Indult of secularisation, in Latin, and acceptance, in English, for Madeleine Byrne, formerly Sr. Mary Magdalen of St. Brigid of the Little Sisters of the Poor, Dublin. Witnessed by Mgr. Patrick Dunne.

Copy of typed letter to Mrs. Una Byrne from J.A. MacM., Secretary, thanking her, on behalf of the Archbishop, for her helpful letter of the 7th instant.

-8 September 1966 Folan, Stephen, 4, Sidnomton Road, Bray. He has been dismissed from his job as a bus driver by C.I.E. for not declaring that he served time in goal in England. He wants his job back. Has been offered a job in Belfast if he becomes a Protestant. Frs. MacMahon and Byrne involved.

Copy of typed letter to the Very Rev. William Byrne, P.P., Exchange Street, from J.A. MacMahon requesting information on a Communist book recently established in Exchange Street.

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from John Byrne, Mountjoy Prison, acknowledging his communication of 10th February.

Byrne, Edward, 211 Bannow Road, Cabra W. He is unemployed and is trying to raise a family of four on 28 shillings a week. His children often go hungry. The clergy are inefficient and Catholic Charitable societies leave him waiting. Says he will take his family to a Protestant Church in order to get a meal. Fr. O’Brien rejects this account.

Letter to + McQuaid from Fr. Jeremiah Twomey, C.M., St. Patrick’s Training College, Drumcondra, with two confidential Police documents enclosed “in connection with ….Communistic activities in the country.” Documents would imply that four students are implicated. Only one has given any cause for concern, Bernard Byrne. This concern is based on “feeling, not on evidence.” The students had received a letter from Peadar O’Donnell. Fr. Twomey asks for a meeting with + McQuaid for direction. A handwritten note from + McQuaid says he met Fr. Twomey and that nothing is to be done.

Handwritten letter to + McQuaid [from Una Byrne – name and address redacted] informing him that the International Alliance of Women were holding their Congress in Athens. If Mrs Byrne could not go Mrs Tweedy would ask Mrs Brown or Mrs Lloyd both of whom have no religion. If all failed Mrs Tweedy herself would go. If Mrs Byrne refuses to go Ireland will be represented by somebody of different spiritual and political views from those of Catholic Ireland.

Typed minutes of ‘V’ Committee meeting. The following items are mentioned in the report: The Plough - nothing further to add. The Committee is of the opinion that Scientology, at worst, this is a money-making agency and is not a serious threat. A report from Mr. Byrne was read concerning the importation of a cargo of paperback books, valued at £2,000, by Prescott. He applied for membership of Mrs Stanley’s Organisation governing the distribution of books, but was refused. Priest in charge of the CIE Sodality, Merchants’ Quay, to be contacted regarding O’Riordan and the CIE elections.

Typed note on Mrs. Byrne. She says that a science graduate from Rathnew has been trafficking in drugs. Maher’s, a store in Dolphin’s Barn, has been closed by the Gardaí for selling drugs.