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Boyle
Boyle is an English, Irish and Scottish surname of Gaelic, Anglo-Saxon or Norman origin. In the northwest of Ireland it is one of the most common family names. Notable people with the surname include: Disambiguation *Adam Boyle (other), multiple people * Charles Boyle (other), multiple people * David Boyle (other), multiple people * Edward Boyle (other), several people * Henry Boyle (other), multiple people * James Boyle (other) (also Jimmy Boyle), multiple people * John Boyle (other), multiple people * Kevin Boyle (other), several people * Mark Boyle (other), multiple people * Mary Boyle (other), several people * Peter Boyle (other), multiple people * Richard Boyle (other), multiple people * Robert Boyle (other), multiple people * Stephen Boyle (other), multiple people * Tommy Boyle (other), several people Arts and media * Alicia Boyle (1908–19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frankie Boyle
Francis Martin Patrick Boyle (born 16 August 1972) is a Scottish comedian and writer. He is known for his cynical, surreal, graphic and often controversial sense of humour. A stand-up comedian since 1995, Boyle first gained widespread recognition as a regular panellist on the comedy show ''Mock the Week'' from its beginning in June 2005 until his departure in September 2009. After he left ''Mock the Week'', Boyle created and starred in the Channel 4 sketch show '' Frankie Boyle's Tramadol Nights'' (2010). Currently, he presents the BBC Two chat show ''Frankie Boyle's New World Order'' (2017–present). In 2020, he presented a four-part series on BBC Two, ''Frankie Boyle's Tour of Scotland''. He has embarked on a number of tours, releasing several stand-up specials. Early life Boyle was born and raised in Pollokshaws, Glasgow, to Irish Catholic parents from Crolly in County Donegal. He attended St Conval's Primary and Holyrood Secondary School in Glasgow. After leaving sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Boyle
Daniel Francis Boyle (born 20 October 1956) is an English director and producer. He is known for his work on films including '' Shallow Grave'', '' Trainspotting'' and its sequel '' T2 Trainspotting'', '' The Beach'', ''28 Days Later'', '' Sunshine'', ''Slumdog Millionaire'', '' 127 Hours'', ''Steve Jobs ''and '' Yesterday''. Boyle's debut film ''Shallow Grave'' won the BAFTA Award for Best British Film. The British Film Institute ranked ''Trainspotting'' the 10th greatest British film of the 20th century. Boyle's 2008 film ''Slumdog Millionaire'', the most successful British film of the decade, was nominated for ten Academy Awards and won eight, including the Academy Award for Best Director. He also won the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for Best Director. Boyle was presented with the Extraordinary Contribution to Filmmaking Award at the 2008 Austin Film Festival, where he also introduced that year's AFF Audience Award Winner ''Slumdog Millionaire''. In 2012, Boyle was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alicia Boyle
Alicia Louisa Letitia Boyle ''RBA, RHA, RUA'' (1 August 1908 – 11 January 1997) was an Irish abstract marine and landscape artist. Early life and education Alicia Boyle was born on 1 August 1908 to Brudenell P Boyle, an engineer, and his wife Birney in Bangkok, Siam. Boyle had two brothers. She was raised in Limavady in Northern Ireland and moved to London, England with her family at the age of ten. At the age of two Boyle contracted cholera. Boyle began to paint at the age of five. Her parents encouraged her to paint around Limavady and Magilligan. Her mother also introduced her to the work of playwrights such as William Shakespeare, Séan O'Casey, and George Bernard Shaw. Together they attended the theatre and art exhibitions. When her Mother died and her Father remarried, Boyle felt unable to remain in the family home and left to live in a bedsit.MacMonagle, 8 May 1988, p.B3 At the age of seventeen Boyle enrolled on a teacher-training course at Clapham Art Training School ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lara Flynn Boyle
Lara Flynn Boyle (born March 24, 1970) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Donna Hayward in the television series ''Twin Peaks'' (1990–1991). After portraying Stacy in Penelope Spheeris's comedy ''Wayne's World'' (1992), Boyle had a lead role in John Dahl's neo-noir film '' Red Rock West'' (1993), followed by roles in ''Threesome'' (1994), '' Cafe Society'' (1995), and ''Happiness'' (1998). Boyle had played the villainous role as Serleena in the blockbuster feature film ''Men in Black II'' for which she was nominated for a Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actress. From 1997 to 2003, Boyle portrayed Assistant District Attorney Helen Gamble in the ABC television series ''The Practice'' for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. Early life Boyle was born in Davenport, Iowa, the daughter of Sally Flynn, a clerical worker, assistant, and manager, and Michael L. Boyle. Her paternal grandfather wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ina Boyle
Ina Boyle (8 March 1889 – 10 March 1967) was an Irish composer. Her compositions encompass a broad spectrum of genres and include choral, chamber and orchestral works as well as opera, ballet and vocal music. While a number of her works, including ''The Magic Harp'' (1919), ''Colin Clout'' (1921), ''Gaelic Hymns'' (1923–24), ''Glencree'' (1924-27) and ''Wildgeese'' (1942), received acknowledgement and first performances during her lifetime, the majority of her compositions remain unpublished and unperformed. Biography Boyle was born in Bushey Park near Enniskerry, County Wicklow, and grew up in a restricted circle of her mother, father and sister. Her first music lessons were with her father William Foster Boyle (1860–1951), who was curate at St. Patrick's Church, Powerscourt and was given violin and cello lessons by her governess with her younger sister Phyllis. From the age of eleven, she studied theory and harmony with Samuel Myerscough, the English organist who found ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Boyle (other)
John Boyle may refer to: Arts and entertainment *John J. Boyle (sculptor) (1851–1917), American sculptor * John W. Boyle (1891–1959), American cinematographer *John Boyle (artist) (born 1941), Canadian painter *Johnny Boyle (fl. 2000s), Irish drummer in band ''The Frames'' Nobility *John Boyle, 2nd Earl of Glasgow (1688–1740), Scottish nobleman *John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork (1707–1762), Irish author and nobleman * John Boyle, 3rd Earl of Glasgow (1714–1775), Scottish nobleman *John Boyle, 14th Earl of Cork (1916–2003), Irish peer *John Boyle, 15th Earl of Cork (born 1945), Irish peer Politics and law * John Boyle (fl.1417), English politician, MP for Worcester *John Boyle (congressman) (1774–1835), American politician and judge, U.S. Representative from Kentucky *John Boyle (Northern Ireland politician) (1870/1–1950), Northern Irish politician *John Robert Boyle (1871–1936), Canadian politician * John Boyle Jr. (1876–1936), Irish-American lawyer and politician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katie Boyle
Caterina Irene Elena Maria Boyle, Lady Saunders (née Imperiali dei Principi di Francavilla; 29 May 1926 – 20 March 2018), usually known as Katie Boyle, was an Italian-born British actress, writer, radio announcer, television personality, game-show panellist and animal rights activist. She became best known for presenting the Eurovision Song Contest on four occasions, in 1960, 1963, 1968 and 1974; the first three in London and the last in Brighton, England. She was once an agony aunt, answering problems that had been posted by readers of the ''TVTimes''. Early life, modelling and film career She was born in a royal palace in Florence, Tuscany, Italy, which had once belonged to the Italian royal family, the daughter of an Italian marquis (the Marchese Demetrio Imperiali di Francavilla), and his English wife, Dorothy Kate Ramsden. She came to the United Kingdom in 1946 and started a modelling career, which included work for such publications as ''Vogue''. She also appeare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Boyle (broadcasting)
James Boyle (born 29 March 1946) was Chairman of the National Library of Scotland until 2016, Chairman of the British Council in Scotland and was formerly Chairman of the Scottish Arts Council, Chairman of the Scottish Government's Cultural Commission, Controller of BBC Radio 4, Head of BBC Radio Scotland and co-founder of the UNESCO World City of Literature and World City of Music Programs. He has also served on the board of Napier University and as a UK Civil Service Commissioner. He was educated at the University of Strathclyde (BA, 1969) and the University of East Anglia (MA, 1971). In March 2016 Boyle was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's National Academy for science and letters. At the BBC Boyle spent more than 25 years at the BBC, including four years as head of BBC Radio Scotland and four years as controller of BBC Radio 4. At Radio Scotland he oversaw sweeping changes to the station's programming line-up. Some of those changes generated a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Boyle (other)
Richard Boyle may refer to: Nobility *Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork (1566–1643), Lord High Treasurer of Ireland *Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington (1612–1698), and 2nd Earl of Cork, Lord High Treasurer of Ireland and a cavalier *Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon (1675–1740), British military officer and statesman *Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (1694–1753), and 4th Earl of Cork *Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Shannon (1727–1807), Irish peer and Member of Parliament *Richard Boyle, 4th Earl of Shannon (1809–1868), British politician *Richard Boyle, 9th Earl of Cork (1829–1904), British politician * Richard Boyle, 6th Earl of Shannon (1860–1906), politician in Canada's Northwest Territories Sports * Richard Boyle (canoeist) (born 1961), New Zealand sprint canoeist *Richard Boyle (rowing) (1888–1953), British rowing coxswain; medallist at the 1908 Summer Olympics *Dickie Boyle (1869–?), Scottish professional footballer for Everton * Dick Boyle (American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Boyle (other)
James or Jim Boyle may refer to: Politicians * James Boyle (Fianna Fáil politician) (died 1944), Fianna Fáil Member of the 1934–1936 Seanad Éireann * James Boyle (Irish Parliamentary Party politician) (1863–1936), Irish politician, Member of Parliament for West Donegal 1900–1902 * James Boyle (Maine politician) (born 1958), state senator for the 6th District of Maine *James Carr-Boyle, 5th Earl of Glasgow (1792–1869), British politician and naval commander * James P. Boyle (1885–1939), American politician * James J. Boyle (1891–1970), member of the California legislature *James Boyle (died 1594), Member of Parliament (MP) for Hereford Sports *Jimmy Boyle (baseball) (1904–1958), American baseball player *Jimmy Boyle (footballer) (born 1967), Scottish footballer * James Boyle (footballer, born 1866) (1866–?), Scottish footballer * Jim Boyle (American football) * Jim Boyle (bowls) *Jim Boyle (basketball) Others *James Boyle (academic) (born 1959), Scottish professo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Boyle (artist)
James Boyle (born 17 May 1944) is a Scottish former gangster and convicted murderer who became a sculptor and novelist after his release from prison. Biography In 1967, Boyle was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of another gangland figure, William "Babs" Rooney. He served fourteen years before his release in 1980. Boyle has always denied killing Rooney but has acknowledged having been a violent and sometimes ruthless moneylender from the Gorbals, one of the roughest and most deprived areas of Glasgow. During his incarceration in the special unit of Barlinnie Prison, he turned to art, with the help of the special unit's art therapist, Joyce Laing. He wrote an autobiography, '' A Sense of Freedom'' (1977), which was later turned into a film of the same name. In 1979, whilst still a prisoner at Barlinnie, he was commissioned to produce a memorial statue of poet William McGonagall. Various difficulties associated with the project meant that the work was never completed. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Boyle
Louise Boyle (February 17, 1910 – December 31, 2005) was an American photographer known for her images documenting the effects of the Great Depression on farm workers in the South, especially African Americans. Life and career Boyle was born in 1910 in Grand Forks, North Dakota, one of two daughters of Effie L. Boyle and James E. Boyle. Her family moved to Ithaca, New York, when she was eight, and she would reside there for most of her adult life. She attended Ithaca High school and went on to graduate from Vassar College. Boyle studied photography for a time in New York City and thereafter opened a commercial and portrait photography business in Ithaca. One of her earlier bodies of documentary work is a set of photographs of Pennsylvania coal miners she took for '' Survey Graphic''. Boyle was a member of a group of young socialists who volunteered to help the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (SFTU). In 1937 she was invited to photograph the life and work of Arkansas members of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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