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Date Posted: Thu, Jun 26 2008, 3:00:35 PDT
Author: Danielle Ni Dhighe
Subject: Miriam Daly: Fallen Comrade of the IRSM

Fallen Comrade of the Irish Republican Socialist Movement

Miriam Daly
Chairperson - Irish Republican Socialist Party
Volunteer - Irish National Liberation Army
Assassinated on 26 June 1980

Outspoken republican socialist Miriam Daly, age 51, was murdered on
26 June 1980 in her home in the Andersonstown area of West Belfast.

Her murder was claimed by the Ulster Freedom Fighters, a pro-British
death squad, but many suspected the involvement of the British
security forces. Her body, bound and shot, was found by her ten-year-
old twin children after they returned from school.

Born Miriam MacDonnell in the Curragh of Kildare, she married James
Daly in 1965 in London and the couple moved to Belfast in 1968, where
she became a lecturer in economic and social history at Queen's
University. She also joined the Northern Ireland Civil Rights
Association and Sinn Fein. She co-founded the IRSP in 1974 with
Seamus Costello, and became the party's second chairperson after his
assassination in 1977.

During her vibrant and profound career, she was also chairperson of
the National H-Block/Armagh Committee (which actively campaigned for
the rights of republican political prisoners), co-founder of the
Relatives Action Committee (forerunner of the NH/AC), founding
chairperson of the Seamus Costello Memorial Committee, and involved
in numerous activist campaigns around many issues.

She joined a list of the murdered which came to include Ronnie Bunting
and Noel Little (fellow members of the IRSP and the INLA), and John
Turnly of the Irish Independence Party -- all of whom represented the
national leadership of the National H-Block/Armagh Committee and as
such became targets of the British state and loyalist death squads in
their shared desire to crush the republican prisoners' struggle.
Another leader of the NH/AC, Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, survived an
assassination attempt by loyalists.

Indicating Daly's level of involvement and influence within the IRSM,
a four-man honour guard from the INLA joined the funeral procession
as it halted outside the Daly home on its way to the requiem Mass and
fired a volley of shots over her casket in tribute to their fallen
comrade. She was buried in St. Colmcille's Churchyard in Swords, near
Dublin in the South of Ireland.

A memorial to Daly and another comrade was unveiled in the
Andersonstown area of West Belfast on 22 June 2003.

She died as she lived: a Republican Socialist. Remember her with
honour and pride.

http://www.irsm.org/fallen/daly/

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