[1] At the age of 15, while employed as a waiter at the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin, he encountered the renowned Irish opera singer Margaret Burke-Sheridan (1889–1958).

[2] Walsh wrote the screenplay for the 1970 film Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx, which starred Gene Wilder and Margot Kidder.The movie received mixed reviews when it was released.

[4] In 2012, Quackser Fortune has a Cousin in the Bronx was listed in the Sunday Times as one of the top 100 Irish movies ever produced.

[8] Walsh wrote several plays including The Brandy Dancers and Hearts, which was produced by Eric Morris Theatre in Los Angeles.

The memoir recounts his upbringing in Dublin in 1940s and 1950s as one of ten children to the moment he departs to New York, barely literate, to live and be educated by his new guardians, Wall Street economists and investors, Emerson and Ruth Houghton Axe.