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Sugrue
Sugrue () is an anglicized form of the Irish Language surname , meaning "descendant of Siocfhradh", or Ó Siochrú the modern Gaelic equivalent of Ó Seochrú, which in turn is a Gaelic version of the old norse German given first name Siegfried, meaning "victory and peace". It probably links to the name Ó Súilleabháin, most likely a minor sept of this family, and owes its origins to the province of Munster, mainly the counties of Kerry, Cork, and Limerick, Kerry being the more numerous. Although this name is not the most popular by way of rank for this province, it is most certainly not rare for this part of Ireland. The name is uniquely Irish in that it predates Norman settlement, and although scholars cannot pinpoint exactly when the name first appeared in Ireland, it is thought most probably to be an adoption of a small, early Norse settlement, most probably between 8th and 10th century AD. First-name adoption was a common and fashionable practice in early Ireland, as ther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Sugrue
Thomas J. Sugrue (born 1962, Detroit, Michigan) is an American historian of the 20th-century United States at New York University. From 1991 to 2015, he was the David Boies Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and founding director of the Penn Social Science and Policy Forum. His areas of expertise include American urban history, American political history, housing and the history of race relations. He has published extensively on the history of liberalism and conservatism, on housing and real estate, on poverty and public policy, on civil rights, and on the history of affirmative action. Early life Sugrue was born in 1962 in Detroit, Michigan and lived there until the age of ten, when his family moved to the suburbs. He graduated from Brother Rice High School (Michigan) in 1980 and from Columbia University (''Summa Cum Laude'', Phi Beta Kappa) in 1984, with a degree in History. One of his mentors at Columbia was James P. Shenton. From 1984-198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Joseph Sugrue
Thomas Joseph Sugrue (1907–1953) was an American writer. He is best known today as the writer of ''There Is a River'', the only biography of Edgar Cayce written during Cayce’s lifetime and the book that made the psychic a household name in 1942. He also lent his writing talents to the Edgar Cayce Association for Research and Enlightenment for numerous articles and news items. Life Thomas Sugrue was born in a house on Ward Street in Naugatuck, Connecticut, in 1907 to Michael and Mary Sugrue. He grew up in a staunch Irish Catholic background. His father worked as a mail carrier. His early memories of life in the borough's Irish section were captured in a 1940 autobiographical novel, ''Such Is the Kingdom'', which was recast as the fictional "Kelly Hill". After graduating in 1924 from Naugatuck High School where dancing was "his favorite pastime" according to a yearbook, Sugrue worked briefly as a teller for the Naugatuck Savings Bank, before attending Washington and Lee Univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Sugrue
Tommy Sugrue is a Gaelic football referee from County Kerry. He is from, and lives in, Tralee. Sugrue refereed four finals of the All-Ireland SFC during the 1980s and 1990s: 1988 (both the drawn game and replay), 1992 and 1994. Career He began refereeing in 1977, got given the 1983 Kerry County Final. Then off it all went for him. He got Cork v Dublin in the 1983 National League semi-final then he gotput onto to the inter-county referees' panel. He did more than 13 years of inter-county. He refereed National Football League semi-finals and finals (he refreed the 1990 National Football League final wearing socks), he refereed four All Ireland SFC semi-finals, an All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship and Club Final, he refereed in the Munster and Ulster Senior Football Championships. He refereed the four All-Ireland SFC finals: 1988's Cork v Meath (drawn game and replay); 1992's Donegal v Dublin; 1994's Down v Dublin. Sugrue refereed four finals of the All-Ireland Senior ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Sugrue
John Sugrue is a Gaelic games coach and manager. He has been in charge of the Laois county football team, the Kerry under-20 football team and is currently involved with the Laois county hurling team as a physio. Sugrue is from Renard, County Kerry. Laois appointed Sugrue football manager in 2017. As Laois football manager, Sugrue achieved consecutive promotions from Division Four to Division Two of the National Football League, brought the team to the 2018 Leinster Senior Football Championship final and to round four of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship qualifiers in 2018 and 2019. He unexpectedly resigned in July 2019. Sugrue succeeded Jack O'Connor as manager of the Kerry under-20 football team in October 2019. He decided to depart in November 2020, having led the team to a Munster Under-20 Football Championship title the previous March. Sugrue joined Séamus Plunkett's Laois county hurling team The Laois county hurling team represents Laois in hurling an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Sugrue
Paul Anthony Sugrue (born 6 November 1960) is an English former professional footballer who played as a forward in the Football League for Manchester City, Cardiff City, Middlesbrough, Portsmouth, Northampton Town and Newport County. Sugrue played non-league football for Nuneaton Borough before a long career in the Football League. He then returned to non-league with Bridgend Town and played for Elo Kuopio in Finland, before returning to England to play a pivotal role in Barnet's 1991 Conference title-winning campaign. He had a spell as manager at Nuneaton Borough, and later became vice-chairman of Merthyr Tydfil, taking over managerial duties as well in February 2006. Personal life In late 2017 Sugrue appeared in court on fraud charges, alongside fellow former footballer Mark Aizlewood Mark Aizlewood (born 1 October 1959) is a Welsh manager and former professional footballer who currently manages Cymru South side Carmarthen Town. Having started his football career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Sugrue
James Sugrue (born 9 December 1998) is an Irish professional golfer who played at the 2020 Masters Tournament. He qualified for the Masters by winning The Amateur Championship in 2019. Results in major championships ''Results not in chronological order in 2020.'' CUT = missed the halfway cut NT = No tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identif ... References Irish male golfers Amateur golfers Sportspeople from County Cork People from Mallow, County Cork 1998 births Living people {{Ireland-golf-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Sugrue
Elizabeth "Liz" Sugrue ; ( – 1807), also known as Lady Betty, was an Irish executioner. A minor historical character, she remains a well-known figure in popular culture. Life Born around 1750, Sugrue was left destitute after the death of her farmer husband; evicted from her home, she set off with her two children on the long walk to the town of Roscommon. On the way, her younger child died of starvation and exposure, leaving only the elder, Pádraig. According to William Wilde (1815–1876), who collected stories about her from locals, Elizabeth had a "violent temper" and Pádraig often threatened to leave home. Elizabeth begged him to stay, but in April 1775, following particularly harsh treatment, he departed; some sources claim he enlisted in the British Army, others he emigrated to British North America and joined the Continental Army. She became a recluse, taking in lodgers for a few pennies a night; but, hearing less and less from her son as time passed, she became in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Sugrue
Mark Sugrue (born 1993) is an Irish Gaelic footballer and hurler who plays for club side Bandon. He has also lined out with divisional side Carbery and at inter-county level with the Cork senior football team. He usually lines out in the forwards. Honours ;University College Cork *Fitzgibbon Cup: 2013 ;Bandon *Cork Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship: 2016 *Cork Intermediate Football Championship: 2016 *Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship: 2011 *Cork Junior A Football Championship: 2015 *South West Junior A Football Championship: 2011, 2015 ;Cork *McGrath Cup: 2014 *All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship: 2014 *Munster Intermediate Hurling Championship: 2014 *All-Ireland Junior Football Championship: 2013 *Munster Junior Football Championship: 2013 *Munster Under-21 Football Championship: 2012, 2013, 2014 *Munster Minor Football Championship: 2010 File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Sugrue
Betty Sugrue is a former camogie player, captain of the All Ireland Camogie Championship winning team in 1971. She won All Ireland senior medals in Cork's four in a row of 1970–73. References External links Camogie.ieOfficial Camogie Association Website Cork camogie players Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{Cork-camogie-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Language
Irish ( Standard Irish: ), also known as Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language family, which is a part of the Indo-European language family. Irish is indigenous to the island of Ireland and was the population's first language until the 19th century, when English gradually became dominant, particularly in the last decades of the century. Irish is still spoken as a first language in a small number of areas of certain counties such as Cork, Donegal, Galway, and Kerry, as well as smaller areas of counties Mayo, Meath, and Waterford. It is also spoken by a larger group of habitual but non-traditional speakers, mostly in urban areas where the majority are second-language speakers. Daily users in Ireland outside the education system number around 73,000 (1.5%), and the total number of persons (aged 3 and over) who claimed they could speak Irish in April 2016 was 1,761,420, representing 39.8% of respondents. For most of recorded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Language
German ( ) is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and Official language, official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italy, Italian province of South Tyrol. It is also a co-official language of Luxembourg and German-speaking Community of Belgium, Belgium, as well as a national language in Namibia. Outside Germany, it is also spoken by German communities in France (Bas-Rhin), Czech Republic (North Bohemia), Poland (Upper Silesia), Slovakia (Bratislava Region), and Hungary (Sopron). German is most similar to other languages within the West Germanic language branch, including Afrikaans, Dutch language, Dutch, English language, English, the Frisian languages, Low German, Luxembourgish, Scots language, Scots, and Yiddish. It also contains close similarities in vocabulary to some languages in the North Germanic languages, North Germanic group, such as Danish lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siegfried
Siegfried is a German-language male given name, composed from the Germanic elements ''sig'' "victory" and ''frithu'' "protection, peace". The German name has the Old Norse cognate ''Sigfriðr, Sigfrøðr'', which gives rise to Swedish ''Sigfrid'' (hypocorisms ''Sigge, Siffer''), Danish/Norwegian ''Sigfred''. In Norway, ''Sigfrid'' is given as a feminine name. official statistics at Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no; Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/ The name is medieval and was borne by the legendary dragon-slayer also known as . It did survive in marginal use into the modern period, but after 1876 it enjoyed renewed popularity d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
