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Úna O'Connor
Úna is an Irish language feminine given name. It may be derived from the Irish word ''uan'' (lamb). Also, the name Una might mean "the personification of truth, beauty, and unity" cited. Alternative spellings are Una, Oona and Oonagh. The Scottish Gaelic form is Ùna. People with the name * Una McCormack (born 1972), British-Irish academic, scriptwriter and novelist * Una White, Jamaican-British nurse * Una Damon (born 1964), South Korean and American actress * Úna O'Connor (born 1938), Irish sportsperson * Una O'Connor (1880–1959), Irish actress * Una Marson (1905-1965), Jamaican feminist * Una O'Keefe (born 1954) widow of Harry Nilsson * Una Mabel Bourne (1882-1974), Australian pianist and composer * Úna O'Donoghue (born 1981), Irish sportsperson * Úna MacLochlainn (born 1987), Irish singer-songwriter * Una Healy (born 1981), Irish singer-songwriter and member of the girlgroup The Saturdays * Una Merkel (1903–1986), American actress * Una McLean (born 1930), Scottish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Language
Irish ( Standard Irish: ), also known as Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language family, which is a part of the Indo-European language family. Irish is indigenous to the island of Ireland and was the population's first language until the 19th century, when English gradually became dominant, particularly in the last decades of the century. Irish is still spoken as a first language in a small number of areas of certain counties such as Cork, Donegal, Galway, and Kerry, as well as smaller areas of counties Mayo, Meath, and Waterford. It is also spoken by a larger group of habitual but non-traditional speakers, mostly in urban areas where the majority are second-language speakers. Daily users in Ireland outside the education system number around 73,000 (1.5%), and the total number of persons (aged 3 and over) who claimed they could speak Irish in April 2016 was 1,761,420, representing 39.8% of respondents. For most of recorded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Saturdays
The Saturdays were a British-Irish girl group based in London, England. The group formed during the summer of 2007 and have been on hiatus since 2014. The lineup consists of Frankie Bridge, Una Healy, Rochelle Humes, Mollie King, and Vanessa White. They were formed through Fascination Records, a sub-division of Polydor Records, who gave them an instant record deal with the label. As soon as the contract was finalised, the Saturdays went on tour with Girls Aloud during their Tangled Up Tour. The group's music style is pop, but throughout their career, their management has experimented with dance-pop and electropop. Songwriters and producers Ina Wroldsen, Steve Mac, Camille Purcell, and Quiz & Larossi have helped create their music. In July 2008, The Saturdays released their debut single and first Top Ten hit, "If This Is Love". Their debut album, '' Chasing Lights'', released the same year, charted at number nine on the UK Albums Chart; it was certified platinum by the BPI an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Una Stella Abrahamson
Una Stella Abrahamson ( Golding; August 6, 1922 – February 28, 1999) was an English-born Canadian artist and writer. Biography She was born Una Stella Golding in London and studied art in England. She married Roy Abrahamson shortly after World War II ended in 1945 and came to Canada the next year. She apprenticed as a painter with Henri Masson. She later worked as an economist and as domestic historian for the test kitchens at ''Chatelaine'' magazine. She was also a publicist for the kitchens of General Foods and later as director of Consumer Affairs for the Dominion chain of supermarkets. In 1975, Abrahamson was chair of the Ontario Council of Health's task force on dietetics and nutrition. In October 1976, she was hit by a car in Toronto. After staying in a coma for over a year and going through a subsequent long recovery period, she regained the ability to speak and write. She died in 1999 in Toronto at the age of 76. Legacy She was the author of ''God Bless Our ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Una Hunt
Una Hunt Clarke Drage (January 6, 1876 – November 10, 1957)Ancestry.com, U.S., Reports of Deaths of American Citizens Abroad, 1835-1974, Death Reports in State Department Decimal File, 1910 to 1962, Box 1042: 1955 - 1959, image 666. was an American author famed in her time for publishing ''Una Mary'', an autobiographical reconstruction of the inner and outer world of her childhood. G. Stanley Hall, generally credited with discovering the concept of adolescence, considered her along with Marie Bashkirtseff and Mary MacLane Mary MacLane (May 1, 1881 – ''c''. August 6, 1929) was a controversial Canadian-born American writer whose frank memoirs helped usher in the confessional style of autobiographical writing. MacLane was known as the "Wild Woman of Butte".Wa ... to have exposed the world of female adolescent thought and emotion. She wasthe daughter of prominent geologist Frank Wigglesworth Clarke (1847–1931). Works * ''Una Mary: The Inner Life of a Child''. New Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Una Deerbon
Una Deerbon (1882–1972) was an Australian studio potter in the early twentieth century. She was uniquely able as a woman potter in that period to support herself and her family. Personal Deerbon was born Una Clare Eden Deane in Woollahra, New South Wales on 16 February 1882.New South Wales Births, Deaths and Marriages registration 7814/1882. She married in 1904 Northumberland-born businessman George Percival DarlowAIF service record, National Archives of Australia, barcode 3488335. alias Richard Relton Wise (1877–1955) who, as Lieutenant Darlow, was wounded in France in 1918. As a married woman Una studied at the Sydney Art School under Julian Ashton and Rayner Hoff at East Sydney Technical College. From 1913 to 1915 she reportedly studied in New York, Chicago, Paris and in London at the Slade School. In England she had a daughter, Joan Diana Cynthia Darlow, known as Diana Wise-Darlow (1915–2001). Una returned to Sydney to work as an artist and fashion designer for David Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Una Lucy Fielding
Una Lucy Fielding (20 May 1888 – 11 August 1969) was an Australian neuroanatomist. Early life Una Fielding was born in Wellington, New South Wales to Anglican clergyman and author Rev. Sydney Glanville Fielding and his wife Lucy Frances (née Johnson). The eldest of six children, Una attended a private school in Windsor before starting at St Catherine's School, Waverley in 1900. In 1907 she won a bursary to the University of Sydney; after graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1910 she spent six years teaching French and English. Career in medicine Fielding returned to the University of Sydney to study medicine, completing a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in 1919, then a Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Master of Surgery (ChM) in 1922. In 1923 Fielding moved to London to work as a demonstrator in the department of anatomy at University College London, where she gained a reputation for both her competence and knowledge in the field of practical neurology. She was encouraged to study ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Una Chi
Una Chi (born Bruna Bianchi; Milan, 5 June 1942 – Cisternino, 19 January 2021) was an Italian translator and writer. Life Bruna Bianchi was born in Milan in 1942. For many years she was a professor of German literature at the University of Milan. She translated into Italian several German literature masterpieces, including Günter Grass' ''From the Diary of a Snail'' (Aus dem Tagebuch einer Schnecke) (Einaudi, Turin, 1974); Max von der Grün's ''Stellenweise Glatteis'' (''Strada sdrucciolevole'', Einaudi, 1977); Max Frisch's ''Bluebeard'' (Einaudi, 1984); and Martin Walser's ''Das Einhorn'' (''Unicorno'', Feltrinelli, 1969). She also translated works by Goethe and Thomas Mann. In 1994 she published her first novel, ''E duro campo di battaglia il letto''. under the pseudonym Una Chi (Italian for "One Who"). She then authored three more erotica books, mostly conspicuous for her scholarly and coldly analytical prose and the crudeness of her narrative. In 1999 she translated a r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Una Pope-Hennessy
Dame Una Constance Pope-Hennessy, (n̩e Birch; 21 April 1875 Р16 August 1949) was a British writer, historian, and biographer. She was the daughter of Sir Arthur Birch, and married Major (later Major-General) Richard Pope-Hennessy in 1910. During the First World War, she was a member of the Central Prisoners of War Committee of the British Red Cross Society. For this work, she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 1920 civilian war honours. Her two sons were both notable in their own right: James Pope-Hennessy was a writer and Sir John Pope-Hennessy an art historian. She died in 1949 and is buried alongside her husband at Friary Church of St Francis and St Anthony, Crawley. Writings Pope-Hennessy's early published works were historical studies of jades and secret societies. Her first biographies were on Anna Van Schurman and Madame Roland. In 1929 she published ''Three English Women in America'', charting American experience of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Una Troy
Una Troy Walsh (21 May 1910 – 27 September 1993) was an Irish novelist and playwright who wrote under the names Elizabeth Connor and Una Troy. Early life Troy was born in Fermoy, County Cork, the daughter of John S. Troy and Brigid Agnes Hayes. Her father was a lawyer and a judge. Her sister Gráinne (or Grania, 1913-1970) was a musician, and her sister Shevaun (1923-1993) was a poet.Butler, Ann M. Collection List for Una Troy Papers', National Library of Ireland. She was educated at the Loreto Convent in Rathfarnham, Dublin. Career Before and during World War II Writing under the pen name of "Elizabeth Connor", she began her career in 1936 with the publication of the novel ''Mount Prospect'', which was banned in the Irish Free State. Adapted as a play, it garnered the Shaw Prize for new playwrights and was performed on the Abbey stage in 1940. Two subsequent plays by Troy ''Swans and Geese'' and ''An Apple a Day,'' were also performed at the Abbey in the early 1940s. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Úna O'Connor (camogie)
Úna O'Connor (1938 – 4 March 2020) was an Irish sportsperson who played senior camogie with Dublin from 1953 until 1975. She is regarded as one of the greatest players of all-time, a member of the team of the century. the first camogie player to win a Caltex award in 1966,Irish Press December 16, 1966 and the Gaelic Weekly all-star award winner in 1967. Early life Úna O'Connor was born in Fairview, Dublin in 1938. The youngest of eight children, her mother died when she was just eighteen years old. O'Connor grew up in Dublin at a time when the county’s Gaelic footballers were successful. She was a great admirer of Kevin Heffernan and often received coaching advice from him before she played in big games. Playing career Club O'Connor played her club camogie with the Celtic club in Dublin. She enjoyed much success with Celtic, winning ten Dublin county camogie championship titles in all. She was also one of the key players when the club won the first All-Ireland club ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Una Stubbs
Una Stubbs (1 May 1937 – 12 August 2021) was an English actress, television personality and dancer who appeared on British television and in the theatre, and occasionally in films. She became known after appearing in the film '' Summer Holiday'' (1963) and later played Rita Rawlins in the BBC sitcoms ''Till Death Us Do Part'' (1965–1975) and ''In Sickness and in Health'' (1985–1992). Her other television roles include Aunt Sally in ''Worzel Gummidge'' (1979–1981) and Miss Bat in ''The Worst Witch'' (1998–2001). She also appeared as Sherlock Holmes's landlady Mrs. Hudson in the BAFTA-winning television series '' Sherlock'' (2010–2017). Career As a 16-year-old, in 1953, she danced in a Folies Bergère-style musical revue, "Pardon My French", at the Prince of Wales Theatre, alongside Frankie Howerd and the pianist Winifred Atwell. She first appeared on television as one of the Dougie Squires Dancers on the British television music show '' Cool for Cats'' in 1956. She a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Una Hale
Una Rosalind Hale (18 November 1922 – 4 March 2005) was an Australian operatic soprano, mainly known in her native country and in the United Kingdom. History Hale was born in Wayville, South Australia to Unitarian minister George Ernest Hale and Florence Elizabeth Hale, née Picken. She was educated at Adelaide's Methodist Ladies' College and the Adelaide Conservatorium. She left for Britain in 1946 to study at the Royal College of Music and appeared with the Carl Rosa Opera Company from 1949 to 1954, playing many leading roles, such as Violetta in Verdi's '' La Traviata'' Micaela ''Carmen'' and Marguerite in Gounod's ''Faust''. In 1954, Hale was engaged as a principal soprano at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, where she sang most of the major lyric soprano roles. She was particularly noted for her portrayals of Ellen Orford in Britten's ''Peter Grimes'', Eva in Wagner's ''Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg'', The Marschallin in Richard Strauss's ''Der Rosenkavalier'', and Liu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
