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List Of Limerick People
This is a list of notable people who are from Limerick city or county, Ireland, or have strong associations with either. Arts *G. E. M. Anscombe, English philosopher and theologian, born in Limerick *Kevin Barry, author, born in Limerick in 1969 *Tomás de Bhaldraithe (1916–1996), Irish language scholar and lexicographer *David Noel Bourke, screenwriter and film director * Máire Bradshaw, poet and publisher *Vincent Browne, journalist and broadcaster *Mairead Buicke, opera singer *Jimmy Carr, comedian and writer *Denise Chaila, rapper * David Chambers, aka Blindboy Boatclub, satirist, musician, podcaster, author, and TV presenter *Tony Clarkin, actor of stage, television, radio, film; voice-over artist * Michael Curtin, author *Cliodhna Cussen, sculptor *Lawrence Doheny, writer, producer, director of Six Million Dollar Man and Magnum PI *Desmond FitzGerald, 29th Knight of Glin, President of the Irish Georgian Society *David Gleeson, writer and director of the feature films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Limerick
Limerick ( ; ga, Luimneach ) is a western city in Ireland situated within County Limerick. It is in the province of Munster and is located in the Mid-West which comprises part of the Southern Region. With a population of 94,192 at the 2016 census, Limerick is the third-most populous urban area in the state, and the fourth-most populous city on the island of Ireland at the 2011 census. The city lies on the River Shannon, with the historic core of the city located on King's Island, which is bounded by the Shannon and Abbey Rivers. Limerick is also located at the head of the Shannon Estuary, where the river widens before it flows into the Atlantic Ocean. Limerick City and County Council is the local authority for the city. Geography and political subdivisions At the 2016 census, the Metropolitan District of Limerick had a population of 104,952. On 1 June 2014 following the merger of Limerick City and County Council, a new Metropolitan District of Limerick was formed within ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Clarkin (actor)
Tony Clarkin (born 3 November 1952) is an Irish actor. Early life Clarkin was born in Limerick on 3 November 1952, and performed as a child actor in various theatre productions. He attended the boarding school Rockwell College and later acted with the Limerick City College Players. He was a member of the Abbey Theatre school of acting. Career Clarkin is the voice over for Puffs Tissues commercials for American and Canadian television (2000-2010). He has also voiced John West Foods, Guinness, Dollond and Aitchison, Britvic AME, ''William and Mary'' television series, Murphys Beer, Ennio Morricone, The Sunday Times series, Lifescan Europe, Red Bull, Jays New Bloo Fusions. Clarkin narrated The Gilbert Collection at Somerset House. He played Romeo and Prince Escalus in separate productions of ''Romeo and Juliet'', the first of which was at the Gate Theatre in Dublin and was directed and produced by Hilton Edwards and Micheál MacLiammóir. His other stage work includes Hamlet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Hayes (soprano)
Catherine Hayes, married name Catherine Bushnell, (1818? – 11 August 1861) was a world-famous Irish soprano of the Victorian era. According to London's ''Daily Express'', "Hayes was the 'Madonna' of her day; she was the 19th-century operatic equivalent of the world's most famous pop star." Biography Youth in Limerick and education in Dublin and Paris (1818–1845) Hayes was baptised on 8 November 1818, in St Mary's Cathedral, Limerick. She was born of humble Anglo-Irish parentage at 4 Patrick Street, Limerick. Her father was the musician Arthur Williamson Hayes; abandoned the family in 1823, and Catherine Hayes, aged 5, grew up very poor with her mother, Mary Carroll, and sister. Mary Carroll and Arthur Williamson Hayes were married on 18 January 1815, in St Michael's Church, Limerick. They had four children, Henrietta, Charles, Catherine, and William, who were all baptised in St Mary's Cathedral, Limerick. In 1838, her vocal talents attracted the notice of Edmund Knox, the C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Harris
Richard St John Francis Harris (1 October 1930 – 25 October 2002) was an Irish actor and singer. He appeared on stage and in many films, notably as Corrado Zeller in Michelangelo Antonioni's '' Red Desert'', Frank Machin in ''This Sporting Life'', for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, and as King Arthur in the 1967 film ''Camelot'', as well as the 1981 revival of the stage musical. He played an English aristocrat captured by the Sioux in '' A Man Called Horse'' (1970), Oliver Cromwell in ''Cromwell'' (1970), an embattled Irish farmer in Jim Sheridan's '' The Field'' (which earned him a second Academy Award nomination for Best Actor), English Bob in Clint Eastwood's revisionist Western ''Unforgiven'' (1992), Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius in '' Gladiator'' (2000), '' The Count of Monte Cristo'' (2002) as Abbé Faria, and Albus Dumbledore in the first two '' Harry Potter'' films: ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'' (2001) and ''Harry Pott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Griffin
Gerald Griffin ( ga, Gearóid Ó Gríofa; 12 December 1803 – 12 June 1840) was an Irish novelist, poet and playwright. His novel ''The Collegians'' was the basis of Dion Boucicault's play The Colleen Bawn. Feeling he was "wasting his time" writing fiction, he joined the Christian Brothers, a Catholic religious congregation founded by Edmund Ignatius Rice to teach the children of the poor. Biography Early life Gerald Griffin was born in Limerick in 1803, the youngest son of thirteen children of a substantial Catholic farming family. Patrick Griffin, his father, also made a living through brewing, and he participated as one of Grattan's Irish Volunteers. His mother came from the ancient Irish family of the O'Brien's, and first introduced Gerald to English literature. When he was aged seven, Griffin's family moved to Fairy Lawn, a house near Loghill, Co. Clare, which sat on a hill above the bank of the Shannon estuary, about twenty-seven miles from Limerick. Here Griffin had an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Graves (clergyman)
Richard Graves (1763–1829) was a Church of Ireland cleric, theological scholar and author of ''Graves on the Pentateuch''. He was a Doctor of Divinity, one of the seven Senior Fellows of Trinity College, Dublin; a member of the Royal Irish Academy; Regius Professor of Greek (Dublin); and Dean of Ardagh. He was the younger brother of Thomas Ryder Graves, Dean of Ardfert and Connor. Clerical and scholarly background Richard Graves was born at his father's rectory in Kilfannan, near Kilmallock, Co. Limerick, 1 October 1763, the youngest son of Rev. James Graves (1710–1783), "an accurate and well-read scholar and to a mind imbued with classical tastes and acquirements... a conversation enlivened by a natural vivacity and a pointed but inoffensive wit (who) added so much Christian affability and kindness as to render him a general favourite in his own rank of life, and (procuring) him the esteem and affection of his parishioners of every denomination (and whose) society was much ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cowboys & Angels
''Cowboys & Angels'' is an Irish film released on 14 May 2003 at the Cannes Film Market in France. Set in Limerick city, the movie stars Michael Legge as Shane and Allen Leech as Vincent, Shane's gay roommate. The film was directed by David Gleeson, who also directed the gritty Dublin thriller '' The Front Line''. Plot The story concerns a hapless civil servant Shane ( Michael Legge) who gets more than he bargained for when he moves into an apartment with Vincent ( Alan Leech), a gay fashion student. The film sets out to explore the difficulties faced by young people in keeping their identities in a fast moving culture of drugs and clubs. Shane strikes up a friendship with Jerry (Frank Kelly) an elderly civil servant who implores Shane to do more with his life. Shane though is attracted to Vincent's flamboyant easy-going lifestyle. Vincent plans to finish fashion college and move to New York to work on his own fashion line. He takes the uptight Shane under his wing and encourag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Gleeson
David Gleeson (born in Limerick) is an Irish film director and writer. Personal life A native of Cappamore, Co. Limerick, Gleeson is the third generation of his family to enter the film business. His grandfather opened up the Regal Cinema, Cappamore, in the early 1940s, and his father, Eddie Gleeson, took over the business, opening up several more screens across the south west of Ireland, including the Curzon Cinema, Kilmallock, and the Ormond Cineplex, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary. David began his career at the age of nineteen writing and directing non-professional theater in Limerick City with the one-act drama ''Class Control''. A few years later he entered the North Sea oil industry where he worked for five years, chiefly in the Forties Field on the Forties Charlie platform, followed by two years in the Arctic Circle off the coast of Norway onboard the Ocean Alliance. Gleeson met his producing partner and future wife, Nathalie Lichtenthaler, in New York City while attending a f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Georgian Society
The Irish Georgian Society is an architectural heritage and preservation organisation which promotes and aims to encourage an interest in the conservation of distinguished examples of architecture and the allied arts of all periods across Ireland, and records and publishes relevant material. The aims of this membership organisation are pursued by documenting, education, fundraising, grant issuance, planning process participation, lobbying, and member activities; in its first decades, it also conducted considerable hands-on restoration activities. History An earlier ''Georgian Society'' had been set up in part by John Pentland Mahaffy and functioned from 1908 to 1913; it had no direct connection with the current body although the society deems it to be its predecessor. The initial catalyst for the establishment of the modern society was the demolition by the Irish government's Office of Public Works of Georgian houses at numbers 2 and 3 Kildare Place in central Dublin, ostensi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnum PI
''Magnum, P.I.'' is an American crime drama television series starring Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum, a private investigator (P.I.) living on Oahu, Hawaii. The series ran from December 11, 1980 to May 8, 1988 during its first-run broadcast on the American television network CBS. ''Magnum, P.I.'' consistently ranked in the top 20 U.S. television programs in the Nielsen ratings during the first five years of its original run in the United States, finishing as high as number three, that for the 1982–83 season. A remake series of the same name was ordered to series on May 11, 2018, and premiered on September 24, 2018 on CBS. Premise Thomas Sullivan Magnum IV is a private investigator played by Tom Selleck. He lives in the guest house of a beachfront estate called Robin's Nest, in Hawaii, at the invitation of its owner, Robin Masters. Masters is an unseen character and the celebrated author of several dozen lurid novels. Ostensibly this is '' quid pro quo'' for Magnum's servic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Six Million Dollar Man
''The Six Million Dollar Man'' is an American science fiction and action television series, running from 1973 to 1978, about a former astronaut, USAF Colonel Steve Austin, portrayed by Lee Majors. After a NASA test flight accident, Austin is rebuilt with superhuman strength, speed and vision due to bionic implants and is employed as a secret agent by a fictional U.S. government office titled OSI. The series was based on Martin Caidin's 1972 novel ''Cyborg'', which was the working title of the series during pre-production. Following three television films intended as pilots, which all aired in 1973, ''The Six Million Dollar Man'' television series aired on the ABC network as a regular episodic series for five seasons from 1974 to 1978. Steve Austin became a pop culture icon of the 1970s. A spin-off television series, ''The Bionic Woman'', featuring the lead female character Jaime Sommers, ran from 1976 to 1978. Three television movies featuring both bionic characters were also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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