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 Septe...
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