Robert Walsh (Irish writer)

[2] He urged the setting up of courts wherever there was a British consul, with the right to arrest and try slavers, even if they were not transporting slaves - the owner, master and crew would then be liable to severe punishment as pirates.

In this way, he hoped, the trade would no longer be permitted, and "the whole of this ransacked and harassed coast will then be protected and every slaver on any part of it will be seized and tried as a pirate.

He returned to Ireland in 1835, where he obtained the living of Kilbride, County Wicklow, and exchanged it for that of his earlier residence at Finglas in 1839, and died there in 1852.

He published in 1847 the popular Ireland Sixty Years Ago, which contained much information procured from his father, from a series of articles written by Robert for the Dublin University Magazine.

[1] Robert Walsh's brother, Edward was also a writer who had a brilliant career as an army surgeon all over the world, before settling in Dublin.

Robert Walsh MA, Rector of Malahide and Portmarnock was a historian who wrote about the history of the churches in North Dublin.