The Irish standard., 1892-12-31
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Act Of 1881, under which such land
contracts as the '.Leinster Leases we're
rendered no longer possible. OF bis
sympathy with the tenant farmers OF Ire
land, in their efforts to ameliorate their
condition, DR.. Walsh subsequently gave
another practical proof. When the Land
Bill Of 1881 was introduced, its complex
character made its provisions practically
unintelligible to almost all but profess
sional lawyers. DR.. Walsh, however,
bringing to the task a special fitness. re-
sulting fran the vigorous discipline of
an ecclesiastical course of studies, Guilt
waited in an eminent degree, published
ga Plain Exposition of the Land Bill"
This volumirous pamphlet, which. in it's
second edition, became q plain exposi-
ton of the Land Act of 1881, had the
effect of making the beneficial provisions
Of that measure widely known through
out the country.
DR.. Walsh, as Chairman Of the Educa-
tional Committee of Irish College Presi-
dents. vigorously maintained the rights
Of Catholic Education in the matter of
University Education. His spirited re-
signation Of the Senatorship of the
Royal University, when the majority Of
his colleagues ignored Catholic rights,
and his able criticism of the unsound
philosophical teachings forced by that
University on Catholic students, will not
be forgotten. They show that he is a
leader of keen circumspection, of cour
age and decision.
Dr. Walsh has prepared many works
on sacred Scripture, liturgy, music, and.
even on secular law. 1t is unnecessary
here to refer to the recent efforts DR..
Walsh has made in the matter OF Univer-
sity Education in Ireland. It was main
~ in accordance with his advice that the
short Parliamentary struggle, which re-
suited in the issuing of a commission to
inquire into the Queens Colleges of Ire
land. was conducted. The Importance
attached to his evidence, subsequently
given before that Commission, is saff-
GENTLY manifest, from the numerous and
detailed references to it in two reports of
the commission just published. Nor is
his learning alone purely ecclesiastical.
He is thoroughly man of the day, we'll
acquainted with the problems which the
votaries of modern science love to fling
out in every department, and keenly
alive to the necessity that the clergy
shall be abreast of the. difficulties Of the
hour, in order to defend the sacaed mis-
sion with which they are entrusted. He
is familiar with more than one Continen-
tai language, keeps himself au courant
of contem porary periodical literature,
and is careful that he shall not fall be-
hind in The knowledge Of everything
with which an earnest priest ought to be
acquainted. He Is an admirable man of
business, masters with singular rapidity
the details of complicated matters
prompt in selling the main features of
what he has to deal with; and while he is
unhinchipg in maintaining what he be-
lieves to be the correct course, he is
most willing to make every allowance
for those who honestly differ from him.
Is it any wonder, then, that such Di-
vine should be popular with his own
people, to whose interests he has always
shown himself so devoted that he is re-
garded as the first distinctively Irish
Prelate, who, since the time of Laurence
OToole. has held the Archiepiscopal
chair OF the See of Dublin.