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3 unusual facts about Sweeney’s Men


Gay Woods

Terry Woods became a member of Sweeney's Men, who played English and American folk music, plus their own compositions.

Sweeney's Men

Irvine was replaced by Henry McCullough, who had been repatriated to Ireland while on an Eire Apparent tour, due to visa problems.

Terry Woods

He is known for his membership in such folk and folk-rock groups as The Pogues, Steeleye Span, Sweeney's Men, The Bucks and, briefly, Dr. Strangely Strange and Dublin rock band Orphanage, with Phil Lynott, as well as in a duo/band with his then wife, Gay, billed initially as The Woods Band and later as Gay and Terry Woods.


2009–10 Louisville Cardinals women's basketball team

In 2010–11, the Cardinals women's team will join the school's men's team at the new KFC Yum! Center in Downtown Louisville.

Adûnaic

Following the Akallabêth, the surviving Elendili who established the kingdoms of Arnor and Gondor shunned Adûnaic in favour of Sindarin due to the associations of the former with the tyrannical Ar-Pharazôn and his followers the King's Men.

Alton Estate

Thames Television's film division Euston Films used the Danebury Avenue area of the estate to film the opening scene's of Sweeney 2 (1978) – the sequel to the film Sweeney! (1977) itself spun off from the hugely popular British TV show The Sweeney, and the first episode of Minder, Gunfight at the O.K. Laundrette (1979).

Amber Sweeney

From 2001 to 2005 Sweeney played bass guitar and sang back-up for the rock band Enation.

ANC-Halfords Cycling Team

David Akam,Nigel Bloor, Bernard Chesneau, Stuart Coles, Mike Doyle, Tim Harris, Stephen Swart, Terry Sweeney, Adrian Timmis, Chris Whorton.

Beulah Land

Popular hymn writers of the day would visit each summer: Ira D. Sankey, William H. Doane, William J. Kirkpatrick, John R. Sweeney, Eliza E. Hewitt, Fanny Crosby, and others.

California Pelican

On May 24, 1978, they met in Bowles Hall with Sweeney’s now-graduated Kappa Delta Rho fraternity brother, Monroe McBride ‘76. The Berkeleyan had also become dormant after a financially successful 1975-1976 school year, leaving substantial funds in its trust account with the ASUC. McBride arranged for Sweeney to meet with the few remaining members of The Berkeleyan’s editorial board and merge the magazines, giving Pelican a more financially sound start than it would have had otherwise.

California Roadster Association

Stars include Bob Hogle, Billy Wilkerson, Jimmy Oskie, Bobby Olivero, Rick Goudy, Buster Venard, Dean Thompson, Bubby Jones, Brad Noffsinger, Eddie Wirth, Rip Williams, John Redican, Ron Shuman, Lealand McSpadden, Richard Griffin, Billy Boat, Mike Kirby, Mike Sweeney, Stan McElrath and many more.

Charles Donald Albury

On August 9, 1945, just three days after the bombing of Hiroshima, Sweeney's crew, with Albury as co-pilot, took off in the B-29 Superfortress, nicknamed the Bockscar, which would drop the atomic bomb known as the "Fat Man" on the city of Nagasaki.

Charles Sweeney

Major General Charles W. Sweeney (December 27, 1919 – July 16, 2004) was an officer in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II and the pilot who flew Bocks Car carrying the Fat Man atomic bomb to Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.

Claudia Luke

She was once the Co-Director of Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center, Mojave Desert, CA and Adjunct Professor, University of California.

Cuthbert Burbage

James Burbage then became Lord Hunsdon's man, and from 1583 on Hunsdon's Men, known as the Lord Chamberlain's Men from 1585, performed at the Theatre.

Daren Sweeney

Sweeney scored a single run in Montserrat's innings, before he was run out by the combination of Lennox Cush and Mahendra Nagamootoo.

David Holbache

At around the turn of the 14th century he married Gwenhwyfar ferch Ieuan ab John, of Sweeney, in Oswestry Parish, who brought with her lands in Sweeney, Treflach and Maesbury.

Dawn Sweeney

Dawn Sweeney is the president & CEO of the largest trade group for the U.S. restaurant industry, the National Restaurant Association.

Dion von Moltke

He earned his first victory in Challenge at Watkins Glen International co-driving with Mike Sweeney, followed by victories at Mid-Ohio and Miller Motorsports Park.

ESMoA

The Eva and Brian Sweeney Collection currently consists of about 500 works by artists such as Monet, Sisley, Pissarro, Klimt, Khnopff, Alma-Tadema, Klee, Kandinsky, Mondrian, Cornell, Rauschenberg, Doig, Zach Houston, Warhol, Close and Estes.

George Spotton

This election campaign turned into a political drama of sorts reminiscent of the novel All the King's Men.

Irish bouzouki

The Greek bouzouki, in the newer tetrachordo (four course/eight string, or τετράχορδο) version developed in the mid-twentieth century, was introduced into Irish Traditional Music in the late 1960s by Johnny Moynihan of the popular folk group Sweeney’s Men, and popularized by Andy Irvine and Dónal Lunny in the group Planxty.

Jack Olsen

As Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward write in their book All The President's Men, the book was one of several checked out of the White House library by E. Howard Hunt in the course of gathering information about Kennedy to potentially be used against him in the 1972 presidential campaign.

Johnny Moynihan

Known as "The Bard of Dalymount", he was a co-founder of the band Sweeney's Men with Andy Irvine and 'Galway Joe' Dolan (who was later replaced by Terry Woods).

Ken W. Clawson

According to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in their 1974 best-selling book All the President's Men, Clawson bragged about having written the Canuck letter to a friend, Marilyn Berger, who happened to be a Washington Post reporter, whom he had known from his days with the newspaper.

Kerfuffle

In December 2010, Sam Sweeney, James and Roberts toured performing material from Lighten The Dark: A Midwinter Album.

King's Men personnel

King's Men personnel were the people who worked with and for the Lord Chamberlain's Men and the King's Men (for all practical purposes a single continuous theatrical enterprise) from 1594 to 1642 (and after).

Lady Elizabeth's Men

From 1618 on, the company was called The Queen of Bohemia's Men, after Elizabeth and her husband the Elector Palatine had their brief and disastrous flirtation with the crown of Bohemia.

Leicester's Men

In the latter year the Earl of Leicester was appointed commander of the English troops in The Netherlands; his progress through Utrecht, Leyden and The Hague was noted for the lavish pageants that were enacted in his honor.

Marijuana Deathsquads

Past shows have featured a rotating roster of guest musicians, including Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, Josh Klinghoffer of Red Hot Chili Peppers, Brian McOmber of Dirty Projectors, Eric Wareheim of Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Alia Shawkat of Arrested Development, David Yow of The Jesus Lizard, Doug Lussenhop a.k.a. DJ Douggpound, Bryan Hollon a.k.a. Boom Bip, and Matt Sweeney of Chavez.

Maureen Stapleton

She was nominated for the television version of All the King's Men (1959), Queen of the Stardust Ballroom (1975), and The Gathering (1977).

Murder of Timothy Brenton

On the night of October 31, 2009, at approximately 10:00 pm Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-7), Brenton and his partner, trainee officer Britt Sweeney, were both sitting in their patrol car following a traffic stop at 29th Avenue South and East Yesler Way in the Central District.

Oxford's Men

Oxford's players almost immediately got involved in a brawl with some Inns of Court students while playing at The Theatre in Shoreditch, and several members were thrown into gaol, but they were out and on the road by early June.

Pine Rivers State High School

The school's major fundraiser, the Walkathon is a sporting/social event in which students walk 13 km from the school, to local park Sweeney's Reserve, Petrie.

Robert Fryer

Some of his most notable theatrical productions include: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Wonderful Town, Auntie Mame, Redhead, Chicago, On The Twentieth Century, and Sweeney Todd.

Ronald Easterbrook

Footage of the arrest is also shown in the 2010 documentary series Flying Squad: The Real Sweeney, shown on National Geographic Channel.

Stephen M. Sweeney

Sweeney sponsored a 2002 law allowing municipalities and other public entities beginning a construction project to enter into a Project Labor Agreement (PLA), an agreement that establishes the terms and conditions of employment and prohibits the use of strikes and lockouts, which can save money by reducing cost overruns and work stoppages, and contribute to decreased labor unrest.

Sussex's Men

In 1592–93, Lord Strange's Men were at the Rose; but the next year that company was touring the countryside, and Henslowe brought in Sussex's Men for a season running from December 26, 1593 to February 6, 1594.

Sussex's Men ended a near-decade absence from Court with a performance there on 2 January 1592.

Sweeney!

One of the leading members of the government, Charles Baker (Ian Bannen), is about to secure a huge deal with OPEC stabilising the world oil market and boosting Britain's position within it.

The American Wolves

During the match Sweeney tried to attack Kevin Steen with his boot, but Albright chased him to the back and the champions retained.

The Barleycorn

The singer/guitarist Paddy Sweeney was in the group before going on to join the Dublin City Ramblers.

The Lady of Pleasure

It was performed by Queen Henrietta's Men at the Cockpit Theatre in Drury Lane, in the final winter before the theatres suffered a long closure due to bubonic plague (May 1636 to October 1637) and Shirley himself left London for Dublin (1637).

The Shadow of Night

These were Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby, well known as the patron of the acting company Lord Strange's Men; Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland, the so-called "Wizard Earl;" and George Carey, who succeeded his father as Lord Hunsdon in 1596 and as Lord Chamberlain of England in 1597.

The Shootist

In a changing frontier, Books arrives at the saloon by trolley and Sweeney in an Oldsmobile Curved Dash (which debuted in 1901).

The Tree Bar

The venue also plays host to an open-mic, formerly run by Joe Peppercorn of The Whiles and currently run by Shane Sweeney of Two Cow Garage.

Union Labor Life Insurance Company

In a hastily organized board meeting late on April 23, 2003, Sweeney, board member Terence M. O'Sullivan, Jr. (president of the Laborers' International Union of North America) and Edwin D. Hill (president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers) nominated a reform slate of 13 new board members.

Walter Sweeney

Sweeney stood in the election for Police and Crime Commissioner for Humberside as an Independent.

William Heminges

Heminges sold off his shares from 1630-1634, primarily to John Shank, comedian with the King's Men.

Willie Stark

Willie Stark is an opera in three acts and nine scenes by Carlisle Floyd to his own libretto, after the novel All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, which in turn was inspired by the life of the Louisiana governor Huey Long.


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