The series also featured a number of contemporary Irish actors and comedians, including Dervla Kirwan, Graham Norton, Tommy Tiernan, Patrick McDonnell, Don Wycherley, Joe Rooney, Jason Byrne, Jim Norton, Pat Shortt, Jon Kenny, Ed Byrne, Brendan Grace, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Gerard McSorley and Kevin McKidd.

Grace Kelly was born in Philadelphia to John Brendan " Jack " Kelly, and his wife, Margaret Katherine Majer.

When Grace was born, the Kellys already had two children, Margaret Katherine, known as Peggy ( June 13, 1925 – November 23, 1991 ) and John Brendan, Jr., known as Kell ( May 24, 1927 – May 2, 1985 ).

It was produced by Vancouver-based production company Mainframe Entertainment, Alliance Communications, BLT Productions and created by Gavin Blair, Ian Pearson, Phil Mitchell and John Grace, with the visuals designed by Brendan McCarthy after an initial attempt by Ian Gibson.

Brendan Grace ( born 1 April 1951 ) is an Irish comedian and singer.

The Gingermen featuring Brendan Grace ( center )

Brendan Grace with Frank Sinatra in Dublin.

Brendan has shared stages with many well known names such as Frank Sinatra who referred to Grace as his " man in Europe " and John Denver among many others.

Brendan Grace married Eileen Doyle in 1973.

Roach has been cited as a major influence by other comedians such as Brendan Grace.

While Goodman's cover version of " The Dutchman " is one of the best known, along with a cover by Irish artists Liam Clancy and Tommy Makem, the song has been covered by many other artists as well, including Bernard Wrigley, John Gorka, Suzy Bogguss, Norm Hacking, Anne Hills, John McDermott, The New Kingston Trio, Gamble Rogers, Tom Russell, Jerry Jeff Walker, Robert James Waller, Cashman & West, Wood's Tea Company, Keith Harkin, Celtic Thunder, David Soul, Danny Doyle and Brendan Grace.

Winners of the award, which has been given to poets otherwise unaffiliated with the review, have included Howard Nemerov, Richard Wilbur, Anthony Hecht, W. S. Merwin, John Frederick Nims, Gwendolyn Brooks, George Starbuck, Wendell Berry, Maxine Kumin, Fred Chappell, Carolyn Kizer, X. J. Kennedy, George Garrett, Eleanor Ross Taylor, Frederick Morgan, Grace Schulman, Daniel Hoffman, Henry S. Taylor, B. H. Fairchild, Brendan Galvin, Anne Stevenson, John Haines, Donald Hall, Louise Glück, and Billy Collins.

Saint Brendan, despite of all the negative reactions among the seniors toward Columba, kisses him reverently and assures that Columba is the man of God and that he sees Holy Angels accompanying Columba on his journey through the plain.

The town is represented at Havant Borough Council by Councillors David Gillett, Brendan Gibb-Gray and Richard Galloway.

It is possible that Saint Brendan, an Irish monk ( a Papar ) sailed past the islands during his North Atlantic voyage in the 6th century.

When the former Australian Federal Education Minister, Brendan Nelson, raised the notion of intelligent design being taught in science classes, the public outcry caused the minister to quickly concede that the correct forum for intelligent design, if it were to be taught, is in religious or philosophy classes.

In the 1994 comedy Airheads ( in which he is credited as " Lemmy von Motörhead "), one scene involving Brendan Fraser, Adam Sandler, and Steve Buscemi, has Brendan Fraser's character, " Chazz " Chester Darvey talking to an undercover cop who is pretending to be a record executive — Chazz asks him, " Who'd win in a wrestling match, Lemmy or God?

According to Shane MacGowan, amongst the reasons of the breakup was disagreement concerning the political orientation of his songs, the band not wanting to sing too obvious pro-republican songs — though some of their previous songs were already politically engaged: for instance, Streams of Whiskey is about the poet and IRA member Brendan Behan.

After signing the bill into law, Governor Brendan Byrne declares " The mob is not welcome in New Jersey!

In terms of classification of the individual examples, these fall into a number of distinct groups including: truisms such as " Stronsay is an island surrounded by sea " and Coleman's own " He's 31 this year-last year he was 30 "; unintentional juxtapositions where the viewer / listener knows what is meant such as " Brendan Foster, by himself, with 20, 000 people ", or " I am not a man of faith, but my wife is "; and complete nonsense such as " Here they come, every colour of the rainbow: black, white, brown ".

( It is worth noting, however, that only the exterior was used ; the interior shots were from the then Brendan Byrne Arena ).

They reached and colonized any number of faraway islands, and St. Brendan is even speculated to have reached the New World a thousand years before Columbus.

He is best known for his works A Long Day ’ s Dying ( his first work, published in 1950 ); The Book of Bebb, a tetralogy based on the character Leo Bebb published in 1979 ; Godric, a first person narrative of the life of the medieval saint, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1981 ; Brendan, a second novel narrating a saint ’ s life, published in 1987 ; Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner ( 1992 ); and his autobiographical works The Sacred Journey ( 1982 ), Now and Then ( 1983 ), Telling Secrets ( 1991 ), and The Eyes of the Heart: Memoirs of the Lost and Found ( 1999 ).

Also in the city of Hilliard is a K-8 Roman Catholic school: Saint Brendan School, and a K-8 Islamic school, Sunrise Academy.

The borough is part of the Thirteenth Congressional District ( represented by Rep. Allyson Schwartz ), the 170th State House District ( represented by Rep. Brendan F. Boyle ) and the 4th State Senate District ( represented by Sen. LeAnna Washington ).

" Like Candlestick Park, the Brendan Byrne Arena and dozens of New Year's Day bowl games, the Garden State Arts Center is trading in its name for cash.

Doctors was first shown on BBC One on 26 March 2000 with an episode entitled " Letting Go ", Dr. Brendan McGuire is introduced as the head partner at a general practice, The Riverside Surgery, in the Midland town of Letherbridge with his wife Kate ( Maggie Cronin ) as Office Manager and a team of young doctors ; Dr. Steve Rawlings ( Mark Frost ), Dr. Helen Thompson ( Corrine Wicks ), Dr. Rana Mistry ( Akbar Kurtha ) and Dr. Caroline Powers ( Jacqueline Leonard ).

Theatre Workshop also championed the work of Irish playwright Brendan Behan, and Littlewood is often rumoured to have a significant role in his work.

Brendan Manley wrote, " Like it's title emplies, Nothing Gold Can Stay is the sonic transcript of a glorious, fleeting time for NFG-and for pop-punk.

He is survived by 5 children, Sean, Brendan, Tui and Daniel from his first marriage to journalist Gillian Heming and Brigid from his second marriage to television presenter, Barbara Magner.

Pierce Brendan Brosnan ( born 16 May 1953 ) is an Irish actor, film producer and environmentalist.

SpiderMonkey is the code name for the first-ever JavaScript engine, written by Brendan Eich at Netscape Communications, later released as open source and now maintained by the Mozilla Foundation.

* 1923 – Brendan Behan, Irish author ( d. 1964 )

Irish traditional music stylists include John and Pip Murphy, Noel Battle, Austin Berry, James Conway, Andy Irvine, Mick Kinsella, Brendan Power, Joel Bernstein, Don Meade, Paul Moran, Tom Byrne and Rick Epping.

In Spiked, Brendan O ' Neill, of Irish descent, uses the term to describe " second-generation wannabe " Irishmen and writes that some of those guilty of " Plastic Paddyism " ( or, in his words, " Dermot-itis ") are Bill Clinton, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Shane MacGowan.

In 1919, Collins, the IRA's Director of Intelligence, organised the " Squad "— an assassination unit based in Dublin which killed police involved in intelligence work ; the Irish playwright Brendan Behan's father Stephen Behan was a member of this squad.

There are claims of earlier discoveries: some historians believe an Irish monk, Brendan, who was known as a good sailor, was close to Jan Mayen in the early sixth century.

* Brendan Whiting's book Victims of Tyranny, gives an account of the lives of the Irish rebels, the Fitzgerald convict brothers who were sent to help open up the north of Van Diemen's Land in 1805, under the leadership of the explorer Colonel William Paterson.

* March 20 – Brendan Behan, Irish poet and writer ( b. 1923 )

** Brendan Gleeson, Irish actor

* February 9 – Brendan Behan, Irish author ( d. 1964 )

* Brendan, Irish abbot and saint ( approximate date )

* Brendan, Irish abbot, allegedly climbs to the top of Mount Brandon, to look for the Americas ( approximate date ).

* Saint Brendan, a popular Irish saint

These stories have many parallels with those of Saint Brendan the navigator, Saint Maclovius of Wales, and the stories of the Irish immrama.

It has also recently been claimed by some in the Republican Socialist Movement that one of their members killed in 1975, Brendan McNamee ( who was involved in the killing of Billy McMillen ), was actually killed by Provisional Irish Republican Army members.

In the early 21st century, Irish sculptor Brendan McGloin was commissioned by the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Portland to handcraft a full size replica of the Clonmacnoise Cross of the Scriptures.

The duet " Pretty Irish Girl ", apparently sung by Sean Connery and Janet Munro, has been alleged to feature dubbed vocals by Irish singers, Brendan O ' Dowda and Ruby Murray.

Dublin working class playwright Brendan Behan, a staunch Irish Republican, famously defined an Anglo-Irishman as " a Protestant with a horse ".

MacColl also produced a number of LPs with Irish singer songwriter Dominic Behan, brother of the playwright, Brendan Behan.

Irish novelist and songwriter, Brendan Graham has written a number of novels and songs on An Gorta Mor – the Great Irish Famine.

He also revealed that as sacristan in the local church he had been best man at the wedding of Irish playwright and author Brendan Behan when Behan found himself without a best man at the ceremony.