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1837, he removed to Tourin, County Waterford, laving been appointed to a school under the Com- nissioners of Education. Many of his songs and )oems appeared between the years 1832-39, and he contributed to the "Nation". Worried with the lurroundings of an uncongenial occupation, and )estered by officials, whose visits were ill-recpived by he super-sensitive poet, he went to reside in DubUn n 1843, and was befriended by Gavan Duffy, who lis "Irish Jacobite Poetry" (1844) and his "Irish 'opular Songs" (1847) gave unmistakable evidence if a genuine poet. Yet he was forced to fight against loverty, and, in 1848, he accepted the post ofschool- naster to the junior convicts of Spike Island, where le was \'isited by John Mitchell, on his way to penal er\-itude, who vividh- describes in his "Jail JoiuTial" lis meeting with Walsh. Not long afterwards he ecured the schoohiiastership of Cork work-house, but lied within twelve months. A fine monument, with n epitaph in Irish and English, was erected to his nemory in the Father Mathew Cemetery at Cork. Unong his Ij-rics "Mo Chragibhin Cno", "Brighidin lan mo stor", and "O'Donovan's Daughters" are in nost Irish anthologies, whOe his translations from he Irish are both faithful and musical.
 * ot him appointed sub-editor of the "Monitor".

KlCKHAM, Edward Walsh in The Celt (Dublin, 1857) ; C0LLIN8, ^eUic-Irish Sungs and Song Wrilers (London, 1885) ; Brooke and toLLESTON, A Treasury of Irish Poelry (London, 1900).

W. H. Grattan-Flood.

Walsh, Louis Sebastian. Diocese of.

See Portland,

Walsh, Peter, Irish Franciscan, b. at Mooretown, !^ounty Kildare, about 1608; d. in London, 15 March, 688. Educated and ordained in the celebrated rish College of St. Anthony at Louvain, he was later ppointed to the convent of his order at Ivilkenny, (■here he warmly supported the Ormondist party a the confederation then assembled in that city, le was made guardian by the triumphant Ormondists a 1648; took a leading part in the agitation against he validity of the censures fulminated by the nuncio, linuccini; acted as chaplain to the Munster army ill its final defeat by the Parliamentary forces; led, precarious existence in England and on the Conti- lent till 1660 when the Restoration saw him back in jondon and high in the favour of the evil genius of he Confederates, the all-powerful Ormonde. He was ]ipointed their accredited London agent by the few urviving Irish bishops in 1661. He introduced and ricd to have accepted by the Irish clergj- and people he famous "Remonstr.ance" which distracted the ountry for the next half-dozen years; took a promi- lent part in a meeting of the bishops and clergj' which, .ith Ormonde's con.sent, he had assembled in Dublin n June, 1666, to di.scuss the Remonstrance; but de- pite all his efforts he was unable to induce or force he meeting to sign a document which the great najority regarded a"* disrespectful to the Holy See, [ not actually in conflict with Cathohc teaching on he sujiremacy of the pope. Breaking definitively .•ith the ecclesi.asi iral authorities, he put himself at he head of a party consisting of a few of the clergy ,nd several lajinen, who were known as the Valesians ,nd \'alesian heretics, and who were a source of onsider.able anxiety to the bishops for some time; lut the fall of Ormonde in 1669 deprived them of their nainstay, and they decUned so rapidly that Oliver 'lunket, writing to Propaganda in 1671, was able to eport that hardly a Valesian remained. Walsh, lowever, for whom Ormonde's influence had secured he seneschalship of Winchester (worth about £100, year) from the bishop of that .see, held out almost o the end. Though the General Chapter of his order leld at Valladolid in 1070 pronoimced sentence of aajor excommunication against him, he disregarded

the penalty, and it was only a few days before his death that he was induced to make his peace with the

Church.

He left many writings behind him. Of these, with the exception of a worthless history of Ireland down to the English invasion, entitled "A Prospect of the State of Ireland", nearly all are concerned with the question of the Remonstrance, and comjirise his "More Ample Account" (1662); "Irish Colours Folded" (1662); "Controversial Letters" (1673); "Letter to Cathohcs" (1674); "History of the Irish Remonstrance" (1674) ; and a long defence of his atti- tude addressed to the general of his order in a Latin pubhcation entitled "Causa Valesiana" (1684), all of which were pubhshed in London. His "History of the Remonstrance" is valuable for the light it throws on the events of that distracted time.

Though Walsh's life has never been written, it is not for want of abundant material. In addition to his own writings much information concrTninjr liinj ina\- be found in the following works; T.1LBOT, The Fr;.' n:, ■ ■ ..I (Paris. 1074): Carte, Life of Or- momie (London. I . ' ' :, , . i ht. Vontemporarij History (Dublin, 1879);Idem, // ' / '.ra(iOH (Dublin, 1890) : Nicholas

French, The I, li Dublin, lt;4i;i; Aiazzi, Nunzia-

tura in Irlnn.h: ]..,.,.. 1-1 I, Ci ni.v. Ilistoncal Memoirs (London, 17.-.^- I-im, ' 11;: iIiuMit,, 17751; Moran,

Memoir of Oil,, r I ■ I I,:,,, \^-r, ■ \, : •.,. Sineileoium Os-

sortensf (Dublin, ]-■:*■: I't ..-.-.k, Ih ■i,'ri,:,( Aildress (Bucking- ham, 1810); Pluwukn, Hisloricai Letter (London, 1812); Bhen- NAN, Ecclesiastical Hist, of Ireland (Dubhn, 1814); Burghclebe, Life of James, first Duke of Ormonde (London, 1912).

J. Hagan.

Walsh, Robert, publicist, diplomat, b. at Balti- more, Md., 1785; d. at Paris, 7 Feb., 1859. He was one of the first students entered at Georgetown College, graduated in 1801 and began his law course. During a two years' tour of Europe he contributed several articles on the institutions and laws of the LTnited States to the Paris and London papers. Returning to the LInited States in 1808 he was admitted to the Bar, and in 1811 established at Phila- delphia the "American Review of History and Poli- tics", the first American quarterly review. There- after he devoted himself entirely to literature. His "Appeal from the Judgment of Great Britain respect- ing the LTnited States" (1819), an important contribu- tion to the pohtical hterature of the cm, ol)t:iined for him the thanks of the Pennsvlvani:i lfuisl:il\ire. He founded (1821) and until 1836 edited the Phikidelphia "National Gazette", a paper devoted to politics, science, letters, and the fine arts. His knowledge and taste gave American journalism a lofty impulse. Lord Jeffrey said of his "Letters on the Genius and Disposition of the French Government": "We must learn to love the Americans when they send us such books as this" ("Edinburgh Review"", 1853, 799). He pubhshed two volumes of essays, entitled "Di- dactics", in 1836, and from 1837 to 1844 he was Consul General of the United States in Paris, where he remained until his death. His house was the popular rendezvous of the learned and distinguished men of France. His vivacity of mind, intellectual zeal, interest in politics, hterature, science, and cultivated society never flagged. At his death a WTiter declared him to be "the literary and intrinsical hnk between Jefferson, Madison and Hamilton and the men of the present day" (1,859).

Robert Slovlan Walsh, his son (b. at Philadelphia, 27 April, 1818; d. at Camden, N. J., March, 1872), filled a number of diplomatic posts at London, Naples, Florence, and Leghorn, translated several French books and assisted his father in editing the "Gazette".

DrrcKlNCK, CycL of Am. Literature, s. v.; Aubone, Dirt, of Authors, B. v.; GniHwOLD, ProseWrilers of America (Boston. 1844); Shea, History of Georgetown University (Washington, 1891) ; U. S. Cath. Hist. Soc. Maganne, 11.

Thomas F. Meehan.

Walsh, TnoMAS, b, in London, October, 1777; d, there, 18 Fcbruarc, 1849. His father, an Irish mer- chant, having died during his infancy, Thomas was