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.

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

" The Voice " written by Brendan Graham and performed by Eimear Quinn won the 1996 Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland.

" The Fairhaired Boy "-This song written by Brendan Graham was recorded by Cathy Jordan and Dervish on their 2003 album, ‘ Spirit ’.

The music and lyrics for the song were written by Brendan Graham.

The song was written by Brendan Graham, who also composed the 1994 winner " Rock ' n ' Roll Kids ".

* May 18-Ireland wins the Eurovision Song Contest for the seventh time with The Voice, sung by Eimear Quinn and composed by Brendan Graham.

* April 30-Ireland wins the Eurovision Song Contest ( staged at the Point Theatre in Dublin ) for the third year in a row with the song Rock ' n ' Roll Kids composed by Brendan Graham and performed by Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan.

On October 14, 2010, Chicago Alderman Brendan Reilly, 42nd Ward, dedicated the streets to the south and east sides of the John Hancock Center – one of Graham ’ s most iconic achievements – as Honorary Bruce J. Graham Way.

Performing with Paul Harrington, he won the Eurovision Song Contest 1994 with the song " Rock ' n ' Roll Kids " ( words and music by Brendan Graham ).

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but his spell in charge lasted just 5 games after former Chelsea reserve coach Brendan Rodgers was appointed on a long term basis by then Watford chairman Graham Simpson.

In the early 1980s, the CPI ( ML ) was a major force in the students ' union movement, with member Brendan Doris becoming president of the Union of Students in Ireland ( USI ), while members Tommy Graham and Brian Stone became president of the College of Technology ( Bolton Street ) Students ' Union in successive years.

It has been suggested that St. Brendan discovered it during his legendary voyage ; a local psychiatric hospital ( since renamed ) was named after him.

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?

During its lifetime Hotel Chelsea has provided a home to many great writers and thinkers including Mark Twain, O. Henry, Herbert Huncke, Dylan Thomas, Arthur C. Clarke, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Arnold Weinstein, Leonard Cohen, Sharmagne Leland-St. John, Arthur Miller, Quentin Crisp, Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac ( who wrote On the Road there ), Robert Hunter, Jack Gantos, Brendan Behan, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Thomas Wolfe, Charles Bukowski, Raymond Kennedy, Matthew Richardson, James T. Farrell, Valerie Solanas, Mary Cantwell, and René Ricard.

The song has been recorded by Foster and Allen and Brendan Shine.

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.

Tolkien's legend of Eärendil has elements resembling the medieval Celtic Immram legends or the Christian legend of St. Brendan the Navigator.

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.

ABC News reported on 17 June 2009 that a study has been carried out by environmental scientist Professor Brendan Mackey of the Australian National University which identified that mountain ash forests in Victoria ’ s Central Highlands as the best in the world at locking up carbon.

Brendan McKay has replied that he and his colleagues have never accused Havlin or Gans of participating in a conspiracy.

Paris has fallen in love with Helen ( Diane Kruger ), the wife of king Menelaus ( Brendan Gleeson ), and smuggles her back to Troy with him.

MacGowan has often cited the 19th-century Irish poet James Clarence Mangan and playwright Brendan Behan as influences.

In the 2002 Big Finish audio drama, Sarah Jane Smith: Comeback, Sarah Jane ( voiced by Sladen ), states that Lavinia has recently died and Brendan is living in San Francisco, and mentions Juno Baker.

After a nation-wide search, the 2009 / 10 Soulpepper Academy has been chosen and they are: Ins Choi, Tatjana Cornij, Raquel Duffy, Brendan Healy, Ken MacKenzie, Gregory Prest, Karen Rae, Jason Patrick Rothery, and Brendan Wall.

In later years, though, the Truck series has also become a place for Cup veterans without a ride to make their living which currently includes Ricky Craven, Jimmy Spencer, Dennis Setzer, Brendan Gaughan ( who started his career in a family-owned team, and after his Nextel Cup attempt, returned to the family operation ), Rich Bickle, Andy Houston, Todd Bodine, Bobby Hamilton, Jr. and previous champions Mike Skinner, Ron Hornaday, Ted Musgrave, and Jack Sprague.

At the age of 18 Brendan formed a band known as The Gingermen and toured Ireland in what has come to be known as the showband era of the 60s although The Gingermen where a folk group rather than a showband.

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.

Ulster has a large body of famed alumni, including MP's Kate Hoey, Gregory Campbell, Michelle Gildernew and former deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland Mark Durkan, MLA's Alban Maginness, Basil McCrea and Sean Neeson, writers and authors including Anne Devlin, Colin Duriez and Aodán Mac Póilin, poets including Gerald Dawe and Brendan Hamill, and artists including Oliver Jeffers, Victor Sloan, Andre Stitt, John Luke and John Kindness.

Brendan Paul Barber ( born 3 April 1951 ) has been the General Secretary of the United Kingdom's Trades Union Congress ( TUC ) since June 2003.

The town is home to Meath Gaelic Athletic Association footballers such as Jack Quinn and Darren Fay and in recent times Brendan Murphy has emerged as the county team's star goalkeeper.

It has also been suggested that the name may mean " victory isle " or have been named after St Brendan, although this is unlikely.

Brian has also scored the film The Good Doctor which was premiered at the Tribeca Festival 2011, and the upcoming movie Albert Nobbs featuring Glenn Close and Brendan Gleeson.

The Portland GMB also hosts many social and educational events, notably Music for the Working Class, a free event that occurs on the last Wednesday of every month at the Red and Black Cafe, 400 SE 12th St. Acts that have appeared include Brendan Phillips and Fast Rattler, David Rovics, and the unofficial band of the Portland branch, I Wobble Wobble.

Gelbart also co-wrote the golden-era film spoof Movie Movie ( 1978 ) starring George C. Scott in dual roles, the racy comedy Blame It on Rio ( 1984 ) starring Michael Caine and Demi Moore, and the 2000 remake of Bedazzled with Elizabeth Hurley and Brendan Fraser.

* Menelaus also appears in the 2004 film Troy, portrayed by Brendan Gleeson.

K Rock's most successful lineup was in the mid-1990s featuring " Dave & Roxie on the Big Mattress " ( Dave Gorr, Roxanne Bennett and Brendan Roberts ' character voices ), Steve Woods ( also Program Director ), Todd Austin, Frank Fursey & Wazza ( Warren Penny ).

The Islanders also made several free agent acquisitions, including defensemen Brendan Witt and Tom Poti as well as forwards Mike Sillinger and Chris Simon.

The change of personnel in Fianna Fáil was also accompanied by a change of personnel in Fine Gael, with James Dillon becoming leader upon Richard Mulcahy's retirement in 1959, and Labour, in which Brendan Corish succeeded William Norton in 1960.

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

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

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.

He also references the music of The Pogues and the poetry of Brendan Behan, both of these being relevant to Ennis ' Irish heritage.

The band reunites Andriano with fellow former Slapstick member Brendan Kelly ( guitar and vocals ) ( currently in The Lawrence Arms ) and expands the family to Neil Hennessy on drums, ( also in The Lawrence Arms ).

The Isle of St. Brendan is also located on this globe, but it contains the entire Western Hemisphere in capsule form.

He is also, with Brendan Nelson and Malcolm Turnbull, one of three federal Liberal leaders never to lead the party into an election.

The album also featured a new producer, Brendan Lynch.

He also discovers that Tracey intends to kill Brendan in an act of ritual murder.

This featured Brendan from K-9 and Company and also involved an encounter with ghosts, this time in and around a Lake District pub called " The Sow in Rut ".

Kearney's sister Kathleen was the mother of Irish writers Brendan Behan and Dominic Behan, both of whom were also republicans and songwriters.

They had previously played together in the band Ella and the Blacks, which also included Brian Grillo and Brendan Mullen ( founder of The Masque, the first L. A. punk rock club ).

James Dillon took over at Fine Gael in 1959 also, while the Labour Party was now under the leadership of Brendan Corish.

On Broken Boy Soldiers, he is credited as playing the album's synths and organ ; however, bandmate Brendan Benson also received credit for these instruments and it is unclear who played on which song.