Walsh, William Joseph

The Oxford Companion to Irish History | 2007 | 632 words | Copyright

Walsh, William Joseph (1841–1921), Catholic archbishop of Dublin from 1885. Ordained in 1866, Walsh had been a professor at Maynooth, where he revived the Irish Ecclesiastical Record and became president in 1880. A nationalist, he supported the Plan of Campaign and home rule but opposed Parnell over his divorce case. Hostile towards Redmond and Dillon, he supported Sinn Féin, and was a firm opponent of the Government of Ireland Act, but strongly condemned violence. He wrote in support of a state‐funded Catholic university, and became first chancellor of the National University of Ireland.

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