The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-12-31
CARDINAL WALSH
What the Irish People Would Like
the Archbishop of Dublin to
Become.
BECAUSE OF HIS PATRIOTISM
His Elevation to the Cardinalate is
Opposed by the Tory Catholics
of England.

SpNS0OSA S>$~SAA~A~~HS
Of England.
Since the period Of tho Veto" agita-
tion in Ireland, preyiosds to the passage
OF the Act of Catholic Emancipation, no
event has 30 stirred the popular heart,
in that country, as the announcement Of
the appointment, by the Holy See OF
Most Rev. DR.. Walsh, as successor to the
late Cardinal McCabe. On the demise
Of Cardinal McCabe, the Chapter Of the
Diocese had nominated the Very Rev.
Canon William Walsh, D. D., President
Of ST Patrick's College,, Maynooth, as
Vicar Capitular, of the diocese; and, not
withstst ding the opposition Of the gov
ernment party, this choice was further
supplemented by his election by the au-
thorized parish priests of Dublin,a as their
choice for their future Prelate. DR..
Walsh's pronounced opinions on Irish
National questions, and especially on
those of land tenure, and intermediate
and university education-on all OF
which he was regarded as one of the
highest authorities-rende m OBJ
noxious to the English faction in Ire
land; and their efforts to prevent his
confirmation by the Holy See, through
their agents in Rome, exceeded any they
had put forth since Lords Palmerston
and Mimic endeavored to prevent the
5consocration of the late Archbishop Nc
Hale, of Tuam "The Lion of the Fold. :"
As in that case, however, those machine
tions were defeated by the wisdom of the
Holy See; and, on the 21st of August,
1885 Ito the qualification of the Irish
people, the world over), Nest Rev. Will
liam Walsh was formally consecrated
Archbishop of Dublin and Primate Of
ireland, in the Church of st. Agatha, in
Rome an edifice venerable in Irish &C.
cleeiastical history to all who love the
faith and traditions Of the Old Land.
Most Reverend Archbishop Walsh was
born in Dublin, in the year l84l. He re-
ceived his early education in the semln-
ary Of st. Laurence O'Toole, Harcourt
street, then presided over by the Right
Rev. DR.. James Quinn, late Bishop of
Brisbane, and which counted among it's
professors the late Rt. Rev. DR.. Mathew
Quinn afterwards Bishop Of Bathurst>,
and the Right Rev. DR.. Duane, the pres
ent Bishop OF Brisbane. After q pro
missing career in this seminary, Dr.Walsh
entered 1885, the Catholic University,
which had been established few years
previously by DR.. Newman; and there he
won his scholarship in mathematics.
From the University, he passed in 1858
to Maynooth, entering at once the Class
! Of Logic-a rare case for one go young.
In the great Irish Ecclesiastical College
he went regularly through all the classes
with singular success, commencing him
self alike to his superiors, his professors,
and his fellow-students, while always
keeping in the first rank. In 1854, at the
conclusion Of his regular course, during
which he gained all possible honors, he
was too Young to be ordained, and he
passed into the "Dunboyne Establish
ment,' where he spent three years in
special ecclesiastical studies. During
another couple Of years he took charge
Of one OF the classes Of Theology, the
Rev. Professor Neville's il-health COM
pelling his absence during the greater
part Of the time The extent OF his gene
raj information was already 90 we'll recog-
nized that that eminent scholar, the late
DR.. Russell, then President OF May
nooth, had him appointed Assistant III
brarian to the college. In this capacity
he rendered very great service in ar
ranging and oataloguing, in the new IL
brary, the enormous mass Of books which
had previously been distributed il differ
ent parts Of the college for want Of room.
In 1877, on the resignation Of Profes-
sor Neville, who was then appointed
parish priest in his native diocese Of
Cork, DR.. Walsh succeeded to the va
cant chair ito which he was appointed on
his merits, without a ooncursusl; and
within the next few years he gave ire
quent proofs that there was scarcely any
department. Of ecclesiastical knowledge
with which he was not familiar. He
continued in the chair of Theology until