Charlie Daly (Irish republican)

Charlie Daly (Irish republican)

Charlie Daly was born 10th August 1896, was the second son of Con. W. Daly, of Knockanescoulten, Firies, County Kerry. He went to school, first to Balyfinane National School, and later to the Christian Brothers at Tralee.[1]

Daly had been an active member of the Irish Volunteers from 1913 before the Easter Rising and had risen to the rank of Commandant General and was the Officer Commanding the Second Northern Division of the IRA. He took the anti-treaty side in Civil War.

On November 2, 1922, Charlie Daly was captured and imprisoned at Drumboe Castle in Donegal, where he was held until January 16th, 1923, when he was court-martialled and sentenced to death and executed on 14th March, 1923. Daniel Enright, Sean Larkin and Timothy O'Sullivan were executed with him Enright and O'Sullivan were also from Kerry. They were shot in retaliation for the death of a pro treaty National Army soldier in an ambush.[2]

His sister May Daly was a significant figure in Sinn Féin in Kerry up to the 1970s, she stood in the 1957 general election in Kerry North polling 3,171 votes.[3]

One of his descendants Mark Daly was elected senator in 2007 for Fianna Fáil.[4]

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