Biography
Daragh O'Malley was raised in Limerick and educated by the Jesuits at Crescent College and by Carmelite monks at Terenure College in Dublin. His father, Donogh O'Malley, was an Irish politician who served as a TD for Limerick East from 1954 to 1968 and as his country's Minister for Health and later Minister for Education, introducing a Free Secondary and Third Level education system in Ireland which is credited with the subsequent large upsurge in the Irish economy.
O'Malley's mother, Hilda, a doctor from Dingle County Kerry, is the subject of Patrick Kavanagh's love poem "On Raglan Road".
O'Malley's late aunt, Meave - his father's sister - was singer Dido's grandmother.
O'Malley studied at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art where one of his fellow students was Amy Irving. Irving once played Antigone to O'Malley's Creon.
On leaving LAMDA O'Malley was a founder member of Common Stock Theatre Company, one of London's first community theatre groups, which was based in an old church on Pentonville Road in London. A fellow founder member of Common Stock was Dame Harriet Walter.
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