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Derry Power (born 1935) is an Irish actor born in Dublin. He is best known for playing management genius Seamus Finnegan in the BBC Television sitcom The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, with the classic line “Would you be having a joke there with a
Matthew Andrew Cavanaugh (born October 27, 1956) is the quarterbacks coach for the Washington Redskins. He is a former American football quarterback in the NFL who played from 1978 to 1991. In the course of his career as a professional football playe
Anna Louise Day Hicks (October 16, 1916 – October 21, 2003) was an American politician and lawyer from Boston, Massachusetts, best known for her staunch opposition to desegregation in Boston Public Schools, and especially to court-ordered busing in
Brenda Fricker (born 17 February 1945) is an Irish actress of theatre, film and television. She has appeared in more than 30 films and television roles. In 1989, she became the first Irish actress to win an Oscar, earning the Academy Award for Best S
Bernadette Strachan (née Gaughan, born 27 December 1962) is an English author of popular women’s fiction and among the more popular writers of “chick lit.” Her first novel, The Reluctant Landlady, was published by Hodder & Stoughton in 2004 since wh
George Augustus Moore (24 February 1852 – 21 January 1933) was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist. Moore came from a Roman Catholic landed family who lived at Moore Hall in Carra, County Mayo. He origin
Peter Anthony “Pete” Shaughnessy (16 September 1962 – 15 December 2002) was an English mental health activist and one of the founders of Mad Pride, a group of mental health activists who reclaimed terms such as ‘mad’ and ‘nutter’ from misuse, and
Sir William Robert Wills Wilde MD, FRCSI, (March 1815 – 19 April 1876) was an Irish eye and ear surgeon, as well as an author of significant works on medicine, archaeology and folklore, particularly concerning his native Ireland. He was the father
Thomas Raymond “Ray” Brady (3 June 1937 – 15 November 2016) was an Irish international footballer who played in England in the late 1950s and early 1960s with Millwall and Queens Park Rangers.Brady signed for Millwall from Transport F.C. in July 19
Alan Desmond Lee (born 21 August 1978) is a Irish former footballer who played as a striker; he is now working as an academy coach at Ipswich Town. He scored 119 goals in 547 appearances in a 19-year professional career in the Football League, and wo
Ruth McGill is from Donegal and is a classically trained singer and actress. She graduated from the Professional Acting Course at Trinty College Dublin in 2003 and since that time has appeared in numerous plays in The Abbey, The Gate, The Project an
Kathleen Ryan (8 September 1922 – 11 December 1985) was an Irish actress.