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Emmett O'Byrne

Emmett O'Byrne (born 30 November 1973) is an Irish historian whose primary research interests are the history of Medieval Ireland and Early Modern Ireland, focusing in particular on Gaelic Ireland.


1184 in Ireland

It was built on an earlier Irish fortification in the territory of the O'Byrne's by the Norman Hugh de Lacy, then governor of Ireland under Henry II .

Andrew Byrne

Andrew Byrne (December 5, 1802 – June 10, 1862) was an Irish-American Catholic priest, who became the first Bishop of Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.A..

Ardscoil Éanna

It was established in 1939 by James J. O’Byrne, who had been interned in Frongoch in Wales for his role in the Easter Rising in 1916, and Margaret Pearse, sister of Pádraig Mac Piarais who had established Scoil Éanna in Ranelagh in 1908.

Buddy Stewart

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Byrne Piven

Byrne Piven (September 24, 1929 – February 18, 2002) was an influential American stage actor, director, and co-founder of the Playwrights Theatre Club, a forerunner of The Second City.

Cathal mac Finguine

Mac Shamhráin, Ailbhe, and Paul Byrne, "Kings named in Baile Chuinn Chétchathaig and the Airgíalla Charter Poem", in Edel Bhreathnach (ed.), The Kingship and Landscape of Tara.

Catholic Building Society

He was succeeded by the Duke of Norfolk and subsequently by Nona Byrne.

Davy Byrne's pub

Davy Byrne's pub is situated at 21 Duke Street, Dublin 2, and was made famous in James Joyce's novel Ulysses.

Debra Byrne

Byrne is divorced from Australian actor Neil Melville and was the partner of French musician, Ced Le Meledo, with whom she collaborated on the live show Paris-Melbourne.

Eat the Peach

His wife, Nora (Catherine Byrne - Alice More in the series The Tudors), protests and goes back to her mother with their little girl, Vicky.

Eibhlin Byrne

On 15 April 2009, Byrne was nominated as a Fianna Fáil candidate (along with Eoin Ryan) for the Dublin constituency at the 2009 European Parliament election which was held on 5 June 2009 but she was not elected.

Felipe Conde

During his professional life, Felipe Conde has fostered close relationships with artists that played or still play Conde guitar, especially with Paco de Lucía, Niño Ricardo, Regino Sainz de la Maza, Moraíto Chico, Gerardo Nunez, Juan Carmona, Al Di Meola, Pepe Hbichuela, Rafael Riqueni, Diego del Morao, Sabicas, Melchor de Marchena, David Byrne, and many others.

Francis Annesley, 1st Viscount Valentia

He was nominated on a committee of the Irish privy council appointed to investigate charges of injustice preferred against Falkland by the Byrne Clan, that had held land in County Wicklow for centuries.

Francis John Byrne

Smyth, Alfred P. (ed.), Seanchas: Studies in Early and Medieval Irish Archaeology, History and Literature in Honour of Francis J. Byrne. Dublin: Four Courts, 1999.

Frank M. Byrne

Byrne was born near Volney, Allamakee County, Iowa to Irish immigrants, Michael and Delia (Hart) Byrne.

George Rolfe

Mr. Byrne then became Treasurer in the MacPherson Government, but on going back to his constituents at Crowlands for re-election was defeated by Mr. Rolfe on 5 October 1869.

Harry Leland

Artist John Byrne based Leland's appearance on actor-director Orson Welles, and the name refers to two characters in Welles' films: Harry Lime from The Third Man, and Jed Leland from Citizen Kane.

Henry Bagenal

He was involved in some military disasters, such as a defeat at Glenmalure on 25 August 1580 when Lord Grey led the troops (with Bagenal one of the commanders of the rear) into battle with Fiach McHugh O'Byrne and Viscount Baltinglass in the Wicklow mountain passes.

Henry Jager

He came in last, behind Dow H. Drukker (Rep.), James J. O'Byrne (Dem.), Gordon Demarest (Soc.) and Henry C. Whitehead (Progr.).

Hugh Keays-Byrne

In 1974, he acted in the TV show Essington, which was followed by big screen roles in films such as Stone (1974), Mad Dog Morgan (1976) and The Trespassers (1976).

Instant Death

Byrne and Jack Petruzzelli (currently with The Fab Faux and Rufus Wainwright) had a band named The Works, who needed a bassist.

Johann Baptist Alzog

Alzog's fame rests mainly on his Handbuch der Universal-Kirchengeschichte (Mainz, 1841, often reprinted under various titles; Eng. trans. by Pabisch and Byrne, A Manual of Church History, 4 vols. Cincinnati, 1874).

John J. Byrne

After being passed over for president in 1975, Byrne quit to become chief executive of GEICO, then a troubled Washington, D.C. auto insurer.

John Two-Hawks

Seamus Byrne, classical guitarist Sir Charles Hammer, pianist Bastiaan Pot and guitarist/bass player Van Adams.

Joseph Augustine Clarke

He was certainly a treasured teacher on Brisbane's School of Art, later a 'Drawing Master' at Brisbane Girls Grammar School, next to his work as a painter and as an illustrator (most notably for the Queenslander, and for 'Bobby' Byrne's weekly the Queensland Figaro).

Justin O'Byrne

He held this office until the Dismissal of the Whitlam government on 11 November 1975.

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Laurence Esmonde, Lord Esmonde

O'Byrne however was undeterred, addressing a flood of petitions to the English Crown, accusing Esmonde and the Lord Deputy of Ireland, Lord Falkland, of conspiracy and perjury.

Lee Lin Chin

In 1992, she starred in a minor role as a newsreader in the independent Australian movie Resistance by Hugh Keays-Byrne.

Lyndon B. Johnson judicial appointment controversies

Johnson had nominated Sanders, Poole, Bress and Byrne during the 90th United States Congress, and he renominated the four in the 91st United States Congress, right before his presidency ended.

Mark Byrne

In 2005 Byrne won a bronze medal playing for Republic of Ireland U18 in the European Youth Olympic Festival.

Martin Clancy

In the early 1980s Clancy formed Irish band In Tua Nua alongside Leslie Dowdall, Jack Dublin, Vinny Kilduff, Ivan O'Shea, Paul Byrne and Steve Wickham.

Mix 102.3

5AD personalities of the 1960s and 1970s included Bob Francis, Alec Macaskill, Keith Conlon, Barry Ion who also voiced the hilarious Peter Plus character, Tony Pilkington, Malcolm T. Elliott, Sam Galea, Ken Dickins, John Vincent, Bob Byrne, Dean Jaensch, Jeff Sunderland, Kevin Crease, and many others.

Niall O'Shea

O'Shea was on Dublin's winning team for the 2008 O'Byrne Cup winning team which defeated Longford in the final.

No More Good Days

Olivia Benford (Sonya Walger) scrubs up at the hospital before surgery; Bryce Varley (Zachary Knighton) prepares to commit suicide by shooting himself at the beach; Aaron Stark (Brían F. O'Byrne) and Mark attend an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting; Nicole Kirby (Peyton List) sneaks a boy into the Benford's house as she babysits their daughter Charlie (Lennon Wynn).

Nona Byrne

In 1960, with her husband Vincent Byrne, she founded the Catholic Building Society, becoming the first woman to be elected chairman of a building society.

Ossie Byrne

Oswald Russell "Ossie" Byrne (1926 - December 1983) was an Australian record producer, best known for producing the early recordings of The Bee Gees, including their first international hit, "New York Mining Disaster 1941".

Overstock.com

In July 2006, John J. Byrne, the father of Overstock's chief executive, resigned from the board of directors after a public airing of the elder Byrne's unhappiness with his son's crusade against naked short-selling.

Pecan Grove Press

Other notable poets include Vince Gotera, editor of North American Review; Marian Haddad; Edward Byrne, well known for his "One Poet's Notes" blog; Olga Samples Davis; Wendy Barker, winner of two Violet Crown awards from the Texas League of Writers; Gwyn McVay; award-winning poet, essayist and dramatist David Brendan Hopes; Cyra S. Dumitru; Colin Morton, award-winning Canadian poet; Bonnie Lyons; and Joel Peckham.

Rei Momo

#"Marching Through the Wilderness" (Byrne, Pacheco) – 4:30 (Charanga) (feat. Milton Cardona)

Roscommon

In addition, it contained areas known as Trícha cét's, Túath and is the homeland of surnames such as Ó Conchobhair (O'Connor), Mac Diarmada (McDermott), Ó Ceallaigh (Kelly), Ó Birn (Beirne, Byrne, Burns), Mac Donnchadha (McDonough) and Brennan (Mac Branáin and Ó Branáin).

Shay Byrne

In 2005, Byrne joint the Irish public broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann, after his wife spotted an advert for continuity announcers, he began working on shows with Ryan Tubridy and Derek Mooney.

The Twin Atlas

Zaleski is now an NYC resident, and Byrne lives in Philadelphia, where he has drummed with the bands Lenola, Mazarin, Matt Pond PA, Audible and BC Camplight.

TV3 News at 5.30

Two years later in 2006, Byrne left TV3 to front the new breakfast show on Newstalk.

Vasily Artemyev

Vasily played for a number of years in University College Dublin for their rugby team whilst studying law under the stewardship of John McClean and Bobby Byrne.

Waving Not Drowning

"The Sniper" was dedicated to Liam Byrne and "House Arrest" was dedicated to Donald Woods.

WBUW

Under the Byrne Group's ownership, local content on WBUW has expanded to mirror the approach of its sister station W48CX, including local news, sports, and discussion programming as well as long-form (half-hour) content featuring sponsoring businesses.


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