Sinéad

	Sinéad Sinéad ( , ) is an Irish feminine name. It is derived from the French ''Jeanette'', which is cognate to the English Janet, itself a feminine form of the Hebrew ''Yohannan'', "God forgave/God gratified". In English, ''Sinéad'' is also commonly spelled ''Sinead''. The name is generally translated into English as either ''Jane'' or ''Jennifer'', or as the Scottish female name ''Jean''. Notable people and characters with the name include: People Sports * Sinéad Cahalan, camogie player * Sinead Farrelly (born 1989), American soccer player * Sinead Jennings, rower * Sinead Kerr, ice dancer * Sinéad Millea, former camogie player * Sinead Miller, cyclist * Sinead Russell, Olympic swimmer Music * Sinead Harnett, singer/songwriter * Sinéad Lohan, singer/songwriter * Sinéad Madden, singer/songwriter * Sinéad Mulvey, singer, air hostess * Sinéad O'Carroll, singer with Irish pop band BWitched Sinéad O'Connor, singer/songwriter * Sinéad Quinn, recording artist, re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Sinéad O'Connor Shuhada Sadaqat (born Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor on 8 December 1966; ) is an Irish singer-songwriter. Her debut album, ''The Lion and the Cobra'', was released in 1987 and charted internationally. Her second album, ''I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got'' received glowing reviews upon release and became her biggest success, selling over seven million copies worldwide. Its lead single, "Nothing Compares 2 U" (written by Prince (musician), Prince), was named the number one world single in 1990 by the Billboard Music Awards, ''Billboard'' Music Awards. She has released ten studio albums: 1992's ''Am I Not Your Girl?'' and 1994's ''Universal Mother'' both went gold in the UK, 2000's ''Faith and Courage'' received gold status in Australia, and 2005's ''Throw Down Your Arms'' went gold in Ireland. Her work also includes songs for films, collaborations with many other artists, and appearances at charity fundraising concerts. Her 2021 memoir ''Rememberings'' was a best seller. Thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Sinéad Burke Sinéad Burke (born 1990) is an Irish writer, academic and disability activist, popular for her TED talk 'Why design should include everyone'. She is the Director of consulting organisatio'Tilting the Lens' working to raise the baseline standards in accessibility, to design an equitable and accessible world. Since 2019, she has been a member of the Irish Council of State. Sinéad released her first book ‘Break the Mould’ in October 2020. It was awarded the Specsavers Children’s Book of the Year award at the An Post Irish Book Awards. Sinéad appeared on the cover of the 'Forces for Change' issue of British Vogue, guest-edited by the Duchess of Sussex. She also appeared on the cover of ''The Business of Fashion'' in May 2018 alongside Kim Kardashian with an interview as part of 'The Age of Influence' series. Education Burke trained as a primary school teacher, graduating from Marino Institute of Education at the top of her class and winning the Vere Foster medal and hold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Sinéad O'Carroll Sinéad Maria O'Carroll (born 14 May 1973) is an Irish singer and businesswoman. She is best known for being a member of the girl group BWitched. Career 1998–2002: BWitched In 1998, Edele Lynch formed the girl group Butterfly Farm with her twin sister Keavy Lynch and O'Carroll. The trio, who later changed their name to BWitched, began writing and recording together, but soon realised that there was "someone missing". Upon Keavy's suggestion, they asked Lindsay Armaou to come for an audition and she played a tape recording of a song she had written. The other girls liked it and Lindsay became the fourth member of the band. Although the official BWitched website gave Sinéad's year of birth as 1978, she later admitted that this was a lie. She was not the only member of the group to lie about her age, however; when the group started out, Lindsay claimed to be 17, despite actually being 19. BWitched enjoyed huge success worldwide, becoming the first girl group in history to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Sinéad Mulvey Sinéad Mulvey (born 22 January 1988) is an Irish professional singer & air hostess who, alongside Black Daisy, represented her country at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 with the pop-rock song "Et Cetera". The song was performed in the second semi-final but missed out on qualification to the grand final. Mulvey appeared on '' You're a Star'' prior to Eurovision 2009, but missed out on the final. Biography Early life Sinéad started singing at the age of thirteen, as she was picked as the star role in the musical ''Cinderella''. In 2005 she competed in RTÉ's talent show '' You're a Star''.myspace.com/sineadmulvey Sinéad's Biography on myspace She works as an air hostess with Aer Lingus. Eurovision 2009 The deadline for submissions for the Irish selection process for the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 was 2 February 2009, with RTÉ inviting entries from as early as 20 December 2008. On 20 February 2009, Sinéad, alongside rock band Black Daisy, won the Irish pre-selecti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Sinéad De Valera Sinéad de Valera (; 3 June 1878 – 7 January 1975) was an Irish author of a number of children's books in both Irish and English. She was married to Taoiseach and third president of Ireland, Éamon de Valera. Background She was born Jane O'Flanagan in Balbriggan. Her father, Laurence, was a carpenter and was a native of Kildare who moved to Balbriggan and married a local girl, Margaret Byrne. The couple emigrated to New York City, where their daughter Mary was born in 1871. The family returned to Balbriggan in 1873, and Sinéad was born there in 1878. She trained as a teacher and worked first in Edenderry, before taking up a post at a national school in Dorset Street, Dublin in around 1901. The 1901 census records her as 'Jane Flanagan', living with her parents and three siblings at 6 Richmond Cottages in Dublin. Marriage and children In her spare time, she taught Irish at the Leinster College of the Gaelic League in Parnell Square. One of her Irish students was Éamon de Va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Sinéad Madden Sinéad Madden (born in County Galway, Galway, Ireland) is an Irish singer-songwriter and Fiddle, fiddle player, best known as a member of the Moya Brennan band. She also teaches at Waltons New School of Music in Dublin.Staff Walton's New School of MusicSinéad Madden biog Moya Brennan's website Early life Sinéad Madden was born in County Galway, but moved to County Mayo aged 6. At the age of 7 she began playing Irish traditional music, traditional fiddle. As a young adult, Madden went on to study both classical piano and violin while performing at Pub session, sessions in local pubs. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Sinéad Lohan Sinéad Lohan (born 1971) is an Irish singer and songwriter. Background A native of Cork, her song "Sailing By" appeared on the compilation '' A Woman's Heart 2''. Music career In 1991 Lohan began playing regular gigs at The Lobby, a renowned club in Cork, and soon thereafter began recording her first album, ''Who Do You Think I Am'', produced by Declan Sinnott. She has released two albums, ''Who Do You Think I Am'' in 1995, which scored several radio hits in Ireland, and ''No Mermaid'' in 1998, which has been rated 4/5 stars at AllMusic. ''No Mermaid'' was released by Interscope Records after a bidding war between several major labels. In 1997, she toured as support to The Blue Nile. In 1998, she performed with Lilith Fair for three dates. Her music has been described as having a "folky feel" and her persona "by turns reflective, poetic and wistful." She was one of the "most commercially successful artists" in Ireland in the 1990s. Her lyrics have been inspired by Shakespear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Sinéad Quinn Sinéad Quinn ( ga, Sinéad Ní Chuinn; born 24 March 1980) is a Northern Irish singer, best known as a contestant in the first series of the UK BBC TV series ''Fame Academy'' in 2002. She later went on to sign a recording contract, released an album, and had a #2 UK single with " I Can't Break Down" in February 2003. Career ''Fame Academy'' Quinn did not enter the ''Fame Academy'' in the same way as the other contestants. The first eleven contestants were picked by the show's judges, but the final contestant was picked through a public vote in the first program of the series. Quinn, David Sneddon and Paul MacDonald sang in this vote, but Quinn won the public's support. She gained 51% of the votes and won her place in the ''Fame Academy''. The fan base Quinn built up in the first program stayed with her during the whole series, and allowed her to reach the final. During this time she sang a range of songs from Macy Gray's "I Try" and Garth Brook's "If Tomorrow Never Comes" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Sinéad Griffin Sinéad Majella Griffin (born 1986) is an Irish physicist working at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on high energy physics and condensed matter. She won the 2017 Swiss Physical Society Award in General Physics. Early life Griffin was born in 1986 in Dublin, Ireland. Education Griffin studied physics at Trinity College, Dublin, graduating in 2008 with a bachelor's degree in theoretical physics. She moved to Imperial College London for her master's studies, working with Ray Rivers on topological defects in condensed matter and cosmology. She worked at University of California, Santa Barbara for her doctoral studies, studying superconductors and spintronics with Nicola Spaldin. When Nicola Spaldin joined ETH Zurich, Griffin accompanied her, earning a PhD in 2014 looking at the Hubbard model for hexagonal manganites. During her PhD she tested the Kibble–Zurek mechanism in YMnO3. She won the 2015 Materials and Processes (MaP) Award for the best interdisciplinary thesis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Sinéad Millea Sinéad Millea (born in Kilkenny) is a former camogie player for Kilkenny GAA, Kilkenny, winner of an Camogie All Stars Awards, All-Star award in Camogie All Stars Awards#2004, 2004 and two All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, All Ireland medals. She was honoured by inclusion in the University of Limericks' Sports Hall of Fame in 2013. Family background Her father Joe Millea, Joe was a member of the Kilkenny team that won the Liam MacCarthy Cup in All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 1969, 1969. Sinéad went to school at St Brigid's in Callan, County Kilkenny, Callan. Her sister is Tracey Millea. Career She played club camogie in Tipperary and Kilkenny, won three All-Ireland Minor Camogie Championship, All-Ireland Minor titles with Kilkenny and helped her county to the All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Senior title in 1991 and 1994. She played on the University of Limerick team that won their first Ashbourne Cup in 1995. Notable sporting achievements include; 2 Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Sinéad Gleeson Sinéad Gleeson is an Irish writer, editor and freelance broadcaster. She has won the Irish Book Award. Career Having edited the work of others, in 2016's ''The Long Gaze Back'' and 2017's ''The Glass Shore'', she released her first book ''Constellations'', a collection of personal essays, in 2019. Some of the essays in this work document Gleeson's struggle through illness, she is a survivor of Acute promyelocytic leukemia and has had a hip replacement. Gleeson has been a book and music reviewer for The Irish Times' ''The Ticket'' The arts, arts Supplement (publishing), supplement and presents ''RTÉ Radio 1#Sunday, The Book Show'' on RTÉ Radio 1. She has been a judge for the Choice Music Prize. She is a writer in residence at University College Dublin. Works :As editor ''Silver Threads of Hope'', New Island Books, 2012 , in aid of Console (charity), Console ''The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers'', New Island Books, 2016 winner 2015 Best Irish Publishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Sinéad Cusack Sinéad Moira Cusack ( ) is an Irish actress. Her first acting roles were at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, before moving to London in 1969 to join the Royal Shakespeare Company. She has won the Critics' Circle and ''Evening Standard'' Awards for her performance in Sebastian Barry's ''Our Lady of Sligo''. Cusack has received two Tony Award nominations: once for Best Leading Actress in ''Much Ado About Nothing'' (1985), and again for Best Featured Actress in ''Rock 'n' Roll'' (2008). She has also received five Olivier Award nominations for ''As You Like'' (1981), ''The Maid's Tragedy'' (also 1981), ''The Taming of the Shrew'' (1983), ''Our Lady of Sligo'' (1998) and ''Rock 'n' Roll'' (2007). In 2020, she was listed at number 25 on ''The Irish Times'' list of Ireland's greatest film actors. Early life Cusack was born Jane Moira Cusack in Dalkey, County Dublin, the daughter of actress Maureen Cusack (born Mary Margaret Kiely) and actor Cyril Cusack. She is the sister of actres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]

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