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Raftery
Raftery is a surname originating in Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ..., predominantly in County Mayo, County Galway and County Roscommon. Edward MacLysaght observes that 'Raftery, sometimes confused with Rafferty, is quite a different name', originating as 'O'Reachtaire', 'reacht' meaning 'decree'.Irish Families: Their Names, Arms and Origins, Edward MacLysaght, Irish Academic Press, 1985, p. 141 Famous Rafterys *Adrian Raftery (born 1955), Irish and American statistician and sociologist *Adrian Raftery (author) (born 1971), Australian author, journalist, businessman and lecturer *Andrew Raftery (born 1962), American contemporary printmaker, painter and arts educator *Antoine Ó Raifteiri (Anthony Raftery) (blind Irish language poet) *Barry Raftery (1944†... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Raftery
William Joseph Raftery (born April 19, 1943) is an American basketball analyst and former college basketball coach. High school and college years Raftery attended Saint Cecilia High School in Kearny, New Jersey, where he starred in basketball and became the all-time leading scorer in state history with 2,192 points, a record finally surpassed after 35 years. He earned all-state honors in basketball and led his team to the state championship in his senior season. He was also named all-state in baseball and soccer. He has been named, retroactively, Mr. Basketball USA for 1959. Raftery played at La Salle University under coach Donald "Dudey" Moore. During his freshman year he scored a freshman record 370 points, followed by a team leading 17.8 points per game in his sophomore year. As a senior, he co-captained the Explorers to the National Invitation Tournament. Following his senior year at La Salle, Raftery was selected in the 14th round (82nd overall) of the 1963 NBA draft by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Raftery (author)
Adrian Michael Raftery (born 30 October 1971 in Sydney) is an Australian author, journalist, businessman and lecturer. Raftery has written a number of tax reference books and has written finance columns for Woman's Day, Your Investment Property and Your Trading Edge magazines. Business career Raftery runs a tax accountancy firm in Melbourne. Previously he ran an accountancy firm in Sydney which he sold to Stature Accounting in 2010. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, the Institute of Public Accountants and FINSIA and is also a Chartered Tax Adviser. Academic career Raftery spent a decade in academia. Following the sale of his Sydney firm, Raftery completed a PhD at the University of Technology, Sydney before moving to Melbourne where he was an associate professor at Deakin University. Raftery was the course director for financial planning and the inaugural director of Professional & Executive Education (Domestic) at the Deakin Business Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Raftery
Andrew Stein Raftery (born May 22, 1962, in Goldsboro, North Carolina) is an American artist and educator, known for his paintings, burin engravings, and drawings on fictional and autobiographical narratives of contemporary American life. Biography In 1984, Raftery earned his B.F.A. degree in painting from Boston University, and took his first intaglio printing class with .Raftery, Andrew. "Genealogies: Tracing Stanley William Hayter,''Art in Print'' Vol. 2 No. 3(September–October 2012), 6, 8. In 1988, he completed his M.F.A. degree in printmaking from Yale University. He is a professor at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) teaching in the printmaking and painting departments, since 1991. He credits Stanley William Hayter and his proteges in Atelier 17 as an influence, and the collection of Charles Randall Dean as a guide, before its acquisition by the Library of Congress. In 2004, Raftery's work was featured in Jonathan Weinberg’s book, ''Male Desire: The Homoerotic i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Raftery
Barry Raftery (16 August 1944 – 22 August 2010) was an Irish archaeologist and academic. He is best known for his pioneering work in wetland archaeology and Iron Age hillforts in Ireland. He was Professor of Celtic Archaeology in University College Dublin (UCD) for more than thirty years, and served as chair of the Department of Celtic Archeology at UCD from 1996 to his retirement in 2007. Early life and education Barry Joseph Raftery was born in Dublin, Ireland on 16 August 1944. He was the son of an Irish father and German mother, Joseph and Lotte Raftery. His father, Joseph, was an archaeologist who specialized in prehistoric Ireland and was keeper of Irish antiquities and Director of the National Museum of Ireland during his long career. Barry Raftery developed an interest in archaeology at the age of ten, after spending two summers working with his father in the excavations at Lough Gara. Raftery attended Belvedere College secondary school in Dublin. He studied archaeo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Raftery (baseball)
Thomas Francis Raftery (October 5, 1881 – December 31, 1954) was an outfielder in Major League Baseball. He played eight games for the Cleveland Naps. Raftery was 5 feet, 10 inches tall and weighed 175 pounds."Tom Raftery Statistics and History" baseball-reference.com. Retrieved October 29, 2011. Career Raftery was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1881. He started his professional baseball career in 1904 with the New England League's Haverhill Hustlers. That season, he batted .288.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Raftery
Adrian E. Raftery (born 1955 in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish and American statistician and sociologist. He is the Boeing International Professor of Statistics and Sociology, and founding Director of the Center for Statistics and Social Sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, United States. Raftery studied mathematics and statistics at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and obtained his doctorate in mathematical statistics in 1980 from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, France, advised by Paul Deheuvels. From 1980 to 1986, he was a lecturer in statistics at Trinity College Dublin, and since then he has been on the faculty of the University of Washington.Curriculum vitae , retrieved 2014-10-20. He was elected a Fellow of the |
Mary Raftery
Mary Frances Thérèse Raftery (21 December 1957 – 10 January 2012) was an Irish investigative journalist, filmmaker and writer. Raftery was born in Dublin. She started her investigative journalism career with '' In Dublin'' magazine in the 1970s, before moving on to Magill Magazine and then to Raidió TeilifÃs Éireann (RTÉ) in 1984. Her documentary series '' States of Fear'' was broadcast on the Irish television channel Raidió TeilifÃs Éireann (RTÉ) in 1999. A book she wrote later that year called ''Suffer the Little Children'' added more detail to her claim that the Irish childcare system between the 1930s and 1970s was guilty of widespread persecution and abuse. In 2000, the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse was established by the Irish Government to examine the evidence: its Report was published in May 2009. Her programme "Cardinal Secrets" was broadcast as a ''Prime Time'' special on RTÉ in 2002. It led to the setting up of the Murphy Commission of Invest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronan Raftery
Ronan Raftery is an Irish actor in television, film and stage. Television Film Theatre References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Raftery, Ronan Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Male actors from Dublin (city) Irish male television actors Irish male film actors Irish male stage actors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine Ó Raifteiri
Antoine Ó Raifteirà (also Antoine Ó Reachtabhra, ''Anthony Raftery'') (30 March 1779 – 25 December 1835) was an Irish language poet who is often called the last of the wandering bards. Biography Antoine Ó Raifteirà was born in Killedan, near Kiltimagh in County Mayo. His father was a weaver. He had come to Killedan from County Sligo to work for the local landlord, Frank Taaffe. Ó RaifteirÃ's mother was a Brennan from the Kiltimagh area. She and her husband had nine children. Antoine was an intelligent and inquisitive child. Some time between 1785 and 1788, Antoine Ó RaifteirÃ's life took a huge turn. It all started with a cough. Soon two of the children began experiencing headaches. Another child had a high fever. A rash appeared on Antoine's hand. It caused severe itching. Soon the children were covered in that same rash. They had contracted smallpox. Within three weeks, eight of the nine children had died. One of the last things young Antoine saw before go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Raftery
Tom Raftery (born 15 August 1933) is an Irish former Fine Gael politician and university professor. He was elected to the European Parliament at the 1984 European election for the Munster constituency. He lost his seat at the 1989 European election but was elected to the Seanad at the 1989 Seanad election for the Administrative Panel The Administrative Panel () is one of five vocational panels which together elect 43 of the 60 members of Seanad Éireann, the upper house of the Oireachtas (the legislature of Ireland). The Administrative Panel elects seven senators. Election .... He failed to retain his Seanad seat at the 1992 election. He stood unsuccessfully in the Munster constituency at the 1994 European election. References External links * 1933 births Living people Fine Gael senators Members of the 19th Seanad Fine Gael MEPs MEPs for the Republic of Ireland 1984–1989 Administrative Panel senators {{Ireland-senator-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Raftery (other) , former camogie player
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Pat Raftery may refer to: * Pat Raftery (footballer) (1925–1998), English former footballer * Pat Raftery (camogie) Patricia ‘Pat’ Raftery is a former camogie Camogie ( ; ga, camógaÃocht ) is an Irish stick-and-ball team sport played by women. Camogie is played by 100,000 women in Ireland and worldwide, largely among Irish communities. A variant o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Raftery
Peter Albert Raftery, CVO, MBE (8 June 1929 – 10 June 1996) was High Commissioner to Botswana from 1986 to 1989. He was educated at St Ignatius' College, Enfield. After National Service he joined the CRO in 1949. He served in New Delhi, Cape Town, Kuala Lumpur Nairobi and Bahrain. He was First Secretary at the FCO, Head of Chancery at Gaborone; Assistant Head at the East Africa Department then Counsellor and Consul General at Amman before his Botswana Botswana (, ), officially the Republic of Botswana ( tn, Lefatshe la Botswana, label=Setswana, ), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory being the Kalahar ... appointment.RAFTERY, Peter Albert’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 201accessed 30 March 2015/ref> References People educated at St Ignatius' College, Enfiel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
