Robert Daly (10 June 1783 – 16 February 1872) was

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from 1843 to 1872.Bishop Robert Daly: Ireland's "Protestant pope"
by Eugene Broderick, History Ireland.

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Daly was born at Dunsandle Castle,

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, the newly built residence of his father, Denis Daly. His ancestor,

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( fl. 1574–1614) was a

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descent but his grandfather and father had converted to the

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faith to ensure legal title on their lands. By 1800, the family were among the largest landowners in Ireland and dictated the mayoralty of

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for some sixty years. His mother was Lady Henrietta Maxwell, only daughter of

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and Henrietta Cantillon, widow of the 3rd

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. Daly graduated with a B.A. from

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, in 1803,"Alumni Dublinenses: a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860

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p208: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935 was ordained deacon and then priest of the

, and became

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of Powerscourt in 1814. He was leader of the

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section of the church, the subject at the centre of most of his publications, which numbered over twenty-two between 1815 and his death. Daly was passionate in his support of anti-Catholic missions: his passionate hatred of the Irish Catholic church, and especially its priests, endured to the end of his life, although he must have known that his own family had originally been Catholics. He was one of the founders in 1818 of the controversial Irish Society for Promoting the Education of the Native Irish through the Medium of Their Own Language. Daly also supported the setting up of

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in 1839 countering the setting up of the National School system in Ireland. He was appointed

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in 1842; and

in 1843 and was serving in that capacity when he died in 1872.

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* ''A sermon preached on ... 25 May 1815, in the Catholic Church of St. Patrick ... at the annual visitation, held by ... the Archbishop of Cashel'',

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, 1815. * ''Letters on the Subject of the Scotch Episcopal Church ... to the Right Rev. Bishop Low'',

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, 1846. * ''Extract on the subject of liturgical revision from the charge delivered by the ... Bishop of Cashel'',

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, 1863.

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* ''Memoir of Right Rev. Robert Daly, D.D., Lord Bishop of Cashel'', 1875 * ''Galway Authors'', Helen Mahar, 1976. {{DEFAULTSORT:Daly, D.D., Robert 1783 births 1872 deaths People from County Galway Irish writers Bishops of Cashel and Waterford Deans of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin

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