Mick Lally
Mick Lally (* November 1945 in Tourmakeady, County Mayo, † 31 August 2010) was an Irish actor.
Life
Lally grew up on a farm in the Partry Mountains in the west of Ireland. He had six younger siblings, five sisters and a brother. Lally attended school in his hometown and then moved to the St Mary 's College, Galway, a boys' school, and at the same time the Diocesan College of the Diocese of Galway (Galway Diocesan College). He studied history and Irish philology at the National University of Ireland, Galway. After graduating, he worked from 1969 to 1975 as a teacher of history and Irish language in Tuam.
1975 Lally was in the bar The Cellar in Galway by actress Marie Mullen and the later theater director Garry Hynes, who had not learned while studying acting at the Drama Society of the National University of Ireland, Galway, for a production of the play The Playboy of the Western world addressed in the Lally should take over the role of Christy Mahon. Together with Mullen and Hynes founded Lally then the Druid Theatre Company. Lally played in the subsequent period there among other things in The Glass Menagerie and Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. In 1985 he took over the role of the old Mahon in The Playboy of the Western World there. He also played at the Druid Theatre Company in Waiting for Godot, Whistle in the Dark by Thomas Murphy, That Poet by Eugene O'Neill and Larry Taggart in the highly critically acclaimed production of the play Wild Harvest by Ken Bourke.
In 1980, he played in Derry in the world premiere of the play language disorders ( Translations ) by Brian Friel; Lally was at that time a member of the founded by Brian Friel and Stephen Rea Field Day Theatre Company.
As a theater actor Lally occurred frequently in rolls of the Irish playwright John B. Keane. At the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin Lally played among other pieces in Keanes Minor, The Man from Clare and The Year of the Hiker. At SFX City Centre Theatre in Dublin he played from 2001 to 2008, the role of Mick Dicky O'Connor in Keane's drama The Matchmaker. At SFX Centre Theatre, he also played in the play Studs by Paul Mercier. Since the late 1970s, he appeared regularly also at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. He worked there, among others, in the pieces Ivanov (1978, as Gavrila ), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1979, as Snug ), And the light appears in darkness (English Title: The Power of Darkness ) by Leo Tolstoy (1991 ) Drama at Inish by Lennox Robinson (1992 ), A Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer 's Assistant by Tom Murphy ( 1992), The Honey Spike by Bryan MacMahon (1993) and The Last Days of a Reluctant Tyrant by Tom Murphy ( 2009). At the Peacock Theatre in Dublin, he was seen in 1992 in the play The Winter Thief by Sean MacMathuna.
Lally also played in movies and on television. Special recognition he reached with the role of Miley Byrne in the Irish soap opera Glenroe. He took his incarnation a movie character again, which he had in 1978 played in the television series Bracken. With the song The By- road to Glenroe from the TV series, the Lally interpreted, he made it in April / May 1990 reaching number one of the Irish singles chart. In 2004 he had a small role as a horse trader in Oliver Stone's epic film Alexander alongside Colin Farrell. In 2009 he took over in the animated film the voice of Brother Aidan. Lally, who spoke fluent Irish, also acted in a few Irish-language films ( Poitín, 1978) and in the Irish-language soap opera Ros na Run ( 2008).
Lally was married and the father of three children. He died after a short illness on 31 August 2010 in a hospital.