The story of Gráinne and Diarmuid is one of a number of instances in Irish mythology of a love triangle between a young man, a young woman and an aging suitor, the other most famous instance being between Naoise, Deirdre and Conchobar mac Nessa in the Ulster Cycle.

Research by Deirdre Barrett reports that people differ radically in the vividness, as well as frequency of fantasy, and that those who have the most elaborately developed fantasy life are often the people who make productive use of their imaginations in art, literature, or by being especially creative and innovative in more traditional professions.

In Ireland's other great " sequestered maiden " story, the tragedy of Deirdre, the king's intended is carried off by three brothers, who are hunters with hounds.

Research by Harvard psychologist Deirdre Barrett has found that people who experience vivid dream-like mental images reserve the word for these, whereas many other people refer to milder imagery, realistic future planning, review of past memories or just " spacing out "— i. e. one's mind going relatively blank — when they talk about " daydreaming.

Other celebrities have used glasses to differentiate themselves from the characters they play, such as Anne Kirkbride, who wears oversized, 1980s-style round horn-rimmed glasses as Deirdre Barlow on the soap opera Coronation Street, and Masaharu Morimoto, who wears glasses to separate his professional persona as a chef from his stage persona as Iron Chef Japanese.

Hogg remarried in 1986 to Deirdre Margaret Shannon Aft who also predeceased him in 1998.

Mistrustful, Conchobar then sent another spy, Gelbann, who managed to catch a glimpse of Deirdre but was seen by Naoise, who threw a gold chess piece at him and put out his eye.

Conchobar forcibly marries Deirdre, who later commits suicide after he offers her to Éogan.

Deirdre Gogarty ( born November 10, 1969 ) is a female boxer who was born in Drogheda, Ireland.

He also views his four sisters: Flora who offered him sanctuary, Deirdre who was dear to him, reserved Llewella, and Fiona, whom Corwin hated.

While traveling they encounter Corwin's sister Deirdre who reveals she fled from Eric's court.

Fully confused at this point, Corwin reveals that he has no memory of what they have been doing or of who he is so Deirdre convinces him to walk the Pattern, which she believes will restore his memory.

His five daughters are Florimel, Deirdre, Fiona, Llewella, and Coral ( who doesn't come into play until book 9 ) but the major players of the novel are the nine princes of the title:

On the way back to Emain Macha, however, the group was waylaid by Conchobar, who had Naoise and his brothers murdered by Eogan mac Durthacht, king of Fernmag so he could forcibly marry Deirdre.

Sláine's seduction of Niamh, the king's chosen bride who was brought up in seclusion until she was of age, is reminiscent of the Irish story of Deirdre.

In the twenty-first century, historians Catherine Clinton and Deirdre David have studied Kemble's Journal and raised questions about her portrayal of the Roswell Kings, who managed Pierce Butler's plantations, and Kemble's own racial sentiments.

Peter Kay was born in Farnworth, near Bolton, Lancashire, to an English father, Michael John Kay ( 1948 – 1999 ), and an Irish mother, Margaret Deirdre O ' Neill, who comes from County Tyrone.

People who served on the editorial team during those years included Adam Hochschild, Paul Jacobs, Deborah Johnson, Jeffrey Bruce Klein, Mark Dowie, Amanda Spake, Zina Klapper, and Deirdre English.

Research by Harvard psychologist Deirdre Barrett has found that people who experience vivid dream-like mental images reserve the word for these, whereas many other people when they talk about " daydreaming " refer to milder imagery, realistic future planning, review of past memories, or just " spacing out "

He has two children with his wife Grace, a boutique owner: Coty, who has just been cast for the new " Channel 3 " series, and Deirdre.

Kreutzer, who suspects Harry to collaborate with his opponents, has him tortured and kidnaps his daughter Deirdre, while Josie murders his wife ( and her daughter ) Grace.

Guiler remained in New York City and was unaware of Nin's second marriage until after her death in 1977, though biographer Deirdre Bair alleges that Guiler knew what was happening while Nin was in California, but consciously " chose not to know ".

Deirdre was freed after three weeks, with Granada stating that they had always intended for her to be released, in spite of the media interest.

In 2007, several groundbreaking storylines took place on Coronation Street, such as Tracy Barlow murdering Charlie Stubbs and claiming it was self-defence, as well as the show featuring its second two hander with Tracy Barlow confessing to her mother Deirdre Barlow she had planned to kill Charlie all along.

Flynn was married three times: to actress Lili Damita from 1935 until 1942 ( one son, Sean Flynn, born 1941, reported missing in Cambodia in 1970 and presumed dead ); to Nora Eddington from 1943 until 1949 ( two daughters, Deirdre born 1945 and Rory born 1947 ); and to actress Patrice Wymore from 1950 until his death ( one daughter, Arnella Roma, 1953 – 98 ).

Deirdre was the daughter of the royal storyteller Fedlimid mac Daill.

He took Deirdre away from her family and had her brought up in seclusion by Leabharcham, an old woman, and planned to marry her when she was old enough.

The spy managed to get back to Conchobar, and told him that Deirdre was as beautiful as ever.

The LÉ Deirdre ( P20 ), a ship in the Irish Naval Service ( now decommissioned ), was named after her.

Deirdre was a main character of the Fox Kids show, The Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog ; she was played by actress Lisa Dwan.

He was the king of Kells, and the father of Deirdre ( also based from Irish mythology ), one of the Mystic Knights.

Serrano's next fight was against world champion Deirdre Gogarty.

Rowling was praised for her imagination by USA Today writer Deirdre Donahue.

When Deirdre ( Derdriu ) was born, Cathbad the druid prophesied that she would be beautiful, " a woman with twisted yellow tresses, green-irised eyes of great beauty and cheeks flushed like the foxglove ," but that kings and lords would go to war over her.

He retired at the 1997 general election and his seat was held for Fine Gael by his daughter, Deirdre Clune.

Brereton is the younger brother of Deirdre Grusovin, whose political career he helped build.

She now offers to help Poirot who takes up her offer by getting her to pose as a maid in the house of Mrs Wetherby, a resident in the village for whom Mrs McGinty worked as housekeeper, and whose daughter, Deirdre, Poirot suspects may have some connection with the circumstances surrounding Mrs McGinty's murder.

* Deirdre of the Sorrows, the most beautiful woman in Ireland, and Naoise, her brave lover

The roles of Bet Lynch, Ivy Tilsley ( Lynne Perrie ), Deirdre Hunt ( Anne Kirkbride ), Rita Littlewood ( Barbara Knox ) and Mavis Riley ( Thelma Barlow ) were built up between 1972 and 1973 with characters such as Gail Potter ( Helen Worth ), Blanche Hunt ( Patricia Cutts and Maggie Jones ) and Vera Duckworth ( Elizabeth Dawn ) first appearing in 1974.

Ken Barlow married Deirdre Langton on 27 July 1981.

The 1980s featured some of the most prominent storylines in the programme's history, such as Deirdre Barlow's affair with Mike Baldwin in 1983, the first soap storyline to receive widespread media attention.

Storylines in the early part of the decade included: the death of newborn Katie McDonald in 1992, Mike Baldwin's wedding to Alma Sedgewick ( Amanda Barrie ) in 1992, Tommy Duckworth being sold by his father Terry in 1993, Deirdre Barlow's marriage to Moroccan Samir Rachid, and the rise of Tanya Pooley ( Eva Pope ) between 1993 and 1994.

One of Coronation Streets best known storylines took place in March / April 1998, with Deirdre Rachid being wrongfully imprisoned after a relationship with con-man Jon Lindsay.

19 million viewers watched Deirdre being sent to prison, and ' Free the Weatherfield One ' campaigns sprung up in a media frenzy.

Max matter-of-factly informs Nan Gordon ( Deirdre O ' Connell ), the wife of his friend and business partner, that her husband Jeff ( John de Lancie ) died in the crash.

The song " Going to the Chapel " is then played as we see Henrietta marry a member of the guard, Scarlett marry Chester, David marry his girlfriend, Tom marry his distant cousin Deirdre ( whom he met at Charles's wedding and instantly fell for ), Matthew with a new partner ( Duncan Kenworthy ), Fiona marry Prince Charles ( a joke ), and Charles and Carrie with their son -- presumably not married.

As Harvard hypnotherapist Deirdre Barrett describes in the book “ Tales from a Hypnotherapist ’ s Couch ”, most modern research suggestions are designed to bring about immediate responses — an arm rises immediately, whereas hypnotheraputic suggestions are usually post-hypnotic ones that are intended to trigger responses affecting behavior for periods ranging from days to a lifetime in duration.

Research by Deirdre Barrett has found that there are two distinct types of highly susceptible subjects, which she terms fantasizers and dissociaters.

The Exile of the Sons of Usnach, better known as the tragedy of Deirdre and the source of plays by John Millington Synge, William Butler Yeats, and Vincent Woods, is also part of this cycle.

* 1981 – British television: on Coronation Street, Ken Barlow marries Deirdre Langton, which proves to be a national event scoring massive viewer numbers for the show.

In 1992, a study by Deirdre Barrett examined whether lucid dreams contained four " corollaries " of lucidity: knowing that one dreams, that objects will disappear after waking, that physical laws need not apply, and having clear memory of the waking world, and found less than a quarter of lucidity accounts exhibited all four.

According to an article by Judith Treas and Deirdre Giesen, cohabiting couples are twice as likely to experience infidelity within the relationship than married couples.

Deirdre Barrett describes dreaming as simply " thinking in different biochemical state " and believes people continue to work on all the same problems — personal and objective — in that state.

* Sperber, Dan and Wilson, Deirdre.