The Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society . e had them, are in such merciful shadow that theyseem a mere background for the brilliance of him, as the nightsky looms only as it reveals its stars. Here but yesterday was a man of fresh clear mind, of delight-ful demeanor, who reveled in the joy of living, whose rapid cross-ing of the gloomy stream seemed but a pace or two in his briskordinary walk of life. Yet we know now that under his gayestmanner, behind his brightest smile, through the toil of mentaltask and difficult achievement, he suffered the keenest bodilypain for years. What
The Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society . e had them, are in such merciful shadow that theyseem a mere background for the brilliance of him, as the nightsky looms only as it reveals its stars. Here but yesterday was a man of fresh clear mind, of delight-ful demeanor, who reveled in the joy of living, whose rapid cross-ing of the gloomy stream seemed but a pace or two in his briskordinary walk of life. Yet we know now that under his gayestmanner, behind his brightest smile, through the toil of mentaltask and difficult achievement, he suffered the keenest bodilypain for years. What elasticity of spirit it bespeaks; what curi-ous and notably Celtic triumph over disaster it makes elastic spirit indeed runs all throught the life-story of Pat-rick Francis McGowan, who was born at Lebanon, Connecticut,on May 27th, 1852, and after sixty-one years of vivid existencedied in New York, on April 6th, 1913. Once more it is the drama of the migration of the Gael. Tobegin it we must travel back eighty years and to Ireland to see a. PATRICK l R \\ Mi Q( >\\ May 27th, L862, Died kpril 6th, 1013 NECROLOGY. 285 sturdy farmer in the County Leitrim sending a son to France tostudy for the priesthood. Before the French Revolution of1793, all the Roman Catholic priests of Ireland were educatedin France or Spain. The Terror, however, made a sanguinaryend of the French religious seminaries, and the College of May-nooth for home-training of the clergy was consequently foundedin Ireland in 1795. Notwithstanding this, when under the Em-pire of Napoleon I. some of the seminaries were allowed to reopen,many Irish youths were sent to France to study and take uncles of young McGowan were of these who had been or-dained in France and had remained there, probably as was early in the reign of Louis Philippe—about 1832—thatthe young McGowan arrived in France. It was a troubloustime of occasional bloody revolts against the monarchy andstill m
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