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The Lament John ~I.A.C Walter Walsh J. C. Walsh THE LAMENT FOR JOHN ~I.A.C WALTER WALSH WITH NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF THE FAMILY OF WALSH FROM BY J. C. WALSH WITH A FOREWORD BY JAMES J. WALSH, M. D. Ph. D. KELMSCOTT PRESS 253 WEST 47th STREET NEW YORK KELMSCOTT PRESS NEW YORK COPYRIGHT PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES TO FRANK P. WALSH WHO BELONGS WITH THE BEST OF THESE FOREWORD BY JAMES J. WALSH, M. D. Ph. D. I THOUGHT I knew something about the \Valshs until I had the privilege of reading the manuscript of this work of my good friend, J. C. \Valsh. I found that in spite of a deal of reading on the subject and rather careful attention to details picked up here and there in many places, including visits to Ireland and Irish libraries, I had only the vaguest hints of the real story of the family whose name I bear. I had no idea that the \Valshs could be traced through the past eight centuries as very definite factors not only in Irish life and history but also in the history of many other countries. I am proud to think that the \Valshs have found so faithful and assiduous a chronicler of their doings in one of their own name. I was especially gratified with the thoroughgoing consultation of documents of all kinds that characterizes the work. I have had some experience my­ self in looking up details with regard to the Middle Ages and I know how difficult it is to be sure of their authenticity. I have found every earmark of faithful documentation in this. I am sure that it has been a labor of love for the author and I envy him the joy he must have had in nosing out in the dusty files of libraries in this country and abroad the original historical materials that have been so freely con­ sulted. He has done much more than make a history of the Y\T alshs. He has gathered an immense amount of historical material that will be valuable for consultation bv J writers of history in many departments "'~ho want to trace events to their origin. The place of the vV alshs in ,vhat came to be kno-\vn as the \Valsh country in southeastern Ireland just across the sea from \Vales and Cornwales ( to use the old name for Cornwall) from which the name of the fainily is derived, might seem to be due to their fighting qualities and good luck, but the fact that when the family were driven root and branch from their home lands in Ireland they succeeded in making for themselves successful careers in three such exclusive countries as France and Spain and Austria, is evidence of the native power and initiative which must have been in the family strain. They owe to these qualities their original foothold in Dublin, '-IV aterford, Kilkenny and other counties, but also their success in the countries of their adoption and the distinction that came to be theirs even hundreds of years after they were sent to hell or Connaught by Cromwell. My dear old grandfather, who was a sort of a "hedge schoolmaster" in the days when that was a dangerous occupation in "the County Mayo, God help us!" from which indeed it finally brought about his enforced exile, used to say that we went to Connaught by choice because we did not want to be with Cromwell in the next ,vorld. Banished from their homelands by governmental authorities or driven by poverty and need, there are ever so many of us W alshs all over the world now who know all too little about these ancestors of ours as they are so well written about here, and yet ,ve are all proud of the name and the family, so that I think there ought to be many readers for this book. My hearty congratulations on its completion! I am glad to know that my own son will have a chance to read early in life the story of the family from which he has come, for we all need inspiration to what is best in us in our time, and ,vhence can one derive it better than from the deeds of those ,vho bore his name in the past and of "~hose race he is the latest scion? PREFACE THE GATHERING of materials for this book can be compared appropriately to the now popular pastime of digging in the ruins of buried cities for objects which may aid in interpreting some civilization that has disappeared. For what happened in Ireland between 1536 and 1690 was the complete disappearance of a civilization that had begun in 1170, and which, in its ,vay, was as individual and as well defined as that of any epoch in history. There is no other instance, that I know of, unless it be the replace­ ment of the Armoricans in western F ranee, of all the directing spirits of a whole country being dispossessed, prac­ tically all at once, and replaced by an entirely new set, whose interest and sentiment both operated to make any reference to the past undesirable. Some years ago, being at Glengariff, in southwest Ire .. land, I decided to go to Berehaven to see what was left of the old castle of Dunboy, the scene of some famous exploits in I 60 I. A student of history, even a casual student, visit­ ing Ireland, might be expected to visit Dunboy very much as a visitor to Boston might visit Concord or Lexington. I saw what I ,vanted to see; but the man who drove me there kne,v nothing about the place, and from his name he should have kno,vn. I ,vas permitted to inspect it~ against what seemed to be the rule, as my card showed that I lived far away, for I learned afterwards that the o,vners ,vere sup­ posed to discourage members of the sept of the old pro­ prietors from seeing the place, and not to stimulate the curiosity of others. Similarly, when I consulted the stand­ ard histories of \Vaterford County for information con­ cerning the family of \Valsh, which I knew to have been numerous and influential there for centuries, it ,vas as if they had never existed. The histories ,vritten since their lands \Yere confiscated simply ignored them. Other instances might be cited, but what it means ,vas convincingly stated by John D~ .A.lton, a gifted, patient and devoted student of his country's history, ,yho about I 8 50 mildly complained that the "N ev1 Interests," even after a hundred and fifty years, ,vere convinced that least said ",.as soonest mended and declined to give the information that poor l\1r. D'Alton could not obtain anywhere else. All he could get about the Kilkenny \Valshs for his "King James' .i\rmv., List" was a fe,v hundred ,vords . But since his time, and partly because of the example he set by the thoroughness of his work, the gates have been opened, if not by the successors of the old proprietors at least in the offices in which the public records are stored, and with these records in their possession numbers of com­ petent writers have taken up the work of research, and have produced, amongst them, a great volume of illumi­ nation. The trouble is that one does not always know where to look, nor even what he is looking for. That, of course, is "rhat makes reading a library, as distinguished from read­ ing a book, one of the most exciting of indoor sports. , 1/hen the fragments have been gathered together, and arranged in order of time, it is possible to conjure from them a more or less satisfying picture of "rhat went on in those five centuries. Taking this family of ,,ralsh as a microcosm of the civilization of which it formed part, we can follow that civilization through the various stages of its development, for their story was the story of their con­ temporaries. ,v e know they came from ,Vales-perhaps some from Cornwall. ,v e can identify some of them in their \V elsh habitat, although one or t\vo of those about ,vhom ·\"ve are most curious are the most elusive. \Ve kno"7 where thev J settled, who were their overlords, ,vhere thev built their J castles and strong places; ,ve can see them passing out of the stage of daily ·warfare and into conditions of settled agriculture, ,vith increase of flocks and herds and all man­ ner of produce; ,ve can follo,v the numerical gro,vth of the family until it became a "nation" vrith a "chief captain" and ,vas recognized as a pow·erful military unit; we can observe the method, peculiar to that age, as some other method is peculiar to every other age, by ,vhich the surplus produced by the labor of many ,vas made to augment the fortune of the chief man, until the fort of wood in the midst of earth­ ,vorks had given place to the mansion covering an Irish acre; ,ve can assign dates to the grant of honors, note the inci­ dence of intermarriage w·ith neighbors of equal consequence, and observe the setting up of branch houses each with a pretentious establishment of its own; we can follow the careers of the most notable men, in war1 in parliament, in the Church, on the bench and in commerce; we can see ho,v, from the very pinnacle of prosperity, they and all others of their order were plunged, in a single generation, into utter ruin; and then we can follo,v the hardiest of them to France, to Austria, to Spain, to Germany, and others to a new life in Connaught under the penal laws, or sinking into bondage in their native mountain home under the hard rule of the new proprietors, whose names, acre for acre, ,Ye also know.
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