Background
Doctor Walsh was born in 1931 at Cobh, Irish Free State.
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Doctor Walsh was born in 1931 at Cobh, Irish Free State.
He entered Saint Malachy"s College as a seminarian and then attended Queen"s University, Belfast. He then studied Theology at the Pontifical Lateran University, Rome and completed a Licentiate in Sacred Theology and was ordained priest on 25 February 1956.
When he was 11 years old, he and his family moved to Belfast, Northern Ireland. During Philosophy studies at Queen"s he was taught by the future Archbishop of Armagh, Doctor Cahal Daly. After ordination Daniel Mageean sent him for further studies to Street Edmund"s College, Cambridge (then known as Street Edmund"s House).
He completed a Master of Science in Mathematics at Christ"s College, Cambridge since Street Edmund"s was at the time unable to matriculate students of its own. from Queen's University, Belfast.
He was assigned as a Mathematics teacher at Street MacNissi’s College, Garron Tower from 1958-1964. He was then Chaplain, along with Fr Ambrose Macaulay, at Queen's University, Belfast from 1964–1970.
In 1970 he was appointed and is the former Chairman of the Board of Governors for the college. In 1983, with Doctor Anthony Farquhar he was appointed Auxiliary of The Diocese of Down and Connor and was consecrated on 15 May by Cahal Daly, Archbishop Gaetano Alibrandi and William Philbin.
He was given the Titular See of Ros Cré.
His Episcopal Motto is "Ex Animo Operari", to work with one"s heart (Colonel 3:24). In 1991, on the elevation of the then of Down & Connor Cahal Daly as Archbishop of Armagh, Doctor Walsh became the 31st of Down & Connor. He was the Principal Consecrator of Michael Dallat and Donal McKeown.
He was succeeded by Monsignor Noel Treanor on 22 February 2008.