O’HANLON, John Canon. Life and Scenery in Missouri. Reminiscences of a Missionary Priest.

Dublin : J. Duffy & Co., 1890. First edition. 12mo. pp. xii, 292, [4 (O’Hanlon’s Works)]. Green cloth, titled in gilt. Harp and cluster of shamrocks in gilt on upper cover. Ex lib with stamps. A fine copy. €225
John O’Hanlon (1821-1905) was born in Stradbally in 1821. At the age of thirteen he went to study at the Preston School in Ballyroan specialising in Latin and Greek, and six years later he entered Carlow College to study for the priesthood. His stay in Carlow lasted only a year as the family emigrated to America and settled in Millbrook, near St. Louis, in Northeast Missouri. He was admitted to the diocesan college in St. Louis and ordained there in 1847.
John O’Hanlon ministered in the St. Louis area until 1853 when he returned to his native Stradbally due to ill health. A year later, his health having improved, he offered his services to the Archdiocese of Dublin. In 1880 he was appointed Parish Priest of Sandymount and Ringsend, and ministered at St. Mary’s Star of the Sea, Sandymount until his death in 1905.
During his fifty years ministering in the Dublin Archdiocese he wrote many works of historical and religious content. He laboured for many years on his Magnum Opus; The Lives of the Irish Saints - which is a month by month sequence of the feasts of the Irish Saints as they were recorded in the ancient martyrologies.

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