Queen Mary at Maynooth during the royal visit of 1907. The President of St Patrick’s College, Daniel Mannix, is on her right and a predecessor, Dr William Walsh, Archbishop of Dublin, is on her left. Mannix was viewed with hostility by nationalists of all hues and was denied an Irish see. He was appointed Archbishop of Melbourne in 1913. After the Easter Rising he became one of the leading champions in Australia of Irish independence. Dr Walsh was the leading political strategist of the Catholic Church in Ireland for thirty-five years. Increasingly disillusioned with the Irish Party, he steered the Catholic hierarchy towards Sinn Féin in 1917 and 1918. (© National Library of Ireland)