Maynooth years Patrick Augustine Sheehan

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sheehan, @ time of ordination, 1875



in essay irish priesthood , politics sheehan gives succinct description of time in maynooth: remember impression made upon me maynooth college then, , afterwards, when saw long, stone corridors, immense bare stony halls, huge massive tables etc., 1 of rude cyclopean strength, without 1 single aspect or feature of refinement. studies. rentless logic, formidable chevaux-de-frise of syllogisms, propositions, scholia; metaphysics, sublime, hardened slabs of theories, congealed in medieval latin; physics, embracing course have appalled young newton or kepler; , vast shadow of 4 years divinity towering above , over-shadowing all! . maynooth literature course hardly better: graces nowhere! in english literature or belles-lettres class, called, course seemed limited hard grinding grammar, , nothing more. during first semestre, few lectures given on literature. can ever remember of period words lake poets , professor forever repeating .


in january 1870, fr. o rourke, professor of french , english, whom sheehan describes gentle, polished man , obliged leave college , go abroad health reasons. replaced fr. james j. murphy (1841-1875), young priest of archdiocese of dublin, finishing postgraduate research on dunboyne establishment. sheehan regarded him 1 of remarkable, if not 1 of distinguished, students ever passed through maynooth . young hero-worshippers, sick , tired of logic-chopping, , awful dullness of morning classes, came herald of light , leading .


swiftly, opened wondering eyes vast treasures of european and, particularly, of english literature . @ feet sheehan first heard names of carlyle, tennyson, , browning.







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