Ennis comedian Mike Nono elaborated the joke in Limerick's Theatre Royal, and the nickname soon took hold, persisting even after the men received full RIC uniforms.

He was meant to become a full-time writer for several years, as Delano, Ennis and Jenkins before him, but left the title early after DC refused to publish the story " Shoot ", about high school shootings, following the Columbine High School massacre, despite the fact it had been written and submitted prior to the event.

Several years after leaving, Ennis briefly returned for the five-part Son of Man story with artist John Higgins.

* Clifford Ennis who attended Woodend Primary school went on to form goth band Subterfuge then joined alternative group Ikon and later to form Razorfade with Mark Tansley of Suspiria after emegrating to Australia.

* 2012: Jessica Ennis was given Freedom of the City during her Civic Reception on August 17, 2012, after winning Gold in London 2012 Olympic Games

Together with author Garth Ennis, Dillon worked on Hellblazer and, later, on the very successful ( and critically acclaimed ) Preacher which wrapped up in 2000 after 66 issues.

This discrepancy was repeated in the story " Judgement Day " ( written by Garth Ennis ), which gave the date 2178 even though it was set after the events in " Max Bubba.

Despite the involvement of successful SF / fantasy novelists Michael Moorcock, Lucius Shepard and Christopher Hinz, and established comics creators Howard Chaykin, Elaine Lee, Matt Howarth, Warren Ellis, Walt Simonson, and Garth Ennis, sales of the comic books were low, and most of the ongoing titles were cancelled after 12 or fewer issues.

The primary school Gaelscoil Mhíchíl Cíosóg in Ennis, Co. Clare, is also named after him.

' This is also the title of a slow air Ennis used to play, and one that he also named his final home in Naul after.

Eleven weeks after his debut, Ennis became the first Phillies rookie ever to make an All-Star team on the strength of a powerful throwing arm and his booming bat.

Ennis ' career ended with a mid-season release by the Chicago White Sox in 1959, after having been acquired from Cincinnati during the first week of the 1959 season.

Many of the Ennis are killed fending off the attack, but after the battle Kai Opaka enters the cave, regenerated by some form of extraterrestrial nanotechnology.

It was requisitioned by SCAP after the end of World War II for use as a residence by General Ennis Whitehead, commander of the 5th Air Force, and later by General Matthew Bunker Ridgway.

Axel Alonso ( who would later move to Marvel Comics ) began his editorial career at Vertigo on Animal Man, Black Orchid, Doom Patrol and Hellblazer, and also edited the opening issues of Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso's 100 Bullets and the final issues of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's Preacher.

Ennis began his comic-writing career in 1989 with the series Troubled Souls.

While Preacher was running, Ennis began a series set in the DC universe called Hitman.

In 2006, Wilkes, along with Blake Judd, Todd Tue, and Jacob Ennis, began work on a documentary film titled Seven Signs, that explored " music, myth, and the American South.

As Liam grew in his skill as a musician, and as he began to meet legendary piper figures like Willie Clancy and Seamus Ennis, he became acutely aware of his position in the tradition of piping.

His subsequent close friendship with Seamus Ennis ( which began as a Master / pupil relationship ) taught him that there was much more to being a piper than playing tunes.

Ennis states that she began the research as a skeptic, but concluded that the " results compel me to suspend my disbelief and start searching for rational explanations for our findings.

" Major infrastructure work on the Ennis to Athenry line has now been completed, and driver training and familiarisation began on the route last Monday 16 November.

Murphy also talks about a phone call he received from Bill Cosby in which he said that his son, Ennis, heard his profanity and requested that Murphy not say the word " fuck " on stage again, and began chastising him for his offensive material.

On November 1, 2006, an ongoing Midnighter solo series began, with an initial creative partnership of Garth Ennis and Chris Sprouse.

After the end of Hitman, Ennis was lured to Marvel Comics with the promise from Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada that he could write The Punisher as long as he cared to.

In 2001 he briefly returned to UK comics to write the epic Helter Skelter for Judge Dredd-this series cannot be considered a success, with Ennis himself saying that there is " not a hope " to return to writing Dredd as he was generally not happy with his run.

In 2006, it was announced that Ennis would write a new creator-owned extended series titled The Boys, originally published by Wildstorm.

Continuing his run on the character, Garth Ennis used the freedom of the MAX imprint to write more realistic and hard-edged stories than had previously been seen.

For the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics Carey went on to write the entire run of the Eisner Award-nominated comic book Lucifer, and issues 175 to 215 of Hellblazer, a run on that title only exceeded in length by Garth Ennis and Peter Milligan.

The commission, meeting for the first time with both of its newly-appointed commissioners, Roy Webster, of Hood River, and Dr. Ennis Keizer, of North Bend, approved a year's contract for a consultant in the data processing department who has been the center of considerable controversy in the past.

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

* When 2000AD Was The Future, retrospective by Garth Ennis for Bleeding Cool

After Gilmore was traded to the San Antonio Spurs for center Dave Corzine, the Bulls employed a high-powered offense centered around Theus, and which soon included guards Quintin Dailey and Ennis Whatley.

U. S. Highway 287 joins I-45 for from Corsicana, Texas to Ennis, Texas.

The county seat is at Ennis, which also serves as a major regional hub for County Clare.

The series, which was written by Garth Ennis and illustrated by Aaron Campbell, debuted on April 19, 2012 in comics shops and was also available for sale through various website sales outlets like eBay and Amazon. com ; the Ennis story arc, set during the Shadow's original 1930s time period, was featured in the first six issues.

Ennis ' best-known Vertigo work was his and artist Steve Dillon's creator-owned Preacher, which ran for 66 issues and six spin-off specials between 1995 and 2000, while Ennis ' prolific work on Hellblazer rivals initial-series author Delano.

Ennis has also written several miniseries for Vertigo, including Goddess ( 1995 – 1996 ), Pride & Joy ( 1997 ), Unknown Soldier ( 1997 ), and Adventures in the Rifle Brigade ( 2001 – 2002 ), as well as eight one-shot War Stories between 2001 and 2003.

Brian Bolland and Glenn Fabry have also produced a large number of iconic covers for the Vertigo line, Fabry probably being best known for his work on one title: Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's Preacher ( and the spin-off miniseries ).

Fabry, in addition to his Preacher covers, provided covers for Ennis ' miniseries Adventures in the Rifle Brigade: Operation Bollock ( 2001-2 ) and most of that authors first run on Hellblazer ( 1992-4 )-which included the first Vertigo issue-as well as his return to the title in 1998-9.

There is also a contest to find who the Duke and Dutchess of Ennis will be for the year.

In June 2004, Corben joined with Garth Ennis to produce The Punisher: The End, a one-shot title for Marvel published under the MAX imprint as part of Marvel's The End series.

Between the Garth Ennis and Paul Jenkins runs on Hellblazer, he finally told the story of why John's best friend Chas ' owes ' him, and he returned again for one of the five Christmas stories in issue # 250.

Garth Ennis ( born 16 January 1970 ) is a Northern Irish comics writer, best known for the Vertigo series Preacher with artist Steve Dillon and his successful nine-year run on Marvel Comics ' Punisher franchise.

Mixing influences from western movies and religious themes, it drew plaudits for Ennis from all sections of the media ; the Guardian newspaper voted one of the Preacher collections its book of the week, and film director Kevin Smith described it as " More fun than going to the movies.

Other comic projects Ennis wrote during this time period include Goddess, Bloody Mary, Unknown Soldier, and Pride & Joy, all for DC / Vertigo, as well as origin stories for The Darkness for Image Comics and Shadowman for Valiant Comics.