Johanna Mary Désirée (Daisy) Bannard Cogley, 1884-1965, was primarily active in theatre, notably becoming a founding director of the Gate Theatre, Dublin in 1928. Frederick Joseph (Fred) Cogley, 1885-1937, was a journalist and a writer of plays and songs. Both were active republicans from the 1910s to 1930s. Neither of them left memoirs or other significant amounts of papers and, until recently, their stories have not been published. In 2022, Daisy Cogley was the subject of a profile in History Ireland and an entry in the Dictionary of Irish Biography. . .