London, officiating for some See also:time in the See also:chapel of the Bavarian See also:Legation. While there he See also:fell in with See also:William See also:Maginn, and about 1834 began to contribute his celebrated " Prout Papers " to See also:Fraser's See also:Magazine. These consist of episodes in the See also:life of the See also:parish priest " Father Prout," and dialogues after the See also:model of " See also:Christopher See also:North," varied by See also:translations of well-known See also:English songs into Latin, See also:Greek, See also:French and See also:Italian See also:verse, which he humorously represents as being the true originals from which the English authors had merely plagiarized them. Mahony's translations have been universally admired for the extraordinary command which they display of the various See also:languages into which his renderings are made, and for their spirit and freedom both of thought and expression. His See also:original verse tends chiefly to show that with all his sarcastic and cynical wit his See also:genius had also its See also:tender, serious and sentimental See also:side. His " Bells of Shandon has always been greatly admired. In 1846 Mahony became correspondent at Rome to the Daily See also:News, and his letters from that See also:capital gave very vivid pictures of the first years of the reign of See also:Pius IX.

The last twelve or fifteen years of his life were spent in Paris, whence he supplied the Globe with a See also:

series of piquant letters on the incidents of the See also:day. He died in Paris on the 18th of May 1866. The Reliques of Father Prout were collected from Fraser's Magazine and published in two volumes in 1836; The Final Reliques of Father Prout, chiefly extracted from the Daily News and the Globe, were edited by See also:Blanchard See also:Jerrold in 1876, and an edition of his See also:works, edited by See also:Charles See also:Kent, was published in 1881.

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