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12 unusual facts about Wexford


Aarti Mann

Growing up, her family lived in Mt. Lebanon and Wexford before settling in Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania where her mother, Vasanti Majumdar, an obstetrician/gynecologist out of UPMC Passavant, still lives.

Children's Institute of Pittsburgh

Outpatient services are located in Squirrel Hill, as well as at the Children's Institute South location in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania, the East location in Norwin Hills, Pennsylvania, and the North location in Wexford, Pennsylvania.

Cy Hungerford

Cy Hungerford died on May 25, 1983 in the Pittsburgh suburb of Wexford, Pennsylvania at the age of 93.

Dick Roche

Roche was born in Wexford and was educated at Wexford Christian Brothers School and University College Dublin (UCD) where he received Bachelor of Commerce Degree and a Masters Degree in Public Administration.

Mick Wallace

He was elected to Dáil Éireann at the 2011 general election as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Wexford constituency.

Nicky Rackard

His granduncle had played with the famous Wexford football team that captured four All-Ireland titles in-a-row between 1915 and 1918.

In Wexford town, there is a statue to commemorate Rackard, erected in 2012.

Born in Killane, County Wexford, Rackard first excelled at hurling whilst at school in St. Kieran's College.

Nicholas "Nicky" Rackard (28 April 1922 – 10 April 1976) was an Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer who played as a full-forward for the Wexford senior teams.

Nightingale Informatix Corporation

Nightingale Informatix Corporation (Nightingale) is a public company headquartered in Markham, Ontario, Canada with offices in Rancho Cordova, California, Cambridge, Ontario, Kansas City, Missouri, Pembroke, Massachusetts, and Wexford, Pennsylvania.

North Allegheny Senior High School

North Allegheny Senior High School (NASH) is a suburban high school in the North Allegheny School District and is located in Wexford, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Richard Corish

Born in Wexford in 1889, Corish was educated by the Christian Brothers in the town.


1956 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final

This score, which clinched the game for Wexford, was quickly followed by the final score of the game, a point for Wexford by Tom Dixon.

1984 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final

Paddy Barry of Cork’s 1952 team was followed by Wexford’s Nick O'Donnell, who had recently been named on the GAA Hurling Team of the Century as the greatest full-back in the history of the game and was captain of Wexford’s 1955 and 1960 All-Ireland winning teams.

Abbán

He was associated, first and foremost, with Mag Arnaide (Moyarney or Adamstown, near New Ross, Co. Wexford) and with Cell Abbáin (Killabban, County Laois).

All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship 1981

The 1981 All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship for the leading clubs in the women's team field sport of camogie was won by Buffers Alley from Wexford, who defeated Killeagh from Cork in the final, played at Gaultier .

Anthony Perry

The subsequent defeat on 21 June eliminated rebel control of territory in Wexford but left at least 10,000 armed men willing to fight on.

Art Foley

With seconds remaining in the final and Wexford gone into a two point lead, the ball broke to Christy Ring and he headed straight for goal with the Wexford back line in pursuit.

Bagenal Harvey

They were, however, betrayed and Harvey was arrested by Ralph James, an officer of the Irish Yeomanry, and brought to Wexford town.

Cornelius Grogan

Bagenal Harvey, John Henry Colclough, Matthew Keogh, Philip Roche, John Kelly of Killanne - Rebel leaders hanged on Wexford bridge, 25/28 June 1798

Dan + Shay

Dan Smyers (born August 16, 1987) was raised in Wexford, Pennsylvania, where he attended North Allegheny Senior High School.

Duncormick

The first Norman forces arrived on three single-masted Longships at Bannow Bay, County Wexford in May 1169.

Earl of Wexford

Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke and Wexford in 1296 (c. 1270 – June 23, 1324), also 2nd Earl of Wexford

William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke, (1225-1230 – May 16 or 18, 1296), also 1st Earl of Wexford

Forth and Bargy dialect

Congratulatory address in the dialect of Forth and Bargy, presented to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland the Earl of Mulgrave Constantine Henry Phipps on his visit to Wexford in 1836 taken from the Wexford Independent newspaper of 15 February 1860.

George Bowyer

Sir George Bowyer, 7th Baronet (1811–1883), British barrister and Liberal MP for Dundalk and Wexford County

Ger Cunningham

Cunningham was Cork's best prospect for the goalkeeping position, however, he faced still opposition from such legends as Kilkenny duo Ollie Walsh and Noel Skehan and Wexford's Art Foley.

Gretta Kehoe-Quigley

She is one of three sisters from Palace, Poulpeasty, Co Wexford, who won All Ireland medals together in 1975, the others were Kit Codd and Bridget Doyle, winner of the 1975 B+I Star of the Year award.

Joan de Munchensi

Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke and Wexford in 1296 (c. 1270 – June 23, 1324), married firstly to Beatrice de Clermont and married secondly to Marie de Châtillon

John Hunter Gowan II

He also had illegitimate children by Margaret Hogan including another son, Ogle Robert Gowan, who was a prominent Orangeman newspaper publisher in Brockville, Kingston and Toronto, Canada and was founder and first Grand Master of the Orange AssociationCanada and his home in Canada is now called Nebo Lodge in tribute to his father's Wexford home Mount Nebo.

John Kelly of Killanne

He was one of the leaders of the rebel victory at the Battle of Three Rocks which led to the capture of Wexford town but was later seriously wounded while leading a rebel column at the Battle of New Ross.

John Small

John Francis Small (1853–1923), Member of the United Kingdom Parliament for County Wexford, 1883–1885 and South Down, 1885–1886

Máedóc of Ferns

The Catholic episcopal seat of Ferns is now at Enniscorthy,it was formerly Ferns, (but the bishop resides in Wexford ,before that,Enniscorthy and before that, again, Ferns - the Anglican diocese is administered from Kilkenny) where there is the beautiful St. Aidan's Cathedral dedicated to St. Aedan, whose patronal feast is observed 31 January.

Saint Máedóc (fl. 6/7th century), also known as Áedan, (also Aidan, popularly known as Mogue (Mo-Aedh-og = my dear Aedh)) was a saint in Irish tradition, founder and first bishop of Ferns (Co. Wexford) and a patron of other churches, such as Rossinver (County Leitrim) and Drumlane (County Cavan).

Martin Storey

Storey's daughter, Ciara, is also an All-Ireland medalist with Wexford.

Matthew Keogh

When the Wexford Rebellion began in 1798 he was living in Wexford as a freeman of the town, possibly engaged in shipping.

Bagenal Harvey, John Henry Colclough, Cornelius Grogan, Philip Roche, John Kelly of Killanne - Rebel leaders hanged on Wexford bridge, 25/28 June 1798

Murder of Julia Martha Thomas

The head constable of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) in Wexford realised that the woman being sought by Scotland Yard was the same person whom his force had arrested 14 years previously for larceny.

National Camogie League

It was first played in 1976 for a trophy donated by Allied Irish Banks when Tipperary beat Wexford in a replayed final.

National Camogie League 1983

Five of the Wexford panel were studying for the Leaving Cert and Marita O'Neill was grand-daughter of Martin O'Neill from Ferns, referee of the 1947 All-Ireland final and former secretary of the Leinster Council of the GAA.

Nicholas White

White also had two daughters, one of whom married Robert Browne of Mulcranan, County Wexford, who was murdered by Fiach MacHugh O'Byrne in 1572: the other, Mary, was the second wife of Nicholas St Lawrence, 9th Baron Howth, by whom she had six children.

Norman invasion of Ireland

The first Norman knight to land in Ireland was Richard fitz Godbert de Roche in 1167, but it was not until 1169 that the main body of Norman, Welsh and Flemish forces landed in Wexford.

Richard Bulkeley

Sir Richard Bulkeley, 2nd Baronet (1660–1710), Irish MP for Fethard (County Wexford)

River Derry

South of Tinahely it turns sharply and flows southwest through Shillelagh, briefly forming the border between County Wicklow and County Wexford, before becoming the border between County Wexford and County Carlow.

Sir Richard Morrison

Among his public works were alterations to the cathedral at Cashel, the court-house and gaol at Galway, court-houses at Carlow, Clonmel, Roscommon, Wexford, and elsewhere, and St Mary's Pro-Cathedral, the Catholic Pro-cathedral at Dublin.

Stuart Burge

1993: The Wexford Trilogy by Billy Roche: A Handful of Stars, Poor Beast in the Rain and Belfry (BBC TV)

Thomas Esmonde

Sir John Esmonde, 14th Baronet (1893–1958), Fine Gael TD for Wexford 1937–1951

Sir John Esmonde, 16th Baronet, (1928–1987), Fine Gael TD for Wexford 1973–1977

Wexford bridge

Bagenal Harvey, John Henry Colclough, Cornelius Grogan, Matthew Keogh, Philip Roche, John Kelly of Killanne - Rebel leaders hanged on Wexford bridge, 25/28 June 1798

Wexford Health Sources

The Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) contracts with Wexford, and Wexford provides medical services to inmates at state-operated facilities.