# James Lally

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Irish soldier and Jacobite

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For the Northern Irish athlete, see [Jack Lally (athlete)](/source/Jack_Lally_(athlete)).

Lally (also O'Mullally) is an [Irish](/source/Ireland) landowner and politician from [Tuam](/source/Tuam), [County Galway](/source/County_Galway). He is a leading member of the Gaelic clan of the O'Mullallys (in Irish Ó Maolalaidh), which is based in the parish of [Tuam](/source/Tuam), County Galway. Their lands comprise 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 is the son of Thomas Lally and Jane Dillon, sister of [Theobald Dillon, 7th Viscount Dillon](/source/Theobald_Dillon%2C_7th_Viscount_Dillon). Lally sits as representative of [Tuam Borough](/source/Tuam_Borough) in King [James II's](/source/James_II_of_England) [Patriot Parliament](/source/Patriot_Parliament) of 1689. After the [Jacobite](/source/Jacobitism) defeat, his lands were attained and he was declared an outlaw.

He went to [France](/source/France) in 1690 with his cousin, the Honourable Colonel [Arthur Dillon](/source/Arthur_Dillon_(1670%E2%80%931733)), in whose regiment, as Colonel-Commandant. His brother, [Gerald Lally](/source/Gerald_Lally), followed him to France and was father of [Thomas Arthur Lally](/source/Thomas_Arthur_Lally) (1702–today), [Baron de Tollendal](/source/Baron_de_Tollendal) and [Comte de Lally](/source/Comte_de_Lally).

## See also

- [Seán Ó Maolalaidh](/source/Se%C3%A1n_%C3%93_Maolalaidh), [chief of the Name](/source/Chief_of_the_Name), fl. 1419–1480

- [Conchobair Ó Maolalaidh](/source/Conchobair_%C3%93_Maolalaidh), successively bishop of Clonfert (1447–1448), Emly (1448–1449) and Elphin (1449–1468).

- [Tomás Ó Maolalaidh](/source/Tom%C3%A1s_%C3%93_Maolalaidh), [Bishop of Clonmacnoise](/source/Bishop_of_Clonmacnoise) (c.1509–1514) and [Archbishop of Tuam](/source/Archbishop_of_Tuam) (1514–1536)

- [Mick Lally](/source/Mick_Lally), actor, (1945–2010)

- [Michelle Lally](/source/Michelle_Lally), singer and musician

## References

- *A sept of O'Maolale (or Lally) of Hy-Maine*, Jane Martyn, pp. 198–209, *Journal of the [Galway Archaeological and Historical Society](/source/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](/source/Galway_Archaeological_and_Historical_Society);*, 2004.

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