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28 17 Seán Keating PPRHA HRA HRSA (1889-1977) PORTRAIT OF PADDY DALY pastel on paper signed in pencil lower right; inscribed and bearing historical note on reverse 15.25 by 12in. (38.7 by 30.5cm) Frame Size: 23.5 by 19.5in. (59.7 by 49.5cm) Inscribed: “Paddy Daly, Friend of Dick Mulcahy, well known I.R.A. man.” Also bearing substantial historical note by John Dowling, Christmas 1977, on label on reverse. Paddy Daly (1888-1957) sometimes referred to as Paddy O’Daly fought in the 1916 Easter Rising, leading the unsuccessful attempt to destroy the Magazine Fort in the Phoenix Park. He was later wounded in the fighting near the Linenhall. He was subsequently interned in Frongoch internment camp until 1918. In the War of Independence (1919-1921), he served as leader of the “Squad”, Michael Collins’ assassination unit. Daly and the men under his command were responsible for the killing of many British intelligence officers. He did not directly lead any of the attacks on Bloody Sunday but In the aftermath, in November 1920, he was arrested and interned in Ballykinlar Camp in County Down. He was released on parole from Ballykinlar in March 1921 - the British apparently being unaware of his senior position within the Dublin Brigade of the IRA. After the Anglo-Irish Treaty split the IRA, Daly and most of his men sided with the pro-treaty party, who went on to found the Irish Free State. He was appointed to the rank of Brigadier in the newly created Irish National Army, which was inaugurated in January 1922. When the Irish Civil War broke out in June 1922, Daly commanded the Free State’s troops who secured Dublin, after a week’s fighting. Daly resigned from the Free State army in 1924 but served in the Defence Forces as a captain during the Emergency (WorldWar II) 1940-1946. He died in 1957. €2,500-€3,500 (£2,140-£2,990 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot17