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Áine Ní Dhroigneáin
Áine Ní Dhroigneáin is an Irish actress who was formerly a regular on TG4 drama ''Ros na Rún''. Ní Dhroigneáin played Tara Ní Néill on the popular Irish language soap opera, first appearing in September 2005. She left the series in 2009. She first acted in a production of '' Snow White and the Seven Dwarves'' on stage in Bordeaux in 1996. Since then she has acted in a number of stage plays such as '' An Triail'' and '' Fear an Tae''. She also participated in the 2006 season of ''You're a Star''. in 2010, she starred in an Irish-language short film, Nollaig Shona, which premiered at Times Square as a part of the New York City International Film Festival. She lives in An Spidéal and is currently teaching French and English at Colaiste na Coiribe. See also * Ó Droighneáin Ó Droighneáin, Gaelic-Irish surname. Background Ó Droighneáin was a surname of at least two different septs, located in Counties Cork and Galway, but has been 'translated' as Thornton, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish People
The Irish ( or ''Na hÉireannaigh'') are an ethnic group and nation native to the island of Ireland, who share a common ancestry, history and Culture of Ireland, culture. There have been humans in Ireland for about 33,000 years, and it has been continually inhabited for more than 10,000 years (see Prehistoric Ireland). For most of Ireland's recorded history, the Irish have been primarily a Gaels, Gaelic people (see Gaelic Ireland). From the 9th century, small numbers of Vikings settled in Ireland, becoming the Norse-Gaels. Anglo-Normans also Norman invasion of Ireland, conquered parts of Ireland in the 12th century, while Kingdom of England, England's 16th/17th century Tudor conquest of Ireland, conquest and Plantations of Ireland, colonisation of Ireland brought many English people, English and Scottish Lowlands, Lowland Scottish people, Scots to parts of the island, especially the north. Today, Ireland is made up of the Republic of Ireland (officially called Republic of Irela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Spidéal
Spiddal, also known as Spiddle ( Irish and official name: , , meaning 'the hospital'), is a village on the shore of Galway Bay in County Galway, Ireland. It is west of Galway city, on the R336 road. It is on the eastern side of the county's Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking area) and of the Connemara region. According to the 2022 census, approximately 75% of the population are Irish-speaking and, of these, approximately 40% speak Irish on a daily basis outside the education system. It is a centre for tourism with a beach, harbour, and shore fishing. The village is part of the civil parish of Moycullen. Name The name of the village in Irish, , derives from the word , which in turn derived from the Insular French, or Anglo-Normand, word . The name originates from a mediaeval leper hospital situated in (West Spiddal). A number of other hospital facilities were based in the area over the years, including a famine hospital during the Great Famine of the mid-1840s. While "Spiddle" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actresses From County Galway
An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the tragic chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' (acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of acting pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role", which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in ancient Greece and the medieval wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Television Actresses
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Living People
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Year Of Birth Missing (living People)
A year is a unit of time based on how long it takes the Earth to orbit the Sun. In scientific use, the tropical year (approximately 365 solar days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 45 seconds) and the sidereal year (about 20 minutes longer) are more exact. The modern calendar year, as reckoned according to the Gregorian calendar, approximates the tropical year by using a system of leap years. The term 'year' is also used to indicate other periods of roughly similar duration, such as the lunar year (a roughly 354-day cycle of twelve of the Moon's phasessee lunar calendar), as well as periods loosely associated with the calendar or astronomical year, such as the seasonal year, the fiscal year, the academic year, etc. Due to the Earth's axial tilt, the course of a year sees the passing of the seasons, marked by changes in weather, the hours of daylight, and, consequently, vegetation and soil fertility. In temperate and subpolar regions around the planet, four seasons a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ó Droighneáin
Ó Droighneáin, Gaelic-Irish surname. Background Ó Droighneáin was a surname of at least two different septs, located in Counties Cork and Galway, but has been 'translated' as Thornton, an English surname. " horntonis a portmanteau English name for Ó Draighneáin, Mac Sceacháin, Ó Toráin. The connection is: draighean, blackthorn; sceach, whitethorn; tor, a bush. MacLysaght remarks that some Thorntons in Limerick were 16 cent planters".https://www.johngrenham.com/findasurname.php?surname=thornton Ó Droighneáin remains in use as an Irish-language surname. Bearers of the surname *Micheál Ó Droigheaín, An Spidéal-born Irish Volunteer and IRA commander, 1889-1964 *Pádraig Thornton, alias Proinsias Ó Draighneáin, Drogheda-born member of IRB and Irish Volunteers, d. 1936 * Máirtín Ó Droighneáin, An Spidéal-born boxer, 1916–84 * Áine Ní Dhroigneáin, Sean-Nós singer and actor *Máire Uí Droighneáin, Ros na Rún actor *Eoin Ó Droighneáin, Irish socialist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Film Board
Not to be confused with Northern Ireland Screen. Fís Éireann / Screen Ireland, formerly known as Bord Scannán na hÉireann or the Irish Film Board, is Republic of Ireland, Ireland's state development agency for the Irish film, television and animation industry. It provides funding for the development, production and distribution of feature films, feature documentaries, short films, TV animation series and TV drama series. History The Irish Film Board (IFB) was established to develop filmmaking in Ireland under the provisions of the Irish Film Board Act 1980. Over the following seven years, it funded or co-funded a total of 10 feature films, including ''Eat the Peach'', ''Anne Devlin (film), Anne Devlin'' and ''Angel (1982 Irish film), Angel,'' before its activities were suspended by Taoiseach Charles Haughey. After its closure, the success of several externally funded Irish films, such as ''My Left Foot'', ''The Crying Game'' and ''The Commitments (film), The Commitments'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ros Na Rún
() is an Irish soap opera produced for the Irish-language television channel TG4. The series is set in a fictional village called Ros na Rún, located near to An Spidéal, where the series is filmed. It focuses on the domestic and professional lives of its residents. ''Ros na Rún'' has been praised for its tackling of realistic and socially challenging storylines, which got it dubbed "the Wild West". It has dealt with many different storylines, including domestic violence, infidelity, theft, arson, abortion, homosexuality, adoption, murder, rape, drugs, teen pregnancy and paedophilia. The series is broadcast with English subtitles. Background ''Ros na Rún'' was originally devised by RTÉ producers Con Bushe and Antoine Ó Flatharta in response to the upcoming centenary of the Gaelic League, with the network deciding upon an Irish language drama as a contribution towards the commemoration of the event. The show originally transmitted on RTÉ One in 1992 as a pilot series of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
