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Deirdre (given Name)
Deirdre is a feminine given name. Deirdre is the name of a tragic heroine of Irish mythology. It is also the name of: People * Deirdre Bair (1935–2020), American literary scholar and biographer * Deirdre Blomfield-Brown (born 1936), American Tibetan Buddhist nun * Deirdre Connelly (born 1961), Puerto Rican business executive, particularly with pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline * Deirdre English (born 1948), American former editor of ''Mother Jones'' and author * Deirdre Hargey, Irish Sinn Féin politician, Minister for Communities within the Northern Ireland Executive, and former Lord Mayor of Belfast * Deirdre Hutton (born 1949), British public servant * Deirdre Lovejoy (born 1962), American actress * Deirdre Madden (born 1960), Irish novelist * Deirdre McCloskey (born 1942), American economist and philosopher * Deirdre Mullins, 21st-century Irish actress, director and activist * Deirdre Sullivan, 21st-century Irish children's writer and poet * Deirdre Wilson (born 1941 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deirdre
Deirdre ( , Irish: ; sga, Derdriu ) is the foremost tragic heroine in Irish legend and probably its best-known figure in modern times. She is known by the epithet "Deirdre of the Sorrows" (). Her story is part of the Ulster Cycle, the best-known stories of pre-Christian Ireland. In legend Deirdre was the daughter of the royal storyteller Fedlimid mac Daill. Before she was born, Cathbad the chief druid at the court of Conchobar mac Nessa, king of Ulster, prophesied that Fedlimid's daughter would grow up to be very beautiful, but that kings and lords would go to war over her, much blood would be shed because of her, and Ulster's three greatest warriors would be forced into exile for her sake. Hearing this, many urged Fedlimid to kill the baby at birth, but Conchobar, aroused by the description of her future beauty, decided to keep the child for himself. He took Deirdre away from her family and had her brought up in seclusion by Leabharcham, a poet and wise woman, and planned to m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deirdre Bair
Deirdre Bair (June 21, 1935 – April 17, 2020) was an American literary scholar and biographer. She won a National Book Award for her biography of Samuel Beckett in 1981. Early life and education Bair was born Deirdre Bartolotta on June 21, 1935 in Pittsburgh. She grew up in nearby Monongahela, Pennsylvania. Her father was a small-business owner, her mother a homemaker. She had one sister and one brother. Bair earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania in 1957. She went on to earn her Master of Arts degree (1968) and Doctor of Philosophy degree (1972), both in comparative literature, at Columbia University. She worked as a stringer for ''Newsweek'' and a reporter for the ''New Haven Register'' before earning her doctorate. Academic career Starting in 1976, Bair served as a professor of comparative literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She resigned in 1988 to write full-time. At various times during her life, Bair served as a vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deirdre Blomfield-Brown
Deirdre ( , Irish: ; sga, Derdriu ) is the foremost tragic heroine in Irish legend and probably its best-known figure in modern times. She is known by the epithet "Deirdre of the Sorrows" (). Her story is part of the Ulster Cycle, the best-known stories of pre-Christian Ireland. In legend Deirdre was the daughter of the royal storyteller Fedlimid mac Daill. Before she was born, Cathbad the chief druid at the court of Conchobar mac Nessa, king of Ulster, prophesied that Fedlimid's daughter would grow up to be very beautiful, but that kings and lords would go to war over her, much blood would be shed because of her, and Ulster's three greatest warriors would be forced into exile for her sake. Hearing this, many urged Fedlimid to kill the baby at birth, but Conchobar, aroused by the description of her future beauty, decided to keep the child for himself. He took Deirdre away from her family and had her brought up in seclusion by Leabharcham, a poet and wise woman, and planned to m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deirdre Connelly
Deirdre P. Connelly (born in 1961) is a Puerto Rican people, Puerto Rican business professional. Connelly is Chairman of the Board of the European Biotech company Genmab A/S, member of the Boards of Macy’s Inc. and the Lincoln Financial Group. Connelly was past President of North America Pharmaceuticals for GlaxoSmithKline from 2009-2015. Connelly is the first woman to hold that title, and one of only two women on GSK's corporate executive team. She is a member of the global Corporate Executive Team and co-chairs the Portfolio Management Board, along with the Chairman of Research and Development. Early years Connelly, the middle child of nine, was born to Irish-American Owen Connelly and Puerto Rican mother Dolores Montecinos in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where she spent the first 18 years of her life. Connolly earned a bachelor's degree in economics and marketing from Lycoming College in Pennsylvania in 1983. She attended Harvard University's six-week Advanced Management Program in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deirdre English
Deirdre English (born 1948) is the former editor of ''Mother Jones'' and author of numerous articles for national publications and television documentaries. She has taught at the State University of New York and currently teaches at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is a faculty mentor at the Center for the Study of the Working Family at the Graduate School of Sociology. English is co-author, with Barbara Ehrenreich, of ''For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts' Advice'' along with a number of pamphlets. She contributed essays to Susan Meiselas's photography book ''Carnival Strippers''. In 1991, her house burned down in the Oakland Hills Fire. Her mother is Fanita English Fanița English (born October 22, 1916 – January 18, 2022) was a Romanian-born American psychoanalyst and psychotherapist. Personal life and education Fanita English was born October 22, 1916, in the city of Galați, Romania. Her parents were .... She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deirdre Hargey
Deirdre Hargey is an Irish Sinn Féin politician and former Department for Communities, Minister for Communities within the Northern Ireland Executive, and a former List of mayors of Belfast, Lord Mayor of Belfast. Hargey was Co-option, co-opted to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 2020 to replace Máirtín Ó Muilleoir. She was appointed as Minister for Communities at the formation of the 6th Executive on 11 January 2020. On 15 June 2020, Carál Ní Chuilín replaced her as minister on a temporary basis, due to Hargey's ill health. References External linksSinn Féin official biography Irish republicans Living people Women ministers of the Northern Ireland Executive Lord Mayors of Belfast Northern Ireland MLAs 2017–2022 Sinn Féin MLAs Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century British women politicians Northern Ireland MLAs 2022–2027 {{SinnFéin-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deirdre Hutton
Dame Deirdre Mary Hutton (born 15 March 1949), is a British public servant, termed by the British media as "Queen of the Quangos" and "The great quango hopper". She was the chair of the UK's Civil Aviation Authority from 2009 to 2020. Early career A former anti-apartheid demonstrator who was once arrested in South Africa, after a short private sector career working for Anchor housing association (1973–75), she then became a researcher for Glasgow Chamber of Commerce (1975–80), before becoming its chair (1980–82). Public appointments Hutton has worked for over 10 major non-departmental public bodies in 30 years. Her first appointment was in 1980 to the Arts Council of Scotland. She developed her career in championing consumer issues within public sector bodies, particularly in health and food standards and regulation, including: Chair of the Foresight Panel on the Food Chain and Crops for Industry; Chair of the Food Chain Centre; member of the 2001–2 Policy Commissio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deirdre Lovejoy
Deirdre Lovejoy (born June 30, 1962) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Assistant State's Attorney Rhonda Pearlman on HBO’s ''The Wire''. She is also known for her roles as a serial killer List of Bones characters#The Gravedigger / Heather Taffet, Heather Taffet (aka "The Gravedigger") on the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox series ''Bones (TV series), Bones'' and White House Counsel Cynthia Panabaker on NBC's series ''The Blacklist (TV series), The Blacklist''. Early life Lovejoy was born in Abilene, Texas. Her father was in the United States Air Force, Air Force and worked from Dyess Air Force Base. Lovejoy lived in Connecticut, then Pittsburgh, before moving with her mother to Elkhart, Indiana, while Lovejoy was still in the fourth grade. Her mother, Marcia Fulmer, met her second husband in Elkhart and worked as Arts and Entertainment editor at ''The Elkhart Truth''. While in the fifth grade, Lovejoy played her first acting role as one of Big Daddy's g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deirdre Madden
Deirdre Madden (born 20 August 1960) is a novelist from Northern Ireland. Career Madden was born in Toomebridge, County Antrim and was educated at St Mary's Grammar School, Magherafelt. She proceeded to Trinity College, Dublin (BA) and then to the University of East Anglia (MA). In 1994 she was Writer-in-Residence at University College, Cork, and in 1997 was Writer Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin. She has travelled widely in Europe and has spent extended periods of time in both France and Italy. Awards Deirdre Madden has won various awards, including the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Somerset Maugham Award and the Hennessy Award. She has been described as "a pivotal voice in Northern Irish writing, her understated yet complex fictions often touching on the religious and political turmoil of the North". Works Novels * ''Hidden Symptoms'' (1986) * ''The Birds of the Innocent Wood'' (1988) * ''Remembering Light and Stone'' (1993) * ''Nothing Is Black'' (1994) * '' One ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deirdre McCloskey
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey (born Donald N. McCloskey; September 11, 1942 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is the distinguished professor of economics, history, english, and communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). She is also adjunct professor of philosophy and classics there, and for five years was a visiting professor of philosophy at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. Since October 2007 she has received six honorary doctorates. In 2013, she received the Julian L. Simon Memorial Award from the Competitive Enterprise Institute for her work examining factors in history that led to advancement in human achievement and prosperity. Her main research interests include the origins of the modern world, the misuse of statistical significance in economics and other sciences, and the study of capitalism, among many others. Career McCloskey earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees in economics at Harvard University. Her dissertation, supervised by Alexander Gerschenkron, on B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deirdre Mullins
Deirdre Mullins is an Irish actress, director and activist. In 2017, she won a Scottish BAFTA for Best Actress in Film for her role in ''The Dark Mile''. Early life and education Born in Dublin, Mullins grew up in Stoneybatter on the city's Northside. Her family moved to the suburb Howth when she was 10. She was head girl at Mount Temple Comprehensive School in Clontarf. She began her studies in Drama and Theatre at Trinity College Dublin. She then transferred to the University of St Andrews where she studied Anthropology and later graduated with a degree in English Literature in 2006. She participated in the Trinity Players and the St Andrews Mermaids. She went on to train at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School from 2006 to 2008 before moving to London. Career Mullins starred as Naomi in the Channel 4 series '' Man Down''. Her theatre work includes playing Rosalind in '' As You Like It'' at Shakespeare's Globe, Lika in Marina Carr's ''16 Possible Glimpses'' at the Abbey The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deirdre Sullivan
Deirdre Sullivan is an Irish children's writer and poet. Early life and education Sullivan was born in Galway. Sullivan went to college and became a teacher working with autistic children. She now lives in Ranelagh in Dublin. Sullivan took a course with Siobhán Parkinson who taught creative writing at Colaiste Mhuire, Marino, Dublin. Her lecturer commissioned her to write her first book. Several of her books have been shortlisted for awards and ''Tangleweed and Brine'' won the 28th CBI Book of the Year Awards The CBI Book of the Year Awards ( ga, Duaiseanna Leabhair na Bliana CBI), previously known as the Bisto Book of the Year Awards, are literary awards presented annually in the Republic of Ireland to writers and illustrators of books for childre ..., written with illustrator Karen Vaughan. Sullivan's first play ''Wake'' debuted in Galway in February 2019. In 2021, her story, "Little Lives" won 'Short Story of the Year' at the Irish Book Awards. Bibliography * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
