** Northern Ireland writer Brian Keenan is released from Lebanon after being held hostage for nearly 5 years.

* Brian Keenan ( writer )

The single was also an expression by Simple Minds of their support for the campaign for the release of Beirut-held hostage Brian Keenan, kidnapped by the Islamic Jihad.

Many notable actors appeared on the series, including Ed Asner, Mary Astor, Roscoe Ates, Gene Barry, Ed Begley, Barbara Bel Geddes, Charles Bronson, Edgar Buchanan, Macdonald Carey, Art Carney, John Cassavetes, Jack Cassidy, Dabney Coleman, Tom Conway, Joseph Cotten, Bob Crane, Hume Cronyn, Robert Culp, Bette Davis, Francis De Sales, Bruce Dern, Brandon deWilde, Angie Dickinson, Diana Dors, Robert Duvall, Denholm Elliott, Peter Falk, John Forsythe, Anne Francis, Lorne Greene, Edmund Gwenn, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Herbert, Dame Wendy Hiller, Skip Homeier, Lou Jacobi, Joyce Jameson, Carolyn Jones, Don Keefer, Brian Keith, Jack Klugman, Jessie Royce Landis, Peter Lawford, Christopher Lee, Cloris Leachman, Peter Lorre, John McIntyre, E. G. Marshall, Herbert Marshall, Walter Matthau, Darren McGavin, John McGiver, Lee Majors, Jayne Mansfield, Steve McQueen, Tyler McVey, Audrey Meadows, Joyce Meadows, Vera Miles, Elizabeth Montgomery, Joanna Moore, Roger Moore, Vic Morrow, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Newton, Fess Parker, George Peppard, James Philbrook, Sydney Pollack, Judson Pratt, Robert Redford, Michael Rennie, Burt Reynolds, William Shatner, Dan Sheridan, Henry Silva, Barbara Steele, Jan Sterling, Dean Stockwell, Stella Stevens, Beatrice Straight, Jessica Tandy, Torin Thatcher, Rip Torn, Dick Van Dyke, Robert Vaughn, Richard Waring, Dennis Weaver, Estelle Winwood, Joanne Woodward, Fay Wray, and Keenan Wynn.

During this period he maintained his legal practice and campaigned for the Guildford Four, the Birmingham Six, and Brian Keenan.

* 1991-92: Brian Keenan, An Evil Cradling

Other alumni include composer Brian Irvine, musician David Lyttle, comedian Omid Djalili, former hostage and writer Brian Keenan, historian Simon Kitson, biomedical scientist and former vice chancellor P G ( Gerry ) McKenna, filmmaker Brian Philip Davis, visual artist Willie Doherty, photographer Mary Fitzpatrick, film producer Michael Riley, rugby player Brian Robinson, radio and television personality Gerry Anderson and distinguished academic of nursing Alison Kitson.

He shared a cell with the Irish hostage Brian Keenan for several years.

* Between Extremes by Brian Keenan and John McCarthy ( ISBN 0-552-14595-5 )

* An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan, ( McCarthy is a main character ) ( ISBN 0-14-023641-4 )

As well as representing those wrongly convicted of the IRA's Guildford and Birmingham pub bombings, Mansfield has represented: the Angry Brigade ; the Price sisters ; Brian Keenan ; the Orgreave miners ; Mahmood Hussein Mattan, Ruth Ellis and James Hanratty ( in posthumous appeals ); those involved in the Israeli Embassy bombing ; Stephen Lawrence's family ; Michael Barrymore at the Stuart Lubbock inquest ; Barry George at the inquest into the death of Jill Dando ; the gangster Kenneth Noye ; the Bloody Sunday families ; Arthur Scargill ; Angela Cannings ; Fatmir Limaj, a Kosovo-Albanian leader prosecuted in The Hague ; Mohamed al-Fayed in the inquest into the deaths of his son Dodi al-Fayed and Diana, Princess of Wales ; and the family of Jean Charles de Menezes.

Chef Be * Live ( Brian James Lucas ) has shared his culinary delights with many celebrities, athletes, and musicians such as Jake Gyllenhaal, Keenan Ivory Wayans, Woody Harrelson, Nick Nolte, Jeremy Piven, Andy Dick, Mike D, Anna Getty, Aileen Getty, Angela Bassett, John Salley, Rohan Marley, Brett Dennon, AC Green, Bleona Qereti, Michael Beckwith, Ammachi, Brittany Daniel, Barry Zito, Greg Cipes, Ed Begley Jr., Anthony Borden Ward and more.

Brian Keenan CBE ( b. 1950 in Belfast, Northern Ireland ) is an Irish writer whose work includes the book An Evil Cradling, an account of the four and a half years he spent as a hostage in Beirut, Lebanon from 11 April 1986 to 24 August 1990.

An Evil Cradling is a great book ... With the publication of An Evil Cradling, Brian Keenan is not letting the world forget.

es: Brian Keenan ( escritor )

fr: Brian Keenan

* Bernard Fox replaced Brian Keenan

Brian Keenan may refer to:

* Brian Keenan ( Independent Musician ) ( born 1982 ), United States musician

* Brian Keenan ( musician ) ( 1943 – 1985 ), United States musician

* Brian Keenan ( writer ) ( born 1950 ), Belfast writer held as a hostage in Lebanon from 1986 to 1990

* 1980 – Brian McFadden, Irish singer-songwriter ( Westlife )

Edinburgh has been home to the actor Sir Sean Connery, famed as the first cinematic James Bond ; Ronnie Corbett, a comedian and actor, best known as one of The Two Ronnies ;, actor Brian Cox and Dylan Moran, the Irish comedian.

* 1901 – Brian Donlevy, Irish actor ( d. 1972 )

Night Train with Reaper by London Irish artist Brian Whelan from the book Myth of Return, 2007

* Brian Mulroney, 18th Prime Minister of Canada, child of Irish Quebecers.

* 1978 – Brian Dowling, Irish television host

* 1951 – Brian Downey, Irish musician ( Thin Lizzy )

* 1921 – Brian Cleeve, Irish broadcaster ( d. 2003 )

Brian Ó Cuív sets out the rules of rhyme in Irish poetry of the classical period: the last stressed vowel and any subsequent long vowels must be identical in order for two words to rhyme.

Bruce's Irish ancestors included Eva of Leinster ( d. 1188 ), whose ancestors included Brian Boru of Munster and the kings of Leinster.

One of the last major battles involving Vikings was the Battle of Clontarf on the 23 April 1014, in which Vikings fought both for the Irish over-king Brian Boru's army and for the Viking-led army opposing him.

* 1014: the Gaelic forces of Munster and most other Irish kingdoms under High King Brian Boru defeat a combined Leinster-Viking force in the Battle of Clontarf but Brian Boru gets killed at the end of the battle.

* January 9 – Brian Friel, Irish dramatist

* May 21 – Brian Lenihan, Irish politician ( d. 2011 )

* October 12 – Brian Kennedy, Irish musician and author

* January 21 – Brian O ' Driscoll, Irish rugby union player

* April 23 – Battle of Clontarf: Gaelic Irish forces under Brian Boru defeat several allied Viking forces in Ireland, ending their power there but losing Brian in the battle.

** Brian MacCathmhaoil, Irish, Bishop of the Diocese of Clogher

Author Brian O ' Nolan used the pen names Flann O ' Brien and Myles na gCopaleen for his novels and journalistic writing from the 1940s to the 1960s because Irish civil servants were not allowed at that time to publish works under their own names.

* 1993: The Midnight Verdict: Translations from the Irish of Brian Merriman and from the Metamorphoses of Ovid, Gallery Press

Irish euro coins all share the same design by Jarlath Hayes, that of the harp, a traditional symbol for Ireland since the Middle Ages, based on that of the Brian Boru harp, housed in Trinity College, Dublin.

As well as these versions, the name has also been used as the stage name of a New York City-based singer-songwriter, an LP by Frankie Armstrong, Brian Pearson, Blowzabella and Jon Gillaspie, and for the title of an Irish reel.

Brian Bóruma mac Cennétig ( c. 941 – 23 April 1014 ) (,, ), was an Irish king who ended the domination of the High Kingship of Ireland by the Uí Néill.