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3 unusual facts about Connolly


Connolly's RED MILLS

Connolly’s RED MILLS produces equine, pet, greyhound and agriculture feed in Goresbridge, Co.

Conolly's Folly

The name Conolly is used, rather than the more common spelling Connolly, as it was the spelling used by William Conolly and by all his descendants.

McKeeva Bush

He was removed from his post as Premier in a vote of no confidence following his arrest in December 2012 and was succeeded by Julianna O'Connor-Connolly.


Belfast Central railway station

The line is also used by rail passengers changing at Dublin Connolly onto the DART to Dún Laoghaire for the Stena Line ferry to Holyhead, or travelling to Dublin Port for the Irish Ferries to Holyhead, and then by train along the North Wales Coast Line to London Euston and other destinations in England and Wales.

Billy Connolly's Route 66

The show featured the Willis Tower (the tallest building in the United States) as a lead-in to Connolly's meeting with an Illinois champion pie-maker, an Amish family and two female St. Louis residents whose homes were destroyed by a tornado.

Brett Connolly

Connolly returned to the under-18 team the following year for the 2010 IIHF World U18 Championships in Minsk and Bobruisk, Belarus.

Brian Gross

Brian Gross (born in 1976 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa) is an actor starring in the 1998 TV series Wind on Water as Kelly Connolly and has also appeared in numerous films and TV movies.

Bud Connolly

Mervin Thomas "Bud" Connolly (May 25, 1901 – June 12, 1964) was a shortstop in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Red Sox in the 1925 season.

C. Desmond Greaves

In 1941 he joined the Connolly Club which became the Connolly Association, he became the editor of its magazine The Irish Democrat.

CIE 141 Class

Following crew training trials between Inchicore and Monasterevin (passenger trains), Kildare (goods trains), and Hazelhatch (light engines), the class appeared on main line trials from Amiens Street (Connolly) to Drogheda, and Westland Row (Pearse) to Arklow on 4 December 1962, entering traffic on the Dublin to Cork main line four days later.

Circumstantial Productions

Circumstantial Productions is a multimedia production and book publishing company founded by Richard Connolly in Nyack, New York.

Colm Connolly

Connolly would later make a cameo appearance in the made for television movie based on the murder, And Never Let Her Go directed by Peter Levin.

Curtis McKenzie

He also attended Georgetown University Law Center on the Paul Connolly Memorial Full-Tuition Scholarship and received his Juris Doctor, Magna Cum Laude and Order of the Coif in 1995.

Dan Noble

It soon became a popular spot for thieves, burglars and other underworld figures, where Noble became closely associated with the "Long Doctor", "Big" Jack Connolly and Johnny Murphy under whose tutelage he was encouraged to enter the trade himself.

Datari Turner Productions

“Salvation Boulevard” starred Oscar Winners Marisa Tomei and Jennifer Connolly in addition to A-List veterans Pierce Brosnan and Ed Harris.

Derry Housing Action Committee

The Derry Housing Action Committee and its sister organisation Derry Unemployed Action Committee had many members and supporters from the James Connolly Republican Club, trade unionists and labour party members, amongst its activists were Eamonn Melaugh, Eamonn McCann, Fionnbarra O' Dochartaigh (Finbar O'Doherty), J.J. O’Hara (brother of hunger striker Patsy O'Hara), Labour activist Gerry Mallet amongst others.

Diarmuid Connolly

Diarmuid Connolly is a Gaelic footballer and hurler with Dublin and St Vincents.

Doris Hart

(The other woman was Barbara Scofield Davidson, who defeated Connolly in the second round of the 1949 U.S. Championships, 6–4, 6–3.) Connolly won a total of nine Grand Slam singles tournaments during her career, defeating Hart in the final of four of them.

Dublin Lock-out

Other leaders in the ITGWU at the time were James Connolly and William X. O'Brien, while influential figures such as Patrick Pearse, Countess Markievicz and William Butler Yeats supported the workers, in the generally anti-Larkin media.

Ellen Segal Huvelle

As a partner at Williams & Connolly, Huvelle represented several notable clients including hotel magnate Leona Helmsley and fight promoter Don King.

Guy Madison

Later that month, Madison married actress Sheila Connolly in Juarez, Mexico.

Janice Connolly

Connolly was performing as Barbara Nice when spotted by Peter Kay at the finals of The Manchester Evening News New Act of The Year in 1998 and went on to appear in several of his television shows.

John L. Murray

The Taoiseach, Charles Haughey, appointed him as Attorney General after his predecessor, Patrick Connolly, resigned abruptly over the GUBU scandal, when a murderer Malcolm McArthur was arrested in Connolly's Dalkey flat.

Jordan L. Mott House

After Connolly had to flee the country, it was bought by the industrialist Jordan L. Mott and subsequently completed in 1880.

Journal of a Sad Hermaphrodite

The Journal is perhaps influenced by Cyril Connolly's The Unquiet Grave in this respect, although it modifies Connolly's use of the "commonplace book" technique - itself perhaps borrowed by Connolly from George Gissing's The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft - to produce a more traditional narrative.

Julia Sampson Hayward

Connolly and Hayward teamed to win the women's doubles title at the 1953 Australian Championships, defeating Mary Bevis Hawton and Beryl Penrose in the final 6–4, 6–2.

Lillie Connolly

James and Lillie Connolly and their three daughters, Nora, Mona and Aideen set sail for Dublin in 1896, where he founded the Irish Socialist Republican Party in May 1896.

Luas

Construction work began in March 2001 on the Tallaght to Connolly line, as well as the Sandyford to St. Stephen's Green section of the second line, with Ansaldo of Italy and MVM of Australia getting the contract to build the system.

Máire Nic Shiubhlaigh

On 23 July 1966 a plaque bearing her name was unveiled at the Abbey Theatre by the Taoiseach, Seán Lemass; the others named on it were Ellen Bushell, Seán Connolly, Helena Moloney, Arthur Shields, Peadar Kearney and Barney Murphy.

Maurice E. Connolly

Born in Corona, Queens, Queens County, New York, he was the son of Maurice Connolly and Mary Jane Connolly.

Nac Mac Feegle

In The Art of Discworld, cover artist Paul Kidby acknowledged Connolly as the inspiration for Yan's look.

Patrick L. Quinlan

In 1907 and 1908 Quinlan worked closely with Connolly on the defense committee working on behalf of persecuted Industrial Workers of the World leaders Bill Haywood, Charles Moyer, and George Pettibone and together they attempted to establish an Irish Socialist Federation inside the SLP.

Patrick Ryecart

His extensive theatre credits include The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B by J P Donleavy in London's West End which he also produced, first playing Balthazar to Simon Callow's playing Beefy, ( who was later replaced by Billy Connolly ).

Paul Connolly

Despite initial being kept out of the starting line-up by Tyrone Mears, the latter's move to Marseille on loan ensure Connolly became the club's first choice right back and, later appointed team captain by manager Paul Jewell.

Peter Connolly

Connolly, Peter and Hazel Dodge (1998), The Ancient City, Life in Classical Athens & Rome, Oxford University Press.

Ray Dolan

He began his career in the early 1970 by playing folk clubs in Dublin with James Connolly as a duo, contributing to the success of the Universal Folk Centre at Parnell Square.

Richard B. Connolly

Richard Barrett Connolly (1810 Dunmanway, County Cork, Ireland – May 30, 1880 Marseille, France) was an American politician from New York.

Robert Connolly

In 2007 Connolly and Arenafilm's John Maynard together produced the period immigration drama Romulus, My Father, directed by Richard Roxburgh (also an Australian actor), starring Eric Bana and Franka Potente.

Rube Ferns

He defeated such men as "Mysterious" Billy Smith, Eddie Connolly, Bobby Dobbs, William "Matty" Matthews, Frank Erne, Owen Zeigler, "Scaldy" Bill Quinn, Harry Pigeon, Frank "Dutch" Neal, Paddy Purtell and Shorty Ahearn.

Such, Such Were the Joys

Orwell headed the school prize list in 1916 with Classics, while Cyril Connolly won the English prize, Cecil Beaton won the drawing prize, Walter Christie won the history prize and Rupert Lonsdale won the scripture prize.

Tebay rail accident

However the Court of Appeal did reduce Connolly's prison sentence from nine to seven years.

The Last of Mrs. Lincoln

It ran on Broadway from December 12, 1972 - February 4, 1973, and featured Julie Harris (as Mrs. Lincoln), George Connolly, Kate Wilkinson, Tobias Haller and David Rounds.

The Rock Pool

Connolly dedicated the book to Peter Quennell, who had been at Balliol College with him and who wrote the introduction to the 1981 reprint.

Thomas Joseph Connolly

Upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75, Connolly submitted his letter of resignation to Pope John Paul II in July 1997.

Trans-Dublin

The two sections of the route are connected through the centre of Dublin by the Loopline Bridge over the River Liffey between Dublin Connolly and Tara Street.

Transatlantic Years

#"Stainless Steel Wellies" (introduced by Connolly as "Govan Dunny Blues") (live, 1972)

Vivienne Dick

It featured a collection of her remarkable films and included a performance by Lydia Lunch as well as discussions with Nan Goldin, Claire Pajaczkowska and Maeve Connolly, as well as films by other artists selected by Dick.

Walter Connolly

Connolly was a successful stage actor who appeared in twenty-two Broadway productions between 1916 and 1935, notably revivals of Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author and Chekhov's Uncle Vanya.


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