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McQuaid
McQuaid is a surname of Irish origin, from the County Monaghan and other surrounding areas in Ulster. It originated as a variation of McCaul, and similar spellings include McQuade and McQuaide. Notable people with the surname include: * Adam McQuaid (born 1986), Canadian professional hockey player * Ann McQuaid (born 1951), Irish canoer * Bernard John McQuaid (1823–1909), American Roman Catholic bishop * Brad McQuaid (1969–2019), American computer game designer * Dan McQuaid (born 1960), American professional football player * Glenn McQuaid (born 1972/1973), Irish film director *Herb McQuaid (1899–1966), American baseball pitcher * Jack McQuaid (1859–1895), American baseball player and umpire * Jim McQuaid (1920–1991), Irish racing cyclist, coach, and manager * John McQuaid, multiple people including ** John McQuaid (cyclist) (born 1960), Irish cyclist **John A. McQuaid, Canadian jurist **John Charles McQuaid (1895–1973), Irish Roman Catholic archbishop *Kieron McQuaid ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Charles McQuaid
John Charles McQuaid, C.S.Sp. (28 July 1895 – 7 April 1973), was the Catholic Primate of Ireland and Archbishop of Dublin between December 1940 and January 1972. He was known for the unusual amount of influence he had over successive governments. Early life and education John Charles McQuaid was born in Cootehill, County Cavan, on 28 July 1895, to Eugene McQuaid and Jennie Corry. His mother died a week after his birth. His father remarried and McQuaid's new wife raised John and his sister Helen as her own. It was not until his teenage years that John learned that his biological mother had died. He was a stellar student at the Cootehill National School.quoted in article "Inspired Educator and Ecumenist of Sorts" by Michael O'Carroll CSSp in Studies Quarterly Review, Vol 87, No 348 After primary school, McQuaid attended St. Patrick's College in Cavan Town and then Blackrock College in Dublin, run by the Holy Ghost Fathers, where he received average grades. In 1911 he entere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard John McQuaid
Bernard John McQuaid (December 15, 1823 – January 18, 1909) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He was the first and longest-serving Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester, Bishop of Rochester, serving for 40 years from 1868 until his death in 1909. He previously served as the first president of Seton Hall University (1856-1868). As a bishop, McQuaid was a leading voice of the American church's conservative wing. He publicly clashed with the liberal-minded Archbishop John Ireland (bishop), John Ireland and vigorously opposed Americanism (heresy), Americanism. Early life and education Bernard McQuaid was born on December 15, 1823 in New York City to Bernard and Mary (née Maguire) McQuaid, who were both natives of Ireland. Shortly after his birth, he moved with his parents to Paulus Hook (later incorporated as Jersey City, New Jersey, Jersey City), where his father worked in a glass factory operated by the brothers George Dummer, George and Phineas C. Dummer. His moth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat McQuaid
Patrick "Pat" McQuaid (born 5 September 1949 in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish road racing cyclist. He had a strong amateur career and a brief professional period, before moving into race promotion and administration in Ireland and globally, serving four years as head of Irish cycling's governing body, and later two four-year terms as president of the world governing body, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), and three years as a member of the International Olympic Committee. McQuaid is also a qualified secondary school teacher. Family background McQuaid comes from a cycling family, with his father Jim being a top amateur cyclist and later coach and official, and his uncle a leader in national cycling organisation. His parents came from Dungannon in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, where his father already raced. The McQuaids moved to Dublin due to the Troubles in Northern Ireland, which had more opportunities and which provided a better atmosphere for mixed couples (his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam McQuaid
Adam McQuaid (born October 12, 1986) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He formerly played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Boston Bruins, New York Rangers and Columbus Blue Jackets. McQuaid was known primarily as an enforcer for his physical play and capability as a fighter, often protecting younger or smaller members of the team. He won the Stanley Cup in 2011 with the Bruins. Playing career Amateur McQuaid played major midget hockey in his hometown of Cornwall, Prince Edward Island, for the Cornwall Thunder before playing major junior hockey with the Sudbury Wolves of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) for four seasons. McQuaid was selected in the second round, 43rd overall, in the 2003 OHL Priority Selection as a 17-year-old overage player. He was undrafted by the OHL the previous season. After scoring 19 points in his second season with the Wolves in 2004–05, McQuaid returned to the OHL and, in his final season, helped lead the Wolves to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt McQuaid
Matthew McQuaid (born September 28, 1995) is a former American basketball player. He is currently a coaching staff member of the Michigan State Spartans. He played professionally for the Canton Charge and Skyliners Frankfurt after college where he played college basketball for the Michigan State Spartans. Early life and high school career McQuaid played for four different coaches at Duncanville High School in Duncanville, Texas. Prior to his senior season, he attended the LeBron James Skills Academy. As a senior, he averaged 17.8 points and 9.0 rebounds per game. McQuaid was named MVP of District 8-6A. In AAU competition, he played for Team Texas Elite. McQuaid originally committed to SMU before reopening his recruitment and eventually signing with Michigan State. College career McQuaid averaged 3.5 points and 1.6 assists per game as a freshman. He worked on quickening his shot release and correcting his footwork. Prior to his sophomore season, McQuaid had double hernia surgery. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim McQuaid
James K. McQuaid (1920 – 16 September 1991) was an Irish road racing cyclist and later cycling administrator, coach and team manager from Dungannon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, for most of his life based in Dublin, Ireland. From a family that became prominent in Irish cycling, he raced competitively, co-founded a cycle racing club. and served on the committee of the national cycling federation. Life McQuaid was born in 1920 in Dungannon, Co. Tyrone, with one elder brother, and a sister. A Roman Catholic, he married a Protestant, and due to the atmosphere at the time in Northern Ireland they decided to move to Dublin in 1948, as Jim's elder brother Paddy had done a year earlier. Jim set up a greengrocery, with a small bakery, in the small district of Ballygall, between Glasnevin and Finglas in the northwestern Dublin suburbs. Jim and Madge McQuaid continued to live in Dublin, and had seven sons and three daughters. Cycling career McQuaid and his brother Paddy had alr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brad McQuaid
Brad McQuaid (April 25, 1969 – November 18, 2019) was an American video game designer who was the key designer of ''EverQuest'', a highly successful massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) released in 1999. He later co-founded Sigil Games Online where he served as CEO and Executive Producer of '' Vanguard: Saga of Heroes'' until Sony Online Entertainment's acquisition of Sigil Games Online in May 2007. On July 6, 2012, SOE announced the re-hiring of McQuaid to continue his work on Vanguard. On January 13, 2014, McQuaid announced his role of Chief Creative Officer at Visionary Realms, Inc. for the PC MMORPG, '' Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen''. Biography EverQuest Brad McQuaid's start in the video game industry came in 1989 when he co-founded MicroGenesis with Steve Clover. In their free time they created ''WarWizard'', a shareware role-playing video game that they released in 1993. McQuaid and Clover then developed a ''WarWizard 2'' demo in 1995, which caught th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle McQuaid
Michelle Dianne McQuaid (born July 30, 1991) is a Canadian curler from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. She currently plays lead on Team Suzanne Birt. She is a three-time PEI junior champion and five-time PEI Scotties champion. Career McQuaid competed at the 2007 Canada Winter Games as third for the Sarah Fullerton rink. They finished with a 1–5 record. She represented PEI at three Canadian Junior Curling Championships also as third for Fullerton from 2010 to 2012. In 2010, they finished seventh with a 6–6 record. In 2011, they improved from their previous season finishing in eighth with a 7–5 record. At her final trip to the juniors in 2012, they finished eighth, once again with a 6–6 record. While still in juniors, Team Fullerton entered the 2012 Prince Edward Island Scotties Tournament of Hearts. They finished round robin play with a 4–1 record and clinch second place. In the semifinal they played Kim Dolan. Starting off quite comfortably, Team Fullerton w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah McQuaid
Sarah McQuaid is a singer, songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist. She has recorded six solo albums: When Two Lovers Meet (self-released, 1997), I Won't Go Home ’Til Morning (self-released, 2008), The Plum Tree And The Rose (Waterbug Records, 2012), Walking into White (Waterbug Records, 2015), If We Dig Any Deeper It Could Get Dangerous (Shovel and a Spade Records, 2018) and The St Buryan Sessions (Shovel and a Spade Records, 2021). Three songs on McQuaid's ''Walking into White'' album were inspired by the Swallows and Amazons books by English author Arthur Ransome. After recording her first three albums in Ireland with producer Gerry O'Beirne (Sharon Shannon), McQuaid enlisted her cousin, Adam Pierce (Mice Parade) to serve as producer for ''Walking into White''. Her fifth album, ''If We Dig Any Deeper It Could Get Dangerous,'' was produced by veteran English guitarist and singer-songwriter, Michael Chapman. Under the band name Mama, she and Zoë Pollock (writer and perf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melanie McQuaid
Melanie McQuaid (born May 17, 1973) is a Canadian triathlete. Competing in primarily XTERRA Triathlon, or cross triathlon, she has won three XTERRA World Championships as well as the ITU Cross Triathlon World Championship in 2011 and 2017. McQuaid also races in half-iron and Ironman 70.3 triathlon events, with half a dozen wins at this distance. Career McQuaid was born and raised in Victoria, British Columbia. She competed in swimming while in high school and ran while attending the University of Victoria The University of Victoria (UVic or Victoria) is a public research university located in the municipalities of Oak Bay and Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. The university traces its roots to Victoria College, the first post-secondary instit ..., earning her degree in biochemistry and chemistry. She next pursued a professional career in road cycling and mountain biking after being offered many opportunities in cycling as a beginning woman cyclist. She raced her first Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paddy McQuaid
Patrick McQuaid is a former Irish road racing cyclist and later national cycling sport administrator. From Dungannon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, he lived from 1947 in Dublin. From a family prominent in Irish cycling, he raced competitively, co-founded a cycle racing club in Dublin and served on the committee of the national cycling federation, including a decade as president. Life McQuaid was born in Dungannon, Co. Tyrone, with one younger brother, and a sister. He moved to Dublin in 1947 and established a general store in the small district of Ballygall, between Glasnevin Glasnevin (, also known as ''Glas Naedhe'', meaning "stream of O'Naeidhe" after a local stream and an ancient chieftain) is a neighbourhood of Dublin, Ireland, situated on the River Tolka. While primarily residential, Glasnevin is also home t ... and Finglas in the northwestern Dublin suburbs, with his brother Jim opening a greengrocery across the road a year later. McQuaid and his brother J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack McQuaid
John H. McQuaid (1859 – April 16, 1895) was an American professional baseball player and umpire. He spent nine seasons umpiring in either the American Association or the National League between 1886 and 1894. He was an active major league umpire when he died just before the 1895 baseball season. Biography He began his career in baseball as a player in the Northwestern League, where he played in and . McQuaid then became an umpire in the American Association from until . He then moved to the National League in until . During an 1887 game in the American Association, McQuaid was part of the first major league regular-season two-man umpiring crew. His partner that day was Bobby Mathews, a pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics. McQuaid was the umpire in an 1891 Boston-Chicago game that resulted in a rule change related to batters who could hit from both sides of the plate. Kid Nichols was pitching for Boston and attempting to intentionally walk Chicago's Cap Anson with tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
