Letter from Michael Curran, on behalf of Archbishop of Dublin William J. Walsh, to John F.Hogan with permission for public veneration of relics, 16 Mar 1916 William Joseph Walsh (30 January 1841 – 9 April 1921) served as the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin from 3 July 1885 until his death in 1921. He was born in 11 Essex Quay in Dublin. He was educated at St. Laurence O’Toole Seminary School, Harcourt St., Dublin, the Catholic University of Ireland and St. Patrick's College, Maynooth where he became Professor of Theology in 1867.He was appointed vice-president of Maynooth in 1878 and president in 1880 until he was appointed Archbishop of Dublin. Father Michael Curran was the Archbishop’s secretary from 1909 to 1919. Hogan, John Francis (1858–1918), priest, author, and president of St Patrick's College, Maynooth, was born in July 1858 in Coolreagh, Co. Clare. He was educated at Ennis Diocesan College, Co. Clare, Saint-Sulpice, Paris, and Freiburg-im-Breisgau. After ordination in the diocese of Killaloe, subsequently becoming canon, he continued his studies in France and Germany before accepting the newly created chair in modern languages at St Patrick's College, Maynooth (1886–1912), where he taught French and Italian. He was appointed vice-president (1910) and president (1912–18) of St Patrick's College, and subsequently became senator (1913) and pro-vice-chancellor (1914) of the NUI. In 1914 he was appointed domestic prelate to the pope. In 1911 he helped to organise the reception of King George and Queen Mary. During the Easter rising (1916) a group of Volunteers from the town of Maynooth entered the college to seek a blessing before setting off for Dublin. Hogan reputedly refused to give his blessing to their ‘foolish and most ill-advised expedition’ (Corish, 302) and urged them to return home. They in turn refused; responding to their spiritual needs, he blessed them, while remaining totally opposed to their activities. He subsequently addressed the students on the need to show proper respect for authority.