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Michael O'Rourke

Michael James O'Rourke (1878–1957), Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross


1875 Boston Red Stockings season

Harry Wright, Al Spalding, Jim O'Rourke, and shortstop George Wright have all been elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Aero Club of America

In the summer of 1905, several members of the Automobile Club of America including Charles Glidden, Homer Hedge, David Morris, John F. O'Rourke, and Augustus Post founded the Aero Club of America.

American Icon: The Fall of Roger Clemens and the Rise of Steroids in America's Pastime

American Icon: The Fall of Roger Clemens and the Rise of Steroids in America's Pastime is a book written by Teri Thompson, Michael O'Keeffe, Nathaniel Vinton & Christian Red, four sportswriters from the New York Daily News, that was released in 2009.

Appalachian dulcimer

Contemporary professional musicians who view the dulcimer as their primary instrument include Stephen Seifert of Nashville and Aaron O'Rourke of Tallahassee.

Arthur J. O'Keefe

He is the grandfather of the former president of the Louisiana State Senate Michael H. O'Keefe and the great-grandfather of former LSU Chancellor and former NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe.

Big Bad Beautiful World

Big Bad Beautiful World is the second full-length album by Declan O'Rourke.

Bill Fay

A cover version of Fay's "Pictures of Adolf Again", by producer and musician Jim O'Rourke and Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche, can be heard in the film from Kōji Wakamatsu, United Red Army.

Bill Pohlad

He is the son of Eloise (O'Rourke) and banker and businessman Carl Pohlad, who owned the Minnesota Twins baseball franchise from 1984 to 2009, and brother of current owner Jim Pohlad.

Brian Oge O'Rourke

Brian Oge O'Rourke (Irish: Brian óg na samhthach O Ruairc) (died 28 January 1604) was the penultimate king of West Bréifne, from 1591 until his death in 1604.

Cunnamulla

Cunnamulla was the subject of a 2000 documentary film of the same name by Dennis O'Rourke, in which he followed several members of the community as they went about their daily lives.

Dan Dion

He attended Santa Clara University, where he was the campus comedy director, producing shows such as The Second City, P. J. O'Rourke, and Greg Proops.

Dara O'Rourke

He is also the founder of GoodGuide, an online consumer tool for retrieving information about the supply chain of consumer products such as toys, food, and detergents.

Dead in Tombstone

The film begins with a narration on the West, or the "New Frontier", described by the narrator — Lucifer (Mickey Rourke), one of the seven Princes of Hell, — as a "heartless, lawless viper pit", contrary to popular belief that it is made up of "god-fearing" good folk.

Extreme Records

Extreme has released CDs and tapes by artists such as Non, Orchestra of Skin and Bone, Paul Schütze, Muslimgauze, Social Interiors, Makers of the Dead Travel Fast, Jim O'Rourke, Elliott Sharp, Shinjuku Thief, Christoph Heemann, Otomo Yoshihide, Kato Hideki, and Big John Duncan.

Government Girl

Sonny Tufts, borrowed from Paramount to star, was paired with Olivia De Havilland, who had run into studio politics at Warner Bros. on her last feature, Princess O'Rourke (1943) that had resulted in first, her suspension, and subsequent "assignment" by studio boss Jack Warner to producer David O. Selznick in return for Ingrid Bergman, whom Warner cast in Casablanca (1942).

Horace Tennyson O'Rourke

Horace Tennyson O'Rourke, (1880–1963) was Dublin city architect for Dublin Corporation, now, Dublin City Council from 1922-1945.

Independent Nationalist

Some others were elected as Independent Nationalists outside of the above groupings, such as Timothy Harrington (1900) & (1906), Joseph Nolan (1900), D. D. Sheehan (1906), Laurence Ginnell (1910), William Redmond and James Cosgrave (1923), Michael O'Neill (1951), John Hume (1969), Paddy O'Hanlon (1969) and Ivan Cooper (1969).

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group

The Centre collaborates with internationally leading academic institutions in the UK and overseas and works with world class firms such as GSK, IBM, Arup, Laing O'Rourke, CSC and BP, disseminating its findings widely.

Jerry Ahern

His fictional protagonist John Thomas Rourke's choices in firearms and equipment reflected Ahern's own: the character's main weapons were a pair of compact Detonics CombatMaster .45 pistols in a custom double shoulder holster by famous maker Lou Alessi.

Jonny Quinn

Guests included the band, past Snow Patrol collaborator and band mate Iain Archer and singer Declan O'Rourke.

Lacky Ó Máille

Ó Máille, called "the troubled friar" by Brien O'Rourke, was a native of Partry, County Mayo.

Lady of Burlesque

Lady of Burlesque (also known as The G-String Murders and in the UK, Striptease Lady) is a 1943 American mystery film starring Barbara Stanwyck and Michael O'Shea, based on the novel The G-String Murders written by strip tease queen Gypsy Rose Lee (with ghost-writing assistance from mystery writer Craig Rice).

London Heathrow Terminal 2

Construction is being undertaken by a joint venture of Ferrovial and Laing O'Rourke.

Love Is the Way

Produced by Eddi herself and recorded in a matter of days with her band in Glasgow, the record includes songs written with her longtime writing partner Boo Hewerdine, her life partner John Douglas (The Trashcan Sinatras), songs from Irish songwriters Declan O'Rourke and Jack Maher, Edinburgh-based Sandy Wright, an Eddi/Fleetwood Mac mashup and a rare Brian Wilson composition.

Michael James O'Rourke

He died on 6 December 1957 in Vancouver and is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.

Michael Kennedy

Michael O'Kennedy (born 1936), Irish Fianna Fáil politician from Tipperary

Michael O. Varhola

Varhola published and wrote introductions to editions of H.G. Wells' Little Wars (2004) and Floor Games (2006) and Robert Louis Stevenson's Stevenson at Play.

Michael O'Donnell

Mike O'Donnell (born 1952), English film and television composer and bass guitarist

Michael O'Dwyer

He distinguished himself in land revenue settlement work, and was made director of land records and agriculture in Punjab (1896); next year he was placed in charge of settlements of Alwar and Bharatpur states.

Michael O'Farrell

Michael J. O'Farrell (1832–1894), Irish-born Roman Catholic bishop; first Bishop of Trenton

Michael O'Hearn

He has appeared in the movies Barbarian, Keeper of Time, and had a minor supporting role in Death Becomes Her, as well as starred as Clark Kent/Superman in the popular Sandy Collora fan film World's Finest (opposite Clark Bartram as Batman).

Michael O'Loughlin

Both teams were composed of retired players with the match supporting both the Little Heroes Foundation and the Reach Foundation youth charities started by former Melbourne Demons star player, the late Jim Stynes.

Michael O'Moore Creagh

The small port of Bardia fell to advancing British, Australian and Indian forces in the WDF under the command of General Sir Richard O'Connor, followed as the new year of 1941 came in, by Tobruk as the Italians retreated along the Via Balbia, the metallised coastal road that led back to Benghazi and Tripoli.

Michael O'Neal

O'Neal was twice elected to the office of Republican Whip.

Michael O'Neill

Michael O'Neal (born 1951), American lawyer and Republican politician

Michael O'Rielly

Prior to joining the agency Commissioner O’Rielly served as a Policy Advisor in the Office of the Senate Republican Whip, led by U.S. Senator John Cornyn, since January 2013.

National Lampoon The Gentleman's Bathroom Companion

The pieces in the book were created by regular contributors to the National Lampoon including Michael O'Donoghue, Henry Beard, Doug Kenney, Sean Kelly, Tony Hendra, P.J. O'Rourke and Ed Subitzky as well as Terry Southern and William Burroughs.

Octopus wrestling

H. Allen Smith wrote an article for True magazine in 1964, collected in Low Man Rides Again (1973), about a gentleman named O'Rourke whom he dubs the "Father of Octopus Wrestling".

Red Terror on the Amber Coast

During a year teaching at Vilnius University, O'Rourke was inspired by an accidental visit to the former KGB headquarters in Vilnius, calling it "one of the most chilling experiences of my life."

Robbie O'Connell

Clean Cabbage in the Bucket (And Other Tales From The Irish Music Trenches), co-written with Seamus Kennedy, Dennis O'Rourke, Harry O'Donoghue and Frank Emerson.

Side Man

Later in the run Sella was replaced successively by Andrew McCarthy, Christian Slater, and Scott Wolf, Wood was replaced by Michael O'Keefe, and Makkena was replaced by Falco.

Since Kyabram

Since Kyabram is the first album by singer-songwriter Declan O'Rourke, released in 2004.

Ted Mondale

Coincidentally, the race included three other candidates from families famously connected in Minnesota politics: Skip Humphrey, the son of former Vice President Hubert Humphrey (then Attorney General); Mark Dayton of the Dayton Department Store dynasty (then State Auditor); and Mike Freeman, son of former governor Orville Freeman (then Hennepin County, Minnesota district attorney).

The Adventures of Phoebe Zeit-Geist

"The Adventures of Phoebe Zeit-Geist" was an American comics feature, written by Michael O'Donoghue and drawn by Frank Springer.

The Voloptulist

The Voloptulist is a 2006 album by The New Blockaders, Thurston Moore, and Jim O'Rourke, released on the Hospital Productions label.

Thomas D. O'Rourke

Professor O’Rourke has testified before the United States House of Representatives Science Committee (engineering implications of the 1999 Turkey and Taiwan earthquakes and, in 2003, on the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program).

He joined the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity at Cornell, and through that organization, the Irving Literary Society.

Such projects include the Washington D.C. Metro System, Superconducting Super Collider, Channel Tunnel, and the Boston Central Artery.


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