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Billy O'Dwyer

For the Mayor of New York City from 1946-1950, see William O'Dwyer


1947 New York City smallpox outbreak

On April 4, 1947, New York City Mayor, William O'Dwyer announced plans to vaccinate everybody in the city.

Alex Bail

The committee pressured Mayor William O'Dwyer into naming a fact finding commission to see if this financially tenable.

Anton Vickerman

Concerns have been raised as to the effect on ongoing cases, specifically, the Richard O'Dwyer extradition case.

Arnold Raum

As Tax Court judge, Raum presided over the 1957 trial of former New York City mayor William O'Dwyer.

Billy O'Dell

He did manage to stirke out 8, including Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle, who struck out twice.

Bohola

Former New York City Mayor and US Ambassador to Mexico William O'Dwyer and his brother, the noted New York City humanitarian, lawyer, and politician Paul O'Dwyer are also natives of the village, as is prominent civil rights attorney Frank Durkan, also of New York, who was a nephew of the O'Dwyers.

Brian O'Dwyer

He attended the High School of Music and Art.

Bridget Dwyer

Dwyer was also featured on The Big Break VI: Trump National, the sixth series of the Golf Channel's reality show.

Bridget Dwyer (born September 16, 1980) is an American professional golfer, best known for her appearance on The Big Break, the Golf Channel's reality television series.

Bulldog Edition

Newspaper Editors Ken Dwyer (Ray Walker) and Evans (Robert Warwick) compete for circulation, and the heart of star reporter / cartoonist Randy Burns (Evalyn Knapp).

Cambridge Footlights Revue

It was written by Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie with Penny Dwyer, Kim Harris, Katie Kelly, Jan Ravens, Paul Shearer, Tony Slattery, and Emma Thompson and performed by Fry, Laurie, Dwyer, Shearer, Slattery, and Thompson.

Canadian Special Operations Forces Command

Joint Task Force 2 (JTF2) – Dwyer Hill Training Centre, south of Ottawa, in process of moving to CFB Trenton

Chappie Dwyer

NSW then quickly dismissed Tasmania for 158, with four wickets each for Ronald Eaton and Frank Jordan, who took a further two and four wickets respectively as Tasmania were dismissed for 102 in the follow-on to hand NSW victory by an innings and 182 runs, the only victory Dwyer was to partake in.

Christopher Powell

He co-presented with Brian Dwyer the 2010 exhibit, "Give Pizza Chance" which was one of the bases for museum and pizzeria, Pizza Brain.

Comic Book Legal Defense Fund

2000: Comic book artist Kieron Dwyer was sued by Starbucks Coffee for parodying their famous mermaid logo within his comic book Lowest Common Denominator. Although the judge ruled that Starbucks could not sue a parody and the case settled out of court, Dwyer was forced to comply with the ruling that he could no longer use his logo for its confusing similarity to that of Starbucks.

Division 4

Kevin Dwyer (Ted Hamilton), an ambitious and dedicated cop who is always eager to work with the CIB.

Erik Paulson

Erik is the coauthor of a book along with American Combat Association president Matthew Granahan and JD Dwyer on the History of American Submission Wrestling.

Flight of Black Angel

Eddie lands in Garrison, Utah to hide his Mirage in a deserted barn, but is accidentally discovered by a family on vacation: Richard (Michael Keys Hall) and Valerie (Michele Pawk) Dwyer and their baby.

Harry Vaughan Watkins

Wales changed their pack formation to counter the New Zealand tactics, and the Welsh selectors brought in Charlie and Cliff Pritchard at the expense of Watkins and Cardiff's Billy O'Neill.

History by Contract

After what O'Dwyer described as secrecy and denials about the existence of a Smithsonian-Wright Agreement, O'Dwyer obtained a signed copy of the Smithsonian-Wright "Agreement" in 1976, with the help of then-Senator Lowell Weicker.

Jeffrey Rosenberg

Rosenberg and Dwyer were both original members of and contributors to the Fort Thunder art and music scene in Providence in the late 1990s.

John Dwyer Technology Academy

The Elizabeth Public Schools is partnering with The National Academy Foundation and is currently engaged in a Year of Planning - Academy Development Process to establish the Academy of Information Technology as a career academy at the John E. Dwyer Technology Academy in September 2010.

John Stephen Dwyer

He was son of John Dwyer, esq., famous as Lord Chancellor Clare's Secretary.

This branch of the family is mentioned by Sir Michael O'Dwyer, in The O'Dwyers of Kilnamanagh, "Chapter XIX - The O'Dwyers in Ireland, 1691-1803", but he says the O'Dwyer genealogies are lost and specific lines of descent from the chiefs are speculative.

Judge O'Dwyer

William O'Dwyer (1890–1964), Kings County (Brooklyn) Court, New York judge before becoming Mayor of New York City

Keadeen

Dwyer McAllister's cottage is at the northern base of Keadeen at Derrynamuck, where Michael Dwyer, the 1798 rebellion United Irishmen leader, escaped from the British soldier's siege on Sam McAllister cottage in December 1799 up the slopes of the mountain.

Michael Dwyer

One of Michael Dwyer's sons was the owner of The Harp Hotel in Bungendore, New South Wales in circa 1838.

Michael O'Dwyer

He distinguished himself in land revenue settlement work, and was made director of land records and agriculture in Punjab (1896); next year he was placed in charge of settlements of Alwar and Bharatpur states.

Michael Francis O'Dwyer was the sixth son in a family of fourteen children born to John, of Barronstown, Solohead, and Margaret (née Quirke) O'Dwyer, of Toem; both County Tipperary, Ireland.

Monte Dwyer

In 2007 Dwyer produced content for Charles Wooley's radio program Across Australia while travelling around Australia in a motorhome.

Music Minus One

Such names as Stan Getz, Hank Jones, Max Roach, Sam Baron, Julius Baker, Murray Panitz, Doriot Dwyer, Elaine Douvas, Donald Peck, Armando Ghitalla, Stanley Drucker, and countless other first chair players in the five major American orchestras were prevailed upon to add their skills to MMO recordings.

New Haven Nighthawks

Notable players for the Nighthawks include former New York Islanders great Bobby Nystrom; Willie O'Ree; Tom Colley, the franchise's career leader in games (534), goals (204), assists (281) and points (485); ex-Boston Bruin Billy O'Dwyer; career penalty minute leader (688) Al Tuer; ex-WHA star Bobby Sheehan, Bernie Nicholls, Blaine Stoughton and Mike Rogers.

O'Dwyer

J. R. O'Dwyer Company, magazine publisher for the United States public relations industry

Phil Dwyer

After retiring from football, in 1985 Dwyer joined the South Wales Police force, despite being a year older than the force's recruitment age limit, in the town of Wenvoe, where he has lived with his wife Ann for twenty years.

Pizza Brain

In May 2010, Kensington-based artist Brian Dwyer, along with Christopher Powell, organized "Give Pizza Chance"—Philadelphia's first pizza-based art show—in which pizza served as muse for more than 25 artists who displayed their work at a local gallery.

Racine Art Museum

The collection includes artists Robert Ebendorf, Arline Fisch, Eleanor Moty, Earl Pardon, Susan Kingsley, Ken Loeber, Albert Paley, Kevin O'Dwyer, Fred Fenster and Chunghi Choo.

Radio Éireann Players

The founding actors (plus three who joined the following year) were: Tom Studley, George Greene, Éamonn Kelly, Joe Lynch, Arthur O'Sullivan, Laurence O'Dea, Frank O'Dwyer, Christine Spencer, Ginette Waddell, Marie Mulvey, Gerard Healey, Leo Leyden, Charles McCarthy, Deirdre O'Meara, Una Collins, Seamus Forde, Charles Davis, Ronald Ibbs, Florence Lynch, Mairín Ní Shuilleabháin, Joseph O'Dea, Christopher Casson, John Stephenson and Aidan Grennell.

The cast was: Frank Dwyer (story-teller), Eamon Kelly (nailmaker), Thomas Studley (stone-breaker), Peggy Monahan (weaver's widow), Brendan Cauldwell (grave digger), Henry Comerford (grave digger), Arthur O'Sullivan (cooper), Maura O'Sullivan (weaver's daughter).

Robert Dwyer Joyce

He was born in County Limerick, Ireland, where his parents, Garret Joyce (born 1796) and Elizabeth O'Dwyer, lived in the northern foothills of the Ballyhoura Mountains, west of Ballyorgan.

Soloheadbeg Ambush

On that same day, an ambush was carried out by Irish Volunteers Seán Treacy, Dan Breen, Seán Hogan, Séamus Robinson, Tadhg Crowe, Paddy McCormack, Paddy O'Dwyer, Michael Ryan and Seán O'Meara (the latter two being cycle scouts).

Trevor Dwyer-Lynch

Born and raised in Moss Side and Salford, trained in Drama and Performing Arts at City College Manchester in 1990, Dwyer-Lynch has appeared in numerous television and theatre productions, merging both serious roles—such as "Gloucester" in Shakespeare's King Lear—to his best known comedic nice guy role in Coronation Street as Patrick Tussell the taxi-driver working for Steve McDonald (2002–2005).

Twilight: The Graphic Novel

The plot describes Bella Swan's move from Phoenix, Arizona to Forks, Washington to live with her father, Charlie, while her mother, Renée, travels with her new husband, Phil Dwyer, a minor league baseball player.

William Dwyer

Ubi Dwyer, Bill 'Ubi' Dwyer (1933-2001), Windsor Free Festival organiser

William Lee Dwyer

On July 28, 1987, Dwyer was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to a seat on the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington vacated by Donald S. Voorhees.

William T. Dwyer High School

The school was named for William T. Dwyer, former vice president of Pratt & Whitney's Government Products Division and a community leader in Palm Beach County.

Windows of Hope Family Relief Fund

With much support from colleagues throughout the industry, the fund was founded by a core group of restaurant professionals: Darlene Dwyer, a public relations consultant in the food industry; David Emil, an owner and operator of Windows on the World at the time; chef Michael Lomonaco, executive chef at Windows on the World at the time; chef Waldy Malouf, chef and co-owner of the New York restaurant, Beacon; and chef Tom Valenti, chef and owner of the restaurant Ouest.


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