Charlie Daly (10 August 1896 – 14 March 1923), born in Castlemaine, Co. Kerry, was the second son of Con. W. Daly, of Knockanescoulten, Firies, County Kerry. He went to school, first to Balyfinane National School, and later to the Christian Brothers at Tralee. Daly had been an active member of the Irish Volunteers from 1913 before the Easter Rising and had risen to the rank of Commandant General and was the Officer Commanding (O/C) the Second Northern Division of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). Under the Defense of the Realm Act (D.O.R.A.) he was incarcerated at Cork Male Prison 1918-1919 for unlawful assembly; specifically "throwing stones at the police". In his wound pension application of 1937 IRA leader George Lennon noted Daly as O/C of No. 10 Wing. A "smash up strike" in the jail resulted in solitary confinement and ill treatment for the men. Accompanied by Liam Lynch and George Lennon he was at the Mansion House on 7 January 1922 when a majority voted to accept the Treaty. Daly subsequently took the anti-treaty side in the Irish Civil War and was executed on orders from a newly formed Irish Free State government. O/C 2nd Northern Division & Civil War In early 1920 IRA General Headquarters (GHQ) sent Daly to Tyrone naming him as the Officer Commanding (O/C) the IRAs 2nd Northern Division. Daly was to organize the few units there and was ordered to 'raid for arms' indicating how poorly armed the Tyrone IRA was at that time. Prior to Dalys arrival in Tyrone "...each IRA company was more or less acting independently on its own." Local IRA leadership welcomed Daly, he "impressed us very much with his example and bearing". Daly stressed to the local IRA that number of people would have to be prepared to make the supreme sacrifice and that "volunteering was not going to be an easy job". In the spring of 1921 Monaghan IRA leader Eoin O'Duffy was appointed as the Commandant of the IRA's 2nd Northern Division (Tyrone). Liam Kelly, a well respected Tyrone Republican felt the Daly should have gotten the appointment: "I am convinced that O'Duffys appointment was a mistake as Charlie Daly was a better man for the job. He knew the area much better and worked with the men for about twelve months beforehand. He knew all the officers in the area intimately and was a general