In 1996 his Minister for Transport, Michael Lowry, resigned from the Cabinet after allegations that he had not paid income tax on payments from the supermarket tycoon, Ben Dunne for work he had done for him as a businessman prior to becoming a minister.

Taoiseach John Bruton announced that Lowry would not be allowed stand as a Fine Gael candidate at the next election and he resigned from the party.

In 1974 he received his PhD in English from the University at Buffalo with a thesis on Djuna Barnes, Malcolm Lowry, and Nathanael West.

Independently from Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted he has developed the Brønsted – Lowry acid – base theory and was as a founder-member and president ( 1928 – 1930 ) of the Faraday Society.

On May 17, 2010, Patti Smith received an honorary doctorate in fine arts from Pratt Institute, along with architect Daniel Libeskind, MoMA director Glenn Lowry, former NYC Landmarks Commissioner Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, novelist Jonathan Lethem, and director Steven Soderbergh.

In the summer of 2003, the San Diego Zoological Society and Lowry Park Zoo orchestrated the capture of 11 wild African elephants from the Hlane Royal National Park in Swaziland.

" Lowry ... stood across the road from his subjects and observed.

McKellen justifies this application of the theatre term to Lowry's art by explaining that " Lowry ’ s mid-air viewpoint is like a view from the dress circle ", looking down as if to a stage.

Cadets from the first Air Force Academy class lined up for physical training at Lowry AFB in 1955

The Academy's permanent site had not yet been completed when the first class entered, so the 306 cadets from the Class of 1959 were sworn in at a temporary site at Lowry Air Force Base, in Denver on 11 July 1955.

During the Civil War, North Carolina Governor David Lowry Swain persuaded Confederate President Jefferson Davis to exempt some students from the draft, so the university was one of the few in the Confederacy that managed to stay open.

Marciano won three more fights by knockout and then he met Ted Lowry ( 58 – 48 – 9 ), who, according to many scribes and witnesses, probably managed to win three or four of the ten rounds from Marciano.

* The original version of Ultramarine by Malcolm Lowry was stolen from his publisher's car in 1932, and the author had to reconstruct it.

Lowry lived in Mottram from 1948 until his death in 1976.

The book takes its name from Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl, the twin volcanos near where Lowry lived.

Following critical reports from readers, Cape had reservations about publishing and wrote to Lowry on 29 November 1945 asking him to make drastic cuts.

The count as of 5 March 1965 ( the final launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base ( VAFB ): 17 were launched from VAFB ( September 1961 – March 1965 ); one was destroyed in Beale AFB Site 851-C1 silo explosion 24 May 1962 ; 54 were based in Silos with SAC by 20 January 1965 ; 29 were in storage SBAMA ( three at VAFB, one at each Base, including an extra at Lowry = 9 and 20 in storage at SBAMA elsewhere ), a total of 101 production SM vehicles.

Although his mother demonstrated no appreciation of her son's gifts as an artist, a number of books Lowry received as Christmas presents from his parents are inscribed to " Our dearest Laurie.

Lowry later recalled: " At first I detested it, and then, after years I got pretty interested in it, then obsessed by it ... One day I missed a train from Pendlebury-( a place ) I had ignored for seven years — and as I left the station I saw the Acme Spinning Company's mill ...

Lowry retired from the Pall Mall Property Company in 1952 on his 65th birthday ( McLean, 1978 ).

Lowry joked about retiring from the art world, citing his lack of interest in the changing landscape.

Robert Lowry ( March 10, 1829January 19, 1910 ) was an American politician from Mississippi.

Evans won a special election later that year against Mike Lowry and filled the remainder of Jackson's unexpired term, retiring from politics after the 1988 elections.

* Lowry bypassed consideration by his Cabinet colleagues and thereby not only influenced, but delivered the result for Esat Digifone.

During and after the World War I, Lowry acted as Director of Shell-filling ( 1917 – 1919 ) and worked for the Trench Warfare Committee, Chemical Warfare Committee and Ordnance Committee.

The painter L. S. Lowry attended the art school in the years after the First World War where he was taught by the noted impressionist Adolphe Valette.

Leverett enumerated multiple factors establishing Jones County residents ' overwhelming loyalty to the Confederacy, including ( 1 ) the proportion of eligible men in the county who served the Confederacy ; ( 2 ) the militant response of area residents to a Union raid at Rocky Creek balanced against their cordial reception of expeditions by Confederate officers Maury and Lowry ; ( 3 ) the repeated written requests of area residents to Confederate authorities for assistance defending against deserters ; ( 4 ) the community's shunning after the war of Newt Knight ; and ( 5 ) the renaming of the county by popular request " after the war to honor the two greatest heroes of the Confederacy, and this at a time when genuine Union supporters could be expected to be at the zenith of their influence ".

Hiram Harrison Lowry, was named after Asbury.

Lowry painted after his mother had fallen asleep, between 10pm and 2am, or, depending how tired he was, he might stay up for another hour adding features.

Another of his unverifiable stories had him keeping a suitcase by the front door so that he could claim to be just leaving, a practice he claimed to have abandoned after a helpful young man insisted on taking him to the railway station and had to be sent off to buy a paper so that Lowry could buy a ticket for just one stop without revealing his deceit.

Unknown to his friends and the public, Lowry produced a series of erotic works which were not seen until after his death.

The Lowry in Salford Quays was opened in 2000 at a cost £ 106million ; named after him, the gallery houses 55 of his paintings and 278 drawings – the world's largest collection of his work – with up to 100 on display.

Lowry briefly served in the state senate after the war ( 1865 – 1866 ).

Although the five star hotel named after the artist L. S. Lowry is within the boundaries of the City of Salford, it is promoted as " The Lowry Hotel, Manchester ".

Lowry was born in Logan County, Illinois, and came to Minneapolis in 1867 after passing the bar to become a lawyer.

( 2000 ) On the day after a massive Earth Day celebration at Lowry Park, highlighted by a " Flow-tilla " of dozens of boats from the Rowlett Park dam to Lowry Park, Friends of the River settles its legal challenge with agreement with SWFWMD, City of Tampa and Robert Thomas of Zephyrhills Water to study the river for 5 years to scientifically determine exactly how much freshwater is needed to restore and maintain the river's estuarine function.

In 2002, Muslim organizations called for Lowry to apologize, after he posted a message on National Review Online's blog, " The Corner ", discussing the " nuking " of Mecca, as retaliation for a terrorist attack.

The combination zoo and park was christened Lowry Park after General Sumter Loper Lowry, a local resident celebrated for civic contributions and his service in several wars, but vilified by some for his controversial political views.

In mid-October 1945, AAF Training Command delegated all stations and activities of the Headquarters Western Technical Training Command from Lowry to the new Technical Training Command at Scott Field, Illinois as part of the initial draw down of the AAF after the end of World War II.

In October 2007, American network CBS aired a series adapted by Bob Lowry and the creator of Blackpool, Peter Bowker, and based on the same premise, coproduced by BBC Worldwide, CBS Paramount Network Television, Sony Pictures Television and Seed Productions called Viva Laughlin ; the series was cancelled after two episodes, due to low ratings.

Lois Lowry is said to have based the character Peter in Number the Stars after Kim, possibly due to his courage against the Nazis.