Edward Daly (Irish revolutionary)
John Edward Daly was commandant of Dublin's 1st battalion of the Irish Volunteers during the Easter Rising of 1916. He was the youngest man to hold that rank and the youngest executed in the aftermath.
Background
Ned Daly was born at 26 Frederick Street, Limerick, on 25 February 1891, the only son of ten children born to Edward and Catherine Daly. He was the younger brother of Kathleen Clarke, wife of Tom Clarke, and an active member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. His father, Edward, was a Fenian who died aged 41 five months before his son's birth. His uncle was John Daly, a prominent republican who had taken part in the Fenian Rising and Fenian Dynamite Campaign.He was educated by the Presentation Sisters at Sexton Street, the Congregation of Christian Brothers at Roxboro Road and at Leamy’s commercial college. He spent a short time as an apprentice baker in Glasgow before returning to Limerick to work in Spaight's timber yard. In 1913 he moved to Dublin, where he lived with the Clarkes and worked in a chemist's shop.