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unusual facts about Rory O'More


Francis William Topham

He retired, however, in 1847, and in 1848 was elected a member of the (Old) Society of Painters in Watercolours, to which he contributed a Welsh view near Capel Curig, and a subject from the Irish ballad of Rory O'More.


2004 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final

Westmeath midfielder Rory O'Connell was banned for 12-weeks for stamping on Offaly's Pascal Kellaghan during Westmeath's Leinster Senior Football Championship win on 23 May 2004.

Farewell Aunty Jack

The music was written by Rory O'Donoghue, who also did the singing as the character "Thin Arthur", whereas "Aunty Jack" (Grahame Bond) provided wise-cracks and other spoken commentary to the lyrics, addressed to the listener and the singer.

Irish Rebellion of 1641

Hugh Óg MacMahon and Conor Maguire were to seize Dublin Castle, while Phelim O'Neill and Rory O'Moore were to take Derry and other northern towns.

Rory O'Connor

Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair (1116–1198), king of Connacht and High King of Ireland

Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell

As such, he would also have had the royal privilege of ascending and later descending the Scala Regia in the Vatican.

Elizabeth became the 1st Countess of Fingall, through marriage to Luke Plunkett, 1st Earl of Fingall (see also Fingal).

Rory O'Donoghue

Rory O'Donoghue (born 1948) is an Australian actor and musician, best known for playing the character "Thin Arthur" in the 1970s ABC Television sketch comedy series The Aunty Jack Show.

Rory O'Hanlon

O'Hanlon is also the father of the well-known comedian Ardal O'Hanlon.

Samuel Lover

He also wrote novels, of which Rory O'Moore (in its first form a ballad), and Handy Andy are the best known, and short Irish sketches which, with his songs, he combined into a popular entertainment called Irish Nights.

W. T. Cosgrave

In all 77 republicans were executed by the Free State between November 1922 and the end of the war in May 1923, including Robert Erskine Childers, Liam Mellowes and Rory O'Connor, far more than the 14 IRA Volunteers the British executed in the War of Independence.


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