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Mícheál Lally

Irish writer and historian

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionSep 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ16105146 ↗
Source-derived summary

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, 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 in South Mayo be recorded.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Mícheál Lally” is irish writer and historian. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Mícheál, Lally and Irish, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1939—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1939. For this dossier, Mícheál, Lally and Irish is the immediate research focus.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16105146. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1939.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mícheál Lally” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.