Daniel Crilly (14 December 1857 - December 1923) was an Irish Parliamentary Party Member of Parliament and the author of a number of books. After education at the Catholic Institute in Liverpool and at Sedgley Park School, Wolverhampton, Daniel Crilly was apprenticed to a cotton broker in Liverpool and served his full apprenticeship before becoming a journalist. In 1876 he became editor of the Liverpool United Irishman and in 1880, he joined the staff of The Nation in Dublin. He married in 1887 in Dublin. He was a visitor at the Southwark Irish Literary Club in London.