Joseph Walshe was an Irish civil servant and diplomat.
12 Facts About Joseph Walshe
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Joseph Walshe returned to Ireland where he studied at Mungret College, County Limerick, and began teaching at the prestigious Jesuit-run boarding school of Clongowes Wood.
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Joseph Walshe left the order in 1916 due to illness, before studying for a general law degree at University College Dublin.
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Joseph Walshe went on to obtain a master's degree in French.
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Joseph Walshe was formally engaged in Paris from 1 November 1920 until his recall to Dublin on 31 January 1922.
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Robert Brennan, who was Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs prior to the split, and who sided with the anti-treaty faction, recommended to the pro-treaty George Gavan Duffy that Joseph Walshe would be a capable replacement for him to organise the Department.
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Gavan Duffy accepted the recommendation of his erstwhile colleague and Joseph Walshe was appointed Acting Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Provisional Government.
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On 21 June 1940, Joseph Walshe sent Eamon de Valera a memo entitled 'Britain's Inevitable Defeat'.
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Joseph Walshe argued that 'Neither time nor gold can beat Germany' and that Britain would swiftly be forced to submit by German bombing.
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However, Joseph Walshe strongly advised De Valera not to make the visit.
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Joseph Walshe served as Ambassador to the Holy See from 1946 to 1954.
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Some who worked in the Department with Joseph Walshe believed that he long held the desire to marry his colleague Sheila Murphy, but that his ill health had prevented this.