Francis Sylvester Mahony

Francis Sylvester Mahony (c. 1804–1866), born in Cork and known as "Father Prout", trained as a priest but left his cure for a life of letters, becoming a celebrated wit and essayist. He died in Paris.

The poems here are taken from H. Halliday Sparling's anthology Irish Minstrelsy (London: Walter Scott, 1888).