Edward Joseph Byrne
During his early years as Archbishop, at the time of the Irish Civil War, he tried to bring about peace by calling a conference of the leaders, but no basis for agreement could be found.Arguing that the majority of the Irish people supported the Treaty, he advised de Valera not to split Sinn Féin, even if he was defeated in the Dáil; however, this advice was ignored.He supervised the provision of schools and churches to serve the new parishes created and viewed all his work from a spiritual angle and was considered a wise and prudent ruler.Byrne had generally cordial relations with the governments of both W. T. Cosgrave and Éamon de Valera, advising them on the issues of divorce and the constitution respectively.[5] While his pastorals from the 1920s and 1930s reveal some of the typical hierarchical concerns of the period, such as immodesty and evil literature, he was cautious in lending moral sanction to emergency legislation.
The Most ReverendArchbishop of DublinRoman CatholicWilliam Joseph WalshJohn Charles McQuaidPriestArchbishopDublinprelateCatholic ChurchCounty WicklowBelvedere CollegeHoly Cross College, ClonliffeIrish CollegeordainedSt. John LaterancurateCounty DublinRolestownBlackrockRectorPro-CathedralAuxiliary BishopTitular BishopPope Benedict XVbishopArchbishop William WalshPrimate of IrelandAssistant at the Pontifical ThroneOrder of MaltaIrish Civil WarTreatyde ValeraErskine ChildersschoolschurchesTrinity College DublincentenaryCatholic EmancipationEucharistic Congressthirty-first International Eucharistic CongressW. T. CosgraveÉamon de Valeradivorcethe constitutionpublic domainMorrissey, Thomas J.Alexander Thom and Son Ltd.WikisourceCatholic Church titles