Education
He studied at Saint John"s College, Waterford and Maynooth College and was ordained in Waterford.
He studied at Saint John"s College, Waterford and Maynooth College and was ordained in Waterford.
Born in Waterford, Company Waterford, Republic of Ireland and died in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Following ordination he ministered in Dublin.
Walsh became bishop of Halifax in 1845 and in 1852, was appointed archbishop of an expanded ecclesiastical province of Nova Scotia, also designated as Halifax.
He became the first archbishop in British North America outside Quebec.