In discussing the legislation to dissolve Dublin County Council, Avril Doyle TD said, " The Bill before us today effectively abolishes County Dublin, and as one born and bred in these parts of Ireland I find it rather strange that we in this House are abolishing County Dublin.

In a 1985 interview on Yorkshire Television's Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers, Elsie said that she and Frances were too embarrassed to admit the truth after fooling Conan Doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes: " Two village kids and a brilliant man like Conan Doyle – well, we could only keep quiet.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle said, " Each Poe's detective stories is a root from which a whole literature has developed .... Where was the detective story until Poe breathed the breath of life into it?

Doyle said the Maryland – Pennsylvania Mason – Dixon Line is exactly:

The Sherlock Holmes mysteries of Arthur Conan Doyle are said to have been singularly responsible for the huge popularity in this genre.

Doyle persuades his partner to tail the couple ; although the Bocas run a modest newsstand luncheonette, they have criminal records: Sal is said to have held up Tiffany and also killed " a guy named DeMarco " while Angie drew a suspended sentence for shoplifting and Sal's brother Lou served jail time for assault and robbery.

Mike Doyle, chief deputy sheriff of Hudspeth County, said that the cartel had " threatened to kill children in schools across the border.

He defended Ulysses when Roddy Doyle said it was " overlong, overrated and unmoving ", calling Doyle a " foolish " and " moderate talent ".

In 1887 Arthur Conan Doyle introduced Sherlock Holmes, whose mysteries are said to have been singularly responsible for the huge popularity in this genre.

His grandson, the skier and SIS spymaster Peter Lunn, recalled: " My grandfather said ' Push him over the Reichenbach Falls ' and Conan Doyle hadn ’ t heard of them, so he showed them to him.

In a statement after the trial McPhail and Doyle said that they would appeal the decision.

With respect to his scripting of the Sherlock Holmes radio dramas, Nigel Bruce, who played Dr. Watson, said that Boucher " had a sound knowledge of Conan Doyle and a great affection for the two characters of Holmes and Watson.

When asked whether it would be realistic to stop work, Governor Doyle expressed pessimism and said in part:

On 4 November, two days after Scott Walker won the gubernatorial election, however, Doyle ordered work on the line to be temporarily halted, and on 9 November said that he planned to leave the choice of whether or not to operate the train to Walker.

* Quinn was asked if he knew Doyle was Irish before he auditioned, he responded " I went and I read it in American and Whedon said ' Hey, let's do it in Irish and see where it takes us .'..

Historically, the Director of the Mexico Project of National Security Archives, Kate Doyle, said that the 1954 Guatemalan coup d ’ état was the definitive deathblow to democracy in the Republic of Guatemala.

110sport Group chairman Lee Doyle said he will offer every assistance to help Gray.

" Speaking of video games, Doyle said, " A site like ours helps people cut through ... unobjective promotional language.

" Doyle said, " I don't want to overstate our role in this area, but we're highlighting the review process ", which he thinks was not taken as seriously when unconnected magazines and websites were providing their reviews in isolation.

" Doyle said that because video games are a greater investment of time and money than other forms of entertainment, gamers are much more informed about reviews than film fans or music fans.

Doyle said " I feel that ANY scale simply needs to converted directly with its lowest possible grade equating to 0, and the highest to 100.

For his part Conan Doyle acknowledged basing his detective stories on the model of Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin, and his anonymous narrator, and basing his character Sherlock Holmes on Joseph Bell, who in his use of " ratiocination " prefigured Poirot's reliance on his " little grey cells ".

Conan Doyle stated that the character of Holmes was inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, for whom Doyle had worked as a clerk at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

Hackman won the Academy Award for Best Actor as the character Jimmy " Popeye " Doyle in The French Connection ( film ) | The French Connection, 1971

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who once lived in Birmingham, may have borrowed Baskerville's surname for one of his Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles – which, in turn, was borrowed by Umberto Eco for the character William of Baskerville in his best-selling novel, The Name of the Rose ( Sean Connery played the character in the film based on the book ).

* Micah Clarke, fictional character in the 1889 novel of the same name by Arthur Conan Doyle

An early famous example in popular culture is the return of Sherlock Holmes: writer Arthur Conan Doyle killed off the popular character in an encounter with his foe Professor Moriarty, only to bring Holmes back, due in large part to audience response.

When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle killed off his most-beloved character Sherlock Holmes by plunging him to his death over the Reichenbach Falls with his arch nemesis Professor Moriarty, the public's demand for Holmes was so great that Doyle was compelled to bring him back to life in a subsequent story, where he details that Holmes had merely faked his death.

** Arthur Conan Doyle surprises the reading public by revealing in the story The Adventure of the Final Problem, published in this month's Strand Magazine, that his character Sherlock Holmes had apparently died at the Reichenbach Falls on May 4, 1891.

( Sherlock Holmes seems to be an actual example of a fictional character ; one might think there are many other characters Arthur Conan Doyle might have invented, though he actually invented Holmes.

The character of Moriarty as Holmes's greatest enemy was introduced primarily as a narrative device to enable Conan Doyle to kill off Sherlock Holmes, and only featured directly in two of the Sherlock Holmes stories.

In addition to the master criminal Adam Worth, there has been much speculation among astronomers and Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts that Doyle based his fictional character Moriarty on the American astronomer Simon Newcomb.

" Instead, the producers created a Whistler-like character, Doyle.

The character Heiji Hattori also mentioned that he prefers Ellery Queen to Arthur Conan Doyle in volume 12.

* In The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle the central character, Professor Challenger, is referred to as Cagliostro by a newspaper editor who disbelieves his account of his expedition.

* Henry Wood, a fictional character in The Adventure of the Crooked Man, a Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle

" Coming into the show immediately following the death of Doyle, Wesley serves as a partial replacement for that character.

This led to the departure of the show's first break-out popular character, after just 20 episodes, Franky Doyle, when actress Carol Burns chose to leave the series, feeling that she could not continue her portrayal with the increased production rate.

Central to this shift was the exit of original character Vera " Vinegar Tits " Bennett, the unpleasant yet tragic warder whom viewers loved to hate, in the most high profile cast departure since the death of Franky Doyle.

It was made using material edited from the first two dozen episodes of the series, with emphasis on the character of Franky Doyle ( Carol Burns ).

Irene Adler is a fictional character featured in the Sherlock Holmes story " A Scandal in Bohemia " by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, published in July 1891.