She defeated Fianna Fáil's Brian Lenihan and Fine Gael's Austin Currie in the 1990 presidential election becoming, as an Independent candidate nominated by the Labour Party, the Workers ' Party and independent senators, the first elected president in the office's history not to have had the support of Fianna Fáil.

Fianna Fáil chose Tánaiste and Minister for Defence, Brian Lenihan.

* November 1 – Mary Robinson defeats odds-on favourite Brian Lenihan to become the first female President of Ireland.

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

This plan, suggested by Brian Lenihan and Donogh O ' Malley, was dropped after opposition by Trinity College students.

Under Lemass, party elders such as James Ryan, Seán MacEntee and Paddy Smith retired and a new generation of politicians were introduced to government such as Brian Lenihan, Donogh O ' Malley, Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney.

Three candidates had been nominated in the 1990 presidential election: the then Tánaiste, Brian Lenihan from Fianna Fáil ( widely viewed as the certain winner ), Austin Currie from Fine Gael and Mary Robinson from Labour.

The revelations, and the discovery that Hillery had stood up to pressure from former cabinet colleagues, including his close friend Brian Lenihan, back in 1982 increased Hillery's standing substantially.

He regularly socialised with other younger Cabinet colleagues such as Donogh O ' Malley and Brian Lenihan.

Phone calls were also made to the President by Brian Lenihan.

The Presidential election was disappointing for Haughey with Brian Lenihan, the Tánaiste, who was nominated as the party's candidate, being defeated by Mary Robinson.

* In May 1989 one of Haughey's lifelong friends Brian Lenihan, a former government minister, underwent a liver transplant which was partly paid for through fundraising by Haughey.

The Moriarty tribunal found that, of the £ 270, 000 collected in donations for Brian Lenihan, no more than £ 70, 000 ended up being spent on Lenihan's medical care.

* Brian Lenihan, For the Record ( Blackwater, 1991 ) ISBN 0-86121-362-9

Younger men such as Brian Lenihan, Charles Haughey, Patrick Hillery and Michael Hilliard were all given their first Cabinet portfolios by Lemass, and ministers who joined under de Valera, such as Jack Lynch, Neil Blaney and Kevin Boland were promoted by the new Taoiseach.

The failure to get the Fianna Fáil candidate, Brian Lenihan, elected as President of Ireland added to the pressure on Haughey's leadership.

He first achieved prominence in 1990 when the contents of his on-the-record interview with then Tánaiste Brian Lenihan, in which Lenihan admitted making calls to the residence of the Irish president seeking to speak to President Hillery to urge him to refuse a Dáil dissolution in controversial circumstances ( something he had previously denied ), led to Lenihan's dismissal from government, his defeat in that year's Irish presidential election and the unexpected election of the left wing liberal Mary Robinson as President of Ireland.

In 1990 as part of his postgraduate thesis for his Master of Arts in Political Science Duffy interviewed senior politicians, one of whom was the then Tánaiste, Brian Lenihan.

FitzGerald aggressively challenged Lenihan, saying " I was in the Áras, Brian, and I know how many calls there were.

* Brian Lenihan, For the Record ( Blackwater Press, 1991 ) ISBN 0-86121-362-9

When he got there, he was informed that a series of telephone calls had been made by senior opposition figures ( and some independent TDs ), including Fianna Fáil leader ( and ex-Taoiseach ) Charles Haughey, Brian Lenihan and Sylvester Barrett demanding that the President, as he could constitutionally do where a Taoiseach had ' ceased to retain the support of a majority in Dáil Éireann ', refuse FitzGerald a parliamentary dissolution, forcing his resignation as Taoiseach and enabling the Dáil to nominate someone else for the post.

Initially, Fianna Fáil's Brian Lenihan had been favourite to win, however after a number of controversies arising from the brief Fianna Fáil administration of 1981 – 82, and Lenihan's dismissal as Minister for Defence mid-way through the campaign, the Labour Party's Mary Robinson emerged victorious.

In December 2008, he was appointed by Finance Minister Brian Lenihan, Jnr as a public interest director on the board of Anglo Irish Bank.

Brian Lenihan, the Minister of Finance in the Republic of Ireland is another notable alumnus.

Brian Wilson and his bandmates, following a set by Ike and Tina Turner, performed their first major live show at The Ritchie Valens Memorial Dance on New Year's Eve, 1961.

Aumsville is home to the Brian Haney Memorial Skate Park.

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Brian McGuinness, Wittgenstein, A Life: Young Ludwig ( 1889 – 1921 )

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Brian Finney, Christopher Isherwood: A Critical Biography

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Brian Moore, The Great Victorian Collection

* Georgian R. Tashjian, David R. Tashjian, and Brian J. Enright ( 1991 ), Richard Rawlinson: A Tercentenary Memorial ( Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications ).

The templates created by Russell are still used by other specialist lupin horticulturalists today e. g. Maurice and Brian Woodfield, nurserymen from Stratford-upon-Avon, who received the RHS Veitch Memorial Medal for their work on lupins in 2000.

It contains the Brian Johnston Memorial Theatre, a cinema which screens historical cricket footage for visitors.

Brian Bellows scored 11 seconds into the game, setting a Memorial Cup record.

Sebastian Cabot's cremated remains are buried in the urn garden in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California, interred within yards of TV co-star Brian Keith.

* Berkeley. edu-' Cal mourns passing of Brian Maxwell, former coach, runner, PowerBar founder, and philanthropist: Memorial service scheduled for noon April 2 at Haas Pavilion ', University of California, Berkeley ( March 22, 2004 )

" Brian Houghton, of the National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism, said that Racist music was a great recruiting tool, " Through music ... to grab these kids, teach them to be racists and hook them for life.

As head coach of the Spitfires, Boughner has won two Memorial Cup championships, in 2009 and 2010 and has won the Brian Kilrea Coach of the Year Award twice, in 2008 and 2010.

The section of State Route 2 that runs through Willoughby is named " Brian Montgomery Memorial Highway " in honor of a Marine Lance Corporal that was killed in the Iraq War in August 2005.

* Brian Pillman Memorial Show

Brian played junior hockey for the Brockville Canadiens in 1959 – 60, making a Memorial Cup appearance in 1960.

The Irish Hunger Memorial, designed collaboratively by artist Brian Tolle, landscape architect Gail Wittwer-Laird, and 1100 Architect, is located on a one-half acre site at the corner of Vesey Street and North End Avenue in the Battery Park City neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, and is dedicated to raising awareness of the Great Irish Famine-referred to by the Irish as ' The Great Hunger ' or An Gorta Mor in Irish Gaelic-that killed up to a million people in Ireland between the years 1845 and 1852.

Previous owner Brian Shaw was a pioneer in many aspects of Junior Hockey, not only moving a team to the United States for the first time, but also is credited with designing the current CHL championship format of the champion from each of the three leagues ( WHL, OHL, and QMJHL ) as well as a host-city team competing for the Memorial Cup.

Clark was awarded the Dunc McCallum Memorial Trophy as the WHL's top coach, and also won the Canadian Hockey League's Brian Kilrea Coach of the Year Award.

Rudy Vallejos, an outfielder with the 2006 London Majors, won the Intercounty Baseball League Rookie of the Year ( Brian Kerr Memorial Trophy ).

On May 19, 1999, Shark Boy wrestled at the second annual Brian Pillman Memorial Show, defeating Matt Stryker, Tarek the Great and Chip Fairway in a tournament and receiving a trophy.

Shark Boy also wrestled at the 1998, 2000 and 2001 Brian Pillman Memorial Shows.

As a result of the exposure gained by his appearances on television and at the Brian Pillman Memorial Shows, coupled with his " cult " following.

Queen guitarist Brian May commenced the event by playing his arrangement of " God Save the Queen " from the roof of the palace, and Paul McCartney concluded the night with such numbers as " While My Guitar Gently Weeps " and " Hey Jude ", which were each performed before and after the Queen lit the National Beacon at the Victoria Memorial, the last in a string of 2, 006 beacons to be lit in a chain throughout the world, echoing Queen Victoria's own Golden Jubilee in 1887.