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Owney may refer to: ;People: * Owney Madden (1891–1965) New York gangster * Owney Geoghegan (1840–1885) boxer ;Places in Ireland: * Owney and Arra, County Tipperary barony * Owneybeg, County Limerick barony ;Other: * Owney (dog), New York post office mascot See also * Oney (song), a song recorded by Johnny Cash * Owen (name), ''Owney'' is hypocoristic form * Uaithne In Irish mythology, Uaithne () is The Dagda's harper. Uaithne (Uaitniu) could mean "wood", "work", "pillar" or "harmony". Those different meanings could be the consequence of successive metaphors. The Dagda's harp is called Daur da Bláo, The Oak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owney Madden
Owen Vincent "Owney" Madden (December 18, 1891 – April 24, 1965) was a British-born gangster of Irish ancestry who became a leading underworld figure in New York during Prohibition. Nicknamed "The Killer", he garnered a brutal reputation within street gangs and organized crime. He ran the Cotton Club in Manhattan and was a leading boxing promoter. After increased harassment from law enforcement in New York, Madden moved to Hot Springs, Arkansas, in 1935, where he remained until his death from natural causes in 1965. Early life Owen Vincent Madden was born into a working-class family at 25 Somerset Road in Leeds, England, on December 18, 1891, the son of Irish immigrants Francis Madden and Mary Madden (née O'Neil.) After his mother became a widow she emigrated to New York to become a maid, leaving Owen and his sister Mary and brother Martin in a British orphanage. In 1896, Owen's mother saved up enough money to take them out of the orphanage and get them tickets to join her in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owney Geoghegan
Owen "Owney" Geoghegan (1840 – January 19, 1885) was a lightweight bare-knuckle boxer. Geoghegan claimed the Lightweight Championship of America in 1861, and held it until his retirement in 1863. He stood 5' 6" (167.64 cm) and weighed between 130 and 140 pounds. Boxing career Geoghegan was born in 1840 in Ireland. He traveled to the United States in 1849 and settled in New York CityPolice Gazette, 1922 His first recorded prize-fight took place in 1860 against Jim McGann in New York. Geoghegan won the bout in five rounds and 15 minutes. That same year, he defeated Deaf Moran, Bill Dukes, Arthur Gowan, and held a draw with Mike Donohue.Police Gazette, 7 February 1885 Patrick "Scotty" Brannagan retired as Lightweight Champion of America in 1861, and a contest was held between Geoghegan and Eddie Touhey to fill the vacant title. The two men met on April 18, 1861 in New York. Although Toughey was a better boxer, Geoghegan wore his opponent down with his incredible strength. Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owney And Arra
Owney and Arra (Irish: ''Uaithne agus Ara'') is a barony in County Tipperary, Ireland. This geographical unit of land is one of 12 baronies in County Tipperary. Its chief town is Newport. The barony lies between Ormond Lower to the north (whose chief town is Nenagh), Kilnamanagh Upper to the south (whose chief town is Borrisoleigh) and Ormond Upper to the east (whose chief town is Toomevara). To the west lies the River Shannon which separates it from County Clare. The territory is currently administered by Tipperary County Council. Legal context Baronies were created after the Norman invasion of Ireland as divisions of counties and were used the administration of justice and the raising of revenue. While baronies continue to be officially defined units, they have been administratively obsolete since 1898. However, they continue to be used in land registration and in specification, such as in planning permissions. In many cases, a barony corresponds to an earlier Gaelic tú ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Baronies Of Ireland
This is a list of the baronies of Ireland. Baronies were subdivisions of counties, mainly cadastral but with some administrative functions prior to the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898. Final list The final catalogue of baronies numbered 331, with an average area of ; therefore, each county was divided, on average, into 10 or 11 baronies. A figure of 273 is also quoted, by combining those divided into half-baronies, as by East/West, North/South, or Upper/Middle/Lower divisions. Every point in Ireland is in precisely one of the listed divisions. However, the municipal area of the four cities with barony status in 1898 has extended since then into the surrounding baronies. Prior to 1898, the baronies around Dublin City were shrunk accordingly as they ceded land to the expanding city; but there is now land which is both within the current city boundaries and within one of the pre-1898 county baronies. Notably, the Barony of Dublin, created in 1842, is entirely within the city, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owney (dog)
Owney (ca. 1887 – June 11, 1897), was a terrier mix adopted in the United States as the first unofficial postal mascot by the Albany, New York, post office about 1888. The Albany mail professionals recommended the dog to their Railway Mail Service colleagues, and he became a nationwide mascot for nine years (1888–97). He traveled throughout the 48 contiguous United States and voyaged around the world traveling over 140,000 miles in his lifetime as a mascot of the Railway Post Office and the United States Postal Service. He is best known for being the subject of commemorative activities, including a 2011 U.S. postage stamp. Story Unofficial mascot Owney belonged to a clerk at the Albany post office who would often come with him to work. Owney seemed to love the smell of the mail bags and would sleep on the bags. The clerk quit the Albany post office but knew that Owney was happier at the post office with the mail bags. Owney usually slept on the mail bags, and when they wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oney (song)
"Oney" is a song recorded by American country music artist Johnny Cash. It was released in July 1972 as the second single from his album ''Any Old Wind That Blows''. The song peaked at number 2 on the '' Billboard'' Hot Country Singles chart. It also reached number 1 on the ''RPM'' Country Tracks chart in Canada. The song was written by Jerry Chesnut. The song is one of several by Cash paying tribute to the working man ''The Working Man'' is a 1933 pre-Code American comedy film directed by John G. Adolfi and starring George Arliss and Bette Davis. The screenplay by Charles Kenyon and Maude T. Howell is based on the story ''The Adopted Father'' by Edgar Fra .... This first-person story is about a factory worker who plans to get retribution against his mean boss. In the song's spoken prologue, Cash dedicates the song "''to the working man/for every man that puts in a hard eight or 10 hours a day of work and toil and sweat/always got somebody looking down his neck/trying to g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owen (name)
Owen is usually an anglicised variant of the Welsh name, Welsh personal name . Originally a patronymic, Owen became a fixed surname in Wales beginning with the reign of Henry VIII of England, Henry VIII. Etymologists consider it to originate from ''Eugene (given name), Eugene'' meaning 'noble-born'. According to T. J. Morgan and Prys Morgan in ''Welsh Surnames'': "the name is a derivation of the Latin > Old Welsh, OW , ... variously written in Middle Welsh, MW as , , . Late Latin, LL gives the names , , , . The corresponding form in Irish language, Irish is ." Morgan and Morgan note that there are less likely alternative explanations, and agree with Rachel Bromwich that Welsh "is normally Latinisation of names, latinised as ", and that both the Welsh and Irish forms are Latin derivatives. The Welsh name is a cognate and near-homonym of the Irish name (pronounced /'oːəun/, partially anglicised as , as noted by Morgan and Morgan, among other spellings). As such, the given ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
