The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-08-24
DEATH OF REV, JOHN WALSH.
The Well Known Kilkenny Priest Pass
es Away at St. Kieran's College,
Kilkenny, July 8.
HIS LIFE AND WRITINGS,

His Love for Ireland and Her People
Marked His Everyday Action
Through Life.
The Kilkenny Express brings the sad
news of the death Of the Rev. John
Walsh, P. P, of Aughaviler anc
Hugginstown. Kilkenny county, Ire
land, which occurred Monday, July 8.
Father Walsh was one Of the Oldest
priests in the diocese of OssorY, and
was almost personally known to every
one there. He was dained a priest
when he was q years old, and we'll did
he labor in the cause Of his country as
we'll as well as his religion tor 43 years.
He was an able writer, fluent speaker
and an ardent admirer of the cham
pions of Irish freedom. He contribu-
ted many able articles to the Dublin
Review and the Irish papers. But so
modest was he about his writings that
he rarely, it ever. wrote over his own
signature. His love for the poor fire.
quently left him without the neces-
saries of life and many needy one
who was helped by the good Father
will have reason to regret his death.
He was in every particular model
priest, an able scholar and warm ad-
vocate of the rights of the Irish people.
When he died it is said that he had
little to bequeath his friends, having
given away almost all he had to the
poor. He wrote several valuable ar
ticles in manuscript form which have
never been published, but which will IN
all probability be in a short time.
Father Walsh was an uncle Of Hon.
Mathew Walsh of this city who has
filled many positions of trust in this
city and county for The past Is years.
The Kilkenny Express gives the fol-
lowing account Of Father Walsh's life
and death:
It is with feelings of profound regret
that the children of the Walshmoun.
tains, no matter in what quarter of the
globe the sad tidlngs find them, will
read Of the death of their beloved and
lamented soggartharoon, the Rev. John
Walsh, PIP, Aughaviller and Higgins
town, which sad event took place at ST..
.Kieran' s College, Kilkenny, on Monday,
July s, during the retreat of the parish
priests of the diocese. On his way to
the conference which was about being
held preparatory to the retreat. Father
Walsh became faint, and rested on a
bench in one of the corridors Of the
college, where his ashy paleness attract
ed the attention of a brother priest, who
at once proceeded to his side only to
find him dying. He had just time to
administer to him the last sacraments
when his spirit passed into the hands
of his God. Rev. Father Walsh was
descended from a family which has
given a continuous stream of ecclesias-
tics to our mother Church for genera
tions ecclesiastics alike distinguished
tor their profound the illogical erudition,
chaste and unobtrusive piety, stubborn
and independent patriotism, the sim
plicity of their lives, and the geutleness
of their manners. At the present day
relatives and nephews of the deceased
priests may be found in Holy Orders
from the City of the Confederation to
the shores of far off Australia, and from
the prairies of America to the jungles
of Hindostan.
The subject Of this notice was the
son of a respectable or gentleman tenant
farmer named William Walsh, who
resided at Kilkeasy. small mountain
village within mile of Huggin town,
county Kilkenny. He was born about
the year 1909, and from his childhood he
was of a retiring and pious disposition
50 much 80 indeed that he was early
marked by his parents FOR a religious
life. He was sent at an early age to a
classical school at Ballingarry, county
Tipperary, after which he entered St.
Johns College, Waterford, in the year
'26. where he watched with varying
emotions the fortunes Of the ''Stuart
Election" and when the hour of tri-
umph came no person rejoiced more at
the downfall of the Beresfords than did
the silent young Walshmountain stu
dent. Leaving Waterford he entered
Burrell's Hall, Kilkenny, where the
profound knowledge of the studious
young man soon attracted the attention
of the professors. and he was appointed
in 1881 to Birchfeld, a college situated
in those days within few miles Of
Kilkenny. He was ordained by the
Most Rev. DR.. Kinsella in 1886. and
was Immediately appointed curate to
his uncle. Rev. John Walsh. who was
then Adm. st. Johns, Kilkenny. and
afterwards for many years the reyered
and venerable Vicar Of Sleverne. Rev.