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Life
?-1585; Anglican bishop of Ossory, 1577; son of Patrick Walsh, bishop of Waterford (d.1578); ed. Paris, Oxford and Cambridge; Chancellor St. Patrick’s, 1571; joined [or succeeded by] John Kearney in translating the New Testament into Irish, 1573, to be completed later by William Daniel (Ó Domhnaill); murdered in Kilkenny. ODNB
Commentary
Walter Harris, trans. of Sir James Ware, De Scriptoribus Hiberniae as Writers of Ireland (Dublin: Ebenezer Rider 1736 Edn.): ‘Nicholas Walsh, Bishop of Ossory, writ Learned Sermons in Latin, yet extant in his own Hand Writing. He also attempted the translation of the New Testament, into Irish about the Year 1573, but his Design was Prevented by a horrid Murther committed on him in 1585.’ (Chap. XII.) [See further under Sir James Ware - infra.]
Sir John Gilbert, History of Dublin [3 vols., 1854-59; rep. Duffy], I, (Dublin: James Duffy 1861): Minister of St. Werburgh’s from 1571 to 1577 and subseq. Bishop of Ossory, he was the first to introduce Irish types ... Queen Elizabeth, at her own expense, having provide a printing press and a fount of Irish letters ‘in the hope that God in his mercy would raise up some to translate the New Testament into their mother tongue.’ (Vol. 1, p.29.) [See further quotations and remarks under Gilbert - supra.]
Notes
Collaborateurs?: Note the discrepancy in accounts of the collaboration, or else the succession, in the involvement of Nicholas Walsh, John Kearney, William Daniel, and Nehemiah Donnellan in the translation of the New Testament into Irish.
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