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unusual facts about Commander-in-Chief, Ireland



1951 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final

The 1951 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 64th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1951 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

1997 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final

The 1997 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 110th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1997 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

2005–06 Fijian political crisis

Fiji Labour Party President Jokapeci Koroi issued a statement on 14 January 2006 accusing Lesi Korovavala, the Chief Executive Officer of the Home Affairs Ministry, of having conspired with Home Affairs Minister Josefa Vosanibola to arrange a secret meeting between Baledrokadroka and Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase, in an attempt to depose Bainimarama.

Air pollution in Hong Kong

Chief Executive Donald Tsang declared that the high life-expectancy of Hong Kong demonstrates that concerns over air quality were not justified.

Albert Winsemius

During his term as Chief Economic Advisor from 1961 to 1984, Dr Winsemius worked closely with Lee Kuan Yew, Goh Keng Swee and later with Goh Chok Tong.

Anne Crofton, 1st Baroness Crofton

Anne Crofton, 1st Baroness Crofton (11 January 1751 – 12 August 1817) was an Irish suo jure peeress.

Biggar family

Alexander was born in Kinsale, Ireland in 1781, to parents (Major) Harold Robert Biggar and Ann, née Harvey.

British Cemetery Elvas

The Duke of Wellington was anxious to secure both cities before advancing into Spain and chose to conduct the operations in the north himself and leave Marshal Beresford, the Commander in Chief of the Portuguese army, in command of the southern operation.

Broderick Bozimo

His wife is Rosaline Bozimo, who was his partner in the law firm Broderick Bozimo & Co and later become the chief justice of Delta State.

Bud Wolfe

Roland 'Bud' Wolfe January 12, 1918 - January 28, 1994, was an American pilot who parachuted from an RAF Spitfire plane into a peat bog on the Inishowen peninsula in County Donegal, Ireland, on November 30, 1941.

Christine Nixon

As Chief Commissioner, Nixon marched in uniform during Melbourne's gay and lesbian 'Pride March', run as part of the Midsumma Festival.

Christophe Cuvillier

Christophe Cuvillier (born December 5, 1962 in Etterbeek) is a French businessman and current chief executive officer of the European real-estate group Unibail-Rodamco.

Chuck Collins

He is the great-grandson of 19th-century meatpacking mogul Oscar Mayer and the grandson of the U.S. pianist and composer Edward Joseph Collins, as well as Michael Collins, liberator of Ireland.

Cináed mac Conaing

The leadership of the southern branch rested with the rival Clann Cholmáin whose chief, Máel Sechnaill mac Máele Ruanaid, was High King of Ireland.

Conference of Chief Justices

The first meeting, organized by the Council of State Governments and funded by private foundations, and held in St. Louis, Missouri, was held at the behest of New Jersey Chief Justice Arthur T. Vanderbilt, Nebraska Chief Justice Robert G. Simmons and Missouri Chief Justice Laurance M. Hyde, who was elected as the first chairman by the representatives of the 44 states in attendance.

Darby Field

Of Irish ancestry, if not born in Ireland, he was in Boston, Massachusetts, by 1636 and settled in Durham, New Hampshire, by 1638, where he ran a ferry from what is now called Durham Point to the town of Newington, across Little Bay.

Dhananjay Mahato

During the tenure of then Chief Minister of Bihar Jagannath Mishra, he built the Gunda Bihar Railway Station.

Die Chefin

First Police Chief Inspector Vera Lanz (Katharina Böhm) is working for the homicide division in Munich, having lost her husband in a mysterious death.

Fall Creek Massacre

Early sources close to the case, such as the Federal Indian agent John Johnston, described them as a mixed band of Seneca and Shawnee, or Mingo, from Logan, Ohio, named for the chief.

Francis Bowditch Wilby

On March 20, 1918 Wilby was transferred to the Chaumont-Porcien on Headquarters of the American Expeditionary Force, where he was appointed as a Chief of Engineer Intelligence Division in the Office of Chief of Engineers.

Gray squirrel

The Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis), from the eastern United States and southeastern Canada; introduced into Britain, Ireland, western North America, Italy, and South Africa

Ian Madigan

Ian Madigan (born 21 March 1989) is an Irish professional rugby union player for Blackrock College RFC, Leinster Rugby and Ireland.

James Manning

James David Manning (born 1947), chief pastor at the ATLAH World Missionary Church

John Tiner

This came after the resignation of Sir Howard Davies as FSA executive chairman, when that post was split into two: chairman (Sir Callum McCarthy) and chief executive (Tiner).

Jonathan Kwitny

His book jacket biographies record that his reporting forced J. Lynn Helms, chief of the Federal Aviation Administration, to resign, and dogged President Ronald Reagan's National Security Advisor Richard V. Allen for conflicts of interest.

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

As of 2007, the editors-in-chief are David D. Ho (Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center), Paul Volberding (San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center) and William Blattner (University of Maryland, Baltimore).

Luskin

Donald Luskin (born 1954), Chief Investment Officer for Trend Macrolytics, LLC

Manjula Chellur

In 2013 the Division Bench of the Kerala High Court, consisting of Chief Justice Chellur and Justice Vinod Chandran, ordered the state government to submit a statement regarding the high-profile rape case against the Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, P. J. Kurien.

Marcelo Ebrard

The city's chief of police, Marcelo Ebrard, and the Federal Secretary of Public Safety, Ramón Huerta, were both accused of not organizing a timely rescue effort when three undercover federal police officers were lynched by a mob in one of the capital's most impoverished suburbs in Tláhuac on November 23, 2004.

Mint julep

These mint juleps were served in gold-plated cups with silver straws, and were made from Woodford Reserve bourbon, mint imported from Ireland, spring water ice cubes from the Bavarian Alps, and sugar from Australia.

Mountain Village Operation Unit

On 6 June 1950 Douglas MacArthur, the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, ordered a purge of 24 members of JCP’s Central Committee and forbid them to engage in any political activities.

October 22nd Scud missile attack

This fear was raised by military intelligence chief Eli Zeira at a situation assessment with the Chief of Staff on October 9.

Organization of the Air Service of the American Expeditionary Force

The Air Service, Second Army Air Service was activated on October 12 with Col. Frank P. Lahm as chief, and the Air Service, Third Army Air Service was created immediately after the armistice to provide aviation support to the army of occupation, primarily from veteran units transferred from the First Army Air Service.

Pachliopta kotzebuea

The species was named for Otto von Kotzebue, commander of the Russian expeditionary ship Rurik.

Pearse Doherty

On 11 June 2004, he ran simultaneously in the 2004 European Parliament elections and in the local elections for Donegal County Council.

Portrayal of Native Americans in film

A major scene in Peter Pan involves the Lost Boys and Peter Pan celebrating at the Native Americans' camp after Peter rescues Tiger Lily, the daughter of the chief, from Captain Hook.

Richard E. Gray

He served as chief test director for the AIM-7F Sparrow in 1975-76 before being assigned as an F-14A project pilot on the Air Combat Evaluation/Intercept Missile Evaluation (ACEVAL/AIMVAL) program.

Shlomo Shamir

Instead he served other capacities, eventually becoming the third Commander of the Israeli Navy in May 1949.

Simon Fleming, 1st Baron Slane

Archembald's grandson, Archembald fitz Stephen le Fleming, came to Ireland with King Henry II of England in 1171 and participated in Hugh de Lacy's plantation of the kingdom of Kingdom of Mide.

Syed Ali Akbar

He was the Chief editor of the well-known English language quarterly Islamic Culture and President of Idara Adabiat Urdu which published monthly magazine Sub Rus for 20 years.

Tactical Air Control Party

Prince Harry, the third in line to the British throne, served as a TACP commander in Afghanistan.

Téréba Togola

Togola was born in Bougouni Cercle, Sikasso in 1948 to a Bambara village chief and one of his later wives who was thought to be barren; in the Bambara language, Téréba translates to "surprise" or "miraculous birth".

Third English Civil War

At the end of May 1650 Cromwell turned over his command in Ireland to Henry Ireton and returned to England.

Toivo Ndjebela

He graduated in 2006 from the University of Namibia, During his student years he was a chief reporter for Campus Vision, and news editor and producer of UNAM Radio.

Treaty of Nice

The Irish government, having obtained the Seville Declaration on Ireland's policy of military neutrality from the European Council, decided to have another referendum on the Treaty of Nice on Saturday, 19 October 2002.

Tynemouth Volunteer Artillery

The meeting was held in response to statements by Commander Bedford Pim, Royal Navy, that a modern ironclad warship could do untold damage to the towns of Tyneside due to the poor state of their defences.

USS Galena

They were named for various communities that, in turn, were named for a native lead sulfide, the chief ore of lead.

Vukolaj Jovanov Radonjić

K. Viala De Somier, a French colonel, commander of Herceg Novi, Kotor Governor and Head of General Staff other divisions Illyrian army in Dubrovnik, visited Montenegro 1810.godine and gubernadur Vukolaj Radonjic to Njegusi and as he says: "vernacular residence and center of temporal power in Montenegro," For the first twenty steps from the house to meet me came gubernadur accompanied two priests and the elders of the people under sixty weapons .

Vungwi Primary School

It is along the road between Cha Cha Cha Township or, Donga Town Ship and Tongogara High School in Shurugwi Rural Areas under the chieftainship of Chief Nhema.The school was known for its academic excellency during the late 80s and early 90s when it was used to attain a pass rate of 100% on the national grade 7 examinations set by the Ministry of Education, Zimbabwe.

Willow Warbler

The Willow Warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus) is a very common and widespread leaf warbler which breeds throughout northern and temperate Europe and Asia, from Ireland east to the Anadyr River basin in eastern Siberia.


see also

Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar

After a career in the Grenadier Guards, he became Major General commanding the Brigade of Guards and General Officer Commanding the Home District in 1870, General Officer Commanding Southern District in October 1878 and Commander-in-Chief, Ireland in October 1885.