Gorey was noted for his fondness for ballet ( for many years, he religiously attended all performances of the New York City Ballet ), fur coats, tennis shoes, and cats, of which he had many.

Rapid growth has led to an overcrowding problem in the local schools, with the secondary school, Gorey Community School having the largest student population of any school in Ireland.

Five local primary schools, Gorey Loreto Primary, Saint Joseph's Primary, Gorey Central School, Gorey Gaelscoil and Gorey Educate Together National School feed the Community School, as do a number of schools in various local areas.

In addition, Gorey Bus Links operate two local routes, one linking Gorey with Ballycanew, Ballygarrett and Courtown, with another linking the town with Ballymoney, Castletown and Inch.

* 2007: Gorey bypass ; fully grade separated dc ( re-classified as motorway in 2009 ).

His parents, Helen Dunham ( née Garvey ) and Edward Lee Gorey, divorced in 1936 when he was 11, then remarried in 1952 when he was 27.

This album was a collaboration with Gorey, who liked previous work by The Tiger Lillies so much that he sent them a large box of his unpublished work, which were then adapted and turned into songs.

" The work of Ray Harryhausen, Ladislas Starevich, Edward Gorey, Charles Addams, Jan Lenica, Francis Bacon and Wassily Kandinsky influenced the filmmakers.

* A favorite subject of Edward Gorey, a croquet reference often appeared in the first illustration of his books.

* 1925 – Edward Gorey, American illustrator ( d. 2000 )

A 60cm line ran along the west coast, and another was laid out heading east from Saint Helier to Gorey.

Edward Gorey had dozens of pseudonyms, each one an anagram of his real name.

The first E-road numbers were signed in July 2007 on the N11 bypass in Gorey.

Edward St. John Gorey ( February 22, 1925 – April 15, 2000 ) was an American writer and artist noted for his macabre illustrated books.

Edward St. John Gorey was born in Chicago.

In the early 1950s, Gorey, with a group of recent Harvard alumni including Alison Lurie ( 1947 ), John Ashbery ( 1949 ), and Donald Hall ( 1951 ), Frank O ' Hara, amongst others, founded the Poets ' Theatre in Cambridge, which was supported by Harvard faculty members John Ciardi and Thornton Wilder.

He frequently stated that his formal art training was " negligible "; Gorey studied art for one semester at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1943.

The New York Times credits bookstore owner Andreas Brown and his store, the Gotham Book Mart, with launching Gorey's career: " it became the central clearing house for Mr. Gorey, presenting exhibitions of his work in the store's gallery and eventually turning him into an international celebrity.

The last was " The White Canoe: an Opera Seria for Hand Puppets ," for which Gorey wrote the libretto, with a score by the composer Daniel James Wolf.

In the early 1970s, Gorey wrote an unproduced screenplay for a silent film, The Black Doll.

Gorey was also an unashamed pop-culture junkie, avidly following soap operas and television comedies like Petticoat Junction and Cheers, and he had particular affection for dark genre series like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Batman: The Animated Series and The X-Files ; he once told an interviewer that he so enjoyed the Batman series that it was influencing the visual style of one of his upcoming books.

Gorey treated TV commercials as an art form in themselves, even taping his favorites for later study.

Gorey was especially fond of movies, and for a time he wrote regular reviews for the Soho Weekly under the pseudonym Wardore Edgy.

Gorey never married, professed to have little interest in romance, and never discussed any specific romantic relationships in interviews.

In the book The Strange Case of Edward Gorey, published after Gorey's death, his friend Alexander Theroux reported that when Gorey was pressed on the matter of his sexual orientation, he said that even he was not sure whether he was gay or straight.

She attended primary school in a variety of institutions in India and Europe, including Ecole Internationale in Geneva, Ecole Nouvelle in Bex, St Cecilia's and St Mary's convent schools ( both in Allahabad ), before graduating from the Pupils ' Own School in Poona and Bombay.

He had been a descendant of the Israelite tribe of Issachar ; he had been educated by his grandfathers, who had both been physicians to the court of Good King René of Provence ; he had attended Montpellier University in 1525 to gain his first degree: after returning there in 1529 he had successfully taken his medical doctorate ; he had gone on to lecture in the Medical Faculty there until his views became too unpopular ; he had supported the heliocentric view of the universe ; he had travelled to the north-east of France, where he had composed prophecies at the abbey of Orval ; in the course of his travels he had performed a variety of prodigies, including identifying a future Pope ; he had successfully cured the Plague at Aix-en-Provence and elsewhere ; he had engaged in scrying using either a magic mirror or a bowl of water ; he had been joined by his secretary Chavigny at Easter 1554 ; having published the first installment of his Propheties, he had been summoned by Queen Catherine de ' Medici to Paris in 1556 to discuss with her his prophecy at quatrain I. 35 that her husband King Henri II would be killed in a duel ; he had examined the royal children at Blois ; he had bequeathed to his son a ' lost book ' of his own prophetic paintings ; he had been buried standing up ; and he had been found, when dug up at the French Revolution, to be wearing a medallion bearing the exact date of his disinterment.

While success was slow to come, their luck improved when network TV talent scouts attended a show, noting their potential appeal for a variety series.

He remained Jeffreys's tutor when the latter attended University College, Oxford in 1694, and he there met the variety of scholars then teaching mathematics and medicine, including Dr. John Radcliffe, Isaac Newton, and Samuel Pepys.

The second test changes according to the type of school the student attended, so it can be on a wide variety of different subjects, such as Pedagogy and Psychology, Mathemathics, Foreign Language, Latin, and Ancient Greek.

She soon after attended Accrington and Rossendale College, and supported herself at a variety of odd jobs while reading for a degree in English at St Catherine's College, Oxford.

The meetings were also attended by a wide variety of groups such as the Italian Autonomia Operaia but petered out.

The Alumni Association keeps in touch with many of the 150, 000 students who have attended Cal Poly through a variety of alumni functions, both educational and social, on and off campus, throughout California, and across the nation.

He attended Bolton on Dearne Secondary Modern School, but after his father suffered an industrial accident, he was forced to leave school early at 14 and spent several years working at a variety of jobs, ranging from undertaker to plasterer's assistant.

He attended Harvard University on a scholarship, and worked at a variety of part time jobs to finance his studies, including waiting tables, washing dishes, and tutoring.

It has schools and open categories, and is attended by a variety of " works " and private teams, some travelling from abroad.

During the weekend of August 4, 2012, the Tigers held a variety events in Guillen's honor, which he attended.

Chaikin briefly attended Drake University in Iowa, and then returned to New York to begin a career in theater, studying with various acting coaches, while struggling to survive working a variety of jobs.

Transition to and from sleep may be attended by a wide variety of sensory experiences.

In April 2011, she attended the British variety / talent show Sing If You Can, which aired on ITV.

Maynard was born at 5 Oak Cottages, Heath End, Surrey, and attended Kibworth Beauchamp Grammar School in Leicestershire, and started as a variety performer, taking his professional surname from an advertising board ( billboard ) for Maynard's Wine Gums, a popular British confectionery at the time.

Born in Wellington, Martin attended Chilton St. James School, where she performed numerous festivals and productions including the national Shiela Winn Shakespeare festival, the New Zealand College Theatresports competition and a variety of school plays.

Roberts was raised in the Church of England ( Anglican ) and briefly attended Cranleigh School until he was expelled for a variety of misdemeanours.

Dionne attended teacher's college and taught in a variety of locations, including Baie-Comeau, Quebec, where he met his future wife, Precille.

On entering the park, Elizabeth was received by her favourite attended by a numerous cavalcade bearing waxen torches, and a variety of entertainments followed.

Jimmy comes from a troubled background, having been expelled from every school he ever attended, for a wide variety of offenses.

America's Funniest Home Videos was inspired by another Tokyo Broadcasting System series, the variety show Fun TV with Kato-chan and Ken-chan, after Vin and Gina attended a television festival in France and Gina walked past a booth showing Japanese home video clips, Gina found the clips in the program to be hilarious, asking her husband to look into developing a series based on the viewer-submitted home video segment.

She has edited their newsletter " The Point ", authored a variety of brochures that have gone on to be industry standard for piercing care, taught workshops internationally and attended and participated in yearly APP conventions.

Pizarnik also attended a variety of courses at the Sorbonne, including contemporary French Literature.