While the bells of Shandon
Shall sound so grand on
The pleasant waters of the river Lee.
Denis Florence McCarthy.
Father Prout (Francis Sylvester Mahony) was an early contributor to Frazer’s Magazine, he died on Friday, May 18, 1866, and the author of the above imitation of his poem died on Good Friday, 1882. Mahony was buried in Cork, on the banks of the river Lee, and within sound of the Bells of Shandon.
“Frazer.”[75]
Obit.—A.D. 1882.
Oh, the bells of Shandon, that sound so grand on,
The pleasant waters of the river Lee,