Born: Ju­ly 2, 1880, Dub­lin, Ire­land.

Died: Jan­u­a­ry 19, 1931, Dub­lin, Ire­land.

A lin­guist, Byrne at­tend­ed the Do­min­ican Con­vent in Dub­lin, and the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Ire­land, where she grad­u­at­ed in 1905. She worked for the Board of In­ter­me­di­ate Ed­u­ca­tion, and helped com­pile the Ca­ta­log of the Roy­al Ir­ish Acad­e­my. She al­so con­trib­ut­ed to the Old and Mid-Ir­ish Dic­tion­ary and Dic­tion­a­ry of the Ir­ish Lan­guage, and wrote a trea­tise on Eng­land in the Age of Chau­cer.

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Hymns

1. Be Thou My Vision