Correspondence, including newspaper cutting, regarding a protest and counter-protest in Bray regarding the visit of the Springboks rugby team. Fr. Byrne had attended.

Letter from Fr. M. Toher to Monsignor regarding a local man, John Byrne, who was ordained for Liverpool Diocese and wishes to say Mass in the local church.

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Correspondence detailing the Institute's desire to expand their activity in Dublin- a foundation had been made under Archbishop Byrne in Kenilworth Square; eventually McQuaid invitemss them to undertake a secondary school, other foundations eventually made in the Archdiocese.

Correspondence regarding their presence in Balbriggan and they appear to be in charge of a group of refugee aspirants from England. Originally permitted to come by Archbishop Byrne. (these papers refer to the period in between Archbishop Byrne dying and Archbishop McQuaid taking over and also the early years of the latter’s administration). Salesians of Don Bosco (S.D.B.)

. Byrne, Sr. Antonia, Loreto Convent, Bray, Co. Wicklow. She is seeking financial help for her nephew so that he could attend St. Vincent’s Orphanage.

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.

. Byrne, James, 24 Skreen Road, Navan Road, Dublin. He is appealing for a right home for deafmutes, blind and old speaking men. He asks the Archbishop to give Fr. P. Bidone, father of the poor, permission to come to Dublin to establish such a home. Leaflets on Don Louis Orione enclosed.

. Byrne, M., 54 Ventry Park, Cabra W., Dublin 7. Asks the Archbishop if he is aware of the difficulty for workers to get to Mass on Holy Days and Sundays due to Mass times, the living conditions in Keogh Square and Griffith Barracks, landlords not renting to couples with children and old people not having enough to live on.

Byrne, Margaret, 46 Maryvill, Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny. Asks the Archbishop to pray for her poor boy who suffers from epilepsy.

. Byrne, Fr. Martin, The Pro-Cathedral. He visited No. 1 Temple Street where Peter Paul O’Brien took his young wife to live in a two- roomed household where there were fifteen people already living. (Parish)