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FRANCIS SYLVESTER MAHONY (18o4-1866)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 424 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRANCIS See also:SYLVESTER See also:MAHONY (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 . See also: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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