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Dunne
Dunne or Dunn is an Irish surname, derived from the Irish ''Ó Duinn'' and ''Ó Doinn'', meaning "dark" or "brown." The name Dunne in Ireland is derived from the Ó Duinn and the Ó Doinn Gaelic septs who were based in County Laois, County Meath and County Wicklow. These septs in turn are descendants of the O'Regan noble family. It is in these counties that the majority of descendants can still be found. Hundreds of years ago, the Gaelic name used by the Dunn family in Ireland was Ó Duinn or Ó Doinn. Both Gaelic names are derived from the Gaelic word ''donn'', which means "brown". Ó Doinn is the genitive case of ''donn''. First found in county Meath, where they held a family seat from very ancient times. Variations: Dunn, Dunne, Dun, Duen, O'Dunne, O'Doyne, Doine, Doin, O'Dunn. According to historian C. Thomas Cairney, the O'Dunnes were one of the chiefly families of the Ui Failghe who in turn were a tribe from the Dumnonii or Laigin who were the third wave of Celts to settl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Plunkett Dunne
Major-General Rt Hon. Francis Plunkett Dunne, PC(Ire), (died 1874), was an Irish landowner, officer in the British Army, and member of Parliament of the United Kingdom, where he was sometimes known as 'the Honourable Member for the Army' because of his staunch support of the military. Family Francis Plunkett Dunne was the eldest son of General Edward Dunne (1767–1844) of Brittas, Queen's County (now County Laois), by his wife Frances White, sister of the 1st Earl of Bantry. Dunne was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and the Senior Department of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst (the Senior Department was the predecessor of the Staff College). Military career Dunne was commissioned (by purchase) as a Cornet in the 7th Dragoon Guards in 1823, and purchased promotions to Lieutenant in 1825 and Captain in 1826. Shortly after the latter promotion he was placed on half pay, but exchanged into the 10th Foot in 1829, serving with that regiment for the remainder of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Language
Irish (Standard Irish: ), also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic ( ), is a Celtic language of the Indo-European language family. It is a member of the Goidelic languages of the Insular Celtic sub branch of the family and is indigenous language, indigenous to the island of Ireland. It was the majority of the population's first language until the 19th century, when English (language), English gradually became dominant, particularly in the last decades of the century, in what is sometimes characterised as a result of linguistic imperialism. Today, Irish is still commonly spoken as a first language in Ireland's Gaeltacht regions, in which 2% of Ireland's population lived in 2022. The total number of people (aged 3 and over) in Ireland who declared they could speak Irish in April 2022 was 1,873,997, representing 40% of respondents, but of these, 472,887 said they never spoke it and a further 551,993 said they only spoke it within the education system. Linguistic analyses o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hewson (regicide)
Colonel John Hewson, also spelt Hughson (died 1662), was a shoemaker from London and religious Independent who fought for Parliament and the Commonwealth in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, reaching the rank of colonel. Considered one of Oliver Cromwell's most reliable supporters within the New Model Army, his unit played a prominent part in Pride's Purge of December 1648. Hewson signed the death warrant for the Execution of Charles I in January 1649, for which he reportedly sourced the headsman, while soldiers from his regiment provided security. During the 1649 to 1660 Interregnum, he served as Governor of Dublin and MP for County Dublin until 1656. He then returned to England and was MP for Guildford before being elevated to Cromwell's Other House in 1658. As one of the surviving Regicides of Charles I, he was exempted from the Indemnity and Oblivion Act after the 1660 Stuart Restoration. He went into exile in the Dutch Republic, and is thought to have died in Amsterd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Dunne
Bernard Dunne (born 6 February 1980) is an Irish former professional boxer and a former WBA (Regular), and European Super Bantamweight champion. On Saturday 21 March 2009, Dunne defeated Ricardo Cordoba in the 11th round to become the WBA (Regular) super bantamweight champion in a fight that won ESPN's 2009 Fight of The Year with 6 knockdowns occurring in the fight between the two fighters (4 for Dunne and 2 for Cordoba). Dunne lost his title on 26 September 2009 in the 02 Dublin. Dunne retired on 19 February 2010. In November 2009, Irish publishers Liberties Press released the first biography of Dunne. Entitled ''Bernard Dunne: The Ecstasy and the Agony'', it is an up-to-date account of Dunne's beginnings until his defeat to Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym. In 2012, Dunne was an analyst on the 2012 Olympics boxing coverage on RTÉ Sport. Amateur career Dunne was born in Neilstown, Clondalkin, County Dublin. He boxed at amateur level for Ireland where he had a record of 119 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Dunne
Bobby Dunne (28 March 1949 – 13 November 1998 (aged 49) was an Australian professional featherweight, feather/super featherweight Boxing, boxer of the 1960s and '70s who won the List of Commonwealth Boxing Council Champions#Featherweight, Commonwealth featherweight title, his professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. featherweight to , i.e. super featherweight. References External links * Image - Bobby Dunne 1949 births 1998 deaths Featherweight boxers Place of birth missing Place of death missing Super-featherweight boxers Australian male boxers Commonwealth Boxing Council champions 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{Australia-boxing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benny Dunne
Benny Dunne (born 22 September 1980) is an Irish hurler who played as a midfielder for the Tipperary senior team. He joined the team in 2002 and was a regular member of the starting fifteen until his retirement in 2011. Younger brother of current selector Tommy, Dunne was a stalwart on the Tipperary team for a decade. He has won one All-Ireland winners' medal, three Munster winners' medals and one National League winners' medal. He ended up as an All-Ireland runner-up on two occasions. At club level Dunne is a two-time Munster medalist with Toomevara. In addition to this he has also won seven county club championship medals. Playing career Club Dunne plays his club hurling with Toomevara and has enjoyed much success during his playing career. When Dunne joined the club's senior team at the turn of the century Tomoevara were in the process of winning their first four-in-a-row of county club championship titles. He was a key part of the last three finals, winning medals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dunnes Stores
Dunnes Stores is an Irish multinational retail chain that primarily sells food, clothes and household wares. It was founded by Ben Dunne (businessman, born 1908), Ben Dunne in 1944. In addition to its main customer base in Ireland, the chain also has operations in Spain. The format of most of the chain's stores in Ireland involves a grocery supermarket operating alongside a clothing/textiles store, although some stores contain only textiles and some contain only a supermarket. The grocery side of the business does not operate outside of Ireland, save for a limited grocery range in the Spanish stores. The larger stores usually contain a café branded as either Café Sol or Dunnes Stores Café. Dunnes Stores' original own brand of groceries was sold under the ''St Bernard'' brand introduced in 1956, becoming an Irish household name, but was rebranded as "My Family Favourites" in 2013. The main domestic competitors in the supermarket business are Tesco Ireland, Tesco, SuperValu (I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Dunne (businessman, Born 1908)
Bernard Dunne (19 May 1908 – 14 April 1983) was an Irish businessman who was the founder and chairman of Dunnes Stores. Early life Ben Dunne was born as Bernard Dunn in the village of Rostrevor in County Down, Ireland, in 1908. He a was the eldest son of Margaret (''née'' Byrne) and Barney Dunn, a businessman. Dunne's father inherited the Woodside Restaurant Temperance Refreshment Rooms and an auctioneering firm, and his mother ran a drapery business and later a shipping agency. Dunne attended St Mary's School, Rostrevor, until he was 14 years old. While still in school he took on a number of jobs, including repairing bicycles, rearing sheep, and working as a boot-boy at the home of Sir John Foster George Ross of Bladensburg. He was convinced not to emigrate to the United States by a family friend, Edward Whitaker. Career Dunne moved to Drogheda in the newly established Irish Free State in 1926. He was employed as an apprentice first in Anderson's of West Street, Drogheda an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Dunne
Alexander Dunne (; born 11 November 2005) is an Irish racing driver, who competes in the FIA Formula 2 Championship for Rodin Motorsport as part of the McLaren Driver Development Programme, and serves as a reserve driver in Formula E for McLaren. A member of the McLaren Driver Development Programme since 2024, he previously won the 2022 F4 British Championship, and was the 2023 GB3 runner-up with Hitech Grand Prix. Racing career Karting Dunne began karting at the age of eight, taking a number of victories in local competitions. He would then progress to national competitions in 2015, winning the Motorsport Ireland 'IRL' and '0' Plates and also taking home the Ironside Trophy. That year he would also make his first competitive appearance outside of Ireland, racing in the Super 1 National Championship in the United Kingdom. Following two years of competing across Ireland and Great Britain, Dunne started racing in mainland Europe in 2018. He remained in European karting u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ordnance Survey
The Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain. The agency's name indicates its original military purpose (see Artillery, ordnance and surveying), which was to map Scotland in the wake of the Jacobite rising of 1745. There was also a more general and nationwide need in light of the potential threat of invasion during the Napoleonic Wars. Since 1 April 2015, the Ordnance Survey has operated as Ordnance Survey Ltd, a state-owned enterprise, government-owned company, 100% in public ownership. The Ordnance Survey Board remains accountable to the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology. It was also a member of the Public Data Group. Paper maps represent only 5% of the company's annual revenue. It produces digital map data, online route planning and sharing services and mobile apps, plus many other location-based products for business, government and consumers. Ordnance Survey mapping is usually classified as either "Scale (map), lar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanistry
Tanistry is a Gaelic system for passing on titles and lands. In this system the Tanist (; ; ) is the office of heir-apparent, or second-in-command, among the (royal) Gaelic patrilineal dynasties of Ireland, Scotland and Mann, to succeed to the chieftainship or to the kingship. The word is preserved in the Republic of Ireland's government, where the prime minister is the ''Taoiseach'' while the deputy prime minister is the ''Tánaiste''. Origins Historically the tanist was chosen from among the heads of the ''roydammna'' or "righdamhna" (literally, those of ''kingly material'') or, alternatively, among all males of the '' sept'', and elected by them in full assembly. The eligibility was based on descent from a king to a few degrees of proximity. Usually descent from the male lines of a king was the norm, however in Scotland, descent through the female lines of a king was also accepted, possibly because of an intermingling with the Pictish succession rules. An example of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Killeigh
Killeigh (, meaning "church of the field") is a village in County Offaly, Ireland. It is located around south of the county town of Tullamore, on the N80 national secondary road; the Slieve Bloom Mountains lie to the south. The village of Killeigh, which lies within the civil parish of Geashill, had a population of 183 in 2022. Religion An abbey, historically associated with St Sinchell, was reputedly founded at Killeigh () in the 6th century. A priory was established by Augustinian nuns in the 12th century, and a Franciscan friary founded in Killeigh in the late 13th century. The friary was dissolved in the 16th century. The current Church of Ireland church in Killeigh, which incorporates part of the remains of the older friary, was built in the 17th century. It was "substantially repaired" in the 1830s. It lies within the Diocese of Meath and Kildare. The local Catholic church, which is dedicated to Saint Patrick, is in the Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin. The current chur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
