Typed letter from + George Calavally, Bishop of Theodoropolis, to + Edward J. Byrne seeking aid for families, orphans, wounded soldiers and prisoners affected by the war.

-20 August 1959 Byrne, Bernadette, Rochestown Ave., Dun Laoghire, wrote to the Holy Father regarding a man with whom she was in love. His wife deserted him and went off with another man. She asks if there is any possible for them.

Typed letter from + Hugh Byrne to + McQuaid informing him that a priest had left the Vicariate without permission and may have returned to Ireland.

Copy of typed letter to + McQuaid [from Una Byrne name and address redacted]. Institute of Catholic Sociology criticised as only one member of Government invited to speak on the debate on P.R., and he was Mr. Childers, a Protestant. Also criticised for inviting Declan Costello on politics while no member of Government was invited. Not true as de Valera, Lemass and Lynch refused invitations.

Typed report, written by Una Byrne, on the meeting of The Republican Forum. Aim of the meeting was to get people who were interested in the plight of the people of Kenya to form an association, ‘The National Council of the Friends of Kenya’, and channel money and clothes to them.

Handwritten report. Patrick Harlsins is Chairman of Students’ Union at UCD. His father is in Department of Justice and a long-standing leftist. ‘Trotsky’ Byrne, Corporation labourer, attacked the Church and individuals at TCD Fabian Society.

Note regarding Solemn Votive Masses and Fr. Peirce is asked to sing the anniversary Mass for +Byrne which he agrees to do. 2 items

Report of the meeting of the International sub- committee of the IHA. Letter received by Mrs Lucy Kingston from the Japan Council Against A. & H. Bombs looking for help for the forthcoming World Conference. Mrs. Reynolds had asked that an article on Nuclear Disarmament, to be written by Mrs de Courcy Ireland, be printed in the IHA magazine. This was opposed by Una Byrne on the grounds that the IHA was a non-political organisation.

Letter from Fr. Sean Byrne, Administrator to +McQuaid regarding two parishioners, Leo Macken and John Williams who deserve Bene Merenti medals.

Letter from Fr. William J. Byrne to +McQuaid regarding an old custom to ask the curate in Maynooth to assist at the Conformation Ceremony.