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[[Image:Percy French.jpg|thumb|250px|Bronze figure of Percy French in the main square of [[Ballyjamesduff]]]]
'''William Percy French''' (1 May 1854 – 24 January 1920) was an Irish songwriter, author, poet, entertainer and painter.

== Life ==
French was born at Clooneyquinn House,<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.landedestates.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=1580|title=French family at Cloonyquin|publisher=Landedestates.ie|date=18 May 2011|access-date=22 December 2012|archive-date=27 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120227142612/http://www.landedestates.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=1580|url-status=dead))</ref> near [[Tulsk]], [[County Roscommon]], the son of an [[Anglo-Irish]] landlord, Christopher French, and Susan Emma French (née Percy). He was the third of nine children. His younger sister, [[Emily de Burgh Daly|Emily]] later [[Emily de Burgh Daly|Emily de Burg Daly]] was also a writer.<ref name="Clarke">((cite book |last1=Clarke|first1=Frances|editor1-last=McGuire |editor1-first=James |editor2-last=Quinn |editor2-first=James |title=Dictionary of Irish Biography |date=2009 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |chapter=Daly, Emily Lucy de Burgh))</ref>

He was educated in England at Kirk Langley and Windermere College before going to [[Foyle College]] in [[Derry]] and wrote his first successful song while studying at [[Trinity College Dublin]] (TCD) in 1877 for a [[smoking concert]]. The song, "[[Abdul Abulbul Amir]]", was published in 200 copies for £5 and French sold each copy for 2s6d, making a small fortune. However, he fatally omitted to register the copyright on the song and lost all the subsequent income from the royalties as it was re-published without his name. The royalties were restored to his widow and daughters after his death.<ref name="1894-1993. 1994"/> The song later became hugely popular and was falsely claimed by other authors.<ref name=boo>((cite book|last=De Burgh Daly|first=Mrs|year=1973|title=Prose, Poems and Parodies of Percy French|pages=vii–xv|location=Dublin|publisher=Talbot Press|isbn=978-0-85452-107-4))</ref> Although he lost copyright, French always claimed authorship and did so on the sleeve of his song "Slattery's Mounted Fut" (1889) and in every issue of the weekly ''The Jarvey''. Brendan O'Dowda claimed to have discovered, via the popularity of versions of the song at the American military academies in the 1980s, that French had written the lyrics while at Trinity College. He claimed responsibility for the restoration of the royalties in the 1980s. Ettie French gives a different account of how the royalties were restored in her book ''Willie'' (1995) about her father's life. She claimed the royalties were restored in the 1940s to the family.<ref name="1894-1993. 1994">((Cite book |author=French, Ettie |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/264902596 |title=Willie |date=1994 |publisher=Percy French Society |oclc=264902596))</ref> The ballad resembles a comic opera spoof. "Pot Skivers" were the chambermaids at the college, thus Ivan "Potschjinski" Skivar would be a less than noble prince, and as Bulbul is an Arabic dialectic name of the [[nightingale]], Abdul was thus a foppish "nightingale" [[Emir|amir]] (prince). When French died, not at all wealthy, he was owed a fortune in unpaid royalties. A windfall in royalties came to his family in the 1940s from "Abdullah Abulbul Ameer" and "Phil the Fluter's Ball".<ref name="1894-1993. 1994"/>
[[Image:Percy French Grave.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Percy French's grave at [[St Luke's Church, Formby]]]]

French graduated from TCD first being conferred with a BA degree in 1885 as a civil engineer in 1880 and after a stint as an apprentice engineer on the Midlands Railway with fellow entertainer Charles Mansergh (later Charles Manners of the Moody-Manners Opera Company) French joined the Board of Works in [[County Cavan]] as an [[Sanitary Inspector|Inspector of Drains]] in 1883. While in Trinity French won five out of six watercolour prizes and he became a member of the Dublin Sketching Club in 1876.  It is said that he wrote his best songs during his Cavan period. He also painted copiously and established a sketching club and a comic troupe The Kinnepottle Komics in Cavan. During this period, he considered art to be his true vocation. In fact, when he became well-known later in his life, his paintings from his time as a civil engineer became fashionable and sought after. The volcano [[1883 eruption of Krakatoa|Krakatoa erupted in 1883]] while French was in Cavan, and the particles of volcanic ash caused dramatic sunsets all over the world. French painted some of his finest landscapes in this period as he captured the spectacular skies. French exhibited his pictures in the [[Royal Hibernian Academy]] (RHA) and sometimes gave them short lyrical poems for titles, such as "Only the sullen seas that flow/ And ebb forever more,/ But tarry awhile sad heart and, lo!/ A light on that lonely shore".

When the Board of Works reduced its staff around 1888, French turned to journalism as the editor of ''The Jarvey'', a weekly comic paper.<ref name=boo/> French was an enthusiastic cyclist, who cycled all over the country with his art materials stopping to sketch and paint. He was good friends with [[Richard J. Mecredy|"Arjay" Mecredy]], and when Mecredy went on holiday, he asked French to stand in for him as editor of ''The Irish Cyclist'' magazine. French's fey sense of humour caused him to make facetious replies to the letters to the editor, and Mecredy returned to a storm of raging withdrawals of subscriptions. He offered to subvent French in a humorous magazine.

When ''The Jarvey'' failed, French's long and successful career as a songwriter and entertainer began. He had lived by the canal in Dublin at 35 Mespil Road before going to London in 1890. He famously wrote to his friends when he moved there: "We have come to live by the canal, do drop in". A granite seat was erected in 1988 on the canal near his home, dedicated to French. It was sponsored by the Oriel Gallery and bears another witticism of French's: "Remember me is all I ask, / And if that memory proves a task, forget".

French was renowned for composing and singing comic songs and gained considerable distinction with such songs as ''Phil the Fluther's Ball'',<ref name="Phil">((wikisource-inline|Phil the Fluther's Ball|single=true))</ref> ''[[Slattery's Mounted Foot]]'', and ''[[The Mountains of Mourne]]''<ref name="Mourne">((wikisource-inline|The Canadian Soldiers' Song Book/The Mountains o' Mourne|single=true))</ref> (this last was one of several written with his friend, stage partner and fellow composer, [[Houston Collisson]]).<ref name=boo/> The song was set to the same air as [[Thomas Moore]]'s "Bendmeer's Stream" which, in turn, was adapted from the old Irish Air "Carraigdhoun". French also wrote many sketches and amusing parodies, the most famous of which is ''The Queen's After-Dinner Speech'', written on the occasion of [[Queen Victoria]]'s visit to Dublin in 1900, in which French drolly suggests "There's a slate off Willie Yeats". In addition, he wrote several poems, some he called "poems of pathos". Many of his poems and songs are on the theme of emigration. He remained a regular contributor to ''The Irish Cyclist'', a weekly journal until his death.

"[[Are Ye Right There Michael]]",<ref name="Michael">((wikisource-inline|Are Ye Right There Michael|single=true))</ref> a song ridiculing the state of the rail system in rural [[County Clare]] caused such embarrassment to the [[West Clare Railway|rail company]] that – according to a persistent local legend – it led to a libel action against French. According to the story, French arrived late at the court, and when questioned by the judge he responded "Your honour, I travelled by the West Clare Railway", resulting in the case being thrown out.<ref>Frank McNally, "An Irishman's Diary", in: ''The Irish Times'', 14 November 2007.</ref>

In January 1920, when he was 65 years old, French became ill while performing in Glasgow. He died from [[pneumonia]] in [[Formby]], England at the home of his cousin, Canon Richardson of Green Lea, College Avenue, on 24 January 1920. His grave is in the churchyard of [[St Luke's Church, Formby]], Merseyside.

=== Memorials ===
In 1988, The Oriel Gallery sponsored a seat erected by the OPW opposite 35 Mespil Road, on the canal, Dublin. French lived there from 1894-1900 with his second wife and family. When he moved there, he sent out a communication to his friend: 'We have come to live by the canal, Do drop in!'<ref>((Cite journal |last=Nulty |first=Oliver |date=2002 |title="LEAD, KINDLY LIGHT." |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/notesj/s6-i.14.278-a |journal=Biography |volume=One |doi= |issn= |via=The Oriel Gallery))</ref>

A sculpture of a park bench and plaque depicting his likeness by Brid Ni Rinn was installed on the spot where French was inspired to write "The Mountains of Mourne" in Red Island Park, Skerries, County Dublin, in 2008.<ref>((cite web |title=Percy's seat a great tribute to visitor |url=https://www.independent.ie/regionals/fingalindependent/news/percys-seat-great-tribute-to-visitor-27788801.html |website=www.independent.ie |access-date=22 August 2022))</ref>

A statue of French sitting on a park bench in the town centre of [[Ballyjamesduff]] honours him and his song ''Come Back, Paddy Reilly, to Ballyjamesduff''.<ref>((cite web |title=Balladeer Percy French statue in Ballyjamesduff |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVx37ECPmTM |website=www.youtube.com |access-date=22 August 2022))</ref>

In March 2020, a memorial to French was unveiled in [[Newcastle, County Down]], at the site of the Slieve Donard Hotel at the foot of the [[Mourne Mountains|Mountains of Mourne]], to mark the centenary of his death.<ref>[https://www.irishpost.com/life-style/irish-trailblazer-percy-french-honoured-centenary-death-182053 Irish trailblazer Percy French honoured on centenary of his death. www.irishpost.com ]</ref>

== Percy French in Joyce's ''Finnegans'' ''Wake'': ''The'' ''Jarvey'' ==
After French's job at the Board of Works in Cavan ended, he was made editor of a new comic magazine, ''The Jarvey'', by [[Richard J. Mecredy]], publisher and editor of ''The Irish Cyclist'' since 1886. It was located at 49 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin. French had been contributing comic pieces to ''The Irish Cyclist'' all through his Cavan years. ''The Jarvey'' was a highly comic literary journal which dealt occasionally controversially with the politics of the day and it is the key to the link between Percy French and Joyce in ''Finnegans Wake''. French married Ethel ("Ettie") Kathleen Armitage (Armytage) Moore in June 1890 on the strength of his income from ''The Jarvey''. Ettie contributed highly accomplished drawings to it and wrote a gossip column called "Chit Chatters". Bernadette Lowry has found many references to this column and other pieces from ''The Jarvey'' in ''[[Finnegans Wake]]'' by [[James Joyce]].<ref>((Cite book |last=Lowry |first=Bernadette |title=Sounds of Manymirth on the Night's Ear Ringing: Percy French (1854-1920) His Jarvey Years and Joyce's Haunted Inkbottle |publisher=Carmen Eblana Productions Carmeneblana.com |date=December 2021 |isbn=9 781914 488412 |location=Dublin |pages=19–20 |language=English))</ref> 

In her groundbreaking discoveries, she argues that French is the overarching model for the singular Finnegan element in the cosmic "everyman" (HCE - Here Comes Everyman) of Joyce's final novel. She also identified for the first time in 80 years since the publication of the indecipherable novel, the critical reference to French's death in Liverpool in a key chapter of ''Finnegans Wake'', a crucial discovery, unlocking much of Joyce's impenetrable novel in her landmark new book ''Sounds of Manymirth on the Night's Ear Ringing: Percy French (1854–1920) His Jarvey Years and Joyce's Haunted Inkbottle''.<ref>((Cite journal |last=Times |first=Irish |date=January 21–22, 2022 |title=An Irishman's Diary Is Percy French the Hero of Finnegans Wake |journal=The Irish Times |volume=January 21 and 22 |via=The Irish Times))</ref> by Carmen Eblana AE productions. The title of Lowry's book is taken from a line from ''Finnegans Wake'' wherein Joyce parodied two of [[Thomas Moore|Thomas Moore's]] melodies in homage to French's demise in Liverpool. One melody used is the haunting "Silence is in Our Festive Halls" and the other Moore's melody is "Sounds of Mirth in the Night-Air Ringing" set to the traditional air "The Priest in His Boots", and is also a reference to William [[Houston Collisson]] who died a week after French, who was an Anglican clergyman and a musical impresario and who collaborated musically with French for over two decades, setting many of French's compositions to music. French is also the subject of the reference in ''Finnegans'' ''Wake'' "the troubadour who mangled Moore's melodies" because he parodied so many of them in ''The'' ''Jarvey'' and in ''The'' ''Irish'' ''Cyclist''. Lowry's second major discovery was to unscramble a portmanteau word at the very end of ''Finnegans Wake'' 'Bussoftlhee' which, when broken up, becomes Buss of tlhee ,tlhee unscrambles to Ethel. Thus, Joyce weaves Ethel into the Anna Livia Plurabelle monologue, which is a woman and the river Liffey entering the sea at Howth and meeting Finn again! Finnegan (French). Combined with finding French's death in Liverpool as the passing of the giant Finnegan, this is a further, hugely significant discovery and even the most sceptical Joyceans, now accept these findings are seminal but the significance of these for reorientation Joyce studies is only now being assessed and will be a slow process. Joyce's father was a contemporary of French and they knew each other in Dublin in the intimate musical scene there in which both were immersed.  

A jarvey was the driver of a [[Jaunting car]]. Valentine Vousden wrote a famous song, "The [[The Irish Jaunting Car|Irish Jaunting Car]]" in celebration of Queen Victoria's visit to Ireland in the late 1850s where she took a ride on an Irish jaunting car in Killarney. Percy French wrote his own version of the song for his comic opera ''The Knight of the Road'' (1891). The hero of ''Finnegans Wake'' is also referred to as 'a Val Vousden.'  ''The'' ''Knight'' ''of'' ''the'' ''Road'' opera is mentioned in Joyce's ''Ulysses'' too.

French's first wife, Ettie Armitage Moore, was born in 1871, the second daughter of William Armitage-Moore, brother of the Countess of Annesley (wife of the [[William Annesley, 3rd Earl Annesley|third Earl]]). Ettie's sister Priscilla became the fifth Countess of Annesley. Ettie died aged only 20 in June 1892 some three weeks after giving birth to her daughter with French and she is buried in Mount Jerome cemetery. Their daughter, Ethel Florence who was brought to Cloneyquin with French, died there and is buried in the grounds of Elphin Cathedral.  Priscilla Armitage-Moore became a famous society beauty, and on marrying her cousin became the [[Mount Jerome Cemetery and Crematorium|fifth]] Countess of Annesley. She lived at [[Castlewellan]] estate in [[County Down]] and died in Bath, English in 1941. Four years after Ettie's death, French married Helen Sheldon (Lennie) from Warwickshire, whom he met when she visited Dublin to sing in the chorus of his opera ''Strongbow''. They had three daughters, Ettie (1894-1993) named after his first wife, Mollie, and Joan. French and his family moved to London around 1900 and lived at [[St John's Wood]].<ref>((cite book |last1=Tongue |first1=Alan |title=A Picture of Percy French |date=1990 |publisher=Greystone Books |page=35))</ref> In the 1940s the moved to Monks Leigh, Suffolk and all three are buried there together.

== Songs ==
The following songs are attributed to Percy French:<ref>''The Songs of Percy French'', by James N. Healy (Dublin & Cork: Mercier Press, 1983).</ref>
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* ''[[Abdul Abulbul Amir]]'' (1877)
* ''Andy McElroe'' (1888)
* ''[[Are Ye Right There Michael]]?'' (1897)<ref name="Michael" />
* ''Come Back, Paddy Reilly, to Ballyjamesduff'' (1912)
* ''The Darlin' Girl from Clare''
* ''Donegan's Daughter'' (1908)
* ''Drumcolligher''
* ''Eileen Oge'' (''The Pride of Petravore'' or ''McGrath the Cattle-Jobber'')
* ''The Emigrants's Letter'' (''Cutting the Corn in Creeslough'') (1910)<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.welovedonegal.com/the-emigrants-letter-cutting-the-corn-in-creeslough.html|title=The Emigrant's Letter (Cutting the Corn in Creeslough)|publisher=WeLoveDonegal.com|access-date=22 December 2012))</ref>
* ''Father O'Callaghan'' (1910)
* ''Fighting McGuire''
* ''Flanagan's Flying Machine'' (1911)
* ''The Fortunes of Finnegan''
* ''The Girl on a Big Black Mare''
* ''The Hoodoo'' (1910)
* ''I Fought a Fierce Hyena''
* ''Jim Wheelahan's Automobeel''
* ''The Kerry Courting'' (1909)
* ''The Killyran Wrackers'' (1914)
* ''Kitty Gallagher''
* ''Larry Mick McGarry'' (1915)
* ''Little Brigid Flynn''
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* ''Maguire's Motor Bike'' (1906)
* ''The Mary Ann McHugh''
* ''Mat Hannigan's Aunt'' (1892)
* ''McBreen's Heifer''
* ''[[The Mountains of Mourne]]'' (1896)<ref name="Mourne" />
* ''Mick's Hotel''
* ''Mrs Brady'' (1907)
* ''Mulligan's Masquerade''
* ''The Night that Miss Cooney Eloped''
* ''No More of Yer Golfin' for Me'' (1906)
* ''The Oklahoma Rose'' (1910)
* ''Phil the Fluther's Ball''<ref name="Phil" />
* ''Pretendy Land'' (1907)
* ''Rafferty's Racin' Mare'' (1906)
* ''A Sailor Courted a Farmer's Daughter'' (parody of the folk song)
* ''[[Slattery's Mounted Foot]]'' (1889)
* ''Sweet Marie''
* ''Tullinahaw'' (1910)
* ''When Erin Wakes'' (1900)
* ''Whistlin' Phil McHugh''
* ''Who Said the Hook Never Hurted the Worms?''
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== Operatic works ==
Collaborations with William [[Houston Collisson]] (1865–1920)
* ''The Knight of the Road'' (1891), later known as ''The Irish Girl'' (published c. 1918)
* ''Strongbow'' (1892)
* ''Midsummer Madness'' (1892)
* ''Noah's Ark'' (1906)
* ''Freda and the Fairies''
[[File:Percy French Mayo Mermaids.jpg|thumb|''Mayo Mermaids'']]

== Watercolours by Percy French and the Oriel Gallery ==
Artworks by French have increased in value. On 20 September 2005, the Percy French watercolour landscape ''Where ever I go my heart turns back to the County Mayo'' was sold by Dublin auctioneers Whyte's for a then-record price of €44,000.<ref>((cite web|url=http://visual-arts-cork.com/irish-artists/percy-french.htm|title=Percy French Art |publisher=Visual-arts-cork.com|access-date=22 December 2012))</ref> It is also known as "The Iveagh Percy French" as it came from the Guinness family collection. The story goes that the purchaser had "buyer's remorse", and the painting was purchased immediately by a gallerist. Some ten days after this auction, the Apollo Gallery sold this iconic painting on to an American collector for €65,000.((citation needed|date=January 2022))

The founder of the Oriel Gallery Dublin, the late Oliver Nulty (d 2005) mounted several one-man and group Percy French watercolour exhibitions in the Oriel and wrote several catalogues but his valedictory salute to French was a comprehensive biography focusing on his paintings, ''Lead Kindly Light'', produced and written by Oliver Nulty of the [[Oriel Gallery]] in 2002, the culmination of his life's work promoting French at a time of official neglect. Bernadette Lowry edited the publication and contributed the essay "Percy French in a Wider Cultural Context", which assessed the wider cultural significance of French, especially underscoring his ear for idiom and his matchless facility with Hiberno-English for the first time. It is now a collector's item. The title was taken from French's favourite hymn "[[Lead Kindly Light]]" by [[John Henry Newman]]. It was chosen as a metaphor for French's paintings as the light always leads gently into his pictures. A runner-up title which the Oriel considered was ''Tones That Are Tender'' from French's song "Come Back Paddy Reilly". French's landscape paintings are described in ''The Watercolours of Ireland'' by Patricia Butler as "laden with atmosphere".


Oliver Nulty (d. 2005) established the Oriel Gallery in Clare Street, Dublin in 1868, which opened with a Percy French and [[George William Russell|George Russell]] exhibition. Nulty promoted French from the day he opened the gallery in 1968 and mounted at least 15 solo exhibitions of French and several group shows featuring French, one opened by [[Peter Ustinov]].

Nulty had been a collector for years before opening a gallery but he had a particularly fondness for French as his parents had met French in London in 1913 when they attended one of his matinees and met him afterwards. Nulty noticed that Irish visual art was neglected. He once witnessed that a George Russel had only been sold when a coal scuttle was thrown into the lot which sold for 2/6. 

As well as mounting several solo exhibitions of French's paintings he published several catalogues of French's watercolours. French's daughters, Joan and Ettie were regular visitors to the Oriel Gallery from the early 1970s and the gallery possesses their letters to Oliver. Peter Ustinov opened the 1986 French exhibition in the Oriel to a thronged audience.

French's archive currently resides in the [[North Down Museum]], [[Bangor, County Down]] where researchers are welcome to view material by appointment with the museum.<ref>((Cite web |url=http://www.northdownmuseum.com/Collections/Percy-French |title=Percy French |access-date=18 February 2020 |archive-date=18 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200218123133/http://www.northdownmuseum.com/Collections/Percy-French |url-status=dead ))</ref>

== Bibliography ==
* [[Emily de Burgh Daly|Emily de Burg Daly]] : ''Chronicles and Poems of Percy French'', with an introduction by [[Katharine Tynan]] (Dublin: Talbot Press, 1922).
* [[Emily de Burgh Daly|Emily de Burg Daly]] Daly: ''Prose, Poems and Parodies of Percy French'', with an introduction by [[Alfred Perceval Graves]] (Dublin: Talbot Press, 1929; 3/1962).
* James N. Healy: ''Percy French and his Songs'' (Cork: Mercier Press, 1966).
* Brendan O'Dowda: ''The World of Percy French'' (Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1981; 3/1997).
* Alan Tongue: ''A Picture of Percy French'' (Belfast: Greystone Books, 1990).
* Ettie French: ''Willie: A Tribute to Percy French'' (Holywood, County Down: Percy French Society, 1994).
* Oliver Nulty (ed. by Bernadette Lowry): ''Lead Kindly Light. Celebrating 150 Years of Percy French'' (Dublin: [[Oriel Gallery|Oriel Gallery Dublin]] Gallery, 2002).
* Berrie O'Neill: ''Tones that are Tender: Percy French, 1854–1920'' (Dublin: Lilliput Press, 2016).
* Bernadette Lowry: ''Sounds of Manymirth on the Night's Ear Ringing. Percy French (1854-1920): His Jarvey Years and Joyce's Haunted Inkbottle''; with a foreword by Dr Robert Mohr and an afterword by [[Martin Mansergh]] (Dublin: Carmen Eblana Productions, 2021). ((ISBN|978-1-914488-41-2|978-1-914488-34-4))

== See also ==
* [[Culture of Ireland]]
* [[Music of Ireland]]

== References ==
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* [http://www.percyfrench.ie/ The Percy French Summer School, Roscommon]
* [http://www.theoriel.com/artistdetail5.asp?ArtistSurname=French&firstname=Percy Percy French at theoriel.com]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110718040920/http://whiteimage.com/percy-french/in-connemara/detail/1077.html Example of painting by Percy French]
* [http://www.culturenorthernireland.org/article/18/the-mountains-of-mourne-sweep-down-to-the-sea The Mountains Of Mourne Sweep Down To The Sea – Feature]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110707103342/http://www.alanryanhall.com/artwork.asp?a=10&c=1 Sculpture of Percy French by Alan Hall]
* [http://lorrainequirke.com/percyfrench/ Directions to Percy French's Birthplace]
* [https://percyfrench100.wordpress.com/ The Percy French 100 Years Events page 1920-2020]
* [https://carmeneblana.com/ Sounds of Manymirth]
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* ((discogs artist|Percy French))

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