{{Short description|Irish Roman Catholic clergyman}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=January 2020}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = Bishop | name = Edward Doorly | title = [[Bishop of Elphin]] | image = }}
{{Portal|Catholicism}} The [[Most Reverend]] '''Edward Doorly''' (23 November 1868 in [[County Roscommon]] – 5 April 1950), was an [[Irish people|Irish]] [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] clergyman who served as the [[Bishop of Elphin]] from 1926 to 1950.<ref name=doorly>[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bdoorly.html Bishop Edward Doorly]. ''Catholic Hierarchy website''. Retrieved 30 August 2011.</ref>
The national school in Forthill, Sligo was dedicated in honour of St. Edward as an expression of appreciation of the educational work of Bishop Doorly, the founder and first patron of the school. <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://sligonorthside.com/building_history.php |title=North Sligo building history |access-date=31 December 2012 |archive-date=23 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130423233514/http://www.sligonorthside.com/building_history.php |url-status=dead }}</ref> The school was for both boys and girls, though they were taught in separate classrooms until 1975. In 1994 the school kept its name but moved to Ballytivnan.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.stedwards.scoilnet.ie/our_history.html |title=History of St Edwards school |access-date=31 December 2012 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304225232/http://www.stedwards.scoilnet.ie/our_history.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Doorly park in Sligo was also named after the Bishop Doorly.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20130807001606/http://sligotoday.ie/details.php?id=20878 Sligo Today article]}}</ref> The park contains an arch in his honor.
In 1936, during the Spanish civil war, Doorly gave a passionate sermon in Sligo Cathedral describing the killing of priests in Spain. Following the sermon, 11 Sligo volunteers set off for Spain to fight for Franco.<ref>[http://irelandscw.com/band-Sligo1.htm Article on Sligo Volunteers in Spanish Civil war]</ref>
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