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Clancy
Clancy is an Irish name coming from the Gaelic ''Mac Fhlannchaidh/Mac Fhlannchadha'', meaning "Son of the red/ruddy warrior" (Mac being for sons, ''Ní Fhlannchaidh/Ní Fhlannchadha'' would be for daughters), or as a hypocorism for Clarence. Notable people with the name include: As a first name * Clancy Barone, American football coach * Clancy Brown, American actor and comedian * Clancy Chassay, English journalist * Clancy Cooper, American actor * Clancy Eccles, Jamaican reggae singer * Clancy Edwards, American track and field sprinter * Clancy Fernando, Sri Lankan admiral * Clancy Hayes, American singer * Clancy O'Connor, American actor * Clancy Pendergast, American football coach * Clancy Rudeforth, Australian rules footballer * Clancy Sigal, American writer * Clancy Smyres, American baseball player * Clancy Williams, American footballer As a last name * Abigail Clancy, English model * Al Clancy, American baseball player * Bobby Clancy, Irish folk musician, one of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abigail Clancy
Abigail Marie Clancy (born 10 January 1986) is an English lingerie and catwalk model, and television personality. She was the runner-up of ''Britain's Next Top Model (cycle 2)'' in 2006 and won series 11 of ''Strictly Come Dancing'' in 2013. Since 2015 she has been presenting ''Britain's Next Top Model''. Early life Clancy was born in Liverpool, the second oldest of four children of Karen (née Sullivan) and Geoffrey Thomas Clancy. She grew up in Woolton, a suburb of Liverpool, and attended St Mary's Primary School and St Julie's Catholic High School. Clancy formed girl band ''Genie Queen'', who were managed by Andy McCluskey from Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD). Career Modelling In summer 2006, the second cycle of Living TV's ''Britain's Next Top Model'' included Clancy as one of the thirteen finalists in the competition, competing over 10 weeks for a modelling contract. Clancy made it to the final runway show with fellow contestant Lianna Fowler, eventually becoming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Clancy (rugby Union)
George Clancy is an Irish rugby union referee. Clancy refereed at the 2011 and 2015 Rugby World Cups. He has also refereed in the Pro14, the European Rugby Champions Cup, the Six Nations Championship and the Rugby Championship. Clancy refereed the 2007 Churchill Cup final and the 2009 and 2011 European Challenge Cup finals. Between 2013 and 2017 Clancy also served as a touch judge/assistant referee at five consecutive European Rugby Champions Cup finals. Early life George Clancy is the son of Seoirse and Helen Clancy. He was raised in Bruff and he is the great grandnephew of George Clancy, a former Mayor of Limerick killed during the Irish War of Independence. Clancy was educated at St Munchin's College, where his fellow pupils included Marcus Horan and Jerry Flannery. He played rugby union for both St Munchin's and Bruff R.F.C. He also played both gaelic football and hurling for Bruff GAA. Clancy also represented Limerick at hurling. Clancy only gave up playing hurling when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Clancy
Robert Joseph 'Bobby' Clancy Jr (11 May 1927 – 6 September 2002) was an Irish singer and musician best known as a member of The Clancy Brothers, one of the most successful and influential Irish folk groups. He accompanied his songs on five-string banjo, guitar, bodhrán, and harmonica. Early years Bobby Clancy was born in Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary, Ireland to Robert J. Clancy and Johanna McGrath. He was the twin brother of Joan Clancy. Clancy left home in the late 1940s to join the Royal Air Force (RAF) where he travelled all over Europe, including Greece and Egypt where he learned many folk songs. He later joined his older brothers Paddy Clancy and Tom Clancy in New York City, where they worked as actors. The trio would sometimes sing, informally beginning the group later known as the Clancy Brothers. In 1955 Bobby returned to Ireland to settle down and run his father's insurance business. While his youngest brother Liam Clancy took his place in America and off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finbarr Clancy
Finbarr Clancy (born 5 March 1970) is an Irish folk singer and multi-instrumentalist. Early in his career he performed with The Clancy Brothers. He later became a member of the group The High Kings. Birth and family Finbarr Clancy was the only son born to folk musician Bobby Clancy and Moira Mooney in County Tipperary, Ireland. Bobby Clancy, who was touring with the Clancy Brothers at the time, announced Finbarr's birth on David Frost's television talk show. Finbarr is the nephew of the popular folk singers, Liam Clancy, Paddy Clancy, and Tom Clancy, who helped to spark the Irish folk music revival of the 1960s. Like the Clancy Brothers, he grew up in Carrick-on-Suir in County Tipperary. Finbarr has sometimes performed with his sister, folk singer Aoife Clancy, and his brother-in-law, Welsh singer Ryland Teifi (the husband of his sister, Roisin). He married Gráinne Butler in 2008. Early career Clancy made his debut at age ten, playing the banjo and singing. In the mid-199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clancy Sigal
Clancy Sigal (September 6, 1926 – July 16, 2017) was an American writer, and the author of dozens of essays and seven books, the best-known of which is the autobiographical novel ''Going Away'' (1961). Early life and education Sigal was born in Chicago, Illinois, to a poor family. His father, Leo Sigal, and mother, Jennie Persily, were both labor organizers; He "acquired his chutzpah and resilience in 30s Chicago," Kim Howells wrote in ''The Guardian,'' "raised by his tough Jewish mother in a neighborhood blighted by gangsters, poverty and violence." He later wrote a book about his mother, ''A Woman of Uncertain Character'' (2007). There he describes joining the Communist Party at 15. Marc Cooper, reviewing the book for the ''Los Angeles Times,'' explained that "Nothing, he figured, could be a greater affront to Jennie, who was an ardent socialist but an even more ardent anti-Communist." During World War II, "The army saved my life," he later wrote. The high point of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clancy Eccles
Clancy Eccles (9 December 1940 in Dean Pen, St. Mary, Jamaica – 30 June 2005 in Spanish Town, Jamaica)Katz was a Jamaican ska and reggae singer, songwriter, arranger, promoter, record producer and talent scout. Known mostly for his early reggae works, he brought a political dimension to this music. His house band was known as The Dynamites. Biography Son of a tailor and builder, Eccles spent his childhood in the countryside of the parish of Saint Mary. Eccles had an itinerant childhood due to his father's need to travel Jamaica seeking work. He used to regularly attend church, and he became influenced by spiritual singing; In his words: "One of my uncles was a spiritual revivalist, who always did this heavy type of spiritual singing, and I got to love that".Barrow, p.109 Eccles's professional singing career began as a teenager, working the north-coast hotel circuit in the mid-1950s. In his late teens, he moved to Ocho Rios, where he performed at night in various shows, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clancy Brown
Clarence John "Clancy" Brown III (born January 5, 1959) is an American actor. Prolific in film and television since the 1980s, Brown is often cast in villainous and authoritative roles. Brown's film roles include Viking Lofgren in ''Bad Boys'' (1983), The Kurgan in '' Highlander'' (1986), Sheriff Gus Gilbert in '' Pet Sematary Two'' (1992), Capt. Byron Hadley in ''The Shawshank Redemption'' (1994), Sgt. Charles Zim in ''Starship Troopers'' (1997), and Stanley Thomas in ''Promising Young Woman'' (2020). On television, he has played Brother Justin Crowe on the HBO series ''Carnivàle'' (2003–2005), Waylon "Jock" Jeffcoat on the Showtime series '' Billions'' (2018–2019), and Kurt Caldwell on the Showtime series '' Dexter: New Blood'' (2021–2022). Brown provided the voices of Mr. Krabs on ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' (1999–present) and Lex Luthor in the DC Animated Universe (1996–2006), and several subsequent DC Comics animated projects. Other characters he has voiced include ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Clancy
Dave Clancy (born 9 September 1978) is an English ice hockey goaltender, who most recently played for the Flintshire Freeze in the ENL. Clancy began his career playing at deeside junior ice hockey club. Then worked his way up to play some games for the senior team. He then left the club to go and play for the Altrincham Tigers at Under-19 level. He backstopped the Tigers to a national tournament win in Cardiff, claiming the 'Goalie of the Tournament' award along the way. Clancy was also selected for the Team G.B. U-20 squad the same year, but was unavailable to travel with the squad. After spending time with the Flintshire Freeze, and establishing himself as their first choice goaltender, Clancy signed for the Manchester Phoenix in the summer of 2003. It would be the team's inaugural season in the EIHL but Clancy was mainly used as a back-up to first choice goaltender Jayme Platt. He played in games with the Phoenix holding a shut out to win in London against the London Rac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Clancy (politician)
George Clancy (18 March 1881 – 7 March 1921; also known as Seoirse Mac Fhlannchadha), was an Irish nationalist politician and Mayor of Limerick. He was shot dead in Limerick by Royal Irish Constabulary Auxiliaries in 1921 during the Irish War of Independence. The previous Mayor, Michael O'Callaghan, was assassinated on the same night by the same group. Life Clancy was born at Grange, County Limerick. He was educated at Crescent College, Limerick, and thereafter at the Catholic University in St Stephen's Green, now University College Dublin. Among his friends at the university were James Joyce, Francis Sheehy-Skeffington and Tom Kettle. He helped form a branch of the Gaelic League at college and persuaded his friends, including Joyce, to take lessons in Irish. He played hurling and was a good friend of Michael Cusack. With Arthur Griffin he joined the Celtic Literary Society. Ellmann, Richard, ''James Joyce''. Oxford University Press, 1959, revised edition 1982. . p. 61 He gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Clancy (other)
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Edward Clancy may refer to: * Edward Clancy (cardinal) (1923–2014), Australian Roman Catholic * Edward J. Clancy Jr., American mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts * Ed Clancy (born 1985), British bicycle racer * Ed and Betty Clancy, co-founders of the Clancy's, a famous restaurant in New Orleans See also * Bill Clancy (William Edward Clancy, 1879–1948), baseball player * Clancy (other) * Edward (other) Edward is an English given name. Edward may also refer to: * ''Edward'' (ballad), a traditional murder ballad * ''Edward'' (EP), by British singer-songwriter Emmy the Great * Edward (mango), a mango cultivar * Lake Edward, the smallest of the Gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire Clancy
Dame Claire Elizabeth Clancy DCB DL (born 14 March 1958) was Chief Executive and Clerk to the National Assembly for Wales, from February 2007 until April 2017. Background She attended Dartford Grammar School for Girls, has a degree in psychology from the Open University and owns a farm near Abergavenny. Career Clancy has spent many years working within public sector organisations. Before she joined the Assembly Commission, she was Chief Executive of Companies House and Registrar of Companies for England and Wales. She joined Companies House in April 2002 from the Patent Office, where she was responsible for Corporate Services. As Chief Executive, Clancy was responsible for the overall direction and leadership of the Agency. She was accountable to DTI and its Ministers for the performance and finances of Companies House. She also had the formal statutory role of Registrar of Companies for England and Wales, and was the first woman to hold this position in over 150 years. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boetius Clancy
Boetius Clancy or MacClancy (died April 1598) was a 16th-century Irish landowner, MP and High Sheriff. He was born in Co Clare, the son of Hugh Clancy, and was the great-grandson of Murtagh MacClancy of Cnoc-Finn (Knockfin). The MacClancy family were the hereditary lawyers or brehons of Thomond. Boetius was well educated and fluent in Latin and English. He inherited and lived at the family seat, the castle at Knockfin, near the famous law school in the parish of Killilagh in County Clare. In 1585 he was the representative of the newly formed County Clare in the Parliament of Ireland and in 1588 appointed High Sheriff of Clare. In that year (1588) the Spanish Armada was trying to make its way home through severe storms off the west coast of Ireland and many ships were wrecked or abandoned. Clancy had been advised by William Fitzwilliam, the Lord Deputy that "… we authorise you to make inquiry by all good means, both by oath and otherwise, to take all the hulls of ships, stores ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
