Jonah Barrington (County Limerick)
Jonah Barrington is the name of: * Jonah Barrington (judge) (1760–1834), Irish judge and memoirist * Jonah Barrington (journalist) (1904–1986), pen name of Cyril Carr Dalmain, who coined the term Lord Haw Haw * Jonah Barrington (squash player) Jonah Barrington MBE (born 29 April 1941) is a retired Irish/English squash player, originally from Morwenstow, Cornwall, England. A Cornish-born Irish squash player, Barrington won the British Open (which was considered to be the effective w ...

Jonah Barrington (judge)
Sir Jonah Barrington, K.C. (1756/57 – 8 April 1834), was an Irish lawyer, judge and politician. Jonah Barrington is most notable for his amusing and popular memoirs of life in late 18th-century Ireland; for his opposition to the Act of Union in 1800; and for his removal from the judiciary by both Houses of Parliament in 1830, still a unique event. Barrington family Barrington was the third son, one of thirteenW. N. Osborough, ‘Barrington, Sir Jonah (1756/7–1834)’ ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004 or sixteen children; six at least, and probably seven, were sons; of John Barrington, an impoverished Protestant gentleman landowner in County Laois and his wife Sibella French of Peterswell, Co. Galway. He was raised and schooled by his grandparents in Dublin and entered Trinity College Dublin in 1773, aged 16 but he left Trinity College without a degree. He joined the Irish Volunteers and supported the Irish Patriots in the ea ...
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Jonah Barrington (journalist)
Jonah Barrington was the pseudonym of Cyril Carr Dalmaine (20 August 1904–21 September 1986) the radio critic of the ''Daily Express'', a British newspaper, during the Second World War. He is especially known as being the person who first used the term "Lord Haw-Haw" to describe a German radio broadcaster: He speaks English of the haw-haw, damn-it-get-out-of-my-way variety, and his strong suit is gentlemanly indignation. Early life and education Dalmaine studied at Eastbourne College and graduated from the Royal College of Music. Career Dalmaine was music master at Uppington School and chorus master to the BBC. He composed chamber music, and he transcribed cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach for piano. Jonah Barrington was also a record presenter in the pre-1955 days. He was responsible for the "discovery" of the then-deceased Italian tenor, Alessandro Valente. At a time when the great Swedish tenor Jussi Björling's recording of "Nessun dorma "" (; English: "Let ...
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