John Baptist Walsh () was an Irish
cleric and administrator of the
Irish College in Paris. He was awarded an MA in 1773, an LTh in 1780, and charged as supervisor of clerics from Ulster at the college from 1774–89, and gained the DTh award; he was appointed superior in 1787 a position he held until 1815.
He convinced Napoleon to consolidate the interests of the Scots and English Colleges into the Irish College,
[Chambers, L. (2017). "11 The ‘British Establishments’, the Irish college in Paris and Restoration France, 1814–30". In Forming Catholic Communities. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. doi]
/ref> under the Fondation Irlandais, to rename ''rue du Cheval Vert'' to ''rue des Irlandais'' where the Collège des Irlandais is.[Le Grand Project - Confiscated and vandalised during the French Revolution and shelled by the Prussian army, the Irish College in Paris has had. .](_blank)
by Frank McDonald, The Irish Times, October 12, 2012. The appointment of Rev. Richard Ferris as superior of the United Colleges, challenged Dr. Walsh's influence.
See also
* Irish College in Paris
External links
* https://archive.org/stream/irishecclesiasti18dubluoft#page/430/mode/2up
References
People from County Clare
18th-century Irish people
19th-century Irish people
1750s births
1825 deaths
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