Ned Daly, born in 1891 the son of Fenian Edward Daly, he was also the nephew of John Daly who was a leading member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and the brother in law of Tom Clarke (Irish Republican).
In 1882, a breakaway IRB faction calling itself the Irish National Invincibles assassinated the British Chief Secretary for Ireland Lord Frederick Cavendish and his secretary, in an incident known as the Phoenix Park Murders.
Nally from an early age had been a Fenian, and by the late 1870s was a leading organiser of the Irish Republican Brotherhood.
•
Patrick (Pat) William Nally (March 1857 – November 1891) was a member of the Supreme Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and well known Connacht athlete from Balla, County Mayo.
Republican Party (United States) | Irish | Republican Party | Irish people | Irish language | Democratic-Republican Party | Democratic-Republican Party (United States) | Provisional Irish Republican Army | Republican National Committee | Republican Party (U.S.) | Republican National Convention | Irish Republican Army | British and Irish Lions | The Irish Times | Notre Dame Fighting Irish football | Republican (United States) | Irish Independent | Irish War of Independence | Irish mythology | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood | Muslim Brotherhood | Irish Sea | Irish Free State | Brotherhood of Evil | Irish nationalism | Royal Irish Academy | Republican Party of Minnesota | republican | Old Irish | Notre Dame Fighting Irish |
It was overshadowed by a number of other organisations; from the Irish Republican Brotherhood and Isaac Butt's Home Government Association, a precursor of his later Home Rule League, to the Liberal and Conservative parties.
Prominent Irish Nationalist leaders such as William Smith O'Brien, Thomas Francis Meagher (later Acting Governor of Montana), James Stephens (founder of the IRB) and "Honest" Tom Steele, were among its famous historical prisoners.