Miriam Daly: Fallen Comrade of the IRSM

[Danielle Ni Dhighe <nidhighe@xxxxxxxx>]

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, aged 45, was murdered on
26 June 1980 in her home in Andersonstown, West Belfast. It was
believed that she was murdered by a unit of the British Army's
Special Air Service regiment. Her body, bound and shot, was found by
her nine-year-old daughter after she returned from school.

Mrs. Daly, a lecturer in economic and social history at Queen's
University in Belfast, was one of the original founders of the IRSP
with Seamus Costello in 1974, and became the party's second
chairperson after Costello's assassination in 1977.

She joined a list of martyrs that came to include Ronnie Bunting and
Noel Lyttle, fellow members of the IRSP and the INLA, and committed
activists in the H-Block campaigns; 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
for the state apparatus, and the Loyalist paramilitary death squads
under its control, in its desire to crush the prisoners' struggle. It
was suspected that the same SAS unit that killed Daly also killed
Bunting and Lyttle in October 1980.

Indicating her level of involvement and influence within the
movement, a four-man honour guard from the INLA joined the funeral
cortege as it halted outside the Daly home in West Belfast on its
way to the requiem Mass and fired a volley of shots over her casket
in a tribute to the fallen martyr.

Miriam Daly, IRSP Chairperson and INLA Volunteer, is buried at
Swords, near Dublin, in the Irish Republic.

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

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


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