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O'Farrell
O'Farrell is an anglicised form of the Old Irish patronym ''Ó Fearghail''. According to the historian C. Thomas Cairney, the O'Farrells were part of the Conmaicne Rein tribe in Ireland who came from the Erainn tribe who were the second wave of Celts to settle in Ireland from about 500 and 100 Before Christ, BC. People with the surname * Barry O'Farrell, Australian politician * Bernadette O'Farrell (1924–1999), Irish actress * Bob O'Farrell, American baseballer * Brett O'Farrell (other), several people ** Brett O'Farrell (Australian rules footballer) (born 1978), Australian footballer ** Brett O'Farrell (rugby league) (born 1980), Australian footballer Broderick O'Farrell * Derek O'Farrell (born 1983), Canadian rower * Elizabeth O'Farrell (1884–1957), Irish revolutionary * Finola O'Farrell, British judge * Francis Fergus O'Farrell, Irish soldier * Frank O'Farrell, Irish footballer * Henry O'Farrell, Australian assassin * Jasper O'Farrell, American politician * John O'F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry O'Farrell
Barry Robert O'Farrell (born 24 May 1959) is an Australian former politician who was Australia's List of Australian High Commissioners to India, High Commissioner to India and non-resident Ambassador to Bhutan from February 2020 to 30 June 2023. O'Farrell was the 43rd Premier of New South Wales and Minister for Jobs, Investment, Tourism and Western Sydney, Minister for Western Sydney from 2011 to 2014. He was the Liberal Party of Australia (New South Wales Division)#Parliamentary party leaders, Leader of the New South Wales Liberal Party from 2007 to 2014, and was a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1995 to 2015, representing Electoral district of Northcott, Northcott until 1999 and representing Electoral district of Ku-ring-gai, Ku-ring-gai on the North Shore (Sydney), Upper North Shore of Sydney from 1999 to 2015. He was President and Independent Board Chair of Diabetes Australia, Chair of the Wests Tigers Rugby League Football Club and CEO of Racing Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josh O'Farrell
Joshua 'Josh' O'Farrell is the former Democratic representative for the 96th District of the Ohio House of Representatives. Following the resignation of Representative Allan Sayre in 2010, he was selected to serve the remainder of the term from a pool of five qualified candidates including O'Farrell, former Belmont County Commissioner Mark Thomas and Harrison County Commissioner Barbara Pincola. He was narrowly defeated in the 2010 general election and the 2012 general election by Al Landis. He is the Democratic candidate for the 98th District of the Ohio House of Representatives, which encompasses all of Tuscarawas County and the majority of Holmes County. Career O'Farrell is a 2000 graduate of New Philadelphia High School. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame, where he majored in history. He then went on to complete a Juris Doctor degree from Wake Forest University School of Law in 2010. O'Farrell was admitted to the Ohio Bar in 2010 an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank O'Farrell
Francis O'Farrell (9 October 1927 – 6 March 2022) was an Irish football player and manager. He played as a wing half for Cork United, West Ham United and Preston North End. He made over 300 appearances in the Football League before joining Weymouth as player-manager. He went on to manage Torquay United (three stints), Leicester City, Manchester United, Cardiff City, Iran and Al-Shaab. He played for the Republic of Ireland national team, making nine appearances between 1952 and 1959. Early life Born in Lower Dublin Hill in Blackpool, a suburb of Cork, O'Farrell lived on Friars Road, in the Turners Cross area of the city. His grand-uncle was renowned road bowling player John "Buck" McGrath. He was raised a Catholic and attended Christ the King. He played Gaelic football and captained the school team to its first trophy win in 1941. He also played the association code for local teams Nicholas Rovers, Clapton Celtic and at Western Rovers alongside the brother of Noel Cantwell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob O'Farrell
Robert Arthur O'Farrell (October 19, 1896 – February 20, 1988) was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher for 21 seasons with the Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals and the New York Giants. O'Farrell also played for the Cincinnati Reds, albeit briefly. He was considered one of the greatest defensive catchers of his generation. Baseball career O'Farrell was born in Waukegan, Illinois where he grew up a Chicago White Sox fan. He signed with the Cubs in 1915 after playing an exhibition game for his local semi-professional team. His first manager was former catcher, Roger Bresnahan, who helped O'Farrell develop his catching skills. After a season on the bench, O'Farrell was sent to Three-I League where he spent two years before returning to the Cubs for the 1918 season. He served as backup catcher working behind Bill Killefer as the Cubs went on to claim the National League pennant before losing to the Boston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John O'Farrell (author)
John O'Farrell (born 27 March 1962) is a British author, comedy scriptwriter, and political campaigner. Previously a lead writer for such shows as ''Spitting Image'' and ''Have I Got News for You'', he is now best known as a comic author for such books such as ''The Man Who Forgot His Wife'' and ''An Utterly Impartial History of Britain''. He is one of a small number of British writers to have achieved best-seller status with both fiction and nonfiction."May Contain Nuts" interview ''BooksatTransworld.co.uk'' His books have been translated into around thirty languages and adapted for radio and television. O'Farrell co-wrote the musical ''Something Rotten!'', which opened on Broadway in April 2015, and co-wrote a Broadway musical of ''Mrs. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth O'Farrell
Elizabeth O'Farrell (; 5 November 1883 – 25 June 1957) was an Irish nurse, republican and member of , best known for delivering the surrender in the Easter Rising of 1916. Early life Elizabeth O'Farrell was born on 5 November 1883 in City Quay Dublin, she was the daughter of Christopher O'Farrell, who worked at Armstrong's printers and Margaret Kenneah, a housekeeper. She was educated by the Sisters of Mercy. Her father died when she was young and she was sent to work. She took a job in Armstrong's, a printers in Amiens Street. Her mother had a small shop on the City Quay Dublin. She was a member of the Sacred Heart and Total Abstinence sodalities. After her education, she became a midwife and joined the national maternity hospital Holles Street after her involvement in the 1916 Easter Rising. She was a part of the Gaelic League and became fluent in Irish. In 1906 she joined alongside lifelong friend - and most likely lover and romantic partner - Julia Grenan. She also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maggie O'Farrell
Maggie O'Farrell, RSL (born 27 May 1972), is a novelist from Northern Ireland. Her acclaimed first novel, ''After You'd Gone'', won the Betty Trask Award, and a later one, '' The Hand That First Held Mine'', the 2010 Costa Novel Award. She has twice been shortlisted since for the Costa Novel Award for ''Instructions for a Heatwave'' in 2014 and ''This Must Be The Place'' in 2017. She appeared in the Waterstones ''25 Authors for the Future''. Her memoir ''I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death'' reached the top of the ''Sunday Times'' bestseller list. Her novel '' Hamnet'' won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2020, and the fiction prize at the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Awards. ''The Marriage Portrait'' was shortlisted for the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction. Early life and career O'Farrell was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, and grew up in Wales and Scotland. At the age of eight she was hospitalised with encephalitis and missed over a year of school. These events ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luke O'Farrell
Luke O'Farrell (born 25 February 1990) is an Irish hurler who plays for Cork Senior Championship club Midleton. He played for the Cork senior hurling team for seven years, during which time he usually lined out as a right corner-forward. Playing career Midleton CBS O'Farrell played in all grades of hurling with Midleton CBS Secondary School before progressing onto the college's senior team. On 12 March 2006, he scored a goal from full-forward when Midelton CBS defeated St. Flannan's College from Ennis by 2-08 to 0-12 to win the Harty Cup. Midleton O'Farrell joined the Midleton club at a young age and played in all grades at juvenile and underage levels. On 20 November 2011, he was at full-forward when Midleton defeated Duhallow by 1-11 to 0-08 to win the Cork Under-21 Championship title for the first time in 22 years. O'Farrell was just 17-years-old when made his senior championship debut on 5 May 2007. He scored 1-01 in a 1-11 to 0-12 defeat of Killeagh in the first ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ó Fearghail
The Ó Fearghail are an Irish family of County Longford, who were the Princes of Annaly for 6 centuries. The patronym means "descendant of Fearghail", whose name means "man of valour". Fearghail was a great-grandson of Angaile, a 10th-century King of Fortúatha who conquered and gave his name to Annaly. His Ó Fearghail descendants were the Princes of Annaly, and the Ó Fearghail produced 7 Bishops of Ardagh. Anglicised forms of the surname include O'Farrell, O'Ferrall, Ferrell and Farrell. Early history According to the historian C. Thomas Cairney, the Ó Fearghail were part of the Conmaicne Rein tribe in Ireland who came from the Erainn tribe who were the second wave of Celts to settle in Ireland from about 500 and 100 BC. The Ó Fearghail chieftain historically sat at the Ó Fearghail stronghold of Longford (Irish orthography: '' Longphort Uà Fhearghail''), with another Ó Fearghail seat at Moatfarrell (Irish orthography: ''Móta Uà Fhearghail'') in the eastern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry O'Farrell
Henry James O'Farrell (183321 April 1868) was the first person to attempt a political assassination in Australia. On 12 March 1868, he shot and wounded Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, the second son and fourth child of Queen Victoria. Biography O'Farrell was born in Arran Quay, Dublin, Ireland, the youngest child of William O'Farrell, a butcher. The family moved to Liverpool, then later migrated to Victoria. Henry O'Farrell was an alcoholic, and had been released from a lunatic asylum immediately before the attempted assassination. O'Farrell had briefly been employed by his brother, a Melbourne solicitor, who had offices in Ballarat, and is therefore sometimes described as a law clerk. But O'Farrell's most recent occupation was selling fruit and vegetables in Ballarat's Haymarket. Assassination attempt In 1868, Prince Alfred, then 23 years old, went on a world tour, which included the first royal visit to Australia. There were planned stops in Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jasper O'Farrell
Jasper O'Farrell (1817–1875) was an Irish-American politician who served as the first surveyor for San Francisco. He designed the "grand promenade" that became today's Market Street. O'Farrell Street in San Francisco is named after him. Early life O'Farrell was born in County Wexford, Ireland in 1817 and was educated in Dublin. He went to London, England, where he boarded a ship bound for South America. After leaving Chile, he came to San Francisco in 1843. Land grant surveys O'Farrell found work with the Mexican government and surveyed much of Marin and Sonoma counties. He was one of the first settlers of Sebastopol, where he purchased Rancho Estero Americano in 1843. He named the valley after Annaly, Ireland, the home of the O'Farrell family. Survey of San Francisco Following the American conquest of San Francisco, the Military Mayor of San Francisco, Lt. Washington Allon Bartlett commissioned a land survey of Yerba Buena (later to be called San Francisco) in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernadette O'Farrell
Bernadette Mary O'Farrell (30 January 1924 – 26 September 1999) was an Irish actress in film and television, best known for playing Maid Marian in the 1950s. Early years O'Farrell was born in Birr, County Offaly, Irish Free State. Her mother was an amateur actress, and her father managed a bank. She attended a convent school, and worked as a secretary as a young woman. Career O'Farrell broke into film work in her twenties, after being introduced to English director Carol Reed. She is best known for playing Maid Marian in the 1950s British television adaptation of ''The Adventures of Robin Hood'', co-starring Donald Pleasence, Paul Eddington, Richard O'Sullivan, and Richard Greene. It was one of the first British television productions to find an audience in North America, and O'Farrell and Greene made a publicity tour in the United States in 1956, to support the show. She left the show in 1957, after 78 episodes, to avoid type-casting, and was replaced by Patricia Driscoll. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
