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Mick Lally

1945 - 2010

From Tourmakeady in Mayo, Mick Lally was a teacher before embarking on a professional acting career. He co-founded Druid and worked as an actor with Field Day, An Taibhdhearc and on films and television. He achieved national fame on RTÉ's 'Glenroe'.

Adaptations

Play Title Playwright
Gorta Mick Lally Tom Murphy

Actor

Play Title Playwright
A Skull in Connemara Martin McDonagh
A Thief of a Christmas Tom Murphy
An Giall Máire Stafford Brendan Behan Joan Littlewood
An Hairyfella in Ifreann Eoghan Ó Tuairisc
An Rose Tattoo Peadar Ó Cúláin
An Seachrán Máire Stafford Dion Boucicault
Antigone Seán Ó Carra Jean Anouilh
Dectire John McArdle
Don Coyoté Risteárd Ó Broin
Gadaí Géar na Geamh-Oíche Seán Mac Mathúna
Gorta Mick Lally Tom Murphy
Hisself Pat Ingoldsby
Last Train From Holyhead Bernard Field
Moll Seán Ó Carra John B. Keane
Nanno Risteárd Ó Broin
Opera Ar Trí Phingin Seán Ó Carra Bertolt Brecht
Petticoat Loose Michael Joseph (M.J.) Molloy
Rince an tSáirsint Musgrave Seán Ó Carra John Arden
Táinbócú Tomás Mac Anna Críostóir Ó Floinn Eoghan Ó Tuairisc Gabriel Rosenstock
The Castlecomer Jukebox Jimmy Murphy
The Dead School Patrick McCabe
The Last Days Of a Reluctant Tyrant Tom Murphy Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
The Power of Darkness John McGahern Leo Tolstoy
The Winter Thief Seán Mac Mathúna
Translations Brian Friel
When am I gettin' me Clothes? Pat Ingoldsby
Wild Harvest Ken Bourke
Yesterday's Lovers Hugh Carr

Director

Play Title Playwright
Antigone Seán Ó Carra Jean Anouilh
Aistriúchán ar 'Antigone' le Jean Anouilh (1942)

Associate Director

Play Title Playwright
Gadaí Géar na Geamh-Oíche Seán Mac Mathúna
The Winter Thief Seán Mac Mathúna