O'Malley People

This area of the website is intended to recognise O'Malleys who have contributed to their family and/or community during their lifetimes. It is modelled after Dr Sheila Mulloy's publication O'Malley People and Places and includes both those she listed and others. If yu feel that anyone who deserves to be listed here is missing, please send the relevant information to us at omalleyclanireland@gmail.com 

Ann Bridge (Lady Mary O'Malley) 1889 - 1974

Mary Ann Dolling Sanders married Sir Owen O'Malley in 1913 and was a popular and prolific writer. The best known of her novels is Illyrian Spring (1953). Several of her books were British Book Society and Literary Guild selections. In addition to her 21 works of fiction, she wrote 5 other books, including Permission to Resign: Goings-on in the Corridors of Power, an account of Sir Owen's dismissal from the Foreign Office over the Francs Case and his subsequent reinstatement. She played an active part in the very early days of the O'Malley Clan Association.

Tony Cascarino  

Tony Cascarino is a former professional footballer who played as a striker for various British and French clubs and internationally for the Republic of Ireland national team, with whom he competed in UEFA Euro 1988 and two World Cups in 1990 and 1994. He was Aston Villa's record signing. His mother Teresa O'Malley was the London-born daughter of Michael O'Malley of Westport.

Evie Hone (1894 - 1955)

Evie Hone was a well-known stained glass artist. She executed a window in 1951 depicting St Brendan the Navigator and the legend of the miraculous survival of the O'Malley Clan. The window was erected in Kilmilkin Church, Maam, Co Galway in memory of John Francis O'Malley, elder brother of Prof Conor O'Malley and a distinguished London-based surgeon. There are several versions of the legend, but the one chosen for the window recounts how a young mother with her sickly son, the last surviving male child of the O'Malleys, fled to Inish Glora, off the Mullet peninsula, where she prayed at St Brendan's well. Through the saint's intervention, the boy was restored to health.

Eileen O'Malley Lyden (1881 - 1970)

Donogh O'Malley TD (1921 - 1968)

Donogh O'Malley came from the Limerick branch of the family described in Grace O'Malley's book The Round House O'Malleys. He served as Mayor of his native Limerick city and as the Irish Government Minister for Education. He is particularly remembered for introducing free secondary education and free school transport to Ireland. His entry in the Dictionary of Irish Biography is here and a link to a 2026 commemorative event in Sixmilebridge, Co Clare is here.