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Concannon (other spellings Concanen, Concanon, Conceanainn, Con Ceanainn, and Kincannon, among others) is an Irish family name, and may refer to: * Brian Concannon * Brian Concannon (hurler) * Helena Concannon ( Walsh; 1878–1952), politician, historian, author and scholar. * James Concannon (1890–1973), Australian politician * John Concannon * Eóin Concannon (died 1954), king of the Claddagh * Paddy Concannon (1918–2012), president of the ITCCA * Susan Concannon (born 1958), American politician Other spellings * Muirgeas ua Cú Ceanainn (died 1037), king of Uí Díarmata and chief of the name * Richard Luke Concanen (1747–1810), first bishop of New York, 1808–1810 * Edmund Concanon (1816–1902), Irish solicitor and town commissioner * Tomás Bán Ó Conceanainn (1870–1946), writer and historian See also * Concannon Vineyard, a winery in Livermore Valley, California * Kincannon, a surname and variant of Concannon * Uí Díarmata Uí Díarmata was a local king ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Concannon
Brian Concannon, Jr. (born November 18, 1963) is a human rights lawyer and foreign policy advocate. He is the Executive Director of the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (IJDH), which he co-founded in 2004. Concannon also serves as a member of the Editorial Board of ''Health and Human Rights: An International Journal'' at the Harvard School of Public Health, and is a contributor to the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft blog. He is an alumnus of Boston College High School'81, as well as an Ignatius Award winner. He holds an undergraduate degree from Middlebury College and JD from Georgetown Law. He is the recipient of the Wasserstein Public Interest Fellowship from Harvard Law School the Brandeis International Fellowship in Human Rights, Intervention, and International Law and an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Canisius College. Brian has qualified as aexpert witnesson country conditions Haiti in over 40 cases in the U.S. and Canada, appearing on beha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Concannon (hurler)
Brian Concannon (born 1997) is an Irish hurler who plays as a right corner-forward for club side Killimordaly and at inter-county level with the Galway senior hurling team. He usually lines out as a right corner-forward. Playing career NUI Galway As a student at NUI Galway, Concannon has been a regular player on the university's senior hurling team in the Fitzgibbon Cup. Killimordaly Concannon joined the Killimordaly club at a young age and played in all grades at juvenile and underage levels before joining the club's senior team. Galway Minor and under-21 Concannon first played for Galway as a member of the minor hurling team on 26 July 2015. He made his first appearance in a 1-14 to 0-13 All-Ireland quarter-final defeat of Limerick. On 6 September 2015, Concannon scored a goal from right wing-forward in Galway's 4-13 to 1-16 defeat of Tipperary in the All-Ireland final at Croke Park. On 20 August 2016, Concannon made his first appearance for the Galway under-21 team in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helena Concannon
Helena Concannon (; 28 October 1878 – 27 February 1952) was an Irish historian, writer, language scholar and Fianna Fáil politician. Born in Maghera, County Londonderry, she attended secondary school in Dublin in Loreto North Great Georges Street and Loreto Stephen's Green. She attended university at the Royal University of Ireland in Belfast and then the National University of Ireland. She also studied abroad at the Sorbonne University Paris, Berlin University and in Rome. She was Professor of History at University College Galway. In her youth Concannon, as well as her husband, was a member of "The Irish Fireside Club", which in the 1880s was the largest children's association in Ireland where children took responsibility upon themselves to teach others and themselves to make Ireland a better place. Many of her writings were on the subject of Irish women, including ''Canon Sheehan's Woman Characters'' (1910), ''Women of Ninety Eight'' (1919), ''Daughters of Banba'' (1922), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Concannon
James Matthew Concannon (10 November 1890 – 8 August 1973) was an Australian politician. He was born in Sydney to Irish migrant Bartholomew Concannon and Margaret Gilmore. He attended Marist Brothers' College in Darlinghurst and from 1907 to 1927 was a clerk with the Metropolitan Water Sewerage and Drainage Board. In June 1915 he married Arline Clarke, with whom he had three daughters; he would later marry Mary Murielle McBryde on 30 June 1962. In 1925 he was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council The New South Wales Legislative Council, often referred to as the upper house, is one of the two chambers of the parliament of the Australian state of New South Wales. The other is the Legislative Assembly. Both sit at Parliament House in th ... in 1925, and was soon also secretary of the New South Wales Public Service Professional Officers' Association. From 1931 to 1941 he led the Labor Party in the upper house. He retired in 1958 having lost preselection, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Concannon
John Concannon is an Irish businessman, philanthropist, and star of RTÉ's ''The Secret Millionaire''. A native of Kilconly, Tuam, Concannon is the founder of the JFC Group. He left St. Jarlath's school, Tuam, to work on the family farm. In 1987, he invented the Triple Bucket, a product for feeding calves, which was publicised by Gay Byrne on RTÉ's ''The Late Late Show'' that December. The Triple Bucket helped him establish the JFC Group, which over the next thirty-five years helped him become a multi-millionaire, owning factories and sales distribution offices across Ireland, the UK, the Netherlands, Poland, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland and South Africa. In 2011, he participated in RTÉ's ''The Secret Millionaire'', during which he spent a week in west Dublin subsisting on minimum wage and attempting to determine which charity or organisation in the area most deserved financial support. Since then, he has supported Pieta House, which gives aid to people who suffer suicidal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eóin Concannon
Eóin Concannon, died 1954, king of the Claddagh. Biography Concannon was the last of the old-type kings. The Claddagh village had changed greatly during and after World War I, with many of its men joining the British forces, their ships lying idle. By 1941, only eighteen Galway Hookers sailed from the Claddagh. His death signaled the end of the Old Claddagh, and, as the need for a new king did not arise, one was not elected. Only in August 1971, in conjunction with the Claddagh Festival, was a new, honorary king elected. References * ''Where the River Corrib Flows'', Maurice Semple, Galway, 1989. * ''Down by the Claddagh'', Peadar O'Dowd, Galway Galway ( ; ga, Gaillimh, ) is a City status in Ireland, city in the West Region, Ireland, West of Ireland, in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Connacht, which is the county town of County Galway. It lies on the River Corrib between Lo ..., 1993. * ''Galway - A Maritime Tradition:Ships, boats and people'', Brendan O'Donn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paddy Concannon
Patrick Concannon (1918 – 26 February 2012) was an Irish local politician. He was born near Castlerea, County Roscommon in 1918. Towards the end of his life he served as president of the Irish Turf Cutters and Contractors Association. Political career He served as a county councillor for County Roscommon for a total of 46 years starting in 1945. When first elected he was a member of the agrarian party Clann na Talmhan, which was wound up in the 1960s. He was an unsuccessful Clann na Talmhan candidate at the 1957 general election for the Roscommon constituency. He was later elected as a member of Fine Gael and as an independent. Turf Cutters and Contractors Association Concannon was a founder member of the Turf Cutters Association in 1998. This followed the emergence of a threat to turf-cutting when the European Union's Habitats Directive was transposed into Irish law in 1997, and gave protection to raised bogs. The Irish government declared a ten-year derogation, which de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Concannon
Susan Concannon (born July 23, 1958) is an American politician who has served in the Kansas House of Representatives The Kansas House of Representatives is the lower house of the legislature of the U.S. state of Kansas. Composed of 125 state representatives from districts with roughly equal populations of at least 19,000, its members are responsible for craftin ... from the 107th district since 2013. References External linksVote Smart Susan Concannon 1958 births Living people Republican Party members of the Kansas House of Representatives 21st-century American politicians Bethany College (Kansas) alumni {{Kansas-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muirgeas Ua Cú Ceanainn
Muirgeas ua Cú Ceanainn (died 1037) was King of Uí Díarmata. Overview Muirgeas was a grandson of Cú Ceanain mac Tadhg, and seems to have reigned from 1021 to 1037. He was the first member of the Uí Díarmata dynasty to use the name ua Cú Ceanainn in a quasi-surname context. All subsequent kings and lords of Uí Díarmata, to the end of the 16th century, would use it as a surname, latter-day Concannon] Events of his reign in Connacht and Ireland included: *1022 - Death of High King Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill. The Norse of Dublin were defeated by the Ulaid in a naval engagement. ''Very great showers of hail fell in the summer, the stones of which were the size of wild apples; and great thunder and lightning succeeded, so that men and cattle were destroyed throughout Ireland.'' *1023 - ''The Termon of Cluain-mic-Nois was plundered by Gadhra Mór mac Dundach, and carried off many hundred cows from thence.'' King Tadg in Eich Gil of Connacht, fought a war in Uí Briúin * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Luke Concanen
Richard Luke Concanen, O.P. (December 27, 1747 – June 19, 1810), was an Irish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, who served as the first bishop of the Diocese of New York (1808–1810). Life Richard Concanen was born in Kilbegnet, County Galway, then in the Kingdom of Ireland, a descendant of the Uí Díarmata dynasty. He completed his theological studies in Italy at age 17. (note, V.F. O'Daniel says he likely studied at the Dominican College in Louvain before joining the order at the age of eighteen or nineteen, and taking the name of "Luke"). He was ordained a Dominican priest on December 22, 1770, at the Lateran Basilica. He then served as a professor (and later prior) at the Dominican convent of St. Clement's in Rome, librarian of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, and secretary of the Dominican province of Great Britain, while also serving as the agent of the Irish bishops. Concanen was fluent in Italian, and also knew Irish, English, Latin, French, and German. Pope Pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Concanon
Edmund Concanon was Irish solicitor and town commissioner from 1816–1902. Concanon was reputedly descended from the kings of Uí Díarmata. By the 18th century their property was much reduced, and they converted from Catholicism to the established Protestant church. In this was they held onto the remain of the property in the parish of Killascobe; Concanon's father named the family home "Waterloo" in commemoration of Wellington's victory. Because he was a younger son, Concanon did not inherit the family property. He gained employment at the ecclesiastical court of Archbishop Trench in Tuam. In time he acquired properties himself around the town. He set up business as a land agent at The Mall in the early 1850s and within ten years began practising in the local courts. In this capacity, he defended the Fenian, Michael Fahy (Fenian), in 1865. He was also a defence solicitor in the Maamtrasna murders case in 1882. He married a Roman Catholic, Catherine Parsons of Dublin. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomás Bán Ó Conceanainn
Tomás Bán Ó Conceanainn (16 November 1870 – 20 April 1961; Thomas Concannon) was an Irish writer and historian. Life Ó Conceanainn was born in Inis Meáin, a son of Páidín Ó Conceanainn and Anne Ní Fathartaigh. He was educated on the island and at the Patrician national school in Galway. In 1885 he went to the US with his brother, attending Boston College and Liveamore College, California, graduating from Eastman College, New York, with a M.A. in accountancy. He set up practice in Mexico. Returning to Ireland in 1898 on holiday he became involved with the Gaelic League, so much so that he remained in the country as one of its organisers. On a 1905 journey to the USA with Douglas Hyde, they collected twenty thousand dollars. However, they returned it for the relief of San Francisco in the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake. He remained an organiser until 1911. In 1912 PH Pearse attempted to persuade him to recruit backers for Pearse's boys' and girls' bilingual Montes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
