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unusual facts about Blackrock, County Louth



120 Collins Street

The building is home to a number of high-profile tenants including Bank of America Merrill Lynch, BlackRock, Rothschild, Standard & Poor's, Bluescope Steel, Mitsubishi, Rio Tinto Group, Ord Minnet, plus Citigroup's Melbourne office.

2001 BBC bombing

They were convicted at the Old Bailey on 8 April 2003, together with two other men – James McCormack, of County Louth, and John Hannan, of Newtownbutler, County Fermanagh, both of whom had already admitted the charge at an earlier hearing.

2001 Ealing bombing

Two other men, James McCormack, of County Louth, and John Hannan, of Newtownbutler, County Fermanagh, had already admitted the charge at an earlier hearing.

Avoca Hockey Club

Avoca Hockey Club (Cumann Haca Abhóca in Irish) is a hockey club based in Blackrock, County Dublin, Ireland.

Blackrock College

In living memory are Victor Costello, a 20 year Leinster, Ireland and Blackrock R.F.C. veteran, who also put the shot for Ireland at the Olympics, Leo Cullen, currently captain of the Leinster team and Shane Byrne, Leinster and Ireland professional rugby player.

Blackrock, County Louth

Although it is no longer considered a tourist resort, there remains a tradition of visiting Blackrock on the 15th of August (vide the Celtic feast of Lúnasa).

Boyne 100

The Boyne 100 Road Races, which are held in Tullyallen, County Louth, Ireland, formed when a meeting of local enthusiasts got together in 2006 to revive the Tullyallen Motor Cycle Road Races, which were last held 40 years ago.

Brendan O'Dowda

O'Dowda was born in Dundalk, County Louth and was educated at the De la Salle Brothers' school in the town.

Carysfort College

The college developed further when 'Sedes Sapientiae' (Seat of Wisdom) Training School for girls (a recognised Teacher Training college) of Catherine McAuley Baggot Street moved to Carysfort in Blackrock.

Castle Hill, Bronx

Jennifer Lopez "J-Lo" (1969-) - musician and actress, raised on 2210 Blackrock Avenue Castle Hill Hall of Fame Inductee Class of 2006,1st ballot.

Cavan Cola

It was introduced in 1958, and was sold in 250ml bottles in shops in counties Cavan, Monaghan, Sligo, Leitrim, Louth and Meath.

Charles Filgate

Charles Roden Filgate (16 October 1849 (Lissrenny, Ardee, County Louth, Ireland) – 1 September 1930 (Grove House, Pinner, Middlesex, England)) was an Irish amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1869 to 1877 for Gloucestershire and Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), where he was a member.

Cross Border Orchestra of Ireland

Based at the Dundalk Institute of Technology in County Louth, the CBOI maintains a membership of 160 young musicians between the ages of 12 and 24 years from both sides of the border.

Debenhams Ireland

Roches Stores caused huge controversy in the 1970s and early 1980s when it demolished Frescati House in Blackrock, the home of Lord Edward FitzGerald.

Dromantine House

Prior to the acquisition of Dromatine the Society of African Missions in Ireland had St. Josephs Seminary on the Blackrock Road in Cork.

Frogcircus

During August 2006, the band recorded what would be the third full album Not Completely Clean, produced by Jürgen Block, released in July 2008 under BlackRock Records.

Henry Tichborne, 1st Baron Ferrard

Tichborne was the son of Sir William Tichborne of Beaulieu, County Louth; and grandson of the judge Sir Henry Tichborne, a younger son of Tudor MP, Sir Benjamin Tichborne, 1st Baronet, of Tichborne (see Tichborne Baronets).

He represented Ardee and County Louth in the Irish House of Commons and was created a Baronet, of Beaulieu in the County of Louth, in the Baronetage of England on 12 July 1697.

James Dowdall

The Dowdalls of Louth originated at Dovedale in Derbyshire and became prominent in Ireland in the late Middle Ages.

John B. Cosgrave

Educated at Royal Holloway College, London, he lectured in Carysfort College(Blackrock, Dublin) and St Patrick's College of Education(Drumcondra).

John Hardgrave

John Hardgrave was born in Ardee, County Louth, Ireland on 14 April 1826, the son of William Hardgrave (a cordwainer and cobbler) and Elizabeth Smith.

John Leslie Foster

Between 1824 and 1830 he was the MP for County Louth, and from 1825 was a director of the Drogheda Steam Packet Company.

Kathy Rose O'Brien

In 2008, O'Brien played Marie, a nurse, in the award-winning television drama, Whistleblower, based on actual events at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, County Louth in the 1990s, where Michael Neary, an Irish consultant obstetrician/gynecologist, was struck off the Register of Medical Practitioners for professional misconduct relating to the performance of caesarian hysterectomies.

Laurence D. Fink

When the project ended in default, BlackRock clients lost their money, including the California Pension and Retirement System which lost about $500 million.

Milo Sweetman

Having governed the Primatial See for nineteen years he died in 1380, and is buried in Dromiskin, Co.Louth.

Net1

Net1 delivers broadband services to homes and businesses using FWA (Fixed Wireless access) from base stations in Louth, Meath, Cavan, Monaghan, Fingal and parts of Armagh, Westmeath, Tyrone, Longford and Fermanagh counties.

Nicholas Lawless, 1st Baron Cloncurry

Lord Cloncurry died at Maretimo, Blackrock, County Dublin, in August 1799, aged 63, and was succeeded in his titles by his son, Valentine.

Nuala Ahern

Nuala Ahern (née MacDowell; born 5 February 1949 in Omeath, County Louth) is a former Irish Green Party member of the European Parliament representing Leinster in Ireland from 1994–2004.

Paddy Glynn

Glynn was born in Gort, County Galway, Ireland and educated at the French College, Blackrock and Trinity College, Dublin.

Paths to Freedom

Dr. Jeremy Fitzgerald, played by Brendan Coyle, was a distinguished gynaecologist, living in the affluent Dublin suburb of Blackrock, before being convicted of dangerous driving causing injury.

Rockies

The Rockies, Cork, Ireland, the nickname of Blackrock National Hurling Club, an historic sports team in Cork, Ireland

Russian Direct Investment Fund

During the 2012 St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, President Vladimir Putin announced the formation of an investment consortium between RDIF, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, and Templeton Asset Management to provide pre-IPO support to Russian companies listing on the Moscow stock exchange MICEX-RTS.

Ruth Gilligan

Gilligan's father is an accountant and her mother a speech therapist, her brother David is ten years her senior, and the family live in Blackrock.

Senior College Dun Laoghaire

The college is scheduled to relocate to a new building in Blackrock by 2012 and will be renamed as Blackrock Education Institute (BFEI).

SkillPages

In June 2011, Irish Government Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton TD, welcomed the launch of a new feature called "Opportunities" during the official opening of the company's newly expanded headquarters in Blackrock, Co.

Souterrain

A well illustrated account of a souterrain excavated at Newtownbalregan, County Louth, one of the many souterrains discovered during the recent road-building programme in Ireland may be found in Archaeology Ireland Winter 2003 issue.

Teo Gebert

Gebert made his stage debut in Reg Livermore's musical Big Sister in 1990, and has appeared at the Sydney Theatre Company in Trackers of Oxyrhinicus, Antony and Cleopatra, Lost in Yonkers, Galileo and Blackrock.

The O'Rahilly

O'Rahilly's family for many years owned the port of Greenore in County Louth not far from the present day border with Northern Ireland, while his grandson Ronan O'Rahilly achieved some fame during the 1960s as the founder of the offshore radio station Radio Caroline, and was also involved in the production of some films and the promotion of several recording artists including Georgie Fame and The Animals.

The White Steed

The setting of the play is the present-day village of Lorcan, County Louth, Ireland.

Thomas Tennison

He was from Dillonstown in County Louth, son of Henry Tennison, Member of Parliament for Louth and grandson of Richard Tennison, Bishop of Meath; his mother was Anne Moore of County Fermanagh.

Timothy Coughlin

On July 10, 1927, the three surprised Justice Minister Kevin O'Higgins on his way to Mass at the Booterstown Avenue side of Cross Avenue in Blackrock, County Dublin and shot him down.

Traffic Blues

The series was filmed over six months, putting the Dublin Metropolitan division based in Dublin Castle, the Louth division taking in stations in Drogheda and Dundalk and the Donegal division focusing on Burnfoot and Letterkenny areas in the centre of attention.

University College Dublin Library

The Short Loan collection in the James Joyce library and the entire stock of the Blackrock and Veterinary Medicine libraries uses RFID technology.

Viscount Massereene

John Foster served as Chancellor of the Irish Exchequer and as Speaker of the Irish House of Commons and also represented County Louth in the British House of Commons.

William Hamilton Drummond

Leaving Glasgow in 1798 he became tutor in a family at Ravensdale, co. Louth, pursuing his studies under the direction of the Armagh presbytery, with which he connected himself on the ground of its exacting a high standard of proficiency from candidates for the ministry.

Willow Park

Willow Park School, primary school in Dublin, Ireland which is a feeder school for Blackrock College


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