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unusual facts about Bernard O. Gruenke


Conrad Schmitt Studios

Bernard O. Gruenke, who was hired by company founder Conrad Schmitt in 1936, purchased the company in 1951 from members of the Schmitt family.


Alfred Stephens

He prepared for publication in 1897 a collected edition of the verses of Barcroft Boake, with a sympathetic and able account of his life, and during the next 20 years he saw through the press, volumes of verse by Arthur Henry Adams, W. H. Ogilvie, Roderic Quinn, James Hebblethwaite, Hubert Newman Wigmore Church, Bernard O'Dowd, C. H. Souter, Robert Crawford, Shaw Neilson and others.

Bernard Gruenke

Bernard E. Gruenke, American art director, craftsman, conservationist, preservationist and master gilder

Bernard O'Connor

Bernard grew up next to Con Keating Park and helped his local club to achieve great success alongside Kerry legend, Maurice Fitzgerald.

Bernard O'Dowd

O'Dowd was a co-publisher of the first issues of the radical paper Tocsin, from 2 October 1897.

he was also a co-publisher and writer for the radical paper Tocsin.

Bernard O'Mahoney

Published in April 1997, it tells the story of dealing of ecstasy and other hard drugs in the Essex area during the early to mid-1990s, which gained a high profile in November 1995 with the death of Latchingdon teenager Leah Betts.

It also tells of the notorious three "Essex Boys" drug dealers who terrorised Essex with drug dealing and violence during the early to mid-1990s before they were found shot dead in a Range Rover in December 1995.

Published in February 2001, this is O'Mahoney's account of his time with the British Army as a soldier in the early 1980s, including his involvement in the Northern Ireland troubles which included frequent clashes with the IRA.

Bernard O'Shea

He also worked in the National Theatre of Ireland, the Abbey Theatre.

Coffin portrait

Historian Bernard O'Connor in his memoirs of 1696 wrote: "There is so much pomp and ceremony in Polish funerals that you would sooner take them to be a triumphant event than the burial of the dead".

Murder of Rosie Palmer

After a number of years during which very little was reported about the Rosie Palmer murder case, Armstrong returned to the headlines in September 2001 when he was granted Legal Aid to pursue a £15,000 compensation claim against Bernard O'Mahoney for "breach of confidence".

However while on remand he had revealed this plan in a letter to a man called Bernard O'Mahoney - who had posed as a woman in hope of getting a written confession from the killer.

Parliamentary Counsel

However, the post has been held by a number of distinguished lawyers, for example Bernard O'Dowd in Australia, John Ferguson McLennan specialising in Scottish law (which though enacted entirely in the UK parliament from 1707 until 1999, is distinct from English law), and William Philip Schreiner in South Africa.


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