Australian swimmers Bonnie Mealing, Clare Dennis, Frances Bult with chaperone and sprinters Eileen Wearne ( Aus ) and Thelma Kench ( NZ ) at the 1932 Summer Olympics | 1932 Los Angeles Olympics

In 1932, Speedo made its Olympic debut when 16 year old Australian Clare Dennis won the Women's 200 Meter Breaststroke at the Los Angeles Olympic Games.

Among those who recorded for Trend are Van Alexander, Robert Conti, Shelly Manne, Clare Fischer, Warm Dust, Dick Berk, Matt Dennis and Ray Linn.

* Clare Dennis, gold medallist in the 200m breaststroke at the 1932 Summer Olympics was born in the suburb.

* Clare Dennis ( 1916-1971 ), gold medallist in the 200m breaststroke at the 1932 Summer Olympics grew up in the suburb

Grace O ' Malley, or Granuaile, the most famous of the O ' Malley's was born in Clare Island around 1530.

Borthwick was killed, as was Charles O ’ Brien, the Irish Viscount Clare in French service, fighting at the head of his regiment.

Location work for Father Ted was done mostly in County Clare, including locations at Ennis, Kilfenora, Ennistymon, and Kilnaboy.

At the same time County Clare was created and moved from Munster to Connacht, being returned to Munster in 1602.

The novel Busman's Honeymoon was originally a stage play by Sayers and her friend Muriel St. Clare Byrne.

He was one of the group of Protestant churchmen who met with Provisional IRA officers in Feakle, County Clare to try to broker peace.

In 1645 he was appointed master of Clare Hall and the same year was elected Regius professor of Hebrew.

His nephew, Einion ab Anarawd, who was the captain of his bodyguard, had been murdered at the instigation of Roger de Clare, Earl of Hertford.

On May 24, 1844, the line was officially opened as Morse sent the famous words " What hath God wrought " from the Supreme Court chamber in the basement of the U. S. Capitol building in Washington, D. C., to the B & O's Mount Clare Station in Baltimore.

In 1852 he was admitted to Cambridge University, earning the degrees of Bachelor of Arts in 1857, then Master of Arts in 1860 from Clare College, Cambridge.

Stephen was not a gifted public speaker, and delegated the pre-battle speech to Baldwin of Clare, who delivered a rousing declaration.

Narrated by Anton Lesser, with Geoffrey Whitehead as Death, Carl Prekopp as Mort, Clare Corbett as Ysabell and Alice Hart as Princess Keli, the programme was first broadcast in four parts in mid-2004 and has been repeated frequently, most recently on BBC7.

Darwin was the first college to admit both men and women, while Churchill, Clare and King's colleges were the first previously all-male colleges to admit female undergraduates, in 1972.

As a child she most likely lived at her family's residence of Belclare and Clare Island, but she may have been fostered to another family since fosterage was traditional among Irish nobility at the time.

Her castle at Clare Island was attacked by an expedition from Galway led by Sheriff William Óge Martyn in March 1579.

Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Hertford and Guardian of England, died at the castle in 1295, and King Edward II was briefly imprisoned there in 1326.

The architect William Wilkins was commissioned by the trustees of the Downing estate, who included the Master of Clare College and St John's College and the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, to design the plan for the college.

There was Norman influence from the 14th century, due to adventuring of the FitzGerald, de Clare and Butler houses, two of whom carved out earldoms within the Lordship of Ireland, the Earls of Desmond eventually becoming independent potentates, for a time the greatest in Ireland, while the Earls of Ormond remained closer to England.

The mission, the eighth Spanish mission built in California, was founded on January 12, 1777 and named for Saint Clare of Assisi, the foundress of the order of the Poor Clares.

The 1966 comedy They're a Weird Mob, starring Walter Chiari, Chips Rafferty and Clare Dunne was a rare hit of the period which also documented something of the changing face of Australian society: telling the story of a newly arrived Italian immigrant who, working as a labourer in Sydney, becomes mates with his co-workers, despite some difficulties with Australian slang and culture.

He was one of four brothers who may have been born in Liscannor, County Clare, Ireland to an Irish speaking mother, Máire Ní Scannláin, and John Holland, and learned English properly only when he attended the local English-speaking National School system and, from 1858, in the Christian Brothers in Ennistymon.

The Abbey's greatest single later patron was Lady Eleanor le Despenser, last of the De Clare heirs of FitzRoy.

In 1338, the college was refounded as Clare Hall by an endowment from Elizabeth de Clare, a granddaughter of Edward I, which provided for twenty fellows and ten students.

In Ireland, usage of the word county nearly always comes before rather than after the county name ; thus " County Clare " in Ireland as opposed to " Clare County " in Michigan, US.

The setting of her involvement with the League begins with her divorce from Charles after he is caught in the act in a brothel kept by former League member Amber St. Clare, and is shown to have been sexually involved with both Gulliver and Captain Clegg nearly 40 years before the second League was founded.

In Ireland, the usage of the word county nearly always comes before rather than after the county name ; thus " County Clare " in Ireland as opposed to " Clare County " in Michigan, US.

In Ireland, the usage of the word county nearly always comes before rather than after the county name ; thus " County Clare " in Ireland as opposed to " Clare County " in Michigan, US.

In his memoirs, the commandant of the Clare IRA, Michael Brennan, describes how the Auxiliaries nearly captured him three nights in a row.

Clare Martin did nearly manage to take the seat for the Australian Labor Party upon the retirement of long-serving CLP member Nick Dondas in 1994, but lost out to the CLP's Peter Adamson, who held the seat for the next seven years.

There were four from St. John's and four from Christ's, three from Pembroke, and two from each of the colleges, Jesus, Peterhouse, Queens', and Trinity, with Caius, Clare, King's, Magdalene, and Sidney supplying one each in the ordo senioritatis.

By 1860, wheat farms had been established from Encounter Bay in the south to Clare in the north.

The Stoneys were a Protestant Anglo-Irish gentry family from both County Tipperary and County Longford, while Ethel herself had spent much of her childhood in County Clare.

The fragment of a new novel she had been working on in her last years has been twice completed by recent authors, the more famous version being Emma Brown: A Novel from the Unfinished Manuscript by Charlotte Brontë by Clare Boylan in 2003.

*, another major two-lane route, runs diagonally from Clare to the southeast to Frankfort to the northwest.

** Clare fiddling from northern Munster, which tends to be played near the slower Galway tempo yet with a greater emphasis on the melody itself rather than ornamentaiton.

Eocene fossil flower, collected August 2010 from Clare family fossil quarry, Florissant, Colorado

During the 1920s writers such as Clare Winger Harris and Gertrude Barrows Bennett published science fiction stories written from female perspectives and occasionally dealt with gender and sexuality based topics.

If the DNA is to be used after separation on the agarose gel, it is best to avoid exposure to UV light by using a blue light excitation source such as the XcitaBlue UV to blue light conversion screen from Bio-Rad or Dark Reader from Clare Chemicals.

One of the most recent appraisals of slam comes from the poet Tim Clare.

Near contemporary illustration of the battle of Lincoln ( 1141 ) | battle of Lincoln ; Stephen ( fourth from the right ) is listening to Baldwin of Clare orating a battle speech ( left ).

Powell cut out and retained all his life an article from the New Statesman newspaper of 13 November 1943, in which the American Clare Boothe Luce said in a speech that Indian independence would mean that the " USA will really have won the greatest war in the world for democracy ".

In 1920 Blunden published a collection of poems, The Waggoner, and with Alan Porter edited the poems of John Clare ( mostly from Clare's manuscript )

After his divorce from Adriana Asti, Bertolucci married Clare Peploe, screenwriter and director with Mark Peploe of Professione Reporter, and who had already collaborated with Michelangelo Antonioni.

On May 22, 1830, the inaugural horse-drawn train of the B & O Railroad travelled the of the newly-completed track from Mount Clare Station in Baltimore City to Ellicott Mills in Anne Arundel County.

The sets come from various parts of Ireland and are often named for their place of origin ; examples are the Corofin Plain Set, the South Galway Set and the Clare Lancers Set.

Apart from County Clare, much of the area lies in the South constituency for elections to the European Parliament.