Record #: R2016-643   
Type: Resolution Status: Adopted
Intro date: 9/14/2016 Current Controlling Legislative Body:
Final action: 9/14/2016
Title: Tribute to late Reverend Edward Daly
Sponsors: Burke, Edward M.
Attachments: 1. R2016-643.pdf

RESOLUTION

 

 

WHEREAS, The Most Reverend Edward Daly has been called to eternal life by the wisdom of God; and

 

WHEREAS, The Chicago City Council has been informed of his passing by Alderman Edward M. Burke; and

 

WHEREAS, The Most Reverend Edward Daly served as the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Derry, Northern Ireland; and

 

WHEREAS, The Most Reverend Edward Daly was raised in Belleck, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland by his shopkeeper parents; and

 

WHEREAS, The Most Reverend Edward Daly was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Derry in 1957; and

 

WHEREAS, The Most Reverend Edward Daly Took part in civil rights marches and tended to and administered last rights to victims of Northern Ireland's Bloody Sunday in 1972 when British soldiers fired on protestors and killed 14 people; and

 

WHEREAS, The Most Reverend Edward Daly became a widely recognized figure when an iconic photograph of him was published waving a bloodstained white handkerchief as he attempted to help a dying 17-year-old who was mortally wounded by gunfire; and

 

WHEREAS, The Most Reverend Edward Daly became the youngest bishop in Ireland in 1973 and served until his retirement in 1993; and

 

WHEREAS, During his tenure as Bishop, the Most Reverend Edward Daly attended to the needs of prisoners and the victims of injustice; and

 

WHEREAS, The Most Reverend Edward Daly published his autobiography, Mister, Are You a Priest? in 2000 and his second memoir, A Troubled See: Memoirs of a Derry Bishop in 2011; and

 

WHEREAS, The compassion, sacrifice and dedication of the Most Reverend Edward Daly serve as an example to all; and

 

WHEREAS, The Most Reverend Edward Daly will be dearly missed and fondly remembered by his many relatives, friends and admirers; and

 

 

WHEREAS, To his beloved family, the Most Reverend Edward Daly imparts a legacy of faithfulness, service and dignity; now, therefore

 

BE IT RESOLVED, That we, the Mayor and the members of the Chicago City Council, assembled this fourteenth day of September, 2016, do hereby commemorate the Most Reverend Edward Daly for his grace-filled life and do hereby express our condolences to his family; and

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be presented to the family of the Most Reverend Edward Daly.