| Reference Number | SU/4/4 |
| Title | Statement of Edward Byrne, Archbishop of Dublin, on proposed amalgamation, with response of Saint Ultan's Hospital Board and related correspondence |
| Date | December 1935 - January 1936 |
| Creator Name | Byrne, Edward Joseph, 1872-1940, Roman Catholic Archibishop of Dublin |
| Saint Ultan's Hospital Board, 1919-1984 |
| Mullen, Madeleine ffrench-, 1880-1944 |
| Price, Dorothy Stopford, 1890-1954 |
| Description | Two typescript copies of a statement given by Edward Byrne, in answer to a deputation from Saint Ultan's Hospital, laying out his objections to the proposed merger. Byrne states he 'opposes this amalgamation on religious ground solely', he sees the boards of the two hospitals as protestant and fears the new hospital will attack catholic morals, undermine the faith of patients, provide contraception and sterilise children seen as 'unfit'.
The file contains a letter from Madeline ffrench-Mullen, secretary of Saint Ultan's, to Dr Price, as secretary of the Medical Board asking her to define the boards attitudes to Byrne's statement, with Dr Prices reply, with drafts of the response of Saint Ultan's Hospital Board, refuting all the accusations made by Byrne. |
| Extent | 10 pages |
| Digital Collections | View online in our digital collections |
| Copyright | Free to use under the terms of the Creative Commons Licence Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) |
| Credit Line | Royal College of Physicians of Ireland |
| Term | Roman Catholicism |
| Contraception |
| Hospital management |
| Politics |