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List Of People From Sligo
Sligo, a town in the north-west of Ireland and county town of County Sligo, has produced noted artists, authors, entertainers, politicians and business-people. Music *Perry Blake, singer and songwriter * Tabby Callaghan, musician, ''The X Factor'' finalist * Michael Coleman, musician *Thomas Connellan, harper/composer *William Connellan, harper/composer *Kian Egan, member of Westlife *Mark Feehily, member of Westlife *Shane Filan, member of Westlife * Tommy Fleming, singer *Carmel Gunning, traditional Irish musician and singer *Paddy Killoran, musician *Naisse Mac Cithruadh, musician *Maisie McDaniel, Irish country and showband singer * James Morrison, musician *Seamie O'Dowd, multi-instrumentalist and former member of Dervish *Mary O'Hara, singer and harpist *Lisa Stanley, Irish country singer/songwriter and daughter of Maisie McDaniel Arts and literature *Leland Bardwell, poet, novelist and playwright *Mary Colum, literary critic and author *Owen Connellan, scholar, RI ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sligo
Sligo ( ; ga, Sligeach , meaning 'abounding in shells') is a coastal seaport and the county town of County Sligo, Ireland, within the western province of Connacht. With a population of approximately 20,000 in 2016, it is the List of urban areas in the Republic of Ireland by population, largest urban centre in the county, with Sligo Municipal district (Ireland), Borough District constituting 61% (38,581) of the county's population of 63,000. Sligo is a commercial and cultural centre situated on the west coast of Ireland. Its surrounding coast and countryside, as well as its connections to the poet W. B. Yeats, have made it a tourist destination. History Etymology Sligo is the anglicisation of the Irish name ''Sligeach'', meaning "abounding in shells" or "shelly place". It refers to the abundance of shellfish found in the river and its estuary, and from the extensive shell middens in the vicinity. The river now known as the River Garavogue, Garavogue ( ga, An Ghairbhe-og), per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maisie McDaniel
Maisie McDaniel (28 October 1939 – 28 June 2008) was an Irish country and showband singer and the mother of Lisa Stanley. Early life and family Maisie McDaniel was born Mary Anne McDaniel in Kensington, London, England on 28 October 1939. Her parents were Paddy McDaniel, originally from Sligo, and Lizzie (née Wynne). She had three sisters and two brothers. Soon after her birth, the family returned to Sligo and McDaniel grew up in Garavogue Villas, Sligo. She attended the Sisters of Mercy convent school, and after leaving began her career as a singer. Career Along with her sisters, McDaniel was a successful singer at the local feiseanna and in An Tóstal in Drumshanbo, County Leitrim in the late 1950s. For her first tour of England, her father booked her gigs at Irish clubs across the country, with the show business impresario George O'Reilly becoming her manager after that initial tour. It was O'Reilly that combined McDaniel with the Fendermen as a backing group, and sugge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Leyden
Brian Leyden (born 1960) is an Irish writer from Arigna, County Roscommon and currently living in County Sligo. He has published the best selling memoir ''The Home Place'', the short story collection ''Departures'', and the novel ''Death and Plenty''. He won the RTÉ Radio 1 Francis MacManus Award in 1988 for ''The Last Mining Village''. He has written extensively about his home area for RTÉ's Sunday Miscellany and the Documentary on One: ''No Meadows in Manhattan'', ''Even the Walls Were Sweatin’'', ''The Closing of the Gaiety Cinema in Carrick-on-Shannon'' and '' Practical Rooms and Pre-Fabs''. He co-wrote the original screenplay for the feature film ''Black Ice'', which premiered at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2013. Early and Working Life Brian Leyden grew up in the coal mining valley of Arigna Arigna (, formerly ''Cairn An Ailt''), is a village in County Roscommon, Ireland. It is near Lough Allen (on the Shannon-Erne Waterway), on a designa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Crying Game
''The Crying Game'' is a 1992 thriller film written and directed by Neil Jordan, produced by Stephen Woolley, and starring Stephen Rea, Miranda Richardson, Jaye Davidson, Adrian Dunbar, Ralph Brown, and Forest Whitaker. The film explores themes of race, sex, nationality, and sexuality against the backdrop of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The film follows Fergus (Rea), a member of the IRA, who has a brief but meaningful encounter with a British soldier, Jody (Whitaker), who is being held prisoner by the group. Fergus later develops an unexpected romantic relationship with Jody's lover, Dil (Davidson), whom Fergus promised Jody he would take care of. Fergus is forced to decide between what he wants and what his nature dictates he must do. A critical and commercial success, ''The Crying Game'' won the BAFTA Award for Best British Film as well as the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, alongside Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Rea, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Jordan
Neil Patrick Jordan (born 25 February 1950) is an Irish film director, screenwriter, novelist and short-story writer. His first book, '' Night in Tunisia'', won a Somerset Maugham Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1979. He won an Academy Award (Best Original Screenplay) for ''The Crying Game'' (1992). He has also won three Irish Film and Television Awards, as well as the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival for ''Michael Collins'' (1996) and the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival for '' The Butcher Boy'' (1997). Jordan also created '' The Borgias'' (2011 TV series) for Showtime and Riviera (2017 TV series) for Sky Atlantic. Early life Jordan was born in Sligo, the son of Angela (née O'Brien), a painter, and Michael Jordan, a professor. He was educated at St. Paul's College, Raheny. Later, Jordan attended University College Dublin, where he studied Irish history and English literature. He graduated in 1972 with a B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thady Connellan
Thady Connellan ( ga, Tadhg Ó Coinnialláinn) (1780–1854) was an Irish school-teacher, poet and historian. Life He was born in Skreen, County Sligo, and was a relative of the scholar Owen Connellan. He started a school of his own, but had more success when he became principal of a school established by Albert Blest, a Baptist, in Greenville, Coolaney Coolaney () is a village in County Sligo, Ireland. Coolaney sits at the foot of the Ox Mountains with the river Owen Beg running through it around which is a walk. The remains of an old mill are located along the riverside walk, and the remains ..., in the early 1800s. Like his relative Owen he left the Catholic church and embraced Protestantism. Among other works he produced an Irish-English dictionary and edited a series of song-books.Ó hAilín, T. (1968) "The Irish Society and Tadhg Ó Coinnialláin." Studia Hibernica, No 8., pp 60-78. He died at Sligo, on 25 July 1854. References ;Attribution 1780 births 185 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owen Connellan
Owen Connellan (1797 – 4 August 1871) was an Irish scholar who translated the Annals of the Four Masters into English in 1846. Life He was born in County Sligo, the son of a farmer who claimed descent from Lóegaire mac Néill, High King of Ireland in the fifth century. He studied Irish literature and obtained employment as a scribe with the Royal Irish Academy. Over the following twenty years he copied a great part of the Books of Lecan and Ballymote. When King George IV visited Ireland Connellan translated his "Letter to the Irish people" into Irish, and was appointed Irish historiographer to the king. When Queen's College was opened he was appointed professor of Irish at Cork. Despite some issues with the college president, Robert Kane, he held the chair until 1863. He lived for many years in Dublin and died at his house in Burlington Road in 1871. His most important work was ''Imtheacht na Tromdhaimhe, or, The proceedings of the great Bardic Institution'', which r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Colum
Mary Catherine Gunning Colum ( Maguire; 13 June 1884 – 22 October 1957) was an Irish literary critic and author, who also co-founded a literary journal. Biography Mary Catherine Gunning Maguire was born in Collooney, County Sligo, the daughter of Charles Maguire and Catherine (Gunning) Maguire. Her mother died in 1895, leaving her to be reared by her grandmother, also named Catherine, in Ballisodare, County Sligo. She attended boarding school at St Louis' Convent, Monaghan. Educated at Royal University, Trinity she was founder of the Twilight Literary Society which led her to meet W. B. Yeats. She regularly attended the Abbey Theatre and was a frequent visitor amongst the salons, readings and debates there. After graduation in 1909, she taught with Louise Gavan Duffy at St Ita's (companion school to Patrick Pearse's St Enda's School). She was active with Thomas MacDonagh and others in nationalist and cultural causes. She co-founded ''The Irish Review'' (1911–14) wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leland Bardwell
Constan Olive Leland Bardwell (25 February 1922 – 28 June 2016) was an Irish poet, novelist, and playwright. She was part of the literary scene in London and later Dublin, where she was an editor of literary magazines ''Hibernia'' and ''Cyphers (magazine), Cyphers''. She published five volumes of poetry, novels, plays and short stories, for which she received the Marten Toonder Award and the Dede Korkut Short Story Award from Turkish PEN. In later life, she moved to Sligo, where she co-founded the Scríobh Literary Festival. Her memoir ''A Restless Life'' details her difficult upbringing and her experiences in London and Dublin. Early life Bardwell was born Constan Olive Leland Hone in India to Irish parents William Hone and Mary Collise, and moved to Ireland at the age of two. Her father's family were of the Anglo-Irish people, Anglo-Irish Hone family. Bardwell had a difficult childhood growing up in Leixlip, County Kildare. She was educated at Alexandra College and brief ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Stanley
Lisa Stanley (born 12 March 1973) is an Irish singer, songwriter, and presenter, based in the UK and Ireland. Stanley was born in Sligo, Ireland, and is the only child of Irish entertainers Maisie McDaniel and Fintan Stanley. Early career Stanley's career started in the 1990s when she joined the Sligo-based wedding band, The Treetops. In the late 1990s she made her first national performance at the Cavan International Song Contest. In 2000, she sang her own composition, ''Shine'', in the National Song Contest, making it to the "top eight". The following year, she sang the same song at the Baltic Song Contest which took place in Karlshamn, Sweden. In 2004, Stanley toured the country with "Dancehall Queues and Hucklebuck Shoes", a show which featured the "grown-up children of .stars of the famed Showband era". She made appearances in various television shows and released her first album. Albums Stanley's second solo album was titled ''Love Me A Little Bit Longer''. She was vote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harpist
The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, standing or sitting, and in orchestras or concerts. Its most common form is triangular in shape and made of wood. Some have multiple rows of strings and pedal attachments. Ancient depictions of harps were recorded in Current-day Iraq (Mesopotamia), Iran (Persia), and Egypt, and later in India and China. By medieval times harps had spread across Europe. Harps were found across the Americas where it was a popular folk tradition in some areas. Distinct designs also emerged from the African continent. Harps have symbolic political traditions and are often used in logos, including in Ireland. History Harps have been known since antiquity in Asia, Africa, and Europe, dating back at least as early as 3000 BCE. The instrument had great popularity in Europe during t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary O'Hara
Mary O'Hara (born 12 May 1935) is an Irish soprano and harpist from County Sligo. She gained attention on both sides of the Atlantic in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Her recordings of that period influenced a generation of Irish female singers who credit O'Hara with influencing their style, among them Carmel Quinn, Mary Black, and Moya Brennan. In his autobiography ''Memoirs of an Irish Troubadour'' (2002), Liam Clancy wrote how her music inspired and influenced him and others of the Folk Revival period. Early life and career Mary O'Hara is the daughter of Major John Charles O'Hara, an officer in the British Corps of Royal Engineers, and his wife, Mai (née Kirwan). One of her sisters was actress Joan O'Hara, and her nephew is playwright Sebastian Barry. O'Hara won her first competition, Sligo's annual Music and Drama singing competition, at the age of eight, and made her first radio broadcast on Radio Éireann before she left school at the age of 16. She went on to pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
