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unusual facts about Barry O'Rorke


O'Rorke

Barry O'Rorke (born 1989), Irish Gaelic football and hurling player


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The cartridge was most famously employed by British forces during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879—which included the Battle of Isandlwana and the Battle of Rorke's Drift—as well as during the Sudanese Campaign of 1884–1898, and in various other colonial conflicts in Africa and India.

Adrian Piccoli

He is the Minister for Education in the O'Farrell Government and the Deputy Leader of the New South Wales Nationals.

Anglo-Zulu War

The south boundary of the land added to Utrecht ran from Rorke's Drift on the Buffalo to a point on the Pongola River.

Barry O'Brien

Ace London, with John Worsley, Kaj Melendez, and Mirza Javed (Fleetway Publications, 1962; Cuahtemoc Publishing Ltd, 2011) (ISBN 978-0957032101)

Barry O'Connell

Barry was one of three O'Connell brothers to play for the Eastern Suburbs club in the New South Wales Rugby League(NSWRL), older brother Wally captained Australia in that sport.

Barry O'Connor

Hakan Şükür scoring the winning goal in front of 25,000 locals.

The first game was against the hosts who included Luis Figo and Rui Costa in their line up in front of 65,000 at the Estádio das Antas in Porto.

Son of Jimmy O'Connor who is notable for being the fastest hat-trick scorer in top level domestic league history Barry was signed by Shamrock Rovers from Cherry Orchard F.C. in the summer of 1989.

Barry O'Farrell

When John Howard became Leader of the Opposition in 1985, his chief of staff, Gerard Henderson, hired O'Farrell as a Sydney-based adviser.

The new Government also enshrined the independence of the public service by the establishing of an independent Public Service Commission, to implement structural reform, chaired by former federal department head Dr. Peter Shergold.

Barry O'Neill

Their January 2012 honeymoon in Europe attracted attention when controversial pictures of McCabe giving a Nazi salutes beside wax sculptures of Adolf Hitler and others were posted on Facebook.

E.M.O'R. Dickey

Dickey (his full name was Edward Montgomery O'Rorke Dickey) was born in Belfast on 1 July 1894, the son of Edward O'Rorke Dickey.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Learning Technology

Founded in 1995, Riverdeep was principally the creation of the Irish ex-investment banker Barry O'Callaghan.

Maurice O'Rorke

Rather, he had had an uncle, Henry Dennis, who had settled as a squatter in the Darling Downs in the early 1840s, but who had perished in the sinking of the Sovereign near Moreton Bay in 1847.

Melton Prior

While he missed the events at Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift, he did witness subsequent actions including the final Battle of Ulundi He was also with the group who discovered the body of the Prince Imperial.

O'Rorke

Patrick O'Rorke (1837–1863), Irish-American colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War

Sir Maurice O'Rorke (1830–1916), New Zealand Speaker of the House 1879–1902

Peter van Onselen

He also hosts Australian Agenda on Sunday mornings, a joint production between Sky News and The Australian newspaper, interviewing politicians such as Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Tony Abbott, John Howard, Barry O'Farrell and Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim.

Phil Koperberg

Following the 2011 state election that was won by the O'Farrell-Stoner Liberal/National coalition, Koperberg was appointed as chairman of the State Emergency Management Committee.

Ralph Rayner

Brian O'Rorke was chosen as the architect for the project on the grounds that he had never designed such a house before and would therefore be open to Lady Rayner's ideas.

Sebastian Moran

In Flashman and the Tiger, during the battle of Rorke's Drift, Moran demonstrates amazing speed and unearthly accuracy with a Remington M1875 .45 revolver.

Thurlby, North Kesteven

Major Sir Edmund Gonville Bromhead (1791–1870) 3rd Baronet, was the father of Gonville Bromhead who won the Victoria Cross at the 1879 battle of Rorke's Drift in the Zulu War.

Victorian Military Society

Other notable members of the Society have included the military historians Ian Knight (one of the Society’s founder members) a noted expert on the Zulu War and Rorke’s Drift, Michael Barthorp author of books on the North West Frontier, the Boer War and the Sudan campaigns, and the late Kenneth Griffith, actor, documentary film maker, Boer war historian and author of a book on the siege and relief of Ladysmith.

William Lummis

Canon William Murrell Lummis MC (4 June 1886 – 2 November 1985) was a British military historian most noted for the research he conducted on the Victoria Cross, the Charge of the Light Brigade, and Rorke's Drift.


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