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This series contains general genealogical information relating to the Daly and Dore families, including short biographies and notes and a recorded interview.

Typed and handwritten notes relating to John Daly’s brothers Michael and James Daly and their spouses and descendants.

Typed biographies in Irish of John Daly, Edward (Ned) Daly and Éamonn de hÓir by the latter’s sister Nóra de hÓir. Also similar accounts by her in Irish relating to the Dalys and the Easter Rising, and to Edward and Nora Dore and the Easter Rising. Also related corrected proofs and correspondence in English. In four folders.

Cassette tape containing reminiscences by Edward Daly O’Sullivan, eldest son of James O’Sullivan and Laura Daly. Side A contains an account of the life and family of his grand-uncles John, James, Michael and Edward Daly; John Daly’s political views, his nieces and nephew; the family’s bakery business; and James O’Sullivan’s involvement in the 1916 Rising, his imprisonment and subsequent life in Limerick. Duration 00:36:55. Side B contains an account of his aunts’ residence, Tivoli in Limerick in the 1930s, describing the building, its various rooms, furniture, grounds and gardens; life in the house; and his childhood memories of the place. The recording concludes in harp music played by Paul Dooley. Duration 00:40:48.

This sub-series contains letters from Ernest Blythe to Madge Daly.

Letter from Ernest Blythe, Brixton Prison, [London] to Madge Daly, expressing his grief over the execution of Edward (Ned) Daly, news of which has just reached him.

This sub-series contains letters from Roger Casement to John Daly.

Letter from Roger Casement from an unidentified location [to John Daly] relating to Casement’s German friend. He regrets that ‘Things look very black for “Home Rule”.’

Letter from Mary Alden Childers, 12 Bushy Park Road, Terenure, Dublin, thanking [Madge?] Daly for promising to come and see her and praising her for her ability to ‘accept all that happens with an undefeated spirit.’

Copy letters from 10 Richmond Avenue, Fairview, Dublin to the Consul of USA, Dublin and to the Commandant, Kilmainham Detention Barrack, [Dublin] attempting to recover her husband’s body on grounds of him having been an American citizen.