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- Thomas Walsh in the Ireland, Catholic Parish Registers, 1655-1915
Name: Thomas Walsh
Baptism Age: 0
Event Type: Baptism
Birth Date: 24 Jul 1879
Baptism Date: 27 Jul 1879
Baptism Place: Cork, Ss Peter and Paul's, Cork city, Ireland
Diocese: Cork and Ross
Father: John Walsh
Mother: Hannah Johnson
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Cork Examiner - Cork - Tuesday 5 March 1918
CORK REBELLION PRISONER'S - DEATH
The news of the death of Mr Thomas Walsh, a well-known and popular member of the Cork Mason's Society, which occurred at St Vincent's Hospital. Dublin, was received in his native city with general regret. Deceased, who was for some years employed in Dublin, recently contracted pneumonia while engaged at work in Arklow and despite the best of medical skill, succumbed on March 2nd, at the above-mentioned hospital.
He was a brother-in-law of Mr Tomas McCurtain, Blackpool, and at the outbreak of the Dublin Easter Rising, took part in the fighting with the Volunteers. He was subsequently courtmartialled and spent a considerable time in Frongoch. He was later imprisoned in Dublin in connection with some riots there in which collisions with the police took place.
When the news of his death reached Cork, the local Sinn Fein authorities decided to have a public funeral on the occasion of the transfer of the remains, which arrived last night from Dublin by the 8.40 train.
Prior to that hour large numbers of Sinn Fein sympathisers assembled in the vicinity of the station, the Irish Volunteers, Boy Scouts, Cuman na mBan, forming up in company sections in King street.
The contingents were accompanied by the Irish Volunteers Pipers Band which subsequently headed the procession through the city. The remains were received on arrival at the Glanmire station, amongst others by Alderman Meacle, Tomas McCurtain. Shawn McCurtain, Shawn Twomey, Terence McSweeney, S. Jennings, T. Barry and relatives of the deceased.
The coffin, which was covered with the Sinn Fein flag was borne to the Mer, and the funeral procession formed in which a gathering of large dimensions participated. The funeral wended its way through King street, Patrick street. Great George's street. North Main street, and Shandon street, to the Cathedral, where the remains lay overnight, awaiting interment to-day.
Cork Examiner - Cork - Wednesday 6 March 1918
FUNERAL OF MR. THOS. WALSH IRISH _VOLUNTEER
The Procession passing through -St- Patrick Street, Cork
CORK FUNERAL.
The funeral of the late Mr Thomas Walsh, a well-known member of the Cork Masons' Society, took place at 3 o'clock yesterday from the Cathedral to St. Finbarr's Cemetery. _
Deceased was popularly known in Cork for many years, and a few years ago went to reside in Dublin. He took part in the rising in Easter Week, 1916, and as a result of his participation underwent internment in Frongoch. He was later imprisoned in connection with some riots in Dublin.
Later he was following his usual avocation, and at Arklow contracted an attack of pneumonia, which proved fatal. The cortege was a very impressive one and the coffin, which was covered with the Sinn Fein flag, also bore many beautiful wreaths.
Amongst those who took part were the Irish Volunteers, Irish Volunteers Pipers' Band, Cuman na mBan (2 branches), Irish Citizen Army, Girls' Scouts, Fianna (Boys' Scouts), Irish Citizen Army (Boys' Scouts), Queenstown Irish Volunteers.
The funeral precession took the usual route,-viz-John Redmond street, Camden Quay. Patrick's bridge, Patrick st, Grand Parade and Great George's street to the cemetery, where the interment took place. En route the Pipers Band played Lord Lovat's lament and "Wrap the Green flag around me."
At he graveside a party of Volunteers fired three volleys, and a decade of the Rosary was recited by the Rev. Fr. Dominick, responses being given by the crowd kneeling.
The officiating clergvmen were-Rev Michael O'Sullivan, Adm, Cathedral; Rev J. McSwiney, O.S.A.; Rev Father Pius, O.S.F.C, and Rev Father Dominick, O.S.F.C.
The chief mourners were-Mrs Walsh (mother), Mr Jas Walsh (brother), the Misses: H. S and A. Walsh and Mrs Mac Curtain (sister), Mr Thos Mac Curtin (brother-in-law), Messrs John and James Johnson (uncles). Mr. J Barry (cousin), Mr Sean Mac Curtain.
Amongst the large assemblage who took part were- the Rev D. M. O'Flynn, C.C.; Messrs P. H. Meade (Aid); John Good. Jerh lacy, T.C.; F. Cronin, P. Corcoran, R. Barrett. S. Riordan, M. Mehigan, J. Hegarty D. Delea, etc.
The funeral arrangements were satisfactorily carried out by Mr D. O'Leary, Thomas Davis street, Blackpool.
Irish Examiner - Cork - Tuesday 27 February 2018
The Corkman who fired the first shot of 1916
Thomas Walsh of the Irish Citizen Army will be remembered at a ceremony in his native city next weekend, writes Niall Murray.
The Corkman who fired the first shot of 1916
25 Feb 2018
Thomas Walsh of the Irish Citizen Army will be remembered at a ceremony in his native city next weekend, writes Niall Murray
The death 100 years ago of c Corkman said to have fired the first shot of the 1916 Rising in Dublin is being marked in his native City next weekend.
A memorial to Thomas "Corkie" Walsh will be unveiled on Sunday in the same graveyard as his better-known brother-in-law, the city's first republican Lord Mayor, Tomâas MacCurtain.
As a mason who served his apprenticeship in his native city before moving to Dublin, the monument to Walsh is being erected by a committee formed from the Cork Masons Historical Society in conjunction with the MacCurtain and Walsh families.
He had only been in Dublin around a year before he joined James Connolly's Irish Citizen Army in 1915.
It was while manning a freshly-erected barricade in the earliest stages of the Rising on Easter Monday 1916 that Walsh was recognised by a group of friends.
In order to stop them mocking him with his "Corkie" nickname and kicking his barricade close to the GPO, he fired a shot in the air to get rid of them before any shots had been fired in anger.
The story recounted by Fionnuala MacCurtain in her book about her own grandfather Tomâas was seen by Cork Masons Historical Society officer Jim Fahy.
"I had never heard about him before but when I read this I went looking through our records to find out more, and got in contact with counterparts in Dublin," he explained.
"It was arising from that, and through contact with the family, that we decided to do something to mark the centenary of his death in 1918," said Mr Fahy.
Thomas Walsh had been in the Cork branch of the Ancient Guild of Incorporated Brick, Block and Stone Mason's Society, and became a member in Dublin when he moved. The Dublin branch sent money to his sisters back in Cork while he was detained in an English jail, and later at the Frongoch prison camp in Wales, following the Rising.
He had been captured along with other Citizen Army members fighting out of City Hall on the Tuesday of the Rising. Like many other participants, he was sentenced to death, but had that commuted to 10 years penal servitude.
He was released along with many others after a few months, returning to his lodgings in Cuffe Street near the Bricklayers' Hall. But he died of cardiac failure and pneumonia less than two years later, after being brought from his lodgings to St Vincent's Hospital on March 2, 1918.
Huge crowds turned out for his funeral in Cork, where local Irish Volunteers fired a volley over his grave at St Finbarr's Cemetery. The funeral was the subject of a photograph and report seen by readers of the Cork Examiner on the same morning that news broke of the death of Irish Parliamentary Party leader John Redmond.
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