Byrne Thomas Francis. Maynooth Company, Kildare Brigade, Irish Volunteers. Born in 1877 died on the 7^th of September 1962, aged about 39 years old during the Rising. He fought in the General Post Office, O'Connell Street, Parliament Street, Capel Street Bridge and Liffey Street areas. Thomas Byrne was one of a party of Maynooth Irish Volunteers who marched to Dublin to take part in the Easter Rising. He escaped after the Easter Rising and was not interned or imprisoned. From 1917 to early 1921 Byrne served successively as Vice Battalion Officer Commanding and Battalion Officer Commanding Irish Volunteers and IRA and then as a Staff Officer on the Dublin Brigade IRA. In 1919 he was interned for five months in Brixton Prison, London and was later again interned in 1921 at Rath Camp, The Curragh. Following the outbreak of the Civil War in June 1922 Thomas Byrne served as Officer in charge of a number of National Army positions in Dublin including the Technical Schools in Bolton Street, Davy's Public House in Portobello and King's Inns. He was appointed Captain of the Guard at Leinster House in September 1922 until his retirement in February 1947. Byrne had serviced under Major John McBride in the Boer War 1899-1900.