Life
1841-1921 [William Joseph Walsh]; b. Dublin; ed. St. Laurence O’Toole
Seminary, Dublin; Catholic Univ., and Maynooth; Prof. of Dogmatic Theology,
1867-78; President, 1880; Archbishop of Dublin, 1885; appointment opposed
by British Govt.; supported Plan of Campaign with Croke; abstained from
comment on Parnell Crisis until 3 Dec., 1890, when he called on the party
by telegram to ‘act manfully’; sent letter to the Irish Catholic
giving notice that the bishops would consider the matter of Parnell’s
leadership in Dec., and enjoining the necessity of hearing Parnell’s
side before reaching a verdict; issued Bimetallism and Monometallism
(1893; German 1893; French 1894), advocating use of silver coinage; Commissioner
of Intermediate Education, 1892-1919; Commissioner of charitable Donations
of National Education, 1895-1901; Consultative Commissioner of Education
for Dept. of Agriculture and Technical Instruction, 1900-04; Senate of
NUI, and first Chancellor, 1908; supported employers in Lock-out strike,
telling women who sent their children to be fed by English workers that
they could no longer ‘held worthy of the name of Catholic mothers’,
1913. DIB DIH
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Works
Louise Lateau (1876); Harmony of the Gospel (1879); Tractatus
de Actibus Humanis (1880); The Queen’s Colleges and the Royal
University [two Nos.] (1883; 1884); Offic[i]um Defunctorum
et Ordo Exsequiarum (1884); Grammar of Gregorian Music (1885);
Addresses on Irish Education (1890); Statement of the Chief
Grievances of Irish Catholics in the Matter of Education (1890); Trinity
College and the University of Dublin (1902); The Irish University
Question; Trinity College and its Medical School (1906); The Motu
Proprio Quantavis Diligentia and its Critics (1912); O’Connell
and Archbishop Murray, and the Board of Charitable Donations and Bequests
(1916); also A Plain Exposition of the Land Act of 1881 (1881).
Num. contribs. to The Nation, Freeman’s Journal, Irish
Ecclesiastical Record, Fortnight Review, Dublin Review,
et al.
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Criticism
Thomas J., Morrissey, SJ., William J. Walsh, Archbishop of Dublin 1841-1921
(Dublin: Four Courts 2000), 416pp. Also, interview with Archbishop Walsh
in Pall Mall Gazette (2 Dec. 1886).
Emmet Larkin, The Roman Catholic Church in Ireland and the Fall
of Parnell, 1888-1891 (Liverpool UP 1979), p.49.
Books Ireland (April 2001), review of Thomas J., Morrissey, SJ., William J. Walsh, Archbishop of Dublin 1841-1921 (Four Courts 2000), p.105.
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Notes
Interview: There is an interview with Archbishop Walsh in Pall
Mall Gazette, 2 Dec. 1886, in which he advocated with-holding rents
if not agreed by landlord, under Plan of Campaign, the rent to be given
to the Campaign Fund. [See Dominic Daly, The Young Douglas Hyde,
1974, n., p.206].
Lock-Out: Walsh was antagonist to the Lock-Out strikers (see A. N. Jeffares, W. B. Yeats, A New Biography, 1988, p.192; see also Conor Cruise O’Brien, ‘Passion and Cunning’, in Jeffares, ed., In Excited Reverie, 1965, p.236.
Namesake:Irish Times, 9 May 1997, includes account of Ne Timere prohibition on mixed marriages in the form of an excerpt from an article in by Dr. Willie Walsh (Catholic Bishop of Ballina, Co. Mayo) in the journal Furrow advocating dialogue and accepting Catholic blame for the climate of ‘social genocide’ impelled on Protestants. Patsy McGarry, Religious Correspondent, cites High Court ruling of Mr Justice Gavan Duffy in 1950 to the effect that a Mr Tilson was not entitled to place his children in a Protestant home and was legally obliged to raise them as Catholics in view of his written promise at marriage; Tilson appealed to the Supreme Court and lost. Dr. Michael Browne (later Bishop of Galway), speaking at CTS meeting in Wexford in 1957 anent the infamous case of boycott at Fethard-on-Sea, spoke of a campaign to entire or kidnap Catholic children and deprive them of their faith.
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