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2 unusual facts about Thomas O'Donahue


Thomas O'Donahue

He finished 23rd in the high jump competition.

Thomas O'Donahue (born December 12, 1887, Kilmihil, Ireland. Died 1952) was an Irish athlete who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics for Great Britain and Ireland.


1947 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final

Peter Donahue scored eight points from frees and was called "the Babe Ruth of Gaelic football" in the New York press.

Anatoli Blagonravov

In April 1970, he held informal talks in New York City with NASA Administrator Thomas O. Paine, about the possibility of performing a rendezvous and docking of a US and Soviet spacecraft.

Baron O'Hagan

It was created on 14 June 1870 for Sir Thomas O'Hagan, then Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

Bobbi Harlow

In 1988, Bobbi was mentioned in a Sunday strip, where it was revealed that she had joined the staff of Donahue in 1983, and then shaved her head in despair over the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment.

California Battalion

Frémont however, considered his conviction an injustice and resigned his commission and moved back to California with his family settling on Rancho Las Mariposas that Thomas O. Larkin had bought for him at his request.

Carol Saline

Her national television appearances include Oprah, Donahue, Larry King Live, American Journal, Inside Edition, CBS Good Morning, The Weekend Today Show and Good Morning America.

Charles Strachey, 4th Baron O'Hagan

In 1975, he sold the papers of several of his Irish ancestors, including Thomas O'Hagan, 1st Baron O'Hagan, to the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.

Conradh na Gaeilge

The English text reads "This Association has been founded solely to keep the Irish Language spoken in Ireland. If you wish the Irish Language to live on the lips of Irishmen, help this effort according to your ability!"Conradh na Gaeilge was founded in Dublin on 31 July 1893 by Douglas Hyde, the son of a Church of Ireland rector from Frenchpark, County Roscommon with the aid of Eugene O'Growney, Eoin MacNeill, Thomas O'Neill Russell and others.

Dan Dailey

One of his most notable roles was as Terence Donahue in the 20th Century Fox musical extravaganza There's No Business Like Show Business (1954), which featured Irving Berlin's music and also starred Ethel Merman, Marilyn Monroe, Mitzi Gaynor, Johnnie Ray, and Donald O'Connor, whose wife Gwen divorced O'Connor and married Dailey at about the same period.

Dan R. Tonkovich

Tonkovich served as President of the Bishop Donahue School Board and was a member of the Knights of Columbus Council #1907 of Moundsville and Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, Mount Olivet.

Don Donahue

In San Francisco in 1968, Donahue traded his hi-fi tape player to poet Charles Plymell to publish the first issue of Robert Crumb's Zap Comix on his printing press.

Elinor Donahue

Donahue portrayed Georgiana Balanger in the 1960 episode "Dennis and the Wedding" on the CBS sitcom, Dennis the Menace, with Jay North as the mischievous Dennis Mitchell.

James Paul Donahue, Jr.

A high school dropout, who attended the Hun School at Princeton, and Choate, from which he was expelled at age 17, Donahue was the first cousin and confidante of Barbara Hutton (November 14, 1912 – May 11, 1979), an American socialite.

Jay Rasulo

Prior to this, he was chairman of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts from October 2005 until December 2009 when he switched positions with Thomas O. Staggs.

Jennifer Donahue

After the 1992 presidential race, Donahue began a job as the press secretary for United States Senator Hank Brown.

After more than a decade as a political reporter, analyst and producer, Donahue is known for appearing on National Public Radio, ABC World News Tonight, NBC Nightly News, Nightline (US news program), CBS Evening News, and Anderson Cooper 360°.

Jennifer Donahue began lecturing, hosting events and appearing on television as an expert-in-residence on behalf of the Eisenhower Institute at Gettysburg College in the Spring of 2011, based in Washington, D.C. In January 2012, she hosted Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on behalf of the Institute.

From 1995 to 1999, Donahue worked as a producer, writer and interviewer for CNN's Inside Politics.

Jonathan Donahue

After leaving The Flaming Lips, Donahue returned to Buffalo and focused his time on reforming Mercury Rev. Jonathan Donahue was credited as having played the clarinet line for The Chemical Brothers' 1997 cult hit "The Private Psychedelic Reel", which has been the on and off closing song to their shows ever since.

Michele Weiner-Davis

Weiner-Davis made her first television appearance on the talk show Donahue, reporting that 85% of the couples using the methods and advice of Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) were leaving from her therapy with their marriages intact.

Nancy Donahue

The daughter of a noted lawyer and a philanthropist mother, Donahue grew up in Lowell, Massachusetts, as one of eleven children.

Donahue was the Pastry Chef at Bianco's Catering Company in Chelmsford, Massachusetts for the ten years where she won numerous awards for her pastry at different events.

Omaha City Council

It was composed of A. D. Jones, who resigned March 23, 1857; T. G. Goodwill, who died May 18, 1857; G. C. Bove, H. H. Visscher, Thomas Davis, William N. Byers, William W. Wyman, Thomas O'Connor, C. H. Downs, J. H. Kellom, for whom Kellom School was later named; and John Creighton, whom Creighton University was later named for.

Organizing Institute

Donahue, Donahue's assistant, a former director of organizing and field services at the AFL-CIO, the leaders of five AFL-CIO unions, and Richard Bensinger (then organizing director with the Service Employees International Union SEIU) concluded that the primary problem with the Houston Organizing Project was not the coalition nature of the project or the recession but that few unions utilized rigorous organizing methods.

Patrick James Donahue

Born in Little Malvern, Worcestershire, Donahue became a student at St. Michael's Priory in Hereford at age 14 and entered St. Gregory's College near Bath two years later.

Thomas Larkin

Thomas O. Larkin (1802–1858), early American emigrant to Mexico and a signer of the original California Constitution

Thomas O. Edwards

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1848 to the Thirty-first Congress.

Thomas O. Enders

From 1960 to 1963, he was a visa officer and then an economic officer in Stockholm.

Thomas O. Melia

Melia began his career as a research assistant to U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-New York) in 1980 and eventually became Senior Legislative Assistant for foreign and defense policy.

Thomas O. Seaver

He left Norwich without a degree in 1858, completing his studies at Union College and receiving a B.A. in 1859.

Thomas O. Staggs

Staggs was born in Illinois and received a B.S. in business from the University of Minnesota and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

On November 11, 2009 the Los Angeles Times reported that Staggs and Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Chairman Jay Rasulo were trading places on January 1, 2010.

Thomas O'Brien

Thomas D. O'Brien (1859–1935), co-founder of William Mitchell College of Law

Thomas P. O'Brien (born 1960), former United States Attorney for the Central District of California

Thomas O'Connell

Thomas J. O'Connell (1882–1969), Irish Labour party politician, leader of the party 1927–1932

Thomas O'Connor

T. P. O'Connor (1848–1929), Irish nationalist, journalist, and politician

Thomas O'Donnell

Thomas E. O'Donnell (1841-c.1875), powerful force in New York Draft Riots

Thomas A. O'Donnell (1870–1945), oil industrialist and builder of the O'Donnell Golf Club in Palm Springs, California

Thomas O'Hagan, 1st Baron O'Hagan

The Liberal Unionist editor of the Belfast Norther Whig, Thomas Macknight, who had been a personal friend of O'Hagan, states in his memoir ULSTER AS IT IS (London, 1896) that he believed O'Hagan would have opposed Gladstone's conversion to Home Rule had he not died when he did.

Thomas O'Shea

Thomas E. O'Shea (1895–1918), United States Army corporal and Medal of Honor recipient

Thomas Rice

Thomas O. Rice, former federal prosecutor and current United States district judge

Tim Wise

He has appeared on numerous radio and television broadcasts, including The Montel Williams Show, Donahue, Paula Zahn NOW, MSNBC Live, and ABC's 20/20, arguing the case for affirmative action and to discuss the issue of white privilege and racism in America.

To the Shores of Hell

Donahue is accompanied by a Marine Sergeant (Bill Bierd), a French Priest (Richard Jordahl) and a Vietnamese guide (Jeff Pearl) to free his brother.

Tom Donahue

Donahue wrote a 1967 Rolling Stone article titled "AM Radio Is Dead and Its Rotting Corpse Is Stinking Up the Airwaves", which also lambasted the Top Forty format.

But Autumn's biggest act was one that Donahue discovered, produced, recorded, and managed, The Beau Brummels, which he later sold to Warner Bros. Records.

Tom Hicks Elementary School

The land where the school building sits was donated in 1998 by Thomas O. Hicks, owner of over 400 radio stations, Chairmain of the Board and owner of the Dallas Stars hockey team as well as the Texas Rangers baseball team.


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