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unusual facts about Emo, County Laois


Emo, Ontario

Emo's first reeve was Alexander Luttrell, an Irishman who named the town after a namesake village in Ireland near where he was born.


Abbán

He was associated, first and foremost, with Mag Arnaide (Moyarney or Adamstown, near New Ross, Co. Wexford) and with Cell Abbáin (Killabban, County Laois).

Ashfield Gales

The Ashfield Gales consisted of six generations of a Gale family who owned the Ashfield estate in Killabban Parish, Queens County, Ireland (subsequently renamed County Laois) from the mid-17th Century until 1851.

Billy Timmins

He was educated at Patrician College, Ballyfin, County Laois; and University College Galway where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Legal Science, and at the Military College, Curragh.

Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh

In October 2013 she left her husband and is now seeing County Laois native Albert Reid, they are currently writing a new album based on the serial killer Jack the Ripper the album will be released in spring 2014 titled Saucy Jack.

Cornafulla

The village once housed a thriving garage, Emo filling station and SEAT car sales business, which closed in 2006 though the filling station subsequently reopened in February 2009.

Covered In The Flood

Best known as the singer-songwriter for Emo band Dashboard Confessional, it is the first official release for Chris as a solo artist.

Crunkcore

For instance, Warped Tour co-creator and CEO Kevin Lyman calls the group 3OH!3 as "the real tipping point for scrunk", and said that "though 3OH!3 doesn't incorporate the blood-curdling screams of many scrunk acts, they were the first emo-influenced act to depart from traditional instruments in favor of pre-programmed beats", while still retaining many of the stylistic elements of emo.

Designing a Nervous Breakdown

Designing a Nervous Breakdown is the first full-length album released by the Lawrence, Kansas emo band The Anniversary.

Dublin–Westport/Galway railway line

The route to Westport and Galway branches away from the main line at Portarlington in County Laois and continues as far as Athlone in County Westmeath, where it splits again, with one branch to Westport and the other to Galway.

Emo Gurram Egaravachu

Emo Gurram Egaravachu (English: Who Knows, The Horse may fly) is a 2013 Telugu romantic comedy directed by Chandra Siddhartha.

Emo Ray VS The Intergalactic Teddy Bears

Emo Ray VS The Intergalactic Teddy Bears was first marketed on YouTube with a series of mock Emergency Alert System style television broadcasts which included game play and character animations.

Emo, County Laois

The village pub, named The New Inn (now called "The Gate House"), dates from the village’s foundation as does the Gothic Catholic Church which contains the tomb of Aline, the Lady Portarlington, with its recumbent effigy by Joseph Boehm.

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Erlend Bratland

He has since his retirement abandoned his recognized emo style for a more androgynous, compared by some to Adam Lambert.

Fat Mike

Fat Mike has made several appearances as Cokie the Clown, but one of his most memorable was at Emo's, a popular nightclub in Austin on March 20, 2010 at the South by Southwest festival.

Gerald Fitzgerald, Lord of Offaly

In 1199, though receiving King John's letters of protection, he was ordered to "do right" to Maurice Fitzphilip for the lands of 'Gessil and Lega' (possibly Geashill; maybe 'Lega' is in County Laois), that he had taken from Maurice.

Hack Circle

For a time it was a popular Hacky Sack venue (hence the name), later it became a popular hang out for "black-dressed emos, goths, heavy metal fans and United States style gangstas".

Lying from You

It has also been sampled, rather less glamorously, by the British comedian Bill Bailey during his "coffee shop emo" routine.

Mare Vitalis

Mare Vitalis (Latin for "Sea of Life") is the second full-length album by Lawrence, Kansas-based emo group the Appleseed Cast, released on Deep Elm Records in 2000.

Poë-Domvile baronets

The Poë, later Poë-Domvile Baronetcy, of Heywood in the Parish of Ballinakill in Queen's County, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.

Project Rocket

The members originally played in hardcore, political metalcore and punk rock bands such as Racetraitor, Spitalfield, 7 Angels 7 Plagues, Knockout, killtheslavemaster, The Kill Pill and Vegan Reich before forming Project Rocket to develop their own pop punk and emo sound.

Romantic Wealth

Romantic Wealth is the 2005 debut full-length album from Emo-Core band Lorene Drive, released in the United States on August 2, 2005, through Lobster Records.

Sal Villanueva

Following the success of Thursday's Full Collapse, Victory Records approached Villanueva to work with and develop Long Island emo band, Taking Back Sunday.

Sarah Sands

In August 2006, Sands wrote an article about the Emo musical genre, which stated that Green Day and My Chemical Romance encourage self-harm among teenagers, despite Green Day having tenuous links to the emo genre and My Chemical Romance advising their fans not to commit self-harm.

The Appleseed Cast

However, others saw the album as an assured combination of the driving emo-rock of their early work subtly embellished with elements of Low Level Owls sound.

The following year, the band - now billed as The Appleseed Cast - signed to Deep Elm Records out of New York (before relocating to North Carolina) and released their debut album, The End of the Ring Wars, an album which met with considerable approval from the emo and underground scenes, as incendiary tracks like "Marigold & Patchwork" were essentially blueprints for the emo style.

The band's predominantly guitar-based music has evolved from intense, heavy emo indebted to such acts as Mineral and Sunny Day Real Estate to a unique "post-rock" sound hinging on inventive, intricate drumming, subtle guitar arpeggios, and a vast range of effects.

The Crumlin-Drimnagh feud

Gerard Eglington, 27, was shot dead in front of his 11 year old step-daughter and infant son in Portarlington,County Laois, on the 24th of September 2012 after a gunman entered his home.

The Get Up Kids discography

In their early years, they toured with such influential emo bands as Jimmy Eat World, The Promise Ring and Braid, later touring with such groups as Superchunk, The Anniversary and Hot Rod Circuit.

The Junior Varsity

They have also opened nationally for a number of well-known emo and punk acts, including Fallout Boy, Gym Class Heros, Rise Against, Straylight Run, The Starting Line, Motion City Soundtrack, TheAUDITION, Bayside, Sullivan, Number One Gun, Aiden, Amber Pacific, and Good Charlotte.

The Uneventful Vacation

The Uneventful Vacation is the second and final album released by American emo band Commander Venus in 1997.

WERB

Alumni of the station include Chris Ryan of 102.9 WDRC, Jack Tomascak of WRTC and Purchase College Radio WPSR, Greg Horbal of emo/punk bands My Heart To Joy and The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die, and screenwriter and author Edward Savio, Idiots in the Machine, Love on Haight,who was the station's first DJ.

WGY-FM

Throughout its history as a rock format, the station was known for playing many alternative, punk, goth, emo, and metal bands and artists from about 1990 to the present, including Avenged Sevenfold, Disturbed, Korn, Linkin Park, Slipknot, and Atreyu.

Why I'm Here

However, Noel Murray of The A.V. Club viewed the song more negatively, regarded Oleander as "arriving too late for grunge and too early for emo."

Wild Grinders

Emo Crys (voiced by Cam Clarke) – The most sensitive of the Wild Grinders, Emo Crys has the soul of an artist and a sensitive side he sometimes tries to hide from his friends.

WUFM

WUFM primarily plays alternative Christian music across several genres, with the most played including pop-rock, hard rock, punk, and hip-hop, as well as occasional emo, electronica/dance, and hardcore/metal.

Your Choice Live Series 037

Your Choice Live Series 037 is a live split album by indie/emo bands Texas Is the Reason and Samiam.


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