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Thomas Joseph Walsh (Wexford)

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He became chairman and artistic director of the Wexford Festival in 1951 and established its international recognition over 15 years while still working as an
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at Wexford County Hospital. Known locally as "Doctor Tom" he "inspired great affection, admiration, and, given his great learning, even a measure of awe".
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Walsh wrote several books relating to opera, covering 18th century Dublin, opera in Monte Carlo and the
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Wexford Festival Opera. 62nd Festival 23 October - 3 November 2013, p. 5.
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Opera in Dublin, 1798–1820: Frederick Jones and the Crow Street Theatre
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in 1944. During his years in Dublin he took singing lessons from
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Tom Walsh's Opera. A History of the Wexford Festival, 1951–2004
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Second Empire Opera: The Théâtre Lyrique Paris 1851–1870
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Wexford Opera Festival
Wexford
University College Dublin
Adelio Viani
Royal Irish Academy of Music
Trinity College, Dublin
anaesthetist
Théâtre Lyrique
ISBN
978-0-7171-0725-4
ISBN
0-7145-3659-8
ISBN
0-19-816397-5



New Grove Dictionary of Opera
Harry White
ISBN
1-85182-878-8
Categories
1911 births
1989 deaths
20th-century Irish medical doctors
20th-century musicologists
Alumni of University College Dublin
Irish musicologists
Medical doctors from County Wexford
Opera managers

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