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2 unusual facts about sean-nós song


An Triail

An Triail ("The Trial") is a play written by the Irish playwright Máiréad Ní Ghráda which starred well-known poet and Sean-nós singer Caitlín Maude in its first performance in 1964.

Donnacha Dennehy

Subsequent works for the ensemble have included Derailed, For Herbert Brun and most recently Grá Agus Bás (premiered in February 2007), the latter featuring the Irish vocalist Iarla Ó Lionáird and incorporating music from the sean nós tradition.


2007 Oregon State Beavers football team

Beavers' star running back Yvenson Bernard ran for 165 yards and two touchdowns and quarterback Sean Canfield completed eight of 19 passes for 87 yards and a touchdown.

Æthelstan Half-King

Miller, Sean, "Æthelstan Half-King" in Michael Lapidge et al., The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England. Blackwell, 1999.

Bioshelter

The word bioshelter was coined by the New Alchemy Institute and solar designers Sean Wellesley-Miller and Day Chahroudi.

Brett Fancy

He took the lead role of Sean Hooper in the LWT comedy series Square Deal written by Richard Ommanney, recorded live in front of a studio audience weekly and directed by Nick Phillips.

CIGL-FM

During the 2007 provincial election morning show host Sean Kelly was absent from the air pending the results of the vote on election day.

Craig Adams

DJ Assault (Craig De Sean Adams, born 1977), hip-hop DJ and musician

Dana Sterling

In the decanonized Jack McKinney novel "Rubicon" (book 17 of the Robotech series), Dana, Louie Nichols, Bowie Grant, Angelo Dante, Sean Phillips, Marie Crystal, Musica and Allegra acquire Jonathan Wolfe's ship, travel to Tirol, and meet up with the Robotech Expeditionary Forces in 2033.

Earthdance

Earthdance events have featured many notable speakers including: Rick Doblin, Wavy Gravy, Oren Lyons, Daniel Solnit, John Perry Barlow, and Sean Siple.

Eden Roc Miami Beach Hotel

Eden Roc was the hotel where professor Paul Armstrong's (Sean Connery) family stayed in the movie Just Cause.

Erin go Bragh GAA

The team took part in the Sean Walsh Hurling Tournament on 22 October in Carrick-on-Shannon in Leitrim.

European Quizzing Championships

Milhous Warriors (2006 line-up Kevin Ashman, Mark Bytheway, Tim Westcott, Sean O'Neill) who won in Paris in 2006.

Evening Press

Other journalists who worked for the paper were the award-winning journalist and author Clare Boylan, Sean Cronin (sub editor), Matt Farrell (deputy editor) who also went under the pseudonym Sir Ivor with racing tips, Ed Moloney, the financial journalist Des Crowley, Sean McCann, former senator John Horgan and Vincent Browne.

Grants, New Mexico

Scenes from the movie 21 Grams starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts were also filmed in Grants.

Gregory Kealey

Gregory Kealey has supervised more than 20 PhDs to completion at Dalhousie, MUN and UNB, including Craig Heron, John Manley, Sean Cadigan, Mark Leier, Christina Burr, Michael Smith, Miriam Wright, Andrew Parnaby, Dominique Clement, Michelle McBride, Janis Thiessen, Michael Butt, Fred Winsor, Richard Rennie, Kurt Korneski, Kirk Niergarth, Benjamin Isitt, Christopher Powell and David Foord.

Greystone Park

Greystone Park is a found footage horror film written by Sean Stone and Alexander Wraith, directed by Sean Stone and starring Sean Stone, Alexander Wraith, Antonella Lentini, Oliver Stone and Bruce Payne.

Here Comes the Fuzz

"International Affair" was originally released on Sean Paul's Dutty Rock album and featured Debi Nova instead of Tweet.

Jeremy Oxley

He went on to form the Chinless Elite with Luke Bendt (drums), Mark Fuccilli (saxophone) (Big 5, Allniters), Sean McElvogue (trumpet, saxophone) (Big 5), Marcus Phelan (Allniters, Hoi Polloi), John Schofield (bass)(Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls), Andrew Robertson (drums).

Juggy D

He, Mehta, and Jay Sean also have guest appearances in the Hindi film Kyaa Kool Hai Hum.

Kathleen Ryan

Vincent (Séamus) (1930–2005), a Benedictine priest at Glenstal Abbey, Sister Íde of the Convent of The Sacred Heart, Mount Anville, Dublin, Oonagh (who married the Irish artist Patrick Swift), Cora who married the politician, Seán Dunne, T.D. When Kathleen was an undergraduate at University College Dublin, she was introduced to the future Dr. Dermod Devane of Limerick.

Katica Illényi

Meanwhile she was invited from classical music circles where she played Béla Bartók, Franz Lehár, Sarasate, Debussy, Saint Sean, Fritz Kreisler, De Falla, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Franz Liszt, Max Bruch, Georg Boulanger, Bach, Vivaldi, Spohr, etc.

Ken Kirzinger

He appeared in 1989's Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan as a New York cook who gets in Jason's way while pursuing Rennie Wickham (Jensen Daggett) and Sean Robertson (Scott Reeves).

Loreto College, Coleraine

Barry McGoldrick and Sean Leo McGoldrick (brothers) - Current Derry Gaelic footballers

Louise Ellman

In March 2010, her son Sean Ellman was exposed in the national newspapers as selling the then legal drug mephedrone, known as meow meow, from a chain of shops across the north of England.

Marcus Dent

However, Eileen tells Marcus about Dylan and Marcus supports Sean and they decide to go and collect Dylan but after Jason Grimshaw (Ryan Thomas) makes a remark about Sean and Dylan, causing Sean to have second thoughts but Marcus eventually persuades him to go and get Dylan.

National Graves Association, Belfast

This plot contains the remains of 5 IRA volunteers, Joe McKelvey, Sean McCartney, Terence Perry, Sean Gaffney and Seamus Burns.

Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon

The book disputes the official view of Lennon as a contented househusband raising his son Sean and baking bread while Yoko ran the family business.

On Broken Wings

As of February 2008, Kevin Garvin, Mike McMillen, and Sean Laforce are also in the band Everybody Out!, with former Dropkick Murphys guitarist Rick Barton and former Dead Pets and Lost City Angels frontman Sweeney Todd, playing drums, guitar, and bass, respectively .

People Before Profit Alliance

People Before Profit unsuccessfully ran one candidate, Sean Mitchell, in the 2007 Northern Ireland Assembly election, polling 774 first preferences in the Belfast West constituency.

Pertwee

Jon Pertwee (1919-1996), English actor best known as Doctor Who, father of Sean and Dariel

Philip French

Their oldest son, Sean French, is one half of the Nicci French writing team, while his brother, Patrick French, is a doctor.

Phoenix Christian Junior/Senior High School

Notable alumni include NFL quarterback Tim Rattay; Vonda Kay Van Dyke, 1965 Miss America; Steve Green, a gospel singer, University of Wyoming football letterman Jeff Smith, Anthony Stannard, and Sean Bowman, University of Arizona football letterman Aaron Huisman, Washington State University football letterman Jimmy Wilson, and Boise State University football letterman Kyle Gingg.

R/West

According to President Sean Blixseth (not to be confused with lawyer Sean Reed Blixseth), the 'R' in R/West stands for the messenger Revere, symbolizing the company's role as a messenger for its clients.

Schoolboy Crush

Schoolboy Crush, 2004 gay pornographic film starring Brent Everett and featuring Brent Corrigan (real name Sean Paul Lockhart) in his major role as porn actor

Séamus Harnedy

Harnedy's mother, Cathy Landers, was an All-Ireland-winning captain with the Cork camogie team, while his father, Seán Harnedy, played with the Waterford team.

Seán

Sean is commonly pronounced Shawn (Seán), but in the northern parts of Ireland (owing to a northern dialect), it is pronounced "Shan", "Shen" or "Shayn" (Séan, with the accent on the e instead of the a), thus leading to the variant Shane.

Sean Bury

Sean Bury (born in Brighton, Sussex, England on 15 August 1954) is a British television and film actor, best known for his lead role as Paul Harrison in Lewis Gilbert's 1971 film Friends and the 1974 sequel Paul and Michelle.

Seán Clárach Mac Domhnaill

In 1754, Seán Clárach died and was laid to rest in Holy Cross Cemetery, Charleville.

Sean Coffey

In May 2011, Council for Unity honored Sean and Anne Coffey, Earvin Johnson, Jr and Michael Mulgrew at their Annual "Champions for Children" dinner.

Sean Kane

Sean was one of the first Scottish actors to perform with Romanian actors at the Teatrul De Comedie in Bucharest Romania in their production entitled 'Home'.

Sean's Bar

It claims to be the oldest pub in Ireland, dating back to 900, and received a certificate in 2004 from Guinness World Records repeating the claim.

She's Got the Look

Sean Patterson has helped launch and foster the careers of stars like Fergie, Mark Vanderloo and Gabriel Aubry.

The Brunswickan

Among its notable alumni are Colin B. Mackay, Bliss Carman, Charles G. D. Roberts, Dalton Camp, Fredrik Eaton, Nathan White, Sean Patrick Sullivan, Chris Wilson-Smith, Ben Conoley, Donald Pringle and Kwame Dawes.

The Fitzpatricks

They had four children, eldest son, Sean (Clark Brandon); introspective second son, Jack (Jimmy McNichol); only daughter Maureen (nicknamed Mo) (Michele Tobin) and youngest son, Max (Sean Marshall).

Think About the Way

Released on initially on EMI Music Sweden and Extravaganza Records on September 17, 2012, it featured Jamaican dancehall singer Sean Paul and was co-written by Roberto Zanetti, Alex Arash Labaf and Sean Henriques (Sean Paul).

Treasa Ní Cheannabháin

In 1996 Treasa and daughter Róisín Elsafty released an album on the French label Musique du Monde label entitled L'art du sean-nós.

Victor McGuire

Victor McGuire (born 17 March 1964) is an English actor currently playing the Valco security guard in Trollied but is perhaps best known for playing Jack in series 1–3,5-7 of Carla Lane's Bread, Ron Wheatcroft in Goodnight Sweetheart, and Sean Hughes' neighbour Tony in Sean's Show ("the kind of guy you can ask to build you a shed").

Watch Dem Roll

It was originally the lead single from Sean Paul's album Imperial Blaze, but it did not appear on the album.


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