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Fennelly Family
Fennelly is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Aidan Fennelly (born 1981), Gaelic football player from Laois in Ireland * Bill Fennelly (born 1957), the head women's basketball coach at Iowa State University *Brendan Fennelly (born 1956), Irish former hurling manager and retired player *Colin Fennelly (born 1989), Irish hurler *Frank Fennelly (1860–1920), 19th-century Major League Baseball shortstop *Ger Fennelly (born 1954), retired Irish sportsperson * James Mathias Fennelly (1929–2000), Chairman of the Department of Philosophy, Professor of History of Religions at Adelphi University, New York *Keeva Fennelly, camogie player and financial reporter *Kevin Fennelly (born 1955), retired Irish hurling manager and former player * Kevin Fennelly (senior), hurler from County Kilkenny *Leann Fennelly, camogie player and a student, played in the 2009 All Ireland camogie final *Liam Fennelly (born 1958), Irish retired sportsperson *Mary Fennelly, 19th president of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aidan Fennelly
Aidan Fennelly (born 28 August 1981) is a Gaelic footballer from County Laois. He plays for the Portlaoise club. He usually plays at right corner back for Laois and in 2005 was nominated for an All-Star award. In 2003, he was part of the Laois team that won the Leinster Senior Football Championship title for the first time since 1946. Fennelly emerged on to the scene in 1998 as part of the Laois minor team that retained the Leinster Minor Football Championship. He was also on the Laois minor team in 1999 in both hurling and football, captaining the unsuccessful football team bidding for a fourth Leinster Minor Football Championship The Leinster Minor Football Championship is the premier under-17 "knockout" competition in gaelic football played in the province of Leinster. 2017 was the final year of the minor under 18 football championship as it were replaced by an under 17 ... in a row. Fennelly has also won eight Laois Senior Football Championship medals with his club ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liam Fennelly
Liam Fennelly (born 1 January 1958 in Piltown, County Kilkenny, Ireland) is an Irish retired sportsperson. He played hurling with his local club Ballyhale Shamrocks and was a member of the Kilkenny senior inter-county team from 1981 until 1992. Biography Liam Fennelly was born in Piltown, County Kilkenny in 1958. The fifth eldest son of Kevin Fennelly and the former Teresa Hoyne, he was born into a family that had a huge interest in the game of hurling. At the age of three the entire family moved to Ballyhale where they purchased a farm. Here Fennelly was educated at the local national school where his hurling skills were first noted and honed by the local teachers, Peadar O’Neill and Joe Dunphy. His skills were also honed on the family farm where he, along with his six brothers – Michael, Ger, Kevin, Brendan, Seán and Dermot – trained. Playing career Club The Fennellys have a long association with their local Ballyhale Shamrocks club. It was a club which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fennel
Fennel (''Foeniculum vulgare'') is a flowering plant species in the carrot family. It is a hardy, perennial herb with yellow flowers and feathery leaves. It is indigenous to the shores of the Mediterranean but has become widely naturalized in many parts of the world, especially on dry soils near the sea-coast and on riverbanks. It is a highly flavorful herb used in cooking and, along with the similar-tasting anise, is one of the primary ingredients of absinthe. Florence fennel or finocchio (, , ) is a selection with a swollen, bulb-like stem base that is used as a vegetable. Description ''Foeniculum vulgare'' is a perennial herb. It is erect, glaucous green, and grows to heights of up to , with hollow stems. The leaves grow up to long; they are finely dissected, with the ultimate segments filiform (threadlike), about wide. (Its leaves are similar to those of dill but thinner.) The flowers are produced in terminal compound umbels wide, each umbel section having 20–5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fenella (other)
Fenella may refer to: __NOTOC__ People * Fenella Fielding (1927–2018), English actress * Fenella Fudge (formerly Hadingham), BBC Radio newsreader * Fenella Kernebone (born 1976), Australian radio and TV presenter * Fenella Woolgar (born 1969), English actress * Lady Finella (also spelled Fenella; c. 950–995), noblewoman who killed King Kenneth II Fiction * ''The Fate of Fenella'', a Victorian novel by several authors * A character in Walter Scott's ''Peveril of the Peak'' * The eponymous heroine of Auber's opera ''La Muette de Portici'', who was inspired by Walter Scott's Fenella * Fenella Melford, a character in Diana Wynne Jones's ''The Time of the Ghost'' * The eponymous subject of the ''Fenella in ...'' children's books by David Gentleman * An anglicization of Fionnuala, daughter of Lir in Irish mythology and Gaelic feminine given name * Fenella the Kettle Witch, a character from ''Chorlton and the Wheelies'' * Fenella Feverfew, a character in The Worst Witch * Fenella Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seán Fennelly
Seán Fennelly (born 14 December 1959 in Piltown, County Kilkenny) is an Irish former hurler who played with his local club Ballyhale Shamrocks and was a member of the Kilkenny senior inter-county team from 1986 until 1989. Biography Seán Fennelly was born in Piltown, County Kilkenny in 1959. The second youngest son of seven born to Kevin Fennelly and the former Teresa Hoyne, he was born into a family that had a huge interest in the game of hurling. At the age of two the entire family moved to Ballyhale where they purchased a farm. Here Fennelly was educated at the local national school where his hurling skills were first noted and honed by the local teachers, Peadar O’Neill and Joe Dunphy. His skills were also honed on the family farm where he, along with his six brothers – Michael, Ger, Kevin, Brendan, Liam and Dermot – trained. Playing career Club The Fennelly's have a long association with their local Ballyhale Sharmocks club. It was a club which Kevin Fen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parker Fennelly
Parker W. Fennelly (October 22, 1891 – January 22, 1988) was an American character actor who appeared in ten films, numerous television episodes and hundreds of radio programs. Early life The son of gardener Nathan Fennelly and Estelle Dolliver Fennelly, he was born and raised in Northeast Harbor, Maine, and studied classical acting in Boston, where he was a member of the Toy Theater company and participated in Chautauqua readings. He studied under the performing arts educator Leland T. Powers. Stage In 1915 and 1916, Fennelly toured on the Midland Chautauqua Circuit with the Maud Scheerer Shakespeare Players. In 1919, he traveled and acted with the Jack X. Lewis Stock Company. Fennelly and his wife, Catherine Reynolds Fennelly, formed the Parker Fennelly Duo, presenting short plays, readings and impersonations (1921–1923). Fennelly's performances on Broadway included roles in ''Mr. Pitt'' (1924), ''The Small Timers'' (1925), ''Florida Girl'' (1925), ''Babbling Brooke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nial Fennelly
Nial Fennelly (born 3 May 1942) is a retired Irish judge who served as a Judge of the Supreme Court from 2000 to 2014, Advocate General of the European Court of Justice and a Judge of the European Court of Justice from 1995 to 2000. He was educated at Clongowes Wood College, took a degree in economics at University College Dublin and completed his Bar studies at King's Inns. He was a Barrister-at-Law from 1964 to 1995; when he was appointed as a senior counsel, he based himself full-time in Dublin, but when a junior barrister, he worked both there and on the Southeastern circuit. Fennelly was Chairman of the Bar Council of Ireland shortly before his appointment as Advocate General. Fennelly is president of the Irish Society for European Law. Fennelly is the sole member of the "Commission of Investigation (Certain Matters relative to An Garda Síochána and other persons)", commonly called the Fennelly Commission, a commission of investigation established in April 2014 by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Fennelly (hurler)
Michael Fennelly (born 28 February 1985) is an Irish hurling manager and former player. His league and championship career at senior level with the Kilkenny county team lasted twelve seasons from 2006 until 2017. He managed the Offaly senior hurling team between 2019 and 2022. Born in Ballyhale, County Kilkenny, Fennelly was brought up in a family that had a strong association with hurling. His grandfather, Kevin Fennelly Snr, played with Kilkenny in the 1940s, while his uncles - Brendan, Ger, Kevin, Jnr, Liam and Seán - all played for Kilkenny from the 1970s until the 1990s Fennelly first played competitive hurling at juvenile and underage levels with the Ballyhale Shamrocks club. After much success in these grades he later won three All-Ireland medals with the club's senior team. He has also won four Leinster medals and six county senior championship medals. Fennelly made his debut on the inter-county scene at the age of eighteen when he was selected for the Kilkenny m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Fennelly
Mary Fennelly (Máire Ní Fhionnalaigh) was the 19th president of the Camogie Association. Family background She is first cousin of the Fennelly family from Ballyhale, of whose seven brothers four played together to win the 1989 Leinster Senior Club Hurling Championship and four (Kevin, Seán, Ger and Liam) played together in the All Ireland hurling final of 1987. Career She won three All Ireland medals with Kilkenny in 1974, 1976 (when she captained the team), and 1977 (when she won the Kilkenny camogie sports star award) and All Ireland club medals with St Paul's. She won colleges medals with Presentation Secondary School, Kilkenny in the first two years of the competition, 1968 and 1969. In the early 1970s, while in Dublin, she played with Naomh Aoife. She retired as a player in 1980. Administration She first chaired the Kilkenny camogie board while still a player in 1976, seeing affiliations in the county grow at all levels and organising Féile na nGael in Kilkenny i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leann Fennelly
Leann Fennelly (born 1990) is a camogie player and a student, who played in the 2009 All Ireland camogie final. Background Leann's father, Liam, gave distinguished service to Kilkenny in the forward line, whereas she has shown her mettle in the backs. Her father and six of his brothers played together to win the 1989 Leinster Senior Club Hurling Championship and four (Kevin, Seán, Ger and Liam) played together in the All Ireland hurling final of 1987. Her father's cousin Mary captained the 1976 Kilkenny All Ireland team and served as President of the Camogie Association. Career She already has six All-Ireland medals in her collection – one Under-16, three Minor, one Colleges and one Intermediate from 2008. Her senior debut was in 2009.All Ireland camogie final programme 2009 References External links Official Camogie WebsiteKilkenny Camogie Websiteof 2009 championship in On The Ball Official Camogie Magazinefor the 2009 O'Duffy Cup The O'Duffy Cup ( ga, Corn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Fennelly
William Michael Fennelly (born May 14, 1957) is an American basketball coach who is currently the head women's basketball coach at Iowa State University. Coaching career Assistant coach (1977–1986) While a student at William Penn College, Fennelly became a volunteer assistant coach with the William Penn women's basketball team in 1977. After graduating with a bachelor's degree in business administration and economics in 1979, Fennelly became a full-time assistant coach with William Penn. Fennelly moved up to the Division I level as an assistant coach at Fresno State from 1981 to 1986 and Notre Dame from 1986 to 1988. Toledo (1988–1995) At the University of Toledo, Fennelly was head coach from 1988 to 1995 and had a cumulative record of 166–53, with a .758 winning percentage that remains the best in the Mid-American Conference. He had six seasons with 20 or more wins and six postseason tournament berths. Toledo made the National Women's Invitational Tournament in 1989, 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Fennelly (senior)
Kevin Fennelly was a hurler from County Kilkenny who played for his local club Ballyhale Shamrocks and at senior level for the Kilkenny county team during the 1940s. After his playing days, Fennelly remained involved with his club Shamrocks, serving as trainer, chairman, treasurer and trustee. His contributions to the sport are commemorated in the form of the ''Kevin Fennelly Memorial Cup''. A farmer by trade, Fennelly purchased land in the town of Ballyhale along with his wife Theresa Hoyne in the early 1960s. It was here that he raised his family, and seven of his sons went on to play hurling for club and county - Michael, Seán, Ger, Kevin, Brendan, Liam Liam is a short form of the Irish name Uilliam or the old Germanic name William. Etymology The original name was a merging of two Old German elements: ''willa'' ("will" or "resolution"); and ''helma'' ("helmet"). The juxtaposition of these elem ... and Dermot. References Year of birth missing Year of death missi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
