* Derek Daly, father of Conor Daly and former Formula 1 and CART driver.

Among the significant Irish poets to have emerged in recent years are: Pat Boran, Mairéad Byrne, Ciarán Carson, Patrick Chapman, Harry Clifton, Tony Curtis, Padraig J. Daly, Colin Dardis, Gerald Dawe, Greg Delanty, Séan Dunne, Paul Durcan, Eamon Grennan, Vona Groarke, Kerry Hardie, Randolph Healy, Seamus Heaney, John Hughes, Pat Ingoldsby, Trevor Joyce, Brendan Kennelly, Derek Mahon, Thomas McCarthy, Hugh McFadden, Paula Meehan, Billy Mills, Sinéad Morrissey, Paul Muldoon, Gerry Murphy, Bernard O ' Donoghue, Conor O ' Callaghan, Caitriona O ' Reilly, Justin Quinn, Maurice Riordan, Maurice Scully, Michael Smith, Geoffrey Squires, William Wall, Catherine Walsh.

Honorary degrees have been received by many famed individuals including former President of the United States Bill Clinton, former President of Ireland Mary McAleese, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, poet Seamus Heaney, writers Seamus Deane, Brian Friel, Frank McGuinness and Colm Tóibín, activists May Blood and Aung San Suu Kyi, actors Amanda Burton and Ewan McGregor, racehorse trainer Vincent O ' Brien, bishops Seán Brady, Robin Eames, James Mehaffey, Edward Daly and Desmond Tutu, singers Enya, Van Morrison and Tommy Makem, politician John Hume, biotechnologist Charles Hamner, politicians and writers Garrett Fitzgerald and Conor Cruise O ' Brien, US lawyer John Connorton, US diplomat Jim Lyons, Gaelic football player Peter Canavan, rugby player David Humphreys, golfers Darren Clarke and Graeme McDowell, last governor of Hong Kong Chris Patten and triple jumper Jonathan Edwards.

The greatest of these families included the Ó Dálaigh ( O ' Daly ), several of whom were accorded the rank of ' chief ollamh of poetry of all Ireland ,' and O ' hUiginn ( O ' Higgins ) who were hereditary filí in more than one Gaelic house such as O ' Conor Slighit, The MacDermotts, The McDonagh and O ' Doherty., The Ó Maol Chonaire chiefly as Ollamh of the Síol Muireadhaigh, the Ó Conchubhair Donn and the MacDermot of Moylurg ; although this family was also associated with Ulster and spread from Connacht into the courts of Munster and Leinster.

Daly's son, Conor Daly, is also a racing driver, and is competing in GP3 driving for the Lotus GP team as of 2012.

The then Attorney General for England and Wales ( Sir Thomas Inskip ) is reported to have warned the then Attorney-General of the Irish Free State ( Conor Maguire ) that Ireland had no right to abolish appeals to the Privy Council.

* Conor Egan-engineer, famous for his contributions to Australian mining, was born in Portlaoise.

The execution of close friends such as Conor Clune of Quin in November 1920 and the subsequent devastating raids on his farm resulted in his playing a far more active role in Sinn Féin as a loyal supporter of the new TD for Clare, Éamon de Valera.

The offseason also included a new contract for star forward Conor Casey.

* Conor McNamara: Football commentator for the BBC

The dispute probably concerned dynastic power within the territory of the O ' Connors, and the parties, Teig and Conor, had accused each other of treason ; the privy council granted their wish for trial by combat to take place on the following day, and for another such trial between two other members of the same sept to take place on the Wednesday following.

Brian Lenihan, Jnr served as Minister for Finance and Conor was Minister of State in the government of Taoiseach Brian Cowen.

* February-Daniel J. O ' Conor and Herbert A. Faber file for a United States patent on the composite plastic laminate Formica.

Conor Haughey told the Tribunal that the company was in danger of being liquidated and he approached Desmond for the money.

In the divorce case, Charles O ' Conor was the counsel for Catherine, the defendant, with John Van Buren representing Edwin.

O ' Conor won a national reputation by winning the case, and secured a liberal alimony for Catherine.

Both The Irish Times and The Irish Press, which was then edited by Tim Pat Coogan, were extremely critical of the government's curtailment of freedom of speech and in particular of the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs Conor Cruise O ' Brien which was used against the PIRA.

This stirs the fire of rebellion in the now 12 year old Conor Larkin, and sets him onto the path for freedom for his Irish people.

* Conor Burns, MP for Bournemouth West-Parliamentary Liaison

In 1974, he joined Independent Newspapers and, after a brief period in the Evening Herald, worked for the Sunday Independent, then edited by Conor O ' Brien and later by Michael Hand.

Several proposals for an Ant version 2 have been made, such as AntEater by James Duncan Davidson, Myrmidon by Peter Donald and Mutant by Conor MacNeill, none of which were able to find large acceptance with the developer community.

This disease was first described in Tunisia in 1910 by Conor and Bruch and was named boutonneuse ( French for " spotty ") due to its papular skin rash characteristics.

Panic At The Bank is a book written by Siobhán Creaton and Conor O ' Clery, both journalists who followed the story for the Irish newspaper The Irish Times, that details the events which lead up to the fraud and how it was carried out and hidden from the bank's authorities.

The former New Irish Chamber Orchestra made commercial recordings for the Pickwick label, a recording of the two Mozart flute concerti with James Galway, and for the Onyx label, piano concertos of John Field with John O ' Conor.

Formica was invented in 1912 by Daniel J. O ' Conor and Herbert A. Faber, then working at Westinghouse which filed for a patent on it.

Westlife, Busted, Mcfly, Olly Murs, The Wanted, Kelly Rowland, Peter Andre, JLS, 5ive, Scouting for Girls, The Saturdays, Jason Donovan, Craig David, Damage, Pixie Lott, Girls Aloud, The Baseballs, Chicane, Ross Copperman, Alesha Dixon, Cher Lloyd, Jay Sean, Shayne Ward, Alexandra Burke, Alyssa Reid, Conor Maynard, Cover Drive, DJ Fresh, Labrinth, Little Mix, Marcus Collins, One Direction, Professor Green, Stooshe, Tulisa Contostavlos, Wretch 32.

* Contrast ( Conor Maynard album ), 2012

In September 2012 O ' Hara flew to the US after being given permission to fly by a doctor, and is now living with her grandson, Conor Beau Fitzsimons, in Idaho.

Conor is also a Summer 2012 member of the North Adams SteepleCats of the New England Collegiate Baseball League, playing at left field.

The club captain is Conor Kenna and the main vice captain is Ger O ' Brien, the third, fourth and fifth captain is in order of appearance in first team games in the 2012 season.

* Conor Dwyer is a swimmer who was a gold medalist in the 4 * 200 freestyle relay at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

The school has won the Leinster Schools Senior Cup twice-In 2007, where Conor Cleary was captain, and in 2012 beating Clongowes Wood College in the Final, where Dan Leavy captained the side.

* Conor Mullen as Company Sergeant Major Alan Fitzpatrick ( Series 7 )

During this time LaValle wrote two songs, " Hungry for a Holiday " and " Bad Blood ", for Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes to sing on, and another two songs, " Call in Blue ' and " Reso " ( after future violinist, Matt Resovich ), for Marc Bianchi of Her Space Holiday which began a series of 7 " singles for Better Lookings " Collaboration Series ".

In the Season 5: part two premiere, Ronny Chase, Sean reveals that the events of Conor McNamara, 2026 was a dream he had during his break-up with Julia.

* 1960 – Herbert O ' Conor, 51st Governor of the US State of Maryland ( b. 1896 )

* Cunningham, Conor ( 2002 ), Genealogy of Nihilism: Philosophies of Nothing & the Difference of Theology, New York, NY: Routledge.

In 1766 the Irish antiquarian and Gaelic scholar Charles O ' Conor dismissed Ossian's authenticity in a new chapter Remarks on Mr. Mac Pherson's translation of Fingal and Temora that he added to the second edition of his seminal history.

In Rainbow Six, Patricia gave birth to a son, John Conor Chavez, making Clark a grandfather.

* March 20 – Conor Clapton, Son of Guitarist Eric Clapton ( b. 1986 )

* May 11 – Battle of Dysert O ' Dea: The Irish armies of Conor O ' Dea defeat the Normans under Richard de Clare.

Others in the cast include Anthony Quayle, John Colicos, Michael Hordern, Katharine Blake, Peter Jeffrey, Joseph O ' Conor, William Squire, Vernon Dobtcheff, Denis Quilley, Esmond Knight and T. P. McKenna.

The museum contains a notable collection of local photographs by Conor Daniells ; paintings, watercolors, drawings, and graphics by Andy Warhol ; and figures in soapstone, ivory, and wood, with many items collected by archaeologists.

John Fisher was portrayed by veteran actor Joseph O ' Conor in the film Anne of the Thousand Days ( 1969 ), by Bosco Hogan in the miniseries The Tudors, and by Geoffrey Lewis in the 1971 miniseries The Six Wives of Henry VIII.

The two pages in question consisted of the short sketch " Roderick O ' Conor ", concerning the historic last king of Ireland cleaning up after guests by drinking the dregs of their dirty glasses.

Interestingly, Clíodhna appears in the name of one O ' Leary in a medieval pedigree, as Conor Clíodhna or " Conor of Clíodhna ", and it is notable that the family were originally based in the area of Rosscarbery, very near to Glandore, before moving north to Muskerry.

According to Conor Cruise O ' Brien, the Butchers brought a new, frightening level of paramilitary violence to a country already hardened by death and destruction.

Historians have found the tribes on the west of Ireland hardest to identify with known peoples, however Camden and O ' Conor speculated a possible connection between the Gangani and the Concani, one of the eleven tribes in the confederacy of the Cantabri in the northern part of the Iberian Peninsula.

The old name of the town was Rath Celtair named after the fictional warrior of Ulster called Celtchar ( in modern Irish: Cealtachair ) who resided there and who fought alongside Ulster King Conchobar mac Neasa ( anglicised Conor Mac Nessa ) and is mentioned in the Ulster Cycle and, in particular, the Táin Bó Cuailgne.

In 1260 Brian O ' Neill ( Brian Ua Néill ), King of Tír Eoghain ( Tyrone ) and who had been acknowledged as High King of Ireland by Hugh O ' Conor of Connacht and Tadhg O ' Brien of Thomond marched to Downpatrick, a centre of English settlement, and, allied with a Connacht force under Hugh O ' Conor, fought the foreigners in the Battle of Down.

Downpatrick has had mixed fortunes over the years but has still managed to produce excellent county footballers such as Ray McConville, William Walsh, Conor Deegan, Barry Breen all of whom won All-Irelands with Down.

It is also currently home to Conor Millard, Chris Rehm, and Charlie McGrath.

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