Micheline Kerney Walsh

Micheline Kerney Walsh (21 October 1919 – 8 May 1997) was an Irish archivist and historian.

Early life and family Micheline Kerney Walsh was born in La Celle-Saint-Cloud near Paris on 21 October 1919. Her parents were Leopold H. Kerney and Raymonde (née Élie) from Bordeaux. She had two brothers, John and Eamon. She attended the Cross and Passion Convent, Kilcullen, County Kildare, Loreto College, Madrid, and Loreto College, St Stephen's Green, Dublin. She entered University College Dublin (UCD) in 1938, graduating with a BA in languages in 1941. On 30 September 1941 she married Richard Brazil Walsh (18 October 1914 - 1992). They had three sons and three daughters, Terence, Micheline, Aideen, Monique, Ronan and Michael.

Career Kerney Walsh joined the staff of the Overseas Archives in UCD in 1954 when it was established by Professor Patrick McBride. She published The O'Neills in Spain and The McDonnells of Antrim on the Continent in 1960, along with the first in her four-volume Spanish knights of Irish origin with the subsequent volumes appearing in 1965, 1970, and 1978. Her research focused on individuals, such as her contributions to on the women of the Wild Geese, Irishmen in the imperial service, and on Hugh O'Neill in The Irish Sword, a journal of the Military History Society of Ireland. She was elected to the council of the Military History Society in 1980, and became the society's first woman vice-president in 1986.