Regarding the series's religious content, Linehan says " Ted doesn't have an anti-religious view of life, but a non-religious view.

According to Linehan, Father Ted was a character created by Mathews for Paul Woodfull, when the three men performed together as The Joshua Trio on the comedy circuit in Ireland.

The series is set in a humorously surreal world in which Ted is the only fully rounded " normal " character among " caricatures ", according to Graham Linehan: " exaggerated-over-friendly, over-quiet, over-stupid, over-dull [...] they really only got one thing, they've got one job.

Arthur Mathews has described Seinfeld as a major influence on the comedy of Father Ted, with himself and Linehan being " big fans " of the show.

* Father Ted: The Complete Scripts by Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews, 1999, Boxtree Press, UK, ISBN 0-7522-1850-6

The situation was conceived when Father Ted writers Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews sat behind Wilson at a performance of Le Cirque du Soleil at the Royal Albert Hall.

Writers Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews saw many actors for the role of Father Ted, but Morgan's enthusiasm eventually won him the role.

The team ( minus Lee and Herring due to creative / legal disputes, who were replaced by Peter Baynham and Father Ted writers Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews ) subsequently made a television series loosely based on it called The Day Today.

Big Train is a surreal British television comedy sketch show created by Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan, writers of the successful sitcom Father Ted.

Linehan, co-writer of the 1995 Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted, joined at the outset to co-write the series with Moran at the suggestion of producer William Burdett-Coutts after Linehan saw the pilot and had seen Moran performing in Dublin.

Arthur Mathews ( born c. 1959 in Castletown Kilpatrick, Navan, County Meath ) is an Irish comedy writer and actor who, often with writing partner Graham Linehan, has either written or contributed to a number of popular television comedies, most notably Father Ted.

However, it was with Father Ted ( 3 series, 1995 – 1998 ) that Linehan and Mathews made their biggest impression which debuted on Channel 4.

* " Father Ted ": The Complete Scripts — Graham Linehan, Arthur Mathews.

In their early collaborations, they were responsible for segments in many sketch shows, including Alas Smith and Jones, Harry Enfield and Chums, The All New Alexei Sayle Show and the Ted and Ralph characters in The Fast Show ( the characters were created by Linehan and Mathews and played by Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse ).

Linehan and Mathews have had one book published, Father Ted: The Complete Scripts ( Paperback – Boxtree – October 20, 2000 ) ISBN 0-7522-7235-7.

Linehan has also appeared in The Day Today and in two episodes of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, and has had cameos in Black Books ( Season One Episode 2, as " I love books " Guy, and 5 as Fast Food Customer ), and the Father Ted episodes " Good Luck Father Ted ", " Entertaining Father Stone ", " Flight Into Terror ", " Cigarettes, Alcohol and Rollerblading " and " Chirpy Burpy Cheap Sheep ".

* Graham Linehan, writer and cocreator of hit TV series " Father Ted ", was married in the church on main street.

Celbridge is also mentioned in an episode of Father Ted, and an episode of Alan Partridge that Linehan scripted.

* April 21-Sitcom Father Ted, written by Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan and starring Dermot Morgan and Ardal O ' Hanlon, first airs on Channel 4 television in the United Kingdom.

Past writers for Hot Press have included ninth President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins, the authors of BAFTA award-winning Father Ted, Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews, Sunday Times television reviewer Liam Fay, author and Daily Telegraph columnist Neil McCormick, the late Bill Graham, The Sunday Business Post US correspondent Niall Stanage, Irish Examiner soccer correspondent Liam Mackey, The Irish Times columnist John Waters, food writer John McKenna, Sunday Independent journalist Declan Lynch and The Guardian football writer, Football Weekly regular Barry Glendenning and Daily Mail writer Jason O ' Toole.

Dialectical behavior therapy ( DBT ) is a system of therapy originally developed by Marsha M. Linehan, a psychology researcher at the University of Washington, to treat people with borderline personality disorder ( BPD ).

Black Books is a British sitcom created by Dylan Moran and Graham Linehan that was broadcast on Channel 4 from 2000 to 2004.

Graham Linehan (; born 22 May 1968 ) is an Irish television writer, actor, comedian and director who, often in partnership with Arthur Mathews, has written or co-written a number of popular television comedies.

Linehan is an active user of several social media websites, especially Twitter.

Al, this is Brian Linehan .’ And they talked for a while, and apparently had a lovely talk, and I was just watching.

( Linehan is Serafinowicz's brother-in-law ).

Willard Morgan is the President of the foundation, Garth Altenburg is the Director of the boys summer camp, and Abby Burbank is the Director of the girls camp program, Ryan Linehan is the Director for summer wilderness programs, Greg Shute is the Director of Wilderness Programs, Katie Tremblay is the Director for the Outdoor Classroom, Keith Crowley is the Director for the Traveling Natural History Program, Susan Adams is in charge of the Big Eddy Campground, and Ann Carson is head of the Semester School.

It is still owned and run by the Linehan family and boasts a fine collection of photographs taken of the cast and crew during the making of the film.

Rosaleen Linehan ( born Rosaleen Philomena McMenamin on 1 June 1937, Dublin ) is an Irish stage, screen and television actress.

British Fascism 1918-39: Parties, Ideology and Culture is a book by Thomas Linehan.

In an interview in 2008, Graham Linehan admitted to mixed feelings about contributing to the series: " Jam wouldn ’ t be my favourite thing of Chris ’ s, and it was the one where I didn ’ t really feel like we were contributing a lot.

* Marsha Linehan, psychologist and founder of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, has recently spoken out about her past as an individual who suffered and still struggles with BPD.

After trying out a lot of drummers, they ended up with Nate Linehan.

Both Linehan and Mathews worked on the first series of sketch show Big Train, but Linehan dropped out for the second series.

They then wrote the first series of the sketch show Big Train, but Linehan bowed out for the second series.

An Irish-British co-production, written jointly by Irish writers Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan and starring a predominantly Irish cast, it originally aired over three series from 21 April 1995 until 1 May 1998, including a Christmas special, for a total of 25 episodes.

* In 2011 the film was adapted as a play by Graham Linehan.

Today has also been criticised by Graham Linehan for the unnecessarily confrontational nature of its interviews.

For The Day Today, Peter Baynham joined the writing team, and Lee and Herring were replaced by Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews.

The Day Today also features appearances by Armando Iannucci, Peter Baynham, Jean Ainslie, John Thomson, Graham Linehan, Alan Stocks, and Minnie Driver.

The bas-relief football players on the trophy were originally sculpted in Azbro Wax by Massachusetts sculptor James Linehan for the company New England Pewter.

The film was directed by Patricia Rozema and starred Rosaleen Linehan as Winnie.

* Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder by Marsha M. Linehan.

* Cognitive Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder by Marsha M. Linehan.

* Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents by Alec L. Miller, Jill H. Rathus, and Marsha M. Linehan.

The first series was directed by Graham Linehan and other series contributors included David Mitchell.

Despite being dropped by their label ( although Earache did later make them an offer to come back, which they turned down ) and Linehan leaving again, Anal Cunt continued on, now with John Gillis on drums.

The resulting depositions survive, to form the basis of a highly readable history by Peter Linehan ( 1997 ) that lays open more than just the social history of Dominican friars and nuns in 13th-century Castile.

It was written by various people including Coogan, Patrick Marber, David Tyler, Graham Linehan, Arthur Mathews, Geoffrey Perkins and Henry Normal.

There were bookshops that I frequented and I was always struck by the loneliness and doggedness of these men who piloted this death ship ", while Linehan said his belligerent personality reflected a sign he once saw in a bookshop stating " Please put the books anywhere you like because we've got nothing better to do than put them back ".

Linehan attended Plunkett's School in Whitehall, followed by Catholic University School, a Roman Catholic secondary school for boys located on the southside of central Dublin, before joining Hot Press.