Mícheál Lally (born 1939), is an Irish writer and
historian.
A native of Fairhill in the
Claddagh area in
Ireland, Lally has been a
seminarian,
shopkeeper
A shopkeeper is a retail merchant or tradesman; one who owns or operates a small store or shop. Generally, shop employees are not shopkeepers, but are often incorrectly referred to as such. At larger companies, a shopkeeper is usually referred t ...
,
publican, and a
voluntary worker with the
Brothers of Charity. He has published a book, ''The Tan War; Ballyovey, South Mayo'', the product of ten years' painstaking research instigated by the last wish of his father, Tom, that the events of the
War of Independence and subsequent
Irish Civil War
The Irish Civil War ( ga, Cogadh Cathartha na hÉireann; 28 June 1922 – 24 May 1923) was a conflict that followed the Irish War of Independence and accompanied the establishment of the Irish Free State, an entity independent from the United ...
in South Mayo be recorded.
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1939 births
Living people
Writers from Galway (city)
20th-century Irish historians
21st-century Irish historians