“Bells of Shandon”

Description

"With deep affection and recollection I often think of those Shandon bells." Those bells are compared to those at the Vatican, Notre Dame, and Moscow, and the bells "in St Sophio the Turkman gets"

Supplemental text

Bells of Shandon
  Partial text(s)

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From Walter de la Mare, Come Hither, pp. 197-198.

With deep affection and recollection
I often think of the Shandon ells,
Whose sounds so wild would, in the days of childhood,
Fling round my cradle their magic spells.
On this I ponder where'er I wander,
And thus grow fonder, sweet Cork, of thee;
  With thy bells of Shandon,
  That sound so grand on
The pleasant waters of the River Lee.

(3 additional stanzas)

Notes

[See] _The Ballad Poetry of Ireland_ by Charles Gavan Duffy (Dublin, 1845), pp. 242-243, "The Bells of Shandon." - BS

This is among the most popular of Irish poems; _Granger's Index to Poetry_ lists fully a dozen anthologies containing the piece.

Francis Sylvester Mahony was a Jesuit priest born in Cork; he published much of his poetry under the name "Father Prout." He later left the church to work as a journalist and satirist.

Other works from his pen in this index include "The Town of Passage (IiI)." - RBW

Cross references

• cf. "The Last Rose of Summer" (tune in Blackpool, OCanainn)
• cf. "Slain le Maigh (Fairwell to the Maigue)" (tune, OCanainn)

Broadsides

• Bodleian, Harding B 11(235), "The Bells of Shandon", W.S. Fortey (London), 1858-1885; also Harding B 11(234), 2806 b.11(162), "The Bells of Shandon"

References

1. OCanainn, pp. 106-107, "The Bells of Shandon" (1 text, 1 tune)
2. O'Conor, pp. 24,60, "Bells of Shandon" (1 text, 1 tune)
3. Croker-PopularSongs, pp. 222-226, "The Bells of Shandon" (1 text)
4. Dean, pp. 65-66, "The Bells of Shandon" (1 text)
5. ADDITIONAL: Edward Hayes, The Ballads of Ireland (Boston, 1859), Vol I, pp. 50-51, "The Bells of Shandon"
6. Charles Gavan Duffy, editor, The Ballad Poetry of Ireland (1845), pp. 242-243, "The Bells of Shandon"
7. Kathleen Hoagland, editor, One Thousand Years of Irish Poetry (New York, 1947), pp. 437-438, "The Shandon Bells" (1 text)
8. H. Halliday Sparling, Irish Minstrelsy (London, 1888), pp. 431-432, "The Bells of Shandon"
9. Charles Sullivan, ed., Ireland in Poetry, p. 42, "The Bells of Shandon" (1 text)
10. Walter de la Mare, _Come Hither_, revised edition, 1928; #224, "The Bells of Shandon" (1 text)
11. ST OCon024 (Partial)
12. Roud #9562
13. BI, OCon024