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3 unusual facts about Donagh O'Leary


Donagh O'Leary

He has been a member of many UK bands including The Wild Frontiers, Dave Vanian & The Phantom Chords, Naz Nomad & The Nightmares, Tenpole Tudor and played as a session player with Marc Almond and Peter Perrett.

Naz Nomad and the Nightmares

Donagh O'Leary as Pretty Boy Padovani for 1992 live performances –

Tenpole Tudor

He has re-formed Tenpole Tudor from time to time, notably in 2001, with Darrell Bath on guitar, Donagh O'Leary on bass and Ben Standage on drums.


Brendan O'Leary

He is also the author of How to Get Out of Iraq with Integrity (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009).

Brian O'Leary

In 2007, O'Leary presented a paper titled "Renewable and Unconventional Energy for a Sustainable Future: Can We Convert in Time?", at the International Energy Conference and Exhibition in Daegu, South Korea.

Bruno Ribeiro

Injured at the start of the 1998–99 season he never really regained his place in the midfield under new manager David O'Leary, and was eventually transferred to Sheffield United in October 1999 for £500,000, where he scored once against West Bromwich Albion.

Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire

:Also, a fictional San Juan street mentioned frequently in the novel is "Calle O'Leary", possibly another reference to the poem (Art Ó Laoghaire's name is anglicized as Art O'Leary).

Carl Panzram

He served time in prisons in Fresno, California; Rusk, Texas; The Dalles, Oregon; Harrison, Idaho; Butte City Montana; Montana State reform School, Miles City Montana; State Prison Montana {"Jeff Davis" #3194}; Oregon {"Jefferson Baldwin" #7390}; Bridgeport Connecticut {John O'Leary}; New York's Sing Sing {"Jeff Baldwin" #75182}; Clinton Correctional Facility New York {"John O'Leary"}; Washington D.C. (#33379); and Leavenworth, Kansas {Carl Panzram #31614}.

CFTE

As a talk station, CFUN's on-air personalities included Simi Sara, Dave Brindle, Nikki Renshaw and Joe Leary, as well as the syndicated Laura Schlesinger, Joy Browne and Coast to Coast AM.

Chris Hedges

Hedges appeared as a guest on an October 2011 episode of the CBC News Network's The Lang and O'Leary Exchange to discuss his support for the Occupy Wall Street protests and was criticized by co-host Kevin O'Leary for sounding "like a left-wing nutbar."

David O'Leary

Chairman Doug Ellis sold the club within a few months to Randy Lerner, and Martin O'Neill was appointed as manager.

Domhnall na g-Croiceann

He was not raised as an O'Donovan, but was instead fostered by the O'Leary of Carrignacurra.

Ellen O'Leary

Once her brother John was freed, they moved to Dublin, where they contributed to the Irish Literary Revival by holding weekly salons featuring a host of prominent literary figures such as William Butler Yeats, Katharine Tynan, George Russell, and Rosa Mulholland.

Ethnic conflict

John McGarry and Brendan O'Leary have developed a taxonomy of eight macro-political ethnic conflict regulation methods, which they note are often employed by states in combination with each other.

Francis O'Leary

The leader of England's Roman Catholics, Archbishop Vincent Nichols was a cousin of Father O'Leary, and is current president of the Jospice organisation.

Francisco Narváez

Francisco José Narváez (4 October 1905, Porlamar, - 13 July 1982, Caracas) was a Venezuelan sculptor who is perhaps best-known for "Las Toninas", a sculptural group that decorates the fountain of the Plaza O'Leary in Caracas.

Frank Hennessy

Hennessy's own musical compositions have been recorded by a wide range of artists such as The Furies, Foster and Allen, Daniel O'Donnell, Diarmuid O'Leary and the Bards and Max Boyce.

Frits Holm

Eventually, in 1917, Mr. George Leary, a wealthy New Yorker, purchased the replica stele and sent it to Rome, as a gift to the Pope.

Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission

The energy agreements and policies of the Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission were facilitated by Secretary of Energy Hazel O'Leary and Minister of Fuel and Energy Yuri Shafranik.

Grattan O'Leary

He has attended imperial and international conferences in London, Washington, and Canberra, and was at the Potsdam Conference in 1945.

In Old Chicago

The screenplay by Sonya Levien and Lamar Trotti was based on the Niven Busch story, "We the O'Learys." The film is a fictionalized account about the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and stars Alice Brady as Mrs. O'Leary, the owner of the cow which started the fire, and Tyrone Power and Don Ameche as her sons.

James A. O'Leary

His great-grandson, Vito J. Fossella Jr., served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives representing New York's 13th congressional district from 1997-2009.

James Fintan Lalor

“His spirit, however, was undaunted,” according to O’Sullivan, and in the following year he set about organising a revival of the insurrection” in co-operation with John Savage, Joseph Brennan, John O'Leary and Thomas Clarke Luby in Tipperary and Waterford.

James P. Wilmot

Jim Wilmot was the son of an O'Leary, and his only sister Betty was married to Dr. John O'Leary.

James Patrick O'Leary

O'Leary began working for local bookies as a teenager eventually opening Long Beach, Indiana, an off-track betting resort, however it soon closed due to bankruptcy by the 1880s.

Jane O'Leary

O'Leary received an Honorary doctorate from the National University of Ireland in 2007, and teaches composition at the Dublin Institute of Technology Conservatory of Music and Drama in Dublin.

John O'Shea

O'Shea was scheduled to face Spain on 11 June 2013, in The Bronx, New York City at Yankee Stadium but was ruled out of the game over the sudden death of his uncle Jimmy O'Leary in Waterford, Ireland.

Kevin O'Leary

In January 2014, O'Leary was criticized for his remarks on his television show The Lang and O'Leary Exchange, saying that the news that the world's richest 85 people owned as much wealth as the bottom half of the global population was "fantastic news."

By 1994, Softkey had become a major consolidator in the educational software market, acquiring no less than 60 rivals, such as WordStar and Spinnaker Software.

Kingdom of Desmond

Within Muskerry, prominent non-MacCarthy Gaelic families included the MacSweeneys, O'Learys, O'Healys, and O'Riordans.

Leary's book store

Leary’s Book Store tied its advertising to the “The Bookworm,” a painting done in 1850 by the German painter and poet Carl Spitzweg.

Lenny Clarke

In 2006, Clarke and Leary appeared on television during a Red Sox telecast and, upon realizing that Red Sox 1st baseman Kevin Youkilis is Jewish, delivered a criticism of Mel Gibson's anti-semitic comments.

Louis DeLuca

He also told the committee that he reported to Waterbury Chief of Police Neil O'Leary of his granddaughter's alleged abuse but the chief refused to investigate the claim.

Merry F %$in' Christmas

Since the holiday season of 2005, Comedy Central has periodically aired Denis Leary's Merry F#%$in' Christmas, an hour-long (with commercials) Christmas special featuring Leary and several celebrity guests, including Charlie Murphy, Carmen Electra, William Shatner, and the Barenaked Ladies.

Mob of the Dead

The map is set in the infamous Alcatraz Prison in the year 1933, and features four new characters: Albert "The Weasel" Arlington (voiced by Joe Pantoliano), Billy Handsome (voiced by Ray Liotta), Michael "Finn" O'Leary (voiced by Michael Madsen) and Salvatore "Sal" DeLuca (voiced by Chazz Palminteri), who plan to escape the island only to run into a zombie outbreak.

Mrs. O'Leary's Cow

The cow belonging to Mrs. Catherine O'Leary that is often blamed in folklore for starting the Great Chicago Fire of 1871

Philby Greenstreet

Along for the journey, according again to Leary's second-hand account, were "Captain" Alfred Matthew Hubbard, writer Aldous Huxley (who would die a little more than a year later on the very day of Kennedy's assassination), rat-packer and presidential brother-in-law Peter Lawford, and Mary Meyer herself.

Richard P. Leary

Richard Phillips Leary (3 November 1842 – 27 December 1901) was an admiral in the United States Navy who served from the American Civil War through the Spanish-American War.

Robert L. Moran

His campaign was supported by the notorious Jeremiah A. O'Leary and a small group of Irish Americans who opposed the League of Nations and advocated recognition of the Irish Republic.

Sargon the Sorcerer

Taking his professional name from the ancient king of the same name, Sargon has had a checkered career, acting mostly as a hero during the Golden Age aided by his cartoonish fat little comic relief sidekick/manager Maximillian O'Leary as he battled crooks, spies and his azure-skinned archenemy the Blue Lama, Queen of Black Magic, but re-emerging in the Silver Age - as a villain, at least at first.

Sprague Cleghorn

Cleghorn is featured prominently in Canadian author Paul Quarrington's 1987 book King Leary, as the on-ice rival to protagonist Percival Leary.

Terence Wheelock

Garda O’Leary had a check run on the black Toyota Yaris, and the owner in Donnybrook confirmed it had been stolen.

The Lady from Dubuque

The cast starred Celia Weston (Lucinda), Tony Musante (Sam), Frances Conroy (Jo), Baxter Harris (Fred), David Leary (Edgar), Maureen Anderman (Carol), Earle Hyman (Oscar), and Irene Worth (Elizabeth).

The Other Iraq

Brendan O'Leary, Constitutional Adviser to the Kurdistan Regional Government

The Sleeper

The band were invited to perform live sessions on both Radcliffe & Maconie (where the song was once again voted 'Record of The Week' by listeners) and Dermot O'Leary's Radio 2 shows.

The Wandas

" New Wave Blues is full of sweet harmonies and music that is unburdened with extravagance" - indie.mp3.co.uk "This is some of the best pop I've heard this year" - Mary Leary; San Diego Entertainer Magazine.

Tomás O'Leary

An injury to Peter Stringer early in the 2005/2006 season meant O'Leary had a chance to play, making his Heineken Cup debut against Sale Sharks in October 2005.

Turn On

"Turn on, tune in, drop out", a counterculture phrase coined by Timothy Leary in the 1960s

Viriato Díaz Pérez

In 1907, he organized the literary circle “La Colmena” that gathered together an entire group of first class intellectuals, such as: Rafael Barret, Juan E. O'Leary, Manuel Domínguez, Arsenio López Decoud, Modesto Guggiari, Juan Silvano Godoy, Carlos R. Centurión, Fulgencio R. Moreno, Ricardo Brugada (son), Juan Casabianca, Ignacio A. Pane, Ramón V. Caballero and others.

Walter-Patrice O'Leary

He attended the Collège Saint-Joseph in Berthierville before travelling to Belgium to study at a Roman Catholic seminary in Wavre.

Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid

Leary is credited on the book cover as "Dr. Denis Leary", a reference to a joke from his 1993 stand-up special, No Cure for Cancer.


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