Peter Daly

Peter Daly Irish socialist republican who died in defence of republican Spain against fascism 1937. Peter Daly was an Irish Republican and socialist.

He was born in Liverpool on 27 September, 1903, into a family steeped in Irish revolutionary traditions. The Daly family returned to Ireland and lived in Tomsollagh [Enniscorthy], Peter attending National School in the old schoolhouse at Tinnacross and later Monageer. As a youth he was an active member of the local unit of Na Fianna Eireann and was wounded and taken prisoner in the anti-treaty struggle. After 17 months in gaol in 1922, he finally secured his release after an 18-day hunger strike. Like many of the defeated Republicans he was forced to emigrate for work. After working in Britain for a period, he joined the British army in which he served for four years, reaching the rank of Sergeant. His service promptly ended when it was discovered he was smuggling guns to the IRA. On his swift return to Ireland he rejoined the IRA and gravitated in 1934 to the Republican Congress. The left wing Congress aimed to bring together all of Ireland’s republicans, workers and small farmers in their common struggle from foreign and native domination. With the decline of Congress he found himself back in Britain, this time working as a navvy for Wimpy of Hammersmith, London. In 1936, a revolt led by General Franco and army generals, with backing of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy attempted to overthrow the democratically elected Republican government of Spain. Peter Daly was one of the first to volunteer to fight with the International Brigade. Twice wounded he was courageous in battle and was prompted to command the British and Irish battalion. During an offensive at Quinto he was again wounded and although carried from the battle field by his comrades he died in hospital in Benicasim outside Valencia at 6.10 am on the morning of September 5th, 1937.

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🟢🟡 “I rather like the intense desire to conserve the honour or freedom of a particular country, to which men have given the name ‘patriotism’. I am also a believer in the brotherhood of all men in the international solidarity of labour, and the identity of interests which everywhere link together the oppressed of the earth”- Commandant General James Connolly, Irish Citizen Army.

Socialist Republican- Patriotic- Anti Imperialist- Anti Racist.

16/11/2025

🇮🇪 PANEL: How to Build A Militant Workers' Movement 🚩

After our Irish Citizen Army commemoration at Croydon Park, the Connolly Youth Movement will be discussing how to continue the ICA's legacy through our workplace organising and campaigns today.

Our speakers include young people embedded in the contemporary trade union movement in Ireland: Jack Ferguson from the Dublin Council of Trade Unions, Maya O'Keefe from .iwu, and the CYM's Michael Sheehan.

It's all happening at !

Bígí linn ✊

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16/11/2025

‘SKIN-THE-GOAT’

James Fitzharris, a Camolin native known as ’Skin-the-Goat’, drove one of the getaway cabs in the infamous Phoenix Park murders in 1882. The newly-appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland and his Under-Secretary were stabbed to death opposite the Vice-Regal Lodge (now Áras an Uachtaráin).

Five conspirators were hanged but another, Patrick Tynan from Gorey, managed to flee the country. Fitzharris had refused to give the names of others involved in the plot to kill the British officials. He spent 16 years in jail before being released in 1899. Now almost unrecognizable, he returned to Camolin where he repeated the words he had spoken at his trial: ‘I come from Sliabh Buidhe, a place where a crow never flew over the head of an informer.’

(From this week’s Wexford Free Press)

15/11/2025

The chairperson at this year's annual Winifred Carney Commemoration will be Lasair Dhearg's Martine Jackson.

Martine is a local political and community activist from Lenadoon who has been actively involved in community groups advocating for women's rights and social justice. A strong internationalist and anti-fascist, she has been involved in international solidarity campaigns over a number of years including Palestine and was a key organiser behind previous Anti-Racism World Cup’s.

Join us in remembering Winifred Carney on Saturday 22nd November at 1pm.

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On Sunday 16th of November at 12pm, Cuimhneamh will unveil a plaque on the site of the ancestal home of the family of labour leader Jim Larkin, where his father, also Jim Larkin, was born in the townland of Ayallogue, in the parish of Killeavy, County Armagh. The location of this plaque will be just under the Ayallogue Bridge, where the Lower Newtown Road meets the Low Road, a few meters from the site of the Adavoyle Train Ambush Memorial Wall.

This plaque will be unveiled by Tommy McKearney. Tommy spent his early years in Collegeland, County Armagh before his family moved to thee nearby village of Moy in County Tyrone. A former political prisoner, after his release Tommy settled in Monaghan where he now lives with his wife Patricia. A founding member of the Independent Workers Union, he was for many years a member of its national executive and acted as the union’s northern organiser before retiring in 2022.

Tommy is the author of ‘The Provisional IRA: From Insurrection to Parliament’ and currently writes a regular column for the Communist Party of Ireland's monthly publication, Socialist Voice.

We politely ask attendees to respect the access of local residents, other drivers and pedestrians when parking on Sunday afternoon.

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Monumento dedicado a los 7.000 republicanos españoles asesinados en Mauthausen. Su memoria sigue sembrando libertad.

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