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unusual facts about Robert O'Leary


Robert O'Leary

O'Leary's candidacy came following the announcement by fellow Democrat Bill Delahunt, who had represented the 10th District in the US Congress since first winning the seat in 1996, of Delahunt not seeking reelection in 2010.


Alexander Crutchfield

He founded American Water Development Inc. (AWDI) with Maurice Strong, Robert O. Anderson, David R. Williams, Jr, and Samuel Belzberg, and served as its Vice Chairman.

Brendan O'Leary

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

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.

Bush bread

Ill-fated explorers Burke and Wills survived on bush bread for some time after they ran out of rations due to the death of their camels.

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).

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."

Cohors XX Palmyrenorum

Robert O. Fink: The Cohors XX Palmyrenorum, a Cohors Equitata Miliaria. In: Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association. Vol.

Conor O'Sullivan

A goal by Robert O' Driscoll with seven minutes of normal time left proved the decisive score as Sarsfield's claimed a 2-14 to 2-13 victory.

Domhnall na g-Croiceann

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

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.

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.

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.

Georges Ibrahim Abdallah

He was arrested in 1984 and sentenced to life in prison in 1987 for the 1982 murder of Lieutenant Colonel Charles R. Ray, who was an assistant US military attaché and murder of Israeli diplomat Yaakov Bar-Simantov in Paris, as well as involvement in the attempted assassination of American consul in Strasbourg Robert O. Homme.

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.

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.

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.

Nightmare Theatre

KIRO-TV and The Count found themselves facing competition from KTVW-TV and horror host Robert O. Smith aka Dr. ZinGRR, during 1972-74..

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.

Robert O. Blake

During his 30-year career in United States Foreign service, Blake served as ambassador to Mali from December 10, 1970 until May 20, 1973 as a member of the Nixon administration, serving under U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

Robert O. Cornthwaite

Balancing his theater work with "bill-paying" jobs, he appeared frequently on television, including a role as naturalist John James Audubon in an episode of the Desilu Studios Production, The Adventures of Jim Bowie, starring Scott Forbes.

Robert O. Fink

Robert Orwill Fink (4 November 1905, Geneva, Indiana – 17 December 1988, Mount Vernon, Ohio) was a papyrologist with a special interest in Roman military papyri.

Robert O. Ragland

Ragland created the scores for films such as Seven Alone, Abby, Project: Kill, Return to Macon County, Sharks' Treasure, Grizzly, Moon in Scorpio,Mansion of the Doomed, Q- The Winged Serpent, 10 To Midnight, The Fear, Plato's Run, and Crime and Punishment.

Robert O. Swados

Along with Seymour H. Knox III and Northrup R. Knox, he was a partner in Niagara Frontier Hockey, the original consortium that founded the Buffalo Sabres.

Robert O'Hara Burke

Towards the end of 1847 he suffered health problems and went to Recoaro spa in northern Italy, then Grafenberg and finally Aachen before resigning from the Austrian army in June 1848 after charges against him relating to debts and absence without leave were dropped.

Robert Peterson

Robert O. Peterson (1916–1994), American businessman, founder of Jack in the Box

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.

Shire of Burke

The shire and town and the Burke River passing through all are named in honour of ill-fated explorer Robert O'Hara Burke.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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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