Reviews of Canon Sheehan publications
The Collected Letters of Canon Sheehan of Doneraile 1883 to 1913
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"... a primary source for the Canon's life and works".
Norah O'Keeffe, Book launch, Springford Hall, 2 April 2013 "These [letters] reveal the priest's intense commitment to Irish education, largely in the belief that only through a cultured Irish Catholic intelligentsia could national freedom and international respect be obtained". Mary Leyland, Irish Times, 30 April 2013 "This is a masterpiece and gives a huge insight into the mind and thinking of Canon Sheehan and of those closely associated with his life". Liam Kelleher, Vale Star, 2 May 2013 "...an important contribution to the task of rediscovering an important Catholic writer and a significant contributor to Irish Catholic literature". George Cardinal Pell, Archbishop of Sydney, Presentation of The Collected Letters of Canon Sheehan of Doneraile, Australian Embassy to the Holy See, Rome, 17 June 2013 "...a highly significant volume illustrating the wide range of Canon Sheehan's interests and contacts". John McCarthy, Australian Ambassador to the Holy See, Presentation of The Collected Letters of Canon Sheehan of Doneraile, Australian Embassy to the Holy See, Rome, 17 June 2013 "Insight into the man himself [Canon Sheehan] is provided by the recently published Collected Letters of Canon Sheehan edited by Fr James O’Brien of Cloyne (Smenos Publications)". Peter Costello, The Irish Catholic, 15 August 2013 "This book would be important even it were only the collection of a parish priest's letters- a thing never before attempted, though we have the letters of higher clergy such as Cardinal Cullen in print. But because these are the letters of an interesting literary figure whose representations of the Ireland of his time are still far from receiving the recognition they deserve, it is even more important...Canon Shehan in his letters is a mild, kindly figure, always wishing well for everyone. It must have been a pleasure to meet him. He perhaps underestimates his talents, but then that too is inevitable. He was also a man of great courage...The strong interior nature of his faith represents an ideal lived out in life." Peter Costello The Irish Catholic, 3 October 2013 "It is certain that henceforth this volume will be an invaluable resource, not for Sheehan scholars alone, but for literary, social and political historians of late nineteenth and early twentieth century Ireland more generally." Gabriel Doherty Revisiting Canon Sheehan of Doneraile, Smenos Publications, Wells 2014, p. 2 |