he was an active and reforming archbishop, who established a new corporation in st. patrick's cathedral and founded chantries in st. michael's church and st. audoen's church. his rule as archbishop was marked by a long-running conflict with john swayne, who had become archbishop of armagh in 1418, two years after talbot failed to obtain confirmation of his election to that see. talbot revived an old dispute about primacy between the sees of dublin and armagh, and refused to accept the right of swayne to call himself primate of ireland. swayne was equally intransigent: in 1429 he refused to attend a session of the irish parliament in leinster if his primacy was not acknowledged.