This period also saw the emergence of a new generation of Scottish poets that became leading figures on the UK stage, including Carol Ann Duffy, who was named as Poet Laureate in May 2009, the first woman, the first Scot and the first openly gay poet to take the post.

Peter Duffy opened a inn that soon became an important stopping point for the pioneers.

They were Charles Gavan Duffy, who became editor ; Thomas Osborne Davis, and John Blake Dillon.

Both Dillon and Duffy became MPs in the British House of Commons.

Duffy eventually emigrated to Australia where he became a state premier, before being knighted as a Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George ( KCMG ).

Once again, Forbes and Gaynor found themselves out of the band: Mark Kerr became the new drummer and Eddie Duffy joined on bass guitar.

Boston's first star left fielder, Duffy Lewis, mastered the skill so well that the area became known as Duffy's Cliff.

Transesterification of a vegetable oil was conducted as early as 1853 by scientists E. Duffy and J. Patrick, many years before the first diesel engine became functional.

In the Red Sox signed Duffy Lewis, who became the left fielder, and, with Speaker and Harry Hooper would form Boston ’ s “ Million-Dollar Outfield ”, one of the finest outfield trios in baseball history, playing together until Speaker was traded to the Cleveland Indians in 1916.

This period also saw the emergence of a new generation of Scottish poets that became leading figures on the UK stage, including Don Paterson, Robert Crawford, Kathleen Jamie and Carol Ann Duffy.

O ' Duffy was the leader of the Monaghan Brigade of the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) during the successful Irish War of Independence and in this capacity became Chief of Staff of the IRA in 1922.

Professionally, O ' Duffy became the first Commissioner of the Garda Síochána, the police force of the new Irish state.

In July 1933 O ' Duffy became leader of the Army Comrades Association, which had been ostensibly set up to protect Cumann na nGaedheal public meetings, which had been disrupted under the slogan " No Free Speech for Traitors " by Irish Republican Army men newly confident since the elections.

O ' Duffy, though not a TD, became the first leader, with former President of the Executive Council, ( prime minister ) W. T. Cosgrave serving as parliamentary leader.

In September 1934 O ' Duffy suddenly and unexpectedly resigned as leader of Fine Gael as his extreme views and poor judgement became an embarrassment to his party.

O ' Duffy became its first president, with W. T. Cosgrave and James Dillon acting as vice-presidents.

Both Drennan and Duffy subsequently became permanent members of the touring ensemble and all subsequent recordings.

" Finally they became " The Vicious Circle " although " The Round Table " gained wide currency after cartoonist Edmund Duffy of the Brooklyn Eagle caricatured the group sitting at a round table and wearing armor.

Selected by NASA in June 1985, Duffy became an astronaut in July 1986.

Both his parents died while he was still a child and his uncle, Fr James Duffy, who was the Catholic Parish Priest of Castleblayney, became his guardian for a number of years.

Even before being admitted to the bar, Duffy was active on the Irish land question, and in that connection in 1842 he became an ally of James Godkin.

Duffy became a leading figure in Irish literary circles.

Charles Gavan Duffy was one of the founders of The Nation and became its first editor ; the two others were Thomas Osborne Davis, and John Blake Dillon.

With the collapse of the Victorian Government's Haines Ministry, during 1857, another Irish Catholic, John O ' Shanassy, unexpectedly became Premier and Duffy his second-in-charge.

The chase featured a spectacular motorcycle stunt: stuntman Ronald " Duffy " Hambleton ( credited as Duffy Hamilton ), rode his police bike full speed into a fallen paint stand ( with a ramp built to Hambleton's specification ), flew over the handlebars, was hit by the airborne bike, landed in the street on his back, and slammed into the crashed car that Duvall's character had escaped in-evidently the subject of a comment by Lucas detailing a " motorcycle disaster " during the filming.

* Aphra Behn is the subject of Liz Duffy Adams 2009 play " Or ".

Where the sequencing of subject matter is concerned, it is the constructivist viewpoint that the foundations of any subject may be taught to anybody at any stage in some form ( Duffy and Jonassen 1992 ).

On 16 May 2012 it was announced that airport Managing Director, Patrick Duffy, had left his position amid mounting pressure from the Welsh Assembly Government on the airport owners Abertis to improve the state of the airport and improve the services it offers, or sell the facility to an investor in a proposed public-private partnership.

Jim Duffy ( born 12 April 1966 ) is an Irish historian, political commentator, and served as a policy advisor to then Irish leader of the Opposition, Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny prior to the 2011 general election.

) After three days of intense political and media pressure, Duffy released the relevant proportion of the on-the-record tape interview he had done with Lenihan.

During the 1990s and 2000s, Duffy worked as a researcher and as a political commentator for most major Irish publications, including The Irish Times, the Irish Independent, the Sunday Independent, the Sunday Times, the Sunday Tribune, the The Sunday Business Post and the Irish Examiner.

* April 12 – Jim Duffy, political writer

* Jim Duffy ( journalist ) ( born 1966 ), journalist, political commentator, and Irish advisor to Australia's Republic Advisory Committee

* Jim Duffy ( journalist ) ( born 1966 ), Irish historian and political commentator

When Lenihan's campaign manager, Bertie Ahern, named Duffy on radio as someone who had interviewed Lenihan back in May, a political storm erupted in which the journalist was put under siege by the media and Fianna Fáil, leading to his reluctant decision, after consulting with lawyers, to release the portion of the tape in which Lenihan talked about the events of January 1982.

Eoin O ' Duffy (; 30 October 1892 – 30 November 1944 ) was an Irish political activist, soldier and police commissioner.

In his political life O ' Duffy had been a member of early Sinn Féin, founded by Arthur Griffith.

The enmities of the civil war era were to stay with O ' Duffy throughout the rest of his political career.

O ' Duffy proved to be a weak leader-he was a military leader rather than political, and he was temperamental.

O ' Duffy was an admirer of Benito Mussolini, and the Blueshirts adopted corporatism as their chief political aim.

* Mike Duffy, a CTV political correspondent who was reportedly awarded $ 50, 000 in civil court.

* Joe Duffy thought about resigning from RTÉ in 2007 after the broadcaster forced him to give McDowell a platform on Liveline to make a " party political broadcast ".

The ethos and sometimes the uniform were later copied by others who shared Mussolini's political ideas, including Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany, who issued brown shirts to the " Storm Troops " ( Sturmabteilung ) and black uniforms to the " Defense Squad " ( Schutzstaffel, also colloquially known as " Brownshirts ", because they wore black suit-like tunics with brown shirts ), Sir Oswald Mosley in the United Kingdom ( whose British Union of Fascists were also known as the " Blackshirts "), William Dudley Pelley in the United States ( Silver Legion of America or " Silver Shirts "), in Mexico the Camisas Doradas or " Golden Shirts ", Plínio Salgado in Brazil ( whose followers wore green shirts ), and Eoin O ' Duffy in the Irish Free State ( Army Comrades Association or " Blueshirts ").

Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, KCMG, PC ( 12 April 1816 – 9 February 1903 ), Irish nationalist and Australian colonial politician, was the 8th Premier of Victoria and one of the most colourful figures in Victorian political history.

In early colonial Victoria, Duffy, with his political and literary reputation, was an exotic and romantic figure, particularly for the colony's large Irish community.

Duffy claims he thought about resigning from RTÉ in 2007 after the broadcaster forced him to give Justice Minister Michael McDowell a platform on Liveline to make a " party political broadcast ".

* 12 April-Jim Duffy, historian and political commentator.

Lenihan had actually confirmed his involvement in the effort some months earlier in an on-the-record interview with a journalist Jim Duffy, as he had to numerous political colleagues privately over eight years.

Notably, the border of Westleigh was moved at an undetermined time, from near the roundabout at the Duffy Ave / Quarter Sessions Road intersection, to further up Duffy Avenue, possibly for the political purpose of encapsulating these new housing estates in a purely residentially zoned suburb, as opposed to the partly industrialised Thornleigh ( thereby possibly increasing selling prices ).

Circumstances develop that result in Stark's being urged to run for governor by a local political leader, Tiny Duffy.

* The Blueshirts, or Army Comrades Association, an Irish political organisation set up by General Eoin O ' Duffy in 1932.