Biography
Richard Walsh was born in Rathkieran, Mooncoin, County Kilkenny in 1878. He grew up on the family farm and developed the necessary skills on the land, the river and on the hurling field. Walsh earned his nickname 'Drug' in the local national school as he liked to sing the song Clare's Dragoons. In singing it he appeared to pronounce the word dragoons as ‘drugoons’ and so his school-mates gave him the nickname 'Drug.' It was a nickname that he came to dislike in later life. A more acceptable form of the name, accepted by himself, was ‘Dhroog’, a corrupt sounth Kilkenny form of the first part of the word ‘dragoon.’
Dick Walsh died in 1958 and was buried in Carrigeen cemetery.
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