Daniel Boyle (10 January 1859 – 19 August 1925) was an Irish Parliamentary Party politician. He was elected at the January 1910 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Mayo, and held the seat until his defeat at the 1918 general election by the Sinn Féin candidate, John Crowley. Early life Daniel Boyle was born on 10 January 1859 at Kilcoo, near Belleek, by Lough Melvin in County Fermanagh. He was the younger son of Donal Boyle, a tenant farmer, and in such circumstances, he saw little future in agriculture. Fortunately, he excelled as a pupil in the local National School, where he was something of a prodigy; indeed, he was offered the position of principal of a village school at the age of eighteen! However, in common with many Irish men and women of his generation, he emigrated to industrial Lancashire instead, arriving in Manchester in 1877. His educational qualifications enabled him to find employment as a clerk with the Midland Railway Company in the city, working his way through the ranks until 1889, when he resigned. Although he had obtained the position of Registrar of Births and Deaths in the Ancoats Division, he intended to concentrate upon a possible career as a freelance journalist (in addition to contributing to English newspapers, he had become the Manchester correspondent of the Freeman's Journal). Transport was to remain an important interest, but perhaps not as much as politics. In his spare time, he had become active in the Irish National League, and was soon Secretary of the branch in the East Manchester Constituency. His talents were soon noticed and, after assisting in the organisation of the INL convention in Manchester, he was asked by T.P. O’Connor to accept the position as representative of the Irish Party in Lancashire and Cheshire. He was also very active in the Irish National Foresters (a sick and burial friendly society) travelling at weekends to establish branches in the North and Midlands. He acted as head of the society on several occasions, as well as secretary of the Manchester district. Boyle also found time to act as vice-president of the Catholic Registration Society (an organisation designed to enable Roman Catholics to be placed on voters lists). Manchester Council In 1894, Boyle was elected to the Manchester City Council for New Cross Ward (adjoining St Michael's, in present-day Ancoats), the largest ward in the