Edinburgh has been home to the actor Sir Sean Connery, famed as the first cinematic James Bond ; Ronnie Corbett, a comedian and actor, best known as one of The Two Ronnies ;, actor Brian Cox and Dylan Moran, the Irish comedian.

Specialists in Irish medieval history, such as Sean Duffy, have challenged the conventional narrative established by Lewis Warren, suggesting that Ireland was less stable by 1216 than was previously supposed.

Sean McBride, a former Irish minister and co-founder of Amnesty International, led a major study for Unesco: Many voices, One world – Towards a new more just and more efficient world information and communication order ( 1983 ).

* 1993 – Sean Murray, Irish footballer

Connery claims he was called Sean, his middle name, long before becoming an actor, explaining that when he was young he had an Irish friend named Séamus and that those who knew them both had decided to call Connery by his middle name whenever both were present.

** Sean O ' Casey, Irish writer ( b. 1880 )

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* March 30 – Sean O ' Casey, Irish writer ( d. 1964 )

* February 21 – Sean Heuston, Irish rebel ( d. 1916 )

In 1973, Paddy Moloney ( of The Chieftains ) and Sean Potts released Tin Whistles, which helped to popularise the tin whistle in particular, and Irish music in general.

In January 2009, in the Anglo Irish Bank hidden loans controversy, EY was criticised by politicians and the shareholders of Anglo Irish Bank for failing to detect large loans to Sean FitzPatrick, its Chairman, during its audits.

Those charged included Irish Republican Socialist Party vice-chairman Kevin McQuillan and former councillor Sean Flynn.

In the Irish general election, 2011, Kildare North returned Bernard Durkan ( FG ), Anthony Lawlor ( FG ), Catherine Murphy ( Ind ), and Emmet Stagg ( Lab ) while with Martin Heydon ( FG ,) Sean O Fearghail ( FF ) and Jack Wall ( Lab ) were returned for Kildare South.

The duet " Pretty Irish Girl ", apparently sung by Sean Connery and Janet Munro, has been alleged to feature dubbed vocals by Irish singers, Brendan O ' Dowda and Ruby Murray.

In June 1923, after the end of the civil war, Sean Lemass's brother Noel Lemass, an anti-Treaty IRA officer, was abducted in Dublin by a number of men, believed to be connected to the Irish Army or the Police CID unit.

Sean Taro Ono Lennon ( Japanese name ; born October 9, 1975 ) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, guitarist and actor of English, Japanese and Irish descent.

Sean O ' Hagan is a founding member of Irish indie band Microdisney.

* Robert the Bruce's Irish Wars: The Invasions of Ireland 1306-1329, Sean Duffy, 2004.

The vet then called a racing associate, Sean Berry, who in turn called Alan Dukes, the Irish Finance Minister.

The Abbey served as a nursery for many of the leading Irish playwrights and actors of the 20th century, including William Butler Yeats, Augusta, Lady Gregory, Sean O ' Casey and John Millington Synge.

* A Centenary Report on the Theft of the Irish Crown Jewels in 1907 Sean J Murphy ( 25 January 2008 )

Poor economic growth and lack of social services led Sean Lemass, who succeeded the veteran Éamon de Valera as leader of Fianna Fáil and as Taoiseach in 1958, to state that if economic performance did not improve, the very future of the independent Irish state was at risk.

Kat cares for Sean, but Trevor arrives at the Slater family home, determined to take his son.

French foreign minister and former UN Kosovo chief, Bernard Kouchner, warned that a unilateral declaration would split the European Union over recognition of the independence, whilst US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack commented that, ' There is nothing to be gained by short-circuiting the diplomatic process that is under way.

you have nothing to loose but your chains ") as well as demonstrating admiration for Miles O ' Brien's fictional ancestor, Sean Aloysius O ' Brien, a union leader.

It had nothing to do with either the film GoldenEye or its video game adaptation, although the protagonist's scarred appearance considerably resembles Sean Bean's portrayal of rogue agent, Alec Trevelyan, in that film.

On the visit Sean confronted Johnny and ignored his threats, openly taunting him by telling him what he was doing to Ruby and telling him there was nothing Johnny or Jake could do to stop him.

Beast reveals to Sean and Emma that Monet's trances likely have nothing to do with her mutant power, as they first thought.

Sean French wrote in the New Statesman: " There is something heroic about this argument and it would be a good subject for a novel about the dangers of creating theories out of nothing.

On September 20 President Obama appeared on all major news programs except Fox News, a snub partially in response to remarks about the president by commentators Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity and Fox coverage of Obama's health-care proposal.

Oral History was for the first time used in the mid 1990s but we can speak about some kind of progress for past six years, as Sean Field speaks about it, when it has transformed from disregard and criticized to possibly respect.

Ono has stated that the couple were thinking about going out to dinner ( after spending several hours in a recording studio ), but were returning to their apartment instead, because John wanted to see Sean before he was put to bed.

At the time of his death, he was in the process of producing an $ 80 million movie featuring Sean Connery about Saladin and the Crusades, for which he already had the script, that would be filmed in Jordan.

Even though Kathy was worried about the spoken alliance between Paschal and Neleh coming into play at the final three, she voted with them and eliminated Sean.

Mary Kate and Sean throw it into a furnace, showing that Mary Kate never cared about the money, but only that Sean stand up for his wife.

Joseph Reiser is an entrepreneur " doing business with Germany " -- in itself a suspicious activity — and a would be-patron of the arts: Time and again he talks to Sean Ward about coming to his studio, implying that he might want to buy one of his paintings, but he never seems to get round to doing so.

Off-season free agent acquisition Sean Avery caused a media uproar over comments he made to a Canadian reporter about ex-girlfriend Elisha Cuthbert and her then-current relationship with Flames ' defenseman Dion Phaneuf before a game in Calgary.

* The Girl Who Would Be Death ( 1998 – 1999 ): A four-issue mini-series about a girl who challenges death, written by Caitlín R. Kiernan and illustrated by Dean Ormston with Sean Phillips.

WLS is currently a talk radio station, with its programming consisting of about half local talk shows such as Don Wade and Roma and Roe and Roeper, and the rest syndicated programming such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Adam Bold, Red Eye Radio, Wall Street Journal This Morning, Kim Komando and others.

When Will refuses to give an honest reply about what he wants to do with his life, Sean shows him the door.

Darby O ' Gill and the Little People is a 1959 Walt Disney Productions feature film starring Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Sean Connery and Jimmy O ' Dea, in a tale about a wily Irishman and his battle of wits with leprechauns.

Stubbs later quit to pursue a more serious career, and in 1994 Bailey performed Rock at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with Sean Lock, a show about an ageing rockstar and his roadie, script-edited by comedy writer Jim Miller.

Weston was reported as saying, " Sean Penn does not know what he is talking about and, frankly, he should shut up.

This prompts the unique collaboration emanating from ARGs as well ; Sean Stewart, founder of 42 Entertainment, which has produced various successful ARGs, speaks to how this occurs, noting that “ the key thing about an ARG is the way it jumps off of all those platforms.

Stewart further pointed out that Fox News itself offered positive coverage of Common's career in 2010, and that Sean Hannity, who criticized Common's White House invitation, is a friend of musician Ted Nugent, who in clips played on The Daily Show, used violent rhetoric in comments he made about President Obama and Hillary Clinton.

Van Sant fared somewhat better with 2000's Finding Forrester, a drama about a high-school student from the Bronx ( Rob Brown ) who becomes unlikely friends with a crusty, reclusive author ( Sean Connery ).

The movie about the life and times of Harvey Milk, the San Francisco city Supervisor who was America's first openly gay elected official ( portrayed by actor Sean Penn, who won an Academy Award for his performance ), had its world premiere at the theater in November 2008.

Angrily, Tom swears to make Sean pay and vows to never tell him about his daughter, raising her himself instead.

The year after, he starred opposite Timothy Dalton, Bruce Payne, Sean Pertwee and Leonor Varela ( who became his fiance after shooting ended ) in a TV-movie about Cleopatra.

The next morning, Mike sneaks out and goes sailing with his friends, but has to take his young brother Sean ( Mark Gilpin ) along to stop him telling his parents about Mike's trip.

Researchers who have studied and written about the phenomenon include Theodor Reik, Sean Bennett, Oliver Sacks, Daniel Levitin, James Kellaris, Vicky Williamson, and, in a more theoretical perspective, Peter Szendy.