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Irish Church of Ireland bishop

Robert Daly (10 June 1783 – 16 February 1872) was Church of Ireland Bishop of Cashel and Waterford from 1843 to 1872.

Life

Daly was born at Dunsandle Castle, Loughrea, the newly built residence of his father, Denis Daly. His ancestor, Dermot Ó Daly (fl. 1574–1614) was a Roman Catholic of Gaelic descent but his grandfather and father had converted to the Protestant faith to ensure legal title on their lands. By 1800, the family were among the largest landowners in Ireland and dictated the mayoralty of Galway for some sixty years. His mother was Lady Henrietta Maxwell, only daughter of Robert Maxwell, 1st Earl of Farnham and Henrietta Cantillon, widow of the 3rd Earl of Strafford.

Daly graduated with a B.A. from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1803, was ordained deacon and then priest of the Church of Ireland, and became Rector of Powerscourt in 1814. He was leader of the Evangelical 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 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 Church Education Society in 1839 countering the setting up of the National School system in Ireland.

He was appointed Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin in 1842; and Bishop of Cashel and Waterford 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, Dublin, 1815.
Letters on the Subject of the Scotch Episcopal Church ... to the Right Rev. Bishop Low, Aberdeen, 1846.
Extract on the subject of liturgical revision from the charge delivered by the ... Bishop of Cashel, Waterford, 1863.

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^ Bishop Robert Daly: Ireland's "Protestant pope" by Eugene Broderick, History Ireland.
"Alumni Dublinenses: a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p208: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935

References

Memoir of Right Rev. Robert Daly, D.D., Lord Bishop of Cashel, 1875
Galway Authors, Helen Mahar, 1976.

v t e Deans of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin
William FitzGuido Richard Gardiner Richard de St. Martin John de Sandford Thomas de Chaddesworth William de Rodyard Thomas de Montpellier Adam de Kingston Matthew Brissele John de Brienne William de Bromley John Colton Henry Bowet Thomas de Everdon John Prene Nicholas Hill Philip Norris John Alleyne Thomas Rochfort John Rycardes Robert Sutton Thomas Darcy Geoffrey Fyche Edward Bassenet Thomas Leverous Alexander Craike Adam Loftus Robert Weston William Gerard Thomas Jones Richard Meredyth John Ryder Thomas Moigne Benjamin Culme William Fuller Thomas Seele Benjamin Parry John Worth William King Michael Jephson Thomas Lindsay Edward Smyth Jerome Ryves John Sterne Jonathan Swift Gabriel Maturin Francis Corbet William Cradock Robert Fowler James Verschoyle John Keatinge Richard Ponsonby Henry Dawson Robert Daly Henry Pakenham John West Henry Jellett John Bernard Charles Ovenden Jackson Lawlor Arnold Harvey David Wilson Cecil De Pauley John Armstrong Victor Griffin Maurice Stewart Robert MacCarthy Victor Stacey

Deans of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin

v t e Anglican bishops of Cashel and Waterford
Stephen Sandes Robert Daly Maurice Day Henry O'Hara Robert Miller John MacNeice Arnold Harvey Cecil De Pauley John Armstrong

v t e Ó Dálaigh
General	Connachta Uí Néill Northern Uí Néill Cenél nEógain (Branches) Gaelic nobility of Ireland Chief Ollam of Ireland Irish bardic poetry Bean Torrach, fa Tuar Broide Baron Dunsandle and Clanconal
Early progenitors	Niall of the Nine Hostages Eógan mac Néill Muiredach mac Eógain Muirchertach mac Muiredaig Domnall Ilchelgach Áed Uaridnach Máel Fithrich mac Áedo Máel Dúin mac Máele Fithrich
Ó Dálaigh family members	Dálach Uí Néill Cú Connacht Ua Dálaigh Ragnall Ua Dálaigh Gilla na Trínóite Ua Dálaigh Tadhg Doichleach Ua Dálaigh Aonghus Ó Dálaigh Máel Íosa Ua Dálaigh
Ó Dálaigh Fionn family members	Cearbhall Fionn Ó Dálaigh Gofraidh Fionn Ó Dálaigh Aonghus Fionn Ó Dálaigh Aonghus Ruadh na nAor Ó Dálaigh Daniel O'Daly
Ó Dálaigh Fionn Bheara family members	Donnchadh Mór Ó Dálaigh Aonghus Ruadh Ó Dálaigh Cearbhall mac Lochlainn Ó Dálaigh Lochlann Óg Ó Dálaigh Cearbhall Óg Ó Dálaigh Dermot Ó Daly Denis Daly James Daly St George Daly Denis Daly Robert Daly Denis Bowes Daly Dominick Daly Malachy Bowes Daly Denis St. George Daly Anthony Daly
Mac Mhuirich family members	Muireadhach Albanach Ó Dálaigh

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