James Lally, Irish

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and Jacobite, died 1691. Lally (also O'Mullally) (died 1691) was an Irish landowner and politician from Tuam,

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

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of 1689. After the Jacobite defeat, his lands were attained and he was declared an outlaw. He went to

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

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in 1691. His brother,

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, followed him to France and was father of Thomas Arthur Lally (1702–1766), Baron de Tollendal and Comte de Lally.

References

* ''A sept of O'Maolale (or Lally) of Hy-Maine'', Jane Martyn, pp. 198–209, ''Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society;'', 1905–6. * ''History of O'Mullally and Lally clann'', D.P. O'Mullally, Chicago, 1942. * ''Lally, the Regime’s Scapegoat'', Eoghan Ó hAnnrachain, ''Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society;'', 2004. Year of birth missing 1691 deaths Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Galway constituencies People from Tuam Irish Jacobites Irish soldiers in the French Army Irish soldiers in the army of James II of England Irish MPs 1689 {{Ireland-pre1801-MP-stub

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