On the retirement of Senator Justin O ' Byrne in 1981, he became Father of the Parliament.

As a 17-year-old teenager, he discovered comic books, and became a fan of creators such as John Byrne, Jack Kirby, Frank Miller and George Pérez ( as well as the writing of Alan Moore ), but was especially drawn to the more atypical art of Michael Golden and Katsuhiro Ōtomo, creator of the manga Akira.

The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra became the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, and included musicians such as Bobby Byrne, Ray McKinley, and Skeets Herfurt along with vocalists Bob Eberly and Kay Weber.

The character of Andy Mitchell, the young constable in the film who embarks on a perilous quest to find and bring Tom Riley to justice, became a detective named Andy Crawford ( Peter Byrne ), in the CID at Dock Green, and he was married to Dixon's 23-year-old daughter, Mary, in the 19th episode, Father-in-Law ( 1st Sept 1956 ).

Paddy Byrne and John Freeborn downed two RAF aircraft, killing one officer, Montague Hulton-Harrop, in this friendly fire incident, which became known as the Battle of Barking Creek.

With illustrations by David Neilson, and later by the Paisley-born artist and playwright John Byrne, the book became very popular in Glasgow.

He served as pastor of St. Patrick's Church in Memphis from 1911 to 1913, whence he became private secretary to Bishop Byrne.

Charlotte Dacre was born Charlotte King, and later became Mrs Byrne upon her marriage to Nicholas Byrne.

Ed Byrne became leader of the Progressive Conservatives in 1998, when he was uncontested for the leadership, and led the party into the 1999 general election.

When Paul Martin became Prime Minister in 2003 Byrne was not assigned back to his former Cabinet post and was succeeded by Joe McGuire.

Ignatieff became Leader of the Liberal Party two years later, and was again supported by Byrne.

In addition to regaining cultural notability because of scholars who study her writing, she again attained a degree of celebrity in recent years when several biographies of her appeared, including one by Paula Byrne that became a top-ten bestseller after being selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club.

Notable penciller-inker teams like Kirby and Joe Sinnott, Curt Swan and Murphy Anderson, Gene Colan and Palmer, and John Byrne and Terry Austin ( particularly on The Uncanny X-Men ) proved that comics could truly became a collaborative art.

In 1977, Austin and penciler John Byrne became the new art team on Uncanny X-Men.

In spite of this arrangement, Gray has since turned up on Celebrity Sunday, a program featuring celebrities and which, when it featured Nicky Byrne from Westlife, became Twitter's third favourite trending topic.

Lenola was an indie rock noise-pop group formed in New Jersey in 1994, originally envisioned as a four-track project by lead man Jay Laughlin, but with the addition of guitarist David Grubb and drummer Sean Byrne, eventually became a standard band.

In the Middle Ages, Naas became a walled market town, occasionally raided by the O ' Byrne and O ' Toole clans based in the nearby area which became County Wicklow.

Byrne became an International Master based on his results at the 1952 Chess Olympiad at Helsinki ( bronze medal on third board ).

* Robert Byrne vs Miroslav Filip, Mar del Plata 1961, King's Indian Defense, Fianchetto Variation ( E60 ), 1 – 0 Byrne defeats a player who became a Candidate the next year.

In 1983, with the Machine divided between supporters of Jane Byrne and Richard M. Daley, black independent Harold Washington became Mayor.

After several seasons playing in the reserve and youth sides, he became a professional in 1951 and over the decade made 12 league appearances as full-back cover for Roger Byrne on the left and Bill Foulkes on the right.

Byrne sought Washington's support, yet shortly before his sudden death in late 1987 the Mayor endorsed Aurelia Pucinski, daughter of longtime Alderman Roman Pucinski, as part of a bid to reconcile with white machine politicians.

* In Superman: The Animated Series, " The Last Son of Krypton ", the first part of a three-part pilot episode, depicts Krypton as being basically similar to the pre-Crisis version ( it was scientifically advanced, Kal-El appeared to be about one to two years old as in the Silver Age comics, there are depictions of peculiar animals ) although with elements of the John Byrne version ( such as the appearance of the characters ' wardrobe ).

In April 2008, Byrne took part in the Paul Simon retrospective concert series at BAM performing " You Can Call Me Al " and " I Know What I Know " from Simon's Graceland album.

Joan ( Brenda Blethyn ), Alençon ( Michael Byrne ), the Bastard ( Brian Protheroe ), Reignier ( David Daker ) and Charles ( Ian Saynor ) are treated as buffoons for the most part, and there is no indication of any malevolence ( significantly, when Joan ’ s fiends abandon her, we never see them, we simply see her talking to empty air ).

Farrell attended the Gaiety School of Acting and dropped out when he was cast in the part of Danny Byrne on Ballykissangel, a BBC television drama that centers around a young English priest who becomes a part of a rural community in Ireland.

* 29 March — Jem Ward fails to take part in a scheduled bout with Simon Byrne and so is held to have forfeited the Championship of England, which falls to Byrne by default.

" Three members of the band were told they would not be part of the new group, and auditions were held in Dublin where Byrne and McFadden were recruited.

He attended the Rhode Island School of Design in the late 1960s and was part of the Rhode Island underground culture scene in the 1970s that also included Talking Heads frontman David Byrne and film director Gus Van Sant.

David also pointed out that some of these artists, such as John Byrne and George Pérez, did not react to this practice on Liefeld's part as a " tribute ," and expressed displeasure at the degree to which Liefeld relied on their work.

Byrne achieved his career highlight of third place at the Leningrad Interzonal in 1973, with 12. 5 / 17, which made him only the fourth American ( after Samuel Reshevsky, Bobby Fischer, and Pál Benkő ) to qualify for the Candidates Tournament ( part of the world chess championship process ).

Stern broke into the industry as a writer in 1975 as part of the Marvel Comics " third wave " of creators, which included artists Byrne and Frank Miller, and writers Jo Duffy, Mark Gruenwald and Ralph Macchio.

Scottish-born actor Mark McManus played the part of Kelly's friend Joe Byrne.

In 2003, Orlando Bloom played the part of Joe Byrne in Ned Kelly.

The programme was dropped by RTÉ as part of its new season of television in 2010, to be replaced by two afternoon programmes 4 Daily presented by Maura Derrane and The Daily Show hosted by Dáithí Ó Sé and Claire Byrne.

The part of the father was meant to be younger but, as all the actors asked in that age range passed on the role, an older actor, ( Gabriel Byrne ), was chosen.

Vitty is part of the comedy folk band Folk Face with Dominic Byrne who was the newsreader on The Chris Moyles Show.

Dominic Byrne is part of an award winning comedy folk band Folk Face with Comedy Dave also from The Chris Moyles Show.

On December 13, 2011, ACME announced it would sell WBUW to Byrne Acquisition Group, a move that is part of ACME's gradual exit from the TV business.

Byrne used to be part of the youth team set up at Leeds United during the mid-1990s, and is good friends with Kelly, even having cleaned his boots when he was a trainee at the club.

Byrne was then replaced by Nicieza and Scott Lobdell, who would take over the majority of writing duties for the X-Men until Lee's own departure months later when he and several other popular artists ( including former X-title artists Liefeld, Portacio, and Marc Silvestri ) would leave Marvel to form Image Comics.

* Black Monday, Dublin ,– when a group of 500 recently arrived settlers from Bristol were massacred by warriors of the Gaelic O ' Byrne clan.

In 1970, Hoffman and Byrne were living in Greenwich Village in a building next door to the townhouse destroyed by members of the Weathermen when they detonated a bomb in the building's basement, killing three people.

However, this was discarded when the John Byrne version of The Man of Steel was planned.

Thel's ex-boyfriend Charlie ( Gabriel Byrne ) surprises them in bed and shoots Blake, accidentally killing Thel when she tries to shield Blake with her body.

The Story of the Kelly Gangs tone is of sorrow, depicting Ned Kelly as " the Last of the Bushrangers, and his friends Dan Kelly, Steve Hart and Joe Byrne ," presenting the police hiding under the bed when Aaron Sherritt is shot (' This is the Only Blot on the Police ,') and portraying school master Curnow's action of warning the train as heroic (' Thank God, he Saved the Train.

Polly romanced Declan Byrne but when her brother Gavin Arnold ( Neil Roberts ) arrived in town, she resumed her illicit love affair with him.

Perhaps Byrne overlooked this move when analyzing 18. Bxb6, expecting instead 24 ... Nxd1?

Byrne worked in archaeology when he left UCD.

Byrne, who retains his Irish citizenship, did not arrive in the United States until 1987, when he was 37.

Morgan said in a Late Late Show interview in 1996 with Gay Byrne that his forthcoming screenplay was to be called Miracle of the Magyars and based on real-life circumstances in the 1950s when the Archbishop of Dublin forbade Catholics from attending a football match between Ireland and Yugoslavia on religious and spiritual grounds.

* John Byrne – comic book artist ( Moved to Canada when 8 )

He landed his big break into movies in 1986, when he had a significant comedic role in the David Byrne mockumentary True Stories.

( She credits her interview technique to Gay Byrne, who hosted the contest when she was in Tralee.

They disbanded in July 1977, when Carrack, Comer and Byrne joined Frankie Miller's band.

Nomansland Common also saw the first annually contested steeplechase in England, in 1830 when it was organised by Thomas Coleman, and the last fight of nineteenth century bare-knuckle fighter, Simon Byrne.

Frankfurter's legal career began when he joined the New York law firm of Hornblower, Byrne, Miller & Potter in 1906.

Stephens would also be caught, but with the support of Fenian prison warders, John J. Breslin and Daniel Byrne was less than a fortnight in Richmond Bridewell when he vanished and escaped to France.

Byrne spread the word last 8 March 2009 that Westlife will come back to music charts when they start recording in June 2009 when he received his VIP Style Awards as the Most Stylish Man on X-pose, TV3.

Two backup stories, though not under the " Tales of the New Gods " banner, were printed when John Byrne filled in as penciller on Orion for the main stories in issues # 13 and # 14, with Simonson providing writing and pencilling duties, and Bob Wiacek inking.

Ruth M. J. Byrne proposed in The Rational Imagination: How People Create Alternatives to Reality that people construct mental representations that encompass two possibilities when they understand, and reason from, a counterfactual conditional, e. g., ' if Oswald had not shot Kennedy, then someone else would have '.