They agreed to act together the following Easter and made Connolly the sixth member of the Military Committee.

In the only written record made by Connolly about his personal position in relation to Catholicism, he stated:

" Twice in my life, little birds have flown in and made a huge difference ," explained Connolly in 1996.

Connolly ’ s time with Rafferty possibly influenced his future comedy as years later he would recall how Rafferty ’ s expert prank telephone calls, made while waiting to go on stage, used to make him " scream " with laughter.

Connolly was the first comedic performer in the series who was not an alumnus of the Oxbridge school of middle-class university-educated entertainers and he made the most of his appearance.

Connolly was the first non-Oxbridge comedian to perform at an Amnesty benefit – a distinction he made fun of in his performances at the show.

The Big Man ( 1985 ) was made into a film starring Liam Neeson and featuring Billy Connolly.

Paddy Reilly sings a song simply entitled Jim Larkin that describes the lot of the worker and their appreciation of the changes made by Larkin and Connolly.

In 1997 a TV movie of the same name was made starring Billy Connolly and was made in Edinburgh.

Pamela Stephenson was born in New Zealand, made her name in Australia, went to Britain and starred in the sketch comedy Not the Nine O ' Clock News and currently lives in America with her husband Billy Connolly.

Connolly, like Larkin, was a talented orator and became known for his speeches on the streets of Dublin, in which he made a case not only for socialism, but also for Irish nationalism.

Whilst the true identity of Brian's father was never made public, his mother was a teenage waitress named Frances Connolly who left him in a Glasgow hospital as an infant whilst possibly suffering effects of meningitis.

By July 1990, plans were made for Connolly and his band to tour Australia.

The altar table is made of Nevadan aragonite, from a mine located between Gabbs and Tonopah, Nevada which belonged to John Connolly, brother of Bishop Connolly.

A serious effort was made to prevent the relationship between Connolly and MacArthur becoming public and indeed it was claimed that this was homosexual, something that was later discounted.

Connolly later collaborated with William Keighley in the direction of a Hollywood film adaptation of the play, which was made in 1936, starring Rex Ingram as " De Lawd ".

He made three confessions — the Knopwood confession ; a confession to Lt. Cuthbertson, Commandant of Macquarie harbour when he was in hospital after the second escape ( in this version, Dalton is the first victim ); and a confession to Father Phillip Connolly, the colony's Catholic priest, the night before his execution — and some of the details differed.

I luv you Jimmy Spud has been made into a 2001 film Gabriel and Me starring Iain Glen and Billy Connolly as the angel Gabriel.

On-field, however, Connolly made only three changes to the playing list, trusting the young list that has been developed over the past four seasons.

Navratilova, Margaret Court and Maureen Connolly share the record for the most consecutive major singles titles ( six ).

Titled A Little Stone ( John Lehmann, London, August 1950 ), which excluded two of Bowles ' most famous short stories, " Pages From Cold Point " and " The Delicate Prey ", on the advice of Cyril Connolly and Somerset Maugham, that if they were included in the collection distribution and / or censorship difficulties might ensue.

By the end of the 2004 / 2005 season, Coach John Connolly had announced his intention to return to his native Australia, having created one of the most dominant packs in club rugby.

The GPO, the Easter Proclamation and the tricolour ( which later came to be seen as the flag of the republic, replacing the original green flag, which is now on display in the National Museum of Ireland ) are the three most identifiable symbols of the Easter Rising, alongside the leaders, Thomas J. Clarke, Seán Mac Diarmada, Thomas MacDonagh, P. H. Pearse, Éamonn Ceannt, James Connolly and Joseph Plunkett.

The record for most appearances is held by Billy Connolly, having been a guest on fifteen occasions.

Hollywood biographer Lawrence J. Quirk claimed Mike Connolly ( a gay gossip columnist for the Hollywood Reporter from 1951 to 1966 ) " would put the make on the most prominent young actors, including Robert Francis, Guy Madison, Anthony Perkins, Nick Adams, and James Dean.

In addition to the standard fabrics offered in most models, an ' Executive ' option was offered in some markets which added power steering and Connolly leather upholstery which is typically only used in high end luxury cars.

Although disgraced FBI agent John Connolly has long been Bulger's most infamous friend in law enforcement, Kevin Weeks has insisted that Lieutenant Richard J. Schneiderhan was valued far more highly.

The Times reported in late 2005 that " he is the most instantly recognisable Scot in the world: better known than Billy Connolly or Ewan McGregor, even Sean Connery.

He helped Fremantle have their most successful season to date in 2006, reaching the preliminary final, but following a poor start to the 2007 season, Connolly resigned as senior coach after round 15.

The role of the Composer has been sung there most often by a mezzo-soprano ( at least 64 times ), including, besides Kerstin Meyer, who sang the role 6 times, Tatiana Troyanos ( 19 appearances from 1976 to 1988 ), Susanne Mentzer ( 20 appearances from 1993 to 2003 ), Susan Graham ( 5 appearances in the fall of 2005 ) and Sarah Connolly ( 5 appearances in the winter of 2010 ).

Connolly is a retired newspaper editor and former copy editor who spent most of his career at The New York Times.

During this time that Connolly recorded a dozen or so new tracks, most unreleased or demos.

He was a friend of many of the most prominent British intellectual and social figures of his day, including Nancy Mitford, Harold Nicolson, about whom he wrote a two-volume biography, Deborah Mitford, and Cyril Connolly.

Whilst Wilson praised Praz ’ s work as a “ masterpiece ”, Connolly states that “ The House of Life is one of the most boring books I have ever read … its unbelievably exhausting … it has a bravura of boredom, an audacity of ennui that makes one hardly believe ones eyes ”.

Although his commercial success was limited he influenced many other artists, including most notably John Martyn and Billy Connolly.

Connolly co-founded the band with Harvey in the mid-1960s and played in the pubs and clubs around the city, most notably the Old Scotia Bar.

This was exceptional ; more typical was the General Post Office ( GPO ), where Pearse insisted that most of them ( excluding Carney, who refused to leave the injured James Connolly ) leave at noon on Friday, 28 April.

However, he has had occasional starring roles in the cinema, most notably opposite Billy Connolly and Iain Robertson in The Debt Collector ( 1999 ) and Plunkett and Macleane of the same year.

During the 1870s, the gang would include some of the most notorious gangsters of the era, including Red Rocks Farrell, Slops ( also sometimes known as Clops ) Connolly, " Big " Josh Hines, Hoggy Walsh, Piker Ryan, Dorsey Doyle, Bull Hurley, Fig McGerald, and Googy Corcoran.

" I was so nervous I couldn't sing ," he told the journalist Ray Connolly, " but I like the lyrics.

Bowra later told Cyril Connolly, " Whatever you hear about the war, remember it was far worse: inconceivably bloody – nobody who wasn't there can imagine what it was like.

But, Connolly told me, he had to put Jimmy's name on the files to keep his file active.

It didn't take long for me to realize that it had been bullshit when Connolly told me that the files hadn't been disseminated, that they had been for his own personal use.

Connolly was deeply impressed and told his daughter Nora ' I have found a real man '.

* A behind-the-scenes look at making the special as told by one of its animators, Patrick Thomas Connolly