Life
1917- [Cathal Brendan Daly; Cardinal Cathal B. Daly; freq. Ó Dálaigh];
b. Loughguile, Co. Antrim; ed. QUB, BA in Classics; MA Ancient Classics,
1937; ord. 1941; taught Classics at St Malachy’s College, Belfast,
1945-46; taught Scholastic Philosophy at QUB, 1944-67; Reader, 1963; Peritus
(Theol. Adviser) to Cardinal Conway, 2nd Vatican Council, 1962-65; bishop
of Ardagh and Clonmacnois, 1967; attended meeting of European bishops
in Switzerland, 1969; Bishop of Down and Connor, 1982; Archbishop of Armagh
and Catholic Primate of all-Ireland, 1990; fnd. Christus Rex Society to
study social problems; member of Irish Theological Commision and Episcopal
Commission on Doctrine; joint chairman of Irish Council of Churchs and
Roman Catholic Joint Group on Social Questions that produced the report
Violence in Ireland (1976); made submission in behalf of Catholic
Church to New Ireland Forum, noting ecumenistically that both Nationalism
and Unionists were ‘noble aspirations’, July 1989; succeeded
Tomás Ó Fiaich to episcopal see of Armagh and Catholic Primacy,
1991; deeply saddened by revelations about pederastic priest Brendan Smyth,
who was sheltered from prosecution by his Norbertine Order and a number of the Irish Catholic
hierarchy, 1992; published on Morals, Law and Life (1962), Violence
in Ireland and Christian Conscience (1973); also Steps on My Pilgrim
Journey (1998), autobiography. MIL
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Works
Morals, Law and Life (1962); Natural Law: Morality Today (1965);
Violence in Ireland and Christian Conscience (1973); Peace, The
Work of Justice (1979); ‘A Vision of Ecumenism in Ireland’,
Éire-Ireland 17.1 (Spring 1982), pp.7-30; The Price of
Peace (Blackstaff 1991), 108pp.; Law and Morals (Four Courts
Press 1996), 71pp.; Steps on My Pilgrim Journey: Memories and Reflections
(Dublin: Veritas 1998), 544pp.
Criticism
Jim Corrigan, ‘Cathal Daly’, full page article, Hibernia
15 Feb 1979.
JH Whyte, Understanding Northern Ireland (1991).
Basil Chubb, The Irish Constitution (1992), for his offering at the New Ireland Forum.
Quoted in Steve Bruce, The Edge of the Union, The Ulster Loyalist Political Vision (OUP 1994), p.48.
John Montague, 'Regionalism into Reconciliation: The Poetry of John Hewitt', in Poetry Ireland, 3, Spring 1964, p.124.
R.L. McCartney, QC, MPA, Liberty and Authority in Ireland [Field day Pamphlet No. 9], Field Day 1985, p.17.)
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)