The Abbey Theatre mourns Mick Lally
It was with great sadness that we learned today of the death of Mick Lally.
Mick was a truly, well loved actor and gave many memorable performances. He first played at the Abbey in 1977 in Wild Oats and went on to perform in many more productions including The Star Turns Red, The Crucible, Hatchet, Ivanov, Hissself, Diarmuid agus Grainne, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Petticoat Loose, The King of Friday’s Men, A Thief of a Christmas, The Honey Spike, The Power of Darkness, Drama at Inish, A Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer’s Assistant and The Winter Thief. His last performance at the Abbey was in Tom Murphy’s The Last Days of a Reluctant Tyrant in 2009.
Mick began his career with Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe. He was a founder member of Druid where he performed in The Well of the Saints (DruidSynge), A Skull in Connemara, The Dead School for which he received an Irish Times/ESB Theatre Award Nomination for Best Actor, The Playboy of the Western World, The Year of the Hiker, The Glass Menagerie, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Waiting for Godot, A Whistle in the Dark (also Abbey Theatre), Touch of the Poet, Wild Harvest, The Loves of Cass Maguire and many more. He also performed in Studs, Song of the Reaper Festival (The Passion Machine), Moll, The Man from Clare (Gaiety) and The Matchmaker (SFX).
Mick’s most famous television character was Miley in Glenroe but he gave many other fine television performances, most notably in Ballroom of Romance, Bracken, Tales of Kinvarna, The Year of the French, Tales From the Poorhouse/Scealta O Theach na mBocht, Ballykissangel and, more recently, Ros na Rún. Films include Poitin, Our Boys, The Outcasts, Nights in Tunisia, Painful Case, The Fantasist, Fools of Fortune , The Secret of Roan Inish, A Man of No Importance, Circle of Friends, I Could Read the Sky, Alexander, Middletown and Neamhní.
A tribute will be made to Mick Lally from the Abbey stage tonight.
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3 Comments
by Niall Lynch, cavan
4 Sep 2010 at 22:26pm
Who needs to discuss National Identity? - or National Debt? We have lost Mick Lally. In more ways than we might care to imagine, here was the embodiment of the ‘Connemara Man’, of whom Yeats would have been in awe, whom we underestimated beyond belief, whose faith was not aligned to the common herd, whose independence of spirit we must for a long time envy. No Gerry Ryan fantasmagoria ululations here - the quiet ‘dignit an bhróin’ became his passing so well. Ní fheicfear a leithéid arís ann.
by Peter Mulligan, Dublin
1 Sep 2010 at 00:32am
Delighted that Fiach MacConghail said a few word of praise for the late, great, Mick Lally at the curtain call on the stage of the Abbey Theatre last night
by Mary schafer, frankfurt germany
31 Aug 2010 at 19:52pm
I felt so sad when I heard the sad news that Mick Lally had died .He was a wonderfull actor ,part of all our lives ,from his performances in Glenroe.I had the great pleasure of seeing him just 2 months ago in The Match maker.I heard him interviewed ,on radio ,and marvelled at how humble he was despite all he had achieved .
We have lost someone really special .
May he rest in peace .
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