Abstract

O'Daly, Daniel Dominic (1595-1662), Dominican priest, diplomat and historian, was born at Kilsarkan, near Castleisland in Co. Kerry into the Kerry branch of the hereditary poetic family, the O Dálaigh. He entered the Dominican Order at Lugo in Galicia, Spain and studied at Bordeaux, Burgos and Salamanca in 1622-3. He took the religious name Dominic de Rosario.