James Lally, Irish

Irish people

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 soldier

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 and Jacobite

Jacobitism

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, died 1691.

Lally (also O'Mullally) (died 1691) was an Irish

Ireland

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 landowner and politician from Tuam

Tuam

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, County Galway

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. He was a leading member of the Gaelic clan of the O'Mullallys (in Irish Ó Maolalaidh), which was based in the parish of Tuam

Tuam

Tuam is a town in County Galway, Ireland. The name is pronounced choo-um . It is situated west of the midlands of Ireland, and north of Galway city.-History:...

, County Galway. Their lands comprised the lands known as Tulach na Dála (Anglicised as Tullindaly, Tullenadaly, Tullaghnadaly, or Tolendal), four miles north of Tuam town.

The eldest of five brothers, he was the son of Thomas Lally and Jane Dillon, sister of Theobald Dillon, 7th Viscount Dillon

Theobald Dillon, 7th Viscount Dillon

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. Lally sat as representative of Tuam Borough in King James II's

James II of England

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 Patriot Parliament

Patriot Parliament

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 of 1689. After the Jacobite

Jacobitism

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 defeat, his lands were attained and he was declared an outlaw.

He went to France

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 in 1690 with his cousin, the Honourable Colonel Arthur Dillon, in whose regiment, as Colonel-Commandant, he was killed at Montmélian

Montmélian

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 in 1691. His brother, Gerald Lally, followed him to France and was father of Thomas Arthur Lally (1702-1766), Baron de Tollendal and Comte de Lally.

See also

• Seán Ó Maolalaidh
  Seán Ó Maolalaidh
  -Ó Maolalaidh of Máenmaige:The Ó Maolalaidhs were, with the Ó Nechtains , one of the two leading septs of Máenmaige in western Uí Maine...
  
  , chief of the Name, fl. 1419–1480
• Conchobair Ó Maolalaidh
  Conchobair Ó Maolalaidh
  Conchobair Ó Maolalaidh was an Irish churchman who became successively bishop of Clonfert , Emly and Elphin .-Biography:Conchobair was a brother of Seán Ó Maolalaidh...
  
  , successively bishop of Clonfert (1447-1448), Emly (1448–1449) and Elphin (1449-1468).
• Tomás Ó Maolalaidh
  Tomás Ó Maolalaidh
  Tomás Ó Maolalaidh was an Irish churchman who became Bishop of Clonmacnoise and Archbishop of Tuam ....
  
  , Bishop of Clonmacnoise
  Bishop of Clonmacnoise
  Bishop of Clonmacnoise was the ordinary of the Roman Catholic episcopal see based at Clonmacnoise, County Offaly, Ireland. The bishops of Clonmacnoise appear in the records for the first time in the 9th century, although inferior in status to the Abbot of Clonmacnoise until the reformation of the...
  
   (c.1509–1514) and Archbishop of Tuam
  Archbishop of Tuam
  The Archbishop of Tuam is an archiepiscopal title which takes its name after the town of Tuam in County Galway, Ireland. The title was used by the Church of Ireland until 1839, and is still in use by the Roman Catholic Church.-History:...
  
   (1514–1536)
• Mick Lally
  Mick Lally
  Michael 'Mick' Lally was an Irish stage, film and television actor. He departed from a teaching career for acting during the 1970s...
  
  , actor, (1945-2010)
• Michelle Lally
  Michelle Lally
  -Biography:Limerick born Lally is a singer from Ireland. She has covered several renditions of contemporary easy listening Irish traditional songs.-Musical career:...
  
  , singer and musician