P. T. Daly
| Patrick Thomas Daly | |
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| Born | 1870 Dublin |
| Died | 20 November 1943 Dublin |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Occupation | Trade unionist, printer |
| Known for | Secretary of the Irish Trades Union Congress and the Dublin Trades Council |
Patrick Thomas Daly (1870 – 20 November 1943), known as P. T. Daly was an Irish trade unionist and politician.
Born in Dublin, Daly completed an apprenticeship as a printer, and in 1892 he joined the Dublin Typographical Provident Society. A supporter of James Connolly, he helped print Connolly's Workers Republic newspaper, and was a founder member of the Irish Socialist Republican Party (ISRP).
Frustrated by the lack of progress of the ISRP, he left and joined the Young Ireland Society and the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), soon becoming a member of its three-person executive. He was elected to the Dublin Corporation for the IRB in 1903, holding the seat until 1910. In 1905, he became manager of the Gaelic printer An Cló Cumann.
Daly was also active in Cumann na nGaedheal, and when it merged with the Dungannon Clubs to form the Sinn Féin League in 1907, he was elected as its President. The following year, he moved that it merge with Arthur Griffith's Sinn Féin, and served on the new party's first executive, also organising the Dublin Cumann. By 1910, he was part of a young clique which published Irish Freedom and sought to take control of the IRB, but he was expelled on charges of embezzling funds donated from the United States.
Heavily involved in the labour movement, Daly was elected to Parliamentary Committee of the Irish Trade Union Congress (ITUC) in 1905. Long known as a leading supporter of Jim Larkin in the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union (ITGWU), he ran the union in 1910 while Larkin was in prison. However, in 1909, he was appointed as editor of the Dublin Trades Council newspaper, a post which Connolly had hoped to win. In 1910, Daly was elected Secretary of the Irish Trade Union Congress, serving until 1918, and in 1911 he was appointed as organiser of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union, although that year he was jailed during a major strike for union recognition in Wexford.
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