Revolutionary and politician. Kathleen's father died when she was 12, leaving eight daughters and a son, Ned. She was apprenticed to a dressmaker and soon established her own successful business. Her uncle John Daly was a leading member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) and took part in the abortive Fenian Rising of 1867. From 1884 to 1896 he was imprisoned in England with other activists including Thomas Clarke, who came to stay with the Dalys after his release in 1898 where he met Kathleen. They married in New York in 1901 and lived in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Long Island before returning to Ireland in 1907. After returning they set up a tobacconist and newspaper shop in Amiens Street, Dublin. In 1909, they purchased a second shop in Parnell Street that became a popular meeting place for like-minded compatriots. In the years leading up to the 1916 Easter Rising Kathleen worked side by side with her husband and was privy to all the plans for the Rising. In 1914, Kathleen attended the first meeting of Cumann na mBan, the revolutionary women's nationalist organization. Kathleen was selected to set up the first branch of Cumann na mBan (which was designated the Central Branch). Later she became its President. Other branches were established throughout the country. Members were involved in nursing the wounded, gathering intelligence, moving arms, sheltering men on the run, and raising funds for prisoners. Shortly before the 1916 Rising, Kathleen was selected by the Supreme Council of the IRB to be the custodian of their plans and decisions. In the event that members of the Supreme Council would be killed or arrested during the Rising, it was her responsibility to pass on their plans to other leaders of the IRB throughout the country. In carrying out this responsibility she had to commit all details and names to memory to prevent the possibility of documented evidence falling into enemy hands. After the Rising and execution of its leaders (including her husband Tom and brother Ned), Kathleen, despite her grief and a miscarriage, organized the Prisoners' Dependants' Fund, to support the relatives of the dead and imprisoned. She also met with second tier leaders of the IRB, briefing them on the plans entrusted to her by the Supreme Council prior to the Rising. In 1917 she was elected to the Sinn Féin executive and later that year was elected to the executive of Cumann na mBan. Early in 1918 Kathleen was arrested in a roundup of Sinn Féin activists. She was interned in Holloway Women's Prison in London with other Irish women activists until early 1919. After her release she resumed her work with Sinn Féin. She was an active participant in the War of Independence and, as a consequence, her home was continuously raided by the Black and Tans and other security organs of the British administration in Ireland. In 1920 she was appointed a judge in the Sinn Féin courts. Elected to the Second Dáil (Irish parliament), she voted against the Treaty, and supported anti-Treaty forces during the ensuing Civil War. As a senator from 1928 to 1936, she was committed to equality for women. She supported the right of unmarried mothers to seek maintenance from fathers of their children and to raising the age of consent in the case of indecent and sexual assault. She opposed restrictions on women's employment in the Conditions of Employment Bill (1935) and her demand for equal pay was radical at that time. From 1919 to 1925 she was an alderman on the Dublin Corporation and was re-elected in 1930. Kathleen became the first woman Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1939, serving until 1941. Throughout the 1940s she served on numerous hospital boards and the National Graves Association. In 1965 she left Ireland to live with her youngest son Emmet in Liverpool, England, although she returned to Dublin in 1966 for the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Rising. She died in Liverpool aged 94 and was given a state funeral in Dublin.