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.

Reports on the Fabian Society, Trinity College, between 28 February and 29 October 1962. John Byrne spoke on the Capitol system in Ireland. Said that unless the power of the Catholic Church was restricted there was no hope of getting a decent wage for workers. Religious Orders held wealth of the country. Jesuits were dictators. The Catholic Workers’ College was set up to train people to take over trade unions. Maynooth College did not pay its workers a living wage. Jeffers was a lecturer in Trinity but forced to leave due to his work for Communism. Michael O’Riordan deplored Ireland being used as a cushion between Russia and America. Trade should be encouraged between Ireland and the Socialist countries. Michael Foot and John Collan were unable to attend a meeting due to the unsettled state of the world.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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