Emily Lucy de Burgh Daly (7 August 1859 – 13 November 1935) was an Irish nurse, writer, and traveller.
[3] Her son, Charles de Burgh-Daly fell at Ginchy aged only 19 during the Battle of the Somme in 1916 and is remembered in a WW1 memorial in St John's Church, Sandymount, Dublin.
During this time, Daly travelled around China extensively, witnessing the run up to the Boxer Rebellion and the Russo-Japanese War, escaping the country with her children during both of those conflicts.
Ironically, Emily's husband Charles de Burgh-Daly dodged a bullet from the Countess Constance Markievicz as he was sitting in the window of the University Club, St. Stephen's Green during the Easter Rising in 1916, because as a voluntary doctor in the military he was wearing a military uniform.
She died at Priory Lodge, Blackrock, County Dublin on 13 November 1935[1] and is buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery, Harold's Cross.