Paul Walsh

Life
1885-1941 [occas. Pól Breathnach]; b. near Mullingar, d. Multyfarnham; ed. Maynooth, ord. 1909; Professor of Latin in St Finian’s College, Navan; lectured in Welsh at Maynooth, Co. Westmeath, 1916; PP of Multyfarnham, 1932; appt. to Irish Manuscripts Commission in 1933; member of first board of the Dublin Institute of Advance Studies (DIAS), 1940; awarded DLitt NUI, 1941; d. June, following protracted illness; ed. and trans. Tadhg Ó Cianáin’s memoir asThe Flight of the Earls (1916); also issued The Ó Cléirigh Family of Tír Conaill (1938); his Irish Men of Learning (1947), Irish Chiefs and Leaders (1960) and Placenames of Westmeath (1957) were all posthumously edited and published by Colm Ó Lochlainn at Three Candles (Dublin); called the ‘prince of Irish historians’ by Paul Grosjean, S.J. DIW

Works
Colm Ó Lochlainn, ed., Irish Men of Learning, (Three Candles 1947)[infra]; Ó Lochlainn, ed., Irish Chiefs and Leaders (Three Candles 1960); The Placenames of Westmeath (1957), xxxv+402pp; Nollaig Ó Muraile, ed., Irish Leaders and Learning through the Ages: Essays of Paul Walsh (Dublin: Four Courts Press [2003]), 508pp. [infra].

The Irish Book Lover (contributions): Breathnach, Pól [Rev. Paul Walsh]— (Pól Ó hUiginn, Epitaph) XVIII: 143; (Plunket Geneaologies) XVIII: 143; (Rival Confederate Generals) XIX: 5; (Curiosities from the Annals) XIX: 37, 96; ( Book of Clannaboy , XIX: 165; (Memoranda Gadelica) XIX: 166; (David Ó Duigenan) XX: 4; (Walter Luin) XX: 12; (Four Masters, Translation) XX: 51;(Notes on the Two Mageoghegans) XX: 75; (The Four Masters) XX: 105, XXII: 128; (Tadg Ó h-Uiginn) XX: 115; (O'Reilly Family Obituaries) XX: 127; (In Conal Mageoghegan's Neighbourhood) XXI: 4; (Link with Tadhg Dall, XXI: 33; (Richard O'Connor, Scribe) XXI: 52, 112; (Eoghan Caomhánach) XXI: 66; (Battle of Cluain Tiobrad) XXI: 103; (Fragments of Meath History) XXI: 124; (Paul Higgins) XXI: 118; (Numbering of Dublin Houses) XXI: 137; (Saying of the Earl of Tyrone, XXI: 138; (Earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnell) XXII: 4, 91; (Epithalamium) XXII: 78; (Capt. Sorley MacDonnell) XXII: 81; ( Short Annals of Tirconnaill ) XXII: 104; ( Short Annals of Fir Manach ) XXIII: 7; (How the Bissets Came) XXIII: 36; (Two O'Hagans) XXIII: 46; (What We Know of Cuchoigeriche Ó Cléirigh) XXIII: 60; (Some O'Reilly Geneologies) XXIII: 85; (Convent of Donegal) XXIII: 109; (Pretty Pair of Ruffians) XXIII: 134; (Tippermessan, Co. Meath), XXVI: 15; ( Do Lionadh mBáin Oile ) XXVI: 29; (Derricke's Image of Ireland ) XXVI: 37; ( Book of Lecan ) XXVI: 62, (Higginstown, Co.Westmeath) XXVI: 86; (Red Hugh's Sister [Máire Ni Dhomhnaill]) XXVI: 105; (Méla Mór in Co. Kilkenny) XXVI: 138;. Also XXIV: 61, XXV: 26, 37, 50, 73, 99, 100; XXVI: 17, XXVII [q.p.]. [Note: the above listing is derived ad interim from the composite index of The Irish Book Lover, prepared by EIRData.]

Bibliographical details
Irish Men of Learning: Studies by Father Paul Walsh, ed. Colm Ó Lochlainn (Fleet St. Dublin: Three Candles 1947), 311pp, with index and fold-out genealogies of Muintir Duibhgennáin, Muintir Maelconaire, Clann Firbisigh Leacáin, and Ó Conchubhair, Lord of Cairbre; Some Mac an Bhaird Relationships. CONTENTS, The Learned Family of Ó Duignenan [first publ. 1921, here revised]; The Books of the Ó Duignenans; David Ó Duigenan, Scribe; The Learned Family of Ó Maelconaire; The Book of Fenagh; A Link with Tadhg Dall Ó hUiginn; The Learned Family of mac Firbisigh; The Great Book of Lecan; The Learned Family of Ó Cuirnín; The Book of the Dun Cow; The Learned Family of Mac an Bhaird; Two Franciscan MSS and Their Scribes; The Book of O’Donnell’s Daughter; An Irish medical Family - mac an Leagha; The Annals Attributed to Tignerach; The Hero Tales of Ireland; Togail Bruidne Da Derga; Poets, Historians, and Judges; The Maguires and Irish Learning; Irish Scholars at Louvain; The Book of Munster; John O’Donovan, Irish Historical Scholar; Father Paul Walsh, Historian; General Index [A]; Index of Books, Texts, Poems and MSS; Index of genealogies [as above]. Ó Lochlainn, editing, refers to earlier articles and two unfinisthed at the time of his death, which he (O Lochalinn) has completed ‘by making careful use of his material’. Other essays first appeared in Studies, Irish Ecclesiastical Record, and The Catholic Bulletin; the help of Owen Dudley Edwards is acknowledged. [For text, see under Quotations, infra.]

Irish Leaders and Learning Through the Ages, ed. Nollaig Ó Muraile (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 508pp.
Contents: Early Leinster, and Meath, province and diocese 1 Leinster states and kings in Christian times 33 2 Short annals of Leinster 53 3 Prehistoric Meath 56 4 The ancient boundaries and tribes of Meath 62 5 Uí Maccu Uais 68 6 Meath in the Book of Rights 72 7 Tethbae 85 8 The Ua Maelechlainn kings of Meath 90 9 How the diocese of Meath came to be 108 10 Fragments of Meath history 117 11 Connla and Conall Mageoghegan 123 12 In Conall Mageoghegan's neighbourhood 130 13 Antony Mageoghegan, bishop of Clonmacnois 133 14 Janet Marward, 1562-1629 134 15 The Civil Survey of Co. Meath 140 16 The Plunket family 142 17 The kin of Oliver Plunket 146 18 Gaelic genealogies of the Plunkets 165 Early and early modern Connacht 19 Christian kings of Connacht 177 20 Connacht in the Book of Rights 195 21 James Blake of Galway 204 22 Maolmórdha Mac Suibhne 216 23 Addresses to Tibbot na Long 221 People and places 25 Some details of the Dillons 229 26 Some Norman surnames 231 27 The Westmeath Leavys 233 28 History of the O Dalys 236 29 The surname Golding 237 30 The nickname Mant na Mulchán (Ó Ruairc) 237 31 Some placenames of ancient Meath 238 32 Note on Magheradernan 262 33 The topography of Betha Colmáin 263 34 Placenames in Vita Finniani 273 35 The placename Ocha, Ochainn – Faughanhill, Co. Meath 276 36 A couple of placenames from the vicinity of Kells 277 37 Gerdlige, Girley, Co. Meath 278 38 Cnoc Aiste, Co. Westmeath 279 39 Tippermessan, Co. Meath 283 40 Higginstown, Co. Westmeath 285 41 Some Westmeath placenames in a fifteenth-century poem 286 42 Méla Mór in Co. Kilkenny 287 43 Some placenames from the O Clery Book of Genealogies 288 44 Bóthar Cualann 290 45 Punchersgrange, Co. Kildare 294 46 A supposed placename 295 47 Crickstown, Co. Meath 295 48 A note on Leacán Mic Fhirbhisigh 296 49 Cill Srianáin – Jamestown, Co. Leitrim 296 50 Farragh, Co. Westmeath 300 51 Mullinoran, Co. Westmeath, and other placenames 303 52 Killaroo, Co. Westmeath, and other placenames 309 Ulster, c .1600 53 Peter Lombard's treatise in support of Hugh O Neill 315 54 Battles of 1594-5 316 55 The battle of Clontibret 318 56 Red Hugh O Donnell's sisters, Siobhán and Nuala 326 57 Red Hugh O Donnell's youngest sister, Mary 330 58 A saying of the earl of Tyrone 333 59 The earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnell 334 60 A costly pipeful 335 61 Scottish mercenaries – the gallóglaigh 336 62 The seventeenth-century Scottish settlement of Co. Down 340 63 Bonaventúra Ó hEodhasa's poem to a reader 342	The four masters 64 The Four Masters 345 65 The travels of Michael Ó Cléirigh 350 66 The work of a winter, 1629-30 361 67 Curiosities from the Annals 370 68 Slips in O Donovan's Four Masters 375 69 Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh 377 70 Life of Aodh Ruadh Ó Domhnaill 380 Hagiography and other ecclesiastical matters 71 Writings by and about St Patrick 383 72 Eóin Mac Néill's view of Silva Focluti 386 73 Recent studies on the Patrician documents 389 74 St Patrick's Purgatory 398 75 The shamrock in literature 400 76 Lives of Irish saints 402 77 The Life of Columcille by Maghnus Ó Domhnaill 407 78 St Colmán mac Luacháin of Lynn 411 79 Discipline and beliefs in the early Irish Church 415 80 The Irish language and the Reformation 427 81 The Reformation in Wales 436 82 The Reformation in Ireland 442 83 History in phrases – sidelights on religious persecution, 1592-1766 450 84 An Irish Capuchin house in seventeenth-century France 460 85 Juring and non-juring priests in the early eighteenth century 461 86 A history of the dioceses of Waterford and Lismore 465 87 Shrovetide and Inid 466 History, literature, manuscripts 88 Studies of early Ireland by Eóin Mac Néill 471 89 Suggestions for a series of Monumenta Hiberniae 474 90 The dating of the Annals of Inisfallen 477 91 The chronology of the early Irish annals 483 92 The Book of Lecan 499 93 The Annals of Loch Cé 501 94 Lebor Gabála Érenn : The Book of Invasions 503 95 Irish chiefs who submitted to Richard II 512 96 Derrick's Image of Ireland – a correction 515 97 Wolfe Tone and the Irish Catholics 516 98 Miscellaneous Irish poems 541 99 Irish syllabic poetry 546 100 Eoghan Ruadh Ua Súilleabháin 551 101 Dinneen's Irish-English Dictionary 555 102 Irish proverbs 557 103 The Irish language in Belfast and Down 558 104 Richard O Connor: Irish scribe 560 105 Some Irish manuscripts 562 106 Varia 565 (i) Omissions in Best's Bibliography 565 (ii) Register of Clogher, etc. 565 (iii) List of Franciscan foundations 566 (iv) Seán Ó Mathghamhna's Irish mss 568 (v) Numbering of Dublin houses 568 (vi) Paul Higgins, Irish lecturer, TCD 569 (vii) The two O Hagans 570 107 A mere trifle! 572 108 The writings of Paul Walsh 573 Maps - The diocese of Meath - The baronies of Meath and Westmeath - Meath parishes mentioned in this book - Westmeath parishes mentioned in this book

Table of contents captured from Four Courts web-site (24 Aug. 2004).

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Notes
Tadhg Ó Cianáin, The Flight of the Earls, trans. Fr. Paul Walsh (MH Gill 1916), extract in Far Green Fields, 1500 Years of Irish Travel Writing, ed. Bernard Share (Blackstaff 1992).

Catalogues: HYLAND BOOKS (Cat. 219) lists Ed. and trans., Tadhg Ó Cianáin, The Flight of the Earls (Dublin: MH Gill 1916), xx+268pp. [Oct. 1995]. DIAS Catalogue (1996) lists Paul Walsh, The Placenames of Westmeath (1957), xxxv+402 pp. [out of print].

Lughaidh Ó Cléirigh’s life of Red Hugh O’Donnell in Irish prose was edited and published by Paul Walsh in Archivium Hibernicum, VII (Dublin 1922) and subsequently printed as Beatha Ruaidh Uí Domhnaill (ITS 1940).