Eamon Ryan was elected as the new party leader, over party colleagues Phil Kearney and Cllr Malcolm Noonan in a postal ballot election of party members in May 2011.

St. John Fisher College was founded as a men's college in 1948 by the Basilian Fathers and with the aid of Father James E. Kearney, then the Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester.

He was born to Robert Eugene Lawhead and Lois Rowena Bissell Lawhead at Good Samaritan Hospital, Kearney, Nebraska.

In 1969, while at Kearney State College, he wrote a weekly humour column for the college newspaper and was a frequent contributor of poetry and short stories to The Shore Anthology and The Antler.

The first true video slot machine was developed in 1976 in an industrial suite in Kearney Mesa, CA by N. Cerracchio, R. Greene, W. Beckman, J. Reukes, and L. Black under the direction of the Las Vegas based Fortune Coin Co.

The Lander Road, formally the Fort Kearney, South Pass, and Honey Lake Wagon Road, was established and built by U. S. government contractors in 1858 – 59.

" was the slogan of Denis Kearney, a prominent labor leader in San Francisco.

The same situation resulted in the 19th century in Kearney, Nebraska, when that community was named for Mexican War General Stephen W. Kearny.

In the Nebraska license plate system, Kearney County is represented by the prefix 52 ( it had the fifty-second-largest number of vehicles registered in the county when the license plate system was established in 1922 ).

Kearney County was formed in 1860.

The original Kearney County was established on March 6, 1873 and was dissolved in 1883, with the land area being split between Hamilton and Finney counties.

The president of the railroad was Charles E. Kearney ( although there is speculation that it was named after Kearney, Nebraska ).

As they grew, the two settlements of Centerville and Kearney were effectively merged, and the town of Kearney, Missouri was officially incorporated in 1869.

On September 5, 1847, Jesse James was born on the James farm, where his family resided to the northeast of the site where Kearney would eventually be established.

He was laid to rest on his farm, just outside Kearney.

In the first half of the 20th century, King City was the heart of a Kentucky bluegrass seed harvesting region stretching from Kearney, Missouri through King City to Maitland, Missouri, which claimed to harvest more bluegrass seeds than the entire state of Kentucky with King City resident John Weller claiming to the be the " King of Blue Grass Raisers .".

However, the resulting boom, which saw a six-fold increase in the town's population ( from 100 to 600 ) and around 50, 000 head of cattle pass through, was only temporary: the next year, the terminus of the cattle trail had moved west to Kearney.

The building was designed by the Kearney architectural firm of McClure & Walker.

Nearby Omaha City was founded in 1854, with Nebraska City and Kearney incorporated in 1855.

The Club was founded in the 1970s and was the home of Kiwi and Melbourne Storm player Stephen Kearney.

The Club was founded in the 1970s and was the home of Kiwi and Melbourne Storm player, now Kiwi coach Stephen Kearney.

The University of Nebraska at Kearney ( UNK ), founded in 1905 as the Nebraska State Normal School at Kearney, is the Kearney, Nebraska, United States campus of the University of Nebraska system.

The Museum of Nebraska Art, founded by the state legislature and located in Kearney since 1986, is administered as a department of the University.

Andrew Thomas Kearney joined James O. McKinsey's firm 3 years after it was founded in 1926.

Young Ireland traced its origins to the new College Historical Society, founded on 29 March 1839, at a meeting at Francis Kearney ’ s chambers, 27 College.

To promote Nothing Left to Lose, Kearney toured with John Mayer, Sheryl Crow, Train, MUTEMATH, Meiko, and Cary Brothers throughout 2005, 06, and 07 ; he also headlined VH1's first ever " You Oughta Know Tour " in the spring of 2007.

Nebraska City and Kearney City were incorporated in 1855, and South Nebraska City was incorporated in 1856.

Kearney also defined sex education as “ involving a comprehensive course of action by the school, calculated to bring about the socially desirable attitudes, practices and personal conduct on the part of children and adults, that will best protect the individual as a human and the family as a social institution.

With the post Civil War economy in decline by the 1870s, anti-Chinese animosity became politicized by labor leader Denis Kearney and his Workingman's Party as well as by California Governor John Bigler, both of whom blamed Chinese " coolies " for depressed wage levels.

Thanks to vigorous lobbying by the anti-Chinese Workingmen's Party, led by Denis Kearney ( an immigrant from Ireland ), Article XIX, Section 4 forbade corporations from hiring Chinese " coolies ", and empowered all California cities and counties to completely expel Chinese persons or to limit where they could reside.

In " Lisa's Date With Density ", Nelson kisses Lisa, only to be berated by Jimbo, Kearney, and Dolph, who believe that kissing girls is " gay " ( Despite the events that occurred revolving around Jimbo in " New Kid On The Block ").

* A Broadway play by Patrick Kearney opened on 7 August 1928 at the Playhouse Theatre, where it ran for 48 performances.

The village is located on the boundary between Forest Home Township on the west and Kearney Township on the east, separated by the Intermediate River with the larger portion within Kearney Township.

Fort Phil Kearney was established on Piney Creek, but continued harassment by the Lakota led to the abandonment of the Fort and the withdrawal of the US Army from the Powder River Country under the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868.

* Article written by Bob Kearney ( former working party organiser of Ipswich Branch of the Inland Waterways Association ) for " Navvies ", the magazine of the Waterway recovery Group.

A placard in Park Central Square was dedicated to the city by the Route 66 Association of Missouri, and traces of the Mother Road are still visible in downtown Springfield along Kearney Street, Glenstone Avenue, College and St. Louis streets and on Missouri 266 to Halltown.

In 1966, a now nearly-forgotten version was produced by Gene Kearney, who also wrote some episodes of Night Gallery.

Early in 2006, the play gained critical success at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds and at the Liverpool Playhouse, directed by Matthew Lloyd with Gillian Kearney in the lead role.

Texts by Danièle Giraudy, Michael Gibson, John Montague, Bernard Noël, Robert Melville, Seamus Heaney, Richard Kearney.

John Redmond boasted of his family involvement in the 1798 Wexford Rebellion ; a " Miss Redmond " had ridden in support of the rebels, a Father Redmond was hanged by the yeomanry, as was a maternal ancestor, William Kearney.

* " Seventeen ", a song by Mat Kearney from the iTunes edition of Young Love

* First printing in the Irish language, Aibidil Gaoidheilge agus Caiticiosma, a primer printed by John Kearney in Dublin.