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Paddy and Griffith
* Griffith, Paddy.
* Paddy Griffith Napoleonic Wargaming For Fun, Ward Lock Ltd, London, 1980, reprinted 2008 by the History of Wargaming Project link
* Paddy Griffith Sprawling Wargames multiplayer Wargaming, Ward Lock Ltd, London, 1980, reprinted 2009 by the History of Wargaming Project link
Paddy Griffith wrote that the bite and hold system kept moving until November ; the BEF had developed a workable system of offensive tactics against which the Germans ultimately had no answer.
* Griffith, Paddy A History of the Peninsular War: Modern Studies of the War in Spain and Portugal, 1808 – 14 v. 9 Greenhill Books, 1999, ISBN 1-85367-348-X.
Griffith, Paddy.
* Griffith, P., ( 1995 ) The Battle of Blore Heath, 1459, Paddy Griffiths Associates, UK.
* Griffith, Paddy ( 1991 ).
* Griffith, Paddy ( 1996 ).
* Paddy Griffith, Battle Tactics of the Western Front: The British Army's Art of Attack 1916-18, New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1994 ( ISBN 0-300-05910-8 ).
Paddy Griffith was the proponent of an almost exactly countervailing view ; he contended that lack of discipline among Civil war volunteers on both sides meant that potentially successful shock actions failed due to lack of commitment ; rather than pressing assaults home, troops routinely went to ground at about sixty yards from the enemy line or entrenchment and engaged in short range firefights.
Tudor was a professional and forward-looking artilleryman: historian Paddy Griffith has described him as an " expert tactician.

Paddy and among
Sam Singer earned a certain degree of infamy for his efforts at television animation, which included an animated adaptation of The Adventures of Paddy the Pelican ( which may or may not have made it to air ) and the original series Bucky and Pepito, both of which have been cited as among the worst of their kind.
Paddy occupies the largest area among annual crops.
They have cited a wide variety of musical likes and influences ranging from Berlioz to Outkast, citing among others Barrett, Paddy McAloon, New Order, The Smiths, Brian Wilson, Momus.
" The Members of the Supporters Club included among others, Albert Higgins, Mick Carroll, Paddy Morahan, Ray Gallagher, Breda Mulligan, Bernie Tiernan, Martin Keaveney, Willie Kelly, Willie Bradley, Tommy McDonagh, Mary Foley, Bertie Conlon, Eugene Conlon and Breda Byrne.
A common term among the Irish for someone who appropriates or misrepresents Irish culture is Plastic Paddy.

Paddy and modern
The character of Patrick " Paddy " Dignam, whose funeral is the focus of Episode 6 (" Hades ") of Ulysses by James Joyce, is a modern counterpart to Elpenor.

Paddy and claims
* John J. Dwyer defeats former champion Jimmy Elliott in 12 rounds at Long Point, Canada, and then claims the Heavyweight Championship of America due to the continued inactivity of current champion Joe Goss and the main challenger Paddy Ryan.
The resulting backlash gives the New Patriotic Party a staggering two-to-one majority in Parliament ( and also rescues Alan's portfolio ), but Alan, who had not bothered to stand for a seat in the election, is technically ineligible to be Prime Minister, a title that Paddy O ' Rourke, Labour's alcoholic leader, now claims for himself.
They soon discover though that he's obsessed with Max (" Not in a gay way " he claims ), and irrationally hates Paddy.

Paddy and British
The Times reported on 6 November 1995 that Prince Charles had stated on that day to Tony Blair and Paddy Ashdown, after the funeral of Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, that " Catholics should be able to ascend to the British throne ".
British singer Kate Bush featured the balalaika, played by her brother Paddy Bush in two of her Top-40 singles, " Babooshka " and " Running Up That Hill ".
* 1941 – Paddy Ashdown, British politician
British Mixed martial arts fighter Dan Hardy has called American fighter Marcus Davis a " Plastic Paddy " due to Marcus ' enthusiasm for his Irish ancestry.
Since 1967, the facility has been occupied by the former British Army Major Paddy Roy Bates ; his associates and family claim that it is an independent sovereign state.
On 2 September 1967, the fort was occupied by Major Paddy Roy Bates, a British subject and pirate radio broadcaster, who ejected a competing group of pirate broadcasters.
* February 27 – Paddy Ashdown, British politician
* Several scenes in The Bourne Ultimatum, starring Matt Damon, were filmed with British actor Paddy Considine at Waterloo between October 2006 and April 2007
First airing in August 2008, McGrath co-starred in a new television series along with British comedian Paddy McGuinness, broadcast on Channel 5, Rory and Paddy's Great British Adventure.
During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.
Jeremy John Durham Ashdown, Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, GCMG, KBE, PC ( born 27 February 1941 ), usually known as Paddy Ashdown, is a British politician and diplomat.
* Paddy Ashdown ( born 1941 ), British politician and diplomat
* Paddy Mayne ( 1915-1955 ), British Army lieutenant colonel and founder of the elite Special Air Service, solicitor and Irish rugby union international
* Paddy Kirk, a fictional character in the British soap opera Emmerdale
Six IRA Volunteers, led by Paddy O ' Daly, captured a British armoured car and, wearing British Army uniforms, gained access to Mountjoy Prison.
For example, a British man named Paddy Roy Bates declared a nation called Sealand in 1967 after occupying an abandoned navy fortification off the British coast.
The third name, " Patrick ", was included at a late stage owing to the unexpected international importance of the occasion –- one of the Irish papers reported " British envoy's grandson is a real Paddy ".
Notable former students include Paul Addison, Tony Brindle-Wills, comedians Kenny Everett, Tom O ' Connor and Johnny Vegas, the libel lawyer George Carman, pop musician Paddy McAloon of Prefab Sprout, the editor of the Jerusalem Bible and British Member of Parliament John Battle.
In 2009 Grobbelaar appeared in a British television commercial for the Irish bookmaker Paddy Power, in which he is seen returning a losing stake to a punter.
* Paddy Doyle, British athlete
Owen enjoyed an auspicious start to his professional career, lifting the Bantamweight Championship of Wales after just six contests and knocking out Paddy Maguire to claim the British title after only ten.
According to the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums, the band's name was a mondegreen from the Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood song, " Jackson ", misheard by frontman Paddy McAloon.

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