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Excerpt from Literary Life, Essay, Poems
Canon Sheehan needs no editor's introduction, even to the present generation, though it has lived to see an Ireland vitally different from that so affectionately described in his reminiscent essay, The Moonlight of Memory - as different, perhaps, as that rather unheroic epoch was from the time of Sarsfield. That essay and another, Lenten Time in Doneraile, in which he tells of an aspect of our national life which is splendidly unchanging, were written only a year or two before his death. The rest are of much earlier date. The papers on literature were delivered as lectures some thirty years ago. The political and religious essays are for the most part the work of the same period of Canon Sheehan's life, and any topical allusions in them explain themselves. 1896 is the date of the admirable but discarded preface to The Triumph of Failure, which was itself first published in 1899. The Dawn of the Century was delivered as a lecture in 1904.
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