Joe Walshe
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Joseph (Joe) Walshe was an Irish civil servant. As Secretary of the Department of External Affairs from 1923-46, he was the department's most senior official.[1]
During World War II, he was viewed as being pro-German by outside observers, especially in Great Britain.
On May 2, 1945, he and Taoiseach Eamon de Valera visited the home of Eduard Hempel, the German Ambassador to the Irish Free State, in Dún Laoghaire (originally known as Dunleary, then as Kingstown, then later Gaelicized after Irish independence to its current name) to express the Irish Government's official condolences on the suicide of Adolf Hitler. He retired to Rome and died in Cairo on the 6th February 1956.
