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Born in Ballymahon, Ireland, in 1900, Mr. Scully has since been an Irish policeman, a chartered accountant and a management consultant.
Steel 1965
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From the rustic conviviality of the inn at Ballymahon, and the company which used to assemble there, it is surmised that he took some hints in after life for his picturing of Tony Lumpkin and his associates:
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Ballymahon, but such as it is, send it all; everything you send will be agreeable to me.
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It is true he was ignorant of the Dutch, but he had a smattering of the French, picked up among the Irish priests at Ballymahon.
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They got up a country club at the little inn of Ballymahon, of which Goldsmith soon became the oracle and prime wit, astonishing his unlettered associates by his learning, and being considered capital at a song and a story.
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Shortly after his departure Goldsmith wrote a letter to his brother-inlaw, Daniel Hodson, Esq., of which the following is an extract; it was partly intended, no doubt, to dissipate any further illusions concerning his fortunes which might float on the magnificent imagination of his friends in Ballymahon.
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His mother had removed to Ballymahon, where she occupied a small house, and had to practice the severest frugality.
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He had two college associates from whom he would occasionally borrow small sums; one was an early schoolmate, by the name of Beatty; the other a cousin, and the chosen companion of his frolics, Robert (or rather Bob) Bryanton, of Ballymulvey House, near Ballymahon.
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Ballymahon had not been a good school of manners at the outset of life; nor had his experience as a “poor student” at colleges and medical schools contributed to give him the polish of society.
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This was enough to put the wise heads at Lissoy and Ballymahon in a ferment of conjectures.
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