Typed Report 1963. The following items are included: Adoption Amendment Bill. Mrs. Byrne suggested they write to the Minister. He was smashing and shot down both Miss Odlem, Protestant Society, and Dr. Brady on all issues turn-over tax next Congress in Italy, 1964 International Alliance of Religion other business.

Typed note on Mrs. Byrne. She is on the track of a narcotics distributor in Co. Wicklow who supplies “the younger set of the upper crust”. May ask the Minister to set up some kind of FBI group to apprehend the guilty.

Handwritten letter to + McQuaid from Bishop William Philbin. Mrs. Una Byrne sometimes sends Dr. Philbin accounts of meetings and anti-Church activities in Dublin. He believes she is very sincere, thoroughgoing and effective. Is now forwarding report which reached him today.

Typed minutes of ‘V’ Committee meeting. The following items are mentioned in the report: Mr. Fitzgerald has a good name among the people. Has agitated for housing. Fr Paul O’Brien received an anonymous letter concerning the American College of Personnel Efficiency and passed it on to Dr. O’Halloran. It repeats the statements of Mrs Una Byrne (letter, 2 April 1957). Fr. Crean to raise the matter of Dr. Morris with Rev. Dr. O’Doherty. Councillor M. Prescott: Archbishop would like information on him.

Typed letter to + McQuaid with enclosed information from Mrs. Una Byrne. Fr. Kent was approached by journalists and told that the NUJ, English and Irish, are to hold a congress in Dublin in a few months time. It is likely that the liberal group, led by McInerney, would be prominent. Irish group might vote for the re-election of Hutt, a Communist, as Secretary of the NUJ. The Guild of St. Francis de Sales has little influence. The assistant chaplain could meet the journalists and this would help the situation. Enclosed with the letter was a copy of the Committee Meeting of December 1962 and a copy of Hibernia. It contains articles by McInerney and Michael O’Leary.

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.

May, 1942 Copy of a letter from Peadar O’Donnell to four students – Bernard Byrne, John Gallagher, Isaac Logue and Charles McGeady, St. Patrick’s T.C. - inviting them to meet him for a chat in response to their letter to him. O’Donnell is toying with the idea of planting them into the migratory workers’ bothies in Scotland. Their idea of going to a turf camp is equally good.

Note from Fr. James Ardle MacMahon to + McQuaid informing him that Grille might appear on the ‘Late Late Show. Fr. Tuohy asked by Gay Byrne to appear on the programme.

Copy of a typed letter to Mrs. Byrne from Kathleen MacLarnon Wells, Hon. Sec., IHA. Refers to visit to Mrs. Byrne by Mrs. Andrews, Mrs. Skeffington and herself and was inviting Mrs. Byrne to attend the next Committee Meeting. A form was given to Mrs. Byrne and she was asked to sign it. It asked her to unreservedly withdraw any words of hers spoken at the Crumlin Catholic Action Circle which may have implied that the IHA is or ever has been connected to Communism. Asked to apologise to the IHA for any damage her statement may have caused.

Typed letter to Fr. Martin from [Una Byrne?]. name and address redacted / torn out. Informed that 47 to be closed down. Debts incurred by Kavanagh were of his own making. He should have been less ambitious. Writes that she asked IHA what they were going to do about Hilda’s membership and the fact that there were Communists in the IHA?