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Gerry Murphy (entrepreneur)
Gerry Murphy is an Irish entrepreneur, author and activist. He is best known as a social entrepreneur and for founding Great Gas Petroleum in 2005 and subsequently writing the book ''The Accidental Entrepreneur: How We Turned €3,749 into a €100 million business in Three Years'' published by Orpen Press in 2014. In 2001, Murphy was awarded the Cork Person of the Year for his contribution to the renewal of his local community of Churchtown. Early life and education Murphy was born in Churchtown, County Cork in 1954. Career Murphy joined Bank of Ireland in October 1972 as a bank assistant and later became manager of the bank's advertising function at its head office in Dublin. In 1989, after 17 years, he resigned from Bank of Ireland and joined First National Building Society where he became an executive director. In 1998, he became a Fellow of the Institute of Bankers in Ireland. He also held directorships in Guaranteed Irish, Sherry FitzGerald and the state-owned fertili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Churchtown, County Cork
Churchtown () is a village in County Cork, Republic of Ireland. The Irish name is Brugh/Brú Thuinne meaning Great House of the Pastureland. Churchtown is within the Cork North-West (Dáil constituency), Cork North-West Dáil constituency. Etymology According to the Journal of the Ivernian Society, Churchtown is a translation of Baile an Teampuill, the former ecclesiastical name of the parish which had replaced the non- ecclesiastical Brú Thuinne – the ‘Royal House of the Pasture Lands’. The name of the parish, Brú Thuinne, has been the subject of much debate. Some scholars suggest that it is Brúgh, ‘a habitation’. Patrick Weston Joyce defines Brúgh as ‘a mansion’. Reverend Canon J.F. Lynch states: ‘Bruhenny is a diminutive form of Bruach, border or edge, and it is named Brochoyn and Bruchhane in the Pipe Roll of Cloyne.’ Others have identified the parish as ‘the marshy part of Orrery in County Cork’, leading to speculation that part of the name may ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cork Person Of The Year
The Cork Person of the Year awards were founded in 1993 to recognise outstanding achievements by people from Cork. Each year 12 Cork persons of the month are chosen, although some months multiple people in the same area are selected. Then, in January of the following year the overall Cork person(s) of the year are selected from this group. Previous Winners References {{reflist Cork (city) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guaranteed Irish
Guaranteed Irish is an Irish nonprofit business membership organisation representing indigenous and international businesses operating in Ireland. The Guaranteed Irish symbol is awarded to companies which create "quality" jobs, contribute to local communities and are "committed to Irish provenance". The members of Guaranteed Irish span all sectors including pharmaceutical; healthcare; technology; construction; energy; professional services; tourism; food and drink; art and design; retail; and more. When assessing an applicant for membership, the Appraisals Board of Guaranteed Irish looks at three core criteria; ''jobs, community and provenance'.'' According to research published in February 2018, member companies of Guaranteed Irish directly employed 49,873 people in Ireland and generated a turnover of €11 billion in Ireland in 2017. Globally, these companies generated a turnover of €25.84 billion in 2017, with 46% of members exporting, primarily to the UK, US and mainlan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bloom (2003 Film)
''Bloom'' is a 2003 Irish film written and directed by Sean Walsh, based on the 1922 novel ''Ulysses'' by James Joyce. The film premiered at the 2003 Taormina Film Festival. Angeline Ball won the award for "Best Actress in a Film" at the Irish Film and Television Awards. The soundtrack was written and produced by David Kahne. Premise ''Bloom'' takes place on 16 June 1904 and attempts to make a visual reconstruction of Joyce's stream of consciousness style. Cast * Stephen Rea as Leopold Bloom * Angeline Ball as Molly Bloom * Hugh O'Conor as Stephen Dedalus * Mark Huberman as Haines * Eoin McCarthy as Blazes Boylan * Alvaro Lucchesi as Buck Mulligan * Patrick Bergin Patrick Connolly Bergin (born 4 February 1951) is an Irish actor and singer perhaps best known for his leading role opposite Julia Roberts in ''Sleeping with the Enemy'' (1991), the title character in Robin Hood (1991 film), terrorist Kevin O ... as Citizen References External links * * * 2003 films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulysses (novel)
''Ulysses'' is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. Parts of it were first serialized in the American journal ''The Little Review'' from March 1918 to December 1920, and the entire work was published in Paris by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, Joyce's 40th birthday. It is considered one of the most important works of modernist literature and has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement." According to Declan Kiberd, "Before Joyce, no writer of fiction had so foregrounded the process of thinking". ''Ulysses'' chronicles the appointments and encounters of the itinerant Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of an ordinary day, 16 June 1904. Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus, the hero of Homer's epic poem the ''Odyssey'', and the novel establishes a series of parallels between the poem and the novel, with structural correspondences between the characters and experiences of Bloom and Odysseus, Molly Bloom and Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Joyce's novel ''Ulysses'' (1922) is a landmark in which the episodes of Homer's ''Odyssey'' are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, particularly stream of consciousness. Other well-known works are the short-story collection ''Dubliners'' (1914), and the novels ''A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'' (1916) and ''Finnegans Wake'' (1939). His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, letters, and occasional journalism. Joyce was born in Dublin into a middle-class family. He attended the Jesuit Clongowes Wood College in County Kildare, then, briefly, the Christian Brothers-run O'Connell School. Despite the chaotic family life imposed by his father's unpredictable finances, he excelled at the Jesuit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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