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These guys have to be ancestors of my Grandfather Fallon...
"Malachy Fallon fonght a duel with Mr. James Dillon of Ouleen, and killed that gentleman. Patrick Fallon the son of Malachy, challenged and fought the late Lord French. Previous to that duel, Malachy is said to have instructed his son how to handle the pistol. In the encounter, Pat had the first fire, and shot away a button from his adversarie's coat, but Lord French did not fire, and so the affair ended much to the disgust of the sanguinary Malachy, who as I was in formed by one of his descendants, was very indignant with his son for not shooting his Lordship. The family proclivity for duelling was more unfortunately evinced by Malachy's grandson, James Fallon, who fought and shot Mr. Bellew, uncle to the present Sir Michael Dillon Bellew. I have a vivid recollection of Malachy Fallon's eldest son, Edward, at my father's house astonishing his guests, and sober-minded kinsman, Edward Madden, with comic songs, not remarkable for their propriety, and extraordinary narratives of desperate duels, celebrated races, and famous sporting or shooting exploits. One of this mad-cap young Galway gentleman's favourite songs, when my father had left the table, began with the words 'My wife she is the Queen of all sluts.' From his sporting propensities and patriotic spoutings after dinner particularly, he was complimented by his companions, by the soubriquet of 'Grattan.'"
~The Memoirs (chiefly Autobiographical) from 1798 to 1886 of Richard Robert Madden, Richard Robert Madden
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