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Niland
Niland is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Conor Niland (born 1981), tennis player * D'Arcy Niland (1917–1967), author * Deborah Niland (born 1950), illustrator * Elly Niland (born 1954), poet * John Niland (born 1940), academic * John Niland (American football) (born 1944), footballer * Kilmeny Niland (1950–2009), illustrator * Mary Kevin Niland, clerk * Niland brothers * Nora Niland (1913–1988), librarian * Tom Niland (1870–1950), baseballer See also * Model Arts and Niland Gallery The Model, home of the Niland Collection, formerly called Model Arts and Niland Gallery, is a contemporary arts centre and gallery space in Sligo, Ireland. The gallery houses several exhibition spaces focusing on contemporary art and education a ... * Niland, California {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
D'Arcy Niland
D'Arcy Francis Niland (20 October 191729 March 1967) was an Australian farm labourer, novelist and short story writer. In 1955 he wrote '' The Shiralee'', which gained international recognition in its depictions of the experiences of a swagman and his four-year-old daughter. It was made into a 1957 film, starring Peter Finch, and a 1987 TV mini-series, starring Bryan Brown. Niland married fellow writer Ruth Park (1917–2010) on 11 May 1942 and the couple had five children: Anne (born ca. June 1943), Rory, Patrick and twin daughters, Kilmeny (1950–2009) and Deborah (1950–present). Niland died on 29 March 1967 of a myocardial infarction, aged 49. Life and writing career D'Arcy Niland was born as Darcy Francis Niland on 20 October 1917 in the rural town of Glen Innes. His father Francis Augustus Niland was a cooper and wool classer, and his mother was Barbara Lucy, née Egan. He was the eldest of six children in the Irish-Catholic family. Niland was named by his father aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conor Niland
Conor Niland (born 19 September 1981) is an Irish former professional tennis player. He was born in Birmingham, England, and grew up in Limerick, Ireland. He attended St. Nessan's National School in Mungret, Co. Limerick, before moving on to Crescent College Comprehensive in Dooradoyle, Co. Limerick. He was the highest ranked Irish tennis player during his career. He played for the Ireland Davis Cup team from 2000 to 2012. He officially announced his retirement from tennis on 12 April 2012 due to a recurring hip injury. In a statement Niland said: "I am today sadly announcing my retirement from professional tennis. I have been suffering from labral tears in both hip cartilages and this has resulted in pain and restricted movement for the past nine months." Career Niland spent most of his career on the Futures and Challenger circuits, although he has played a handful of ATP World Tour tournaments. He was the top ranked Irish player. As of 6 March 2010, he played in 25 Davis C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Niland
Deborah Mary Niland (born 1950) is a New Zealand–born Australian artist, known as a writer and illustrator of children's books. Some of her most popular books include ''Annie's Chair'', ''When The Wind Changed'', ''Mulga Bill's Bicycle'', and ''Chatterbox''. In 2006 she won The Children's Book of the Year – Early Childhood, with her book ''Annie's Chair''. Biography Niland and her twin sister Kilmeny are the youngest of five children of Australian authors D'Arcy Niland and Ruth Park. Niland was born in Auckland, New Zealand and raised in Sydney, Australia. Niland and her sister Kilmeny attended Julian Ashton Art School in The Rocks, Sydney. Here they studied drawing and painting, taught in the traditional manner, by J Richard Ashton. Both began their art careers by freelancing. In London, they received illustration work from Transworld and their first full-length picture book, ''The Little Goat'', was published in 1971. Niland and her sister Kilmeny worked together o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilmeny Niland
Kilmeny Niland (1950 – 27 February 2009) was a New Zealand–born Australian artist and illustrator. While best known for her children's book illustrations, she worked in a wide range of genres, including animation, wildlife art, miniatures, portraits, cards and prints. She won numerous prizes in national and international competitions, and one of her portraits was purchased by Australia's National Portrait Gallery, in Canberra. With her twin sister Deborah, she illustrated a children's version of Banjo Paterson's poem ''Mulga Bill's Bicycle''. Life Kilmeny Niland and her twin sister Deborah were born in Auckland, New Zealand, to New Zealand–born Australian author Ruth Park and her husband, the author and journalist D'Arcy Niland. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Model Arts And Niland Gallery
The Model, home of the Niland Collection, formerly called Model Arts and Niland Gallery, is a contemporary arts centre and gallery space in Sligo, Ireland. The gallery houses several exhibition spaces focusing on contemporary art and education activities, a cinema/venue for concerts, an artist-in-residence programme, and a collection of 20th-century Irish art called the Niland Collection. This collection is named for the former Sligo County librarian, Nora Niland. Building Use as school Located on the Mall in Sligo town, north of the Garavogue river, The Model was designed by architect James Owen for the then Board of Works. It is a detached multiple-bay, two-storey rubble and ashlar stone building in the Italianate Palazzo style. The original building was a purpose-built school, constructed in 1862, by local contractors Messrs Patrick Keighron & Son at a cost of £8000. These schools were known as "model" schools as they were to function as the template for primary schools thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Niland (American Football)
John Hugh Niland (born February 29, 1944) is a former American football offensive guard in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys and Philadelphia Eagles. He was a six-time Pro Bowler and a three-time All-Pro. He played college football at the University of Iowa. In 2021, the Professional Football Researchers Association named Niland to the PFRA Hall of Very Good Class of 2021 Early years Niland was raised by his adopted family and attended Amityville Memorial High School, where he was an All-State fullback. He accepted a football scholarship from the University of Iowa, where he started out as a fullback, before being converted into an offensive tackle and becoming a starter at right tackle as a sophomore. He was moved to offensive guard as a junior. Niland was an All-American selection his senior year in (1965) and also a second-team All-America selection in 1964 by the Newspaper Enterprise Association. In 1989, he was named to the Iowa All-time Foo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niland Brothers
The Niland brothers were four United States, American brothers of Irish American, Irish descent from Tonawanda, New York, who served in the military during World War II. They were sons of Mr and Mrs Michael C. Niland. Two survived the war, but for a time, only one, Frederick "Fritz" Niland, was believed to have survived. After the reported deaths of his three brothers, Fritz was sent back to the United States to complete his service, and only later learned that his brother Edward, missing and presumed dead, was actually captive in a Empire of Japan, Japanese Prisoner-of-war camp, POW camp in State of Burma, Burma. Brothers *Technical Sergeant Edward Francis Niland (December 22, 1912 – February 28, 1984), U.S. Army Air Forces: Imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp in Burma, he was captured on May 16, 1944, and liberated on May 4, 1945. After Edward's B-25 Mitchell was hit, he parachuted and wandered through the Burmese jungle before being taken prisoner. Edward lived in Tonawanda ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Niland
John Rodney Niland (born 10 September 1940) is an Australians, Australian academic and board director. Niland obtained a Bachelor and Master of Commerce from UNSW and his PhD is from the University of Illinois. He has held academic positions at Cornell University, The Australian National University, and UNSW. He served as a mediator of labour disputes in the US while at Cornell, and in Australia has undertaken extensive academic and policy work in conflict resolution, theory and practice, particularly enterprise bargaining. John Niland is a Professor Emeritus of UNSW and was its fourth Vice Chancellor and President (1992-2002 Before that he was the Dean of the Faculty of Commerce and Economics. While UNSW Vice-Chancellor, he was a founding director of both Universitas 21 and Australia’s Group of Eight (Australian universities), Group of Eight Universities. He also served a term as President of the Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee, and was a member of the Prime Minister's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nora Niland
Nora Niland (26 March 1913 – 29 December 1988) was the County Librarian of Sligo and the founder of the Sligo municipal art collection. Niland was born in 1913, the eighth child of the six sons and three daughters of John Niland and Elizabeth Loughlin of Ballinastack, Tuam, County Galway. In 1945 she became Sligo County Librarian. Niland Collection The Niland Collection is the name of Sligo's Municipal Art Collection. Named after Niland, who began the collection in the 1950s, it has since grown to over 300 works and is cared for by, and displayed at, The Model in Sligo, Ireland. The collection was begun by Niland when she borrowed five works by Jack Butler Yeats Jack Butler Yeats RHA (29 August 1871 – 28 March 1957) was an Irish art The history of Irish art starts around 3200 BC with Neolithic stone carvings at the Newgrange megalithic tomb, part of the Brú na Bóinne complex which still stands ... to exhibit for the duration of the first Yeats Summer School ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Kevin Niland
Mary Kevin Niland is a former Reading Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, a face familiar to viewers of C-SPAN, the network which covers House proceedings. The reading clerk reads bills, motions, and other papers before the House and keeps track of changes to legislation made on the floor. During the vote for Speaker of the United States House of Representatives at the beginning of each Congress (or when the electronic voting system fails), the Reading Clerk calls the roll of members for voting ''viva voce''. Niland became Democratic clerk in 1998 at the recommendation of then-House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt of Missouri. She replaced Meg Goetz. Niland served until 2008, when she became Deputy Chief of Legislative Operations in the Office of the Clerk. Her successor as Reading Clerk was Jaime Zapata. Niland's Republican Republican can refer to: Political ideology * An advocate of a republic, a type of government that is not a monarchy or dictatorship, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elly Niland
Elly Niland (born 1954) is a Guyanese-born poet, playwright and teacher. Her first collection of poetry was nominated for Best First Book of Poetry Paquet, Sandra Pouchet"Guyana Prize for Literature: Judges Report" ''Stabroek News'', 26 August 2007. Retrieved 26 January 2010. and was runner up for the Guyana Prize for Literature 2004. Her second collection ''Cornerstones'' won the Guyana Prize for Literature 2006."Guyana Prize Winners Announced" '''', 24 August 2007. Retrieved 26 January 2010.Creighton, Al [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Niland
Thomas James Niland (April 14, 1870 – April 30, 1950), nicknamed "Honest John", was a professional baseball player. He played for the St. Louis Browns of the National League The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the National League (NL), is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada, and the world's oldest extant professional team s ... in 1896. References 1870 births 1950 deaths Major League Baseball pitchers Baseball players from Worcester County, Massachusetts St. Louis Browns (NL) players 19th-century baseball players Toledo White Stockings players Toledo Swamp Angels players Terre Haute Hottentots players Grand Rapids Gold Bugs players Detroit Tigers (Western League) players New Britain Rangers players Manchester Manchesters players Lynn Shoemakers players People from Brookfield, Massachusetts {{US-baseball-outfielder-1870s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
