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An Grianán Theatre
An Grianán Theatre () is the largest theatre in County Donegal. Located in Letterkenny's Port Road district, its current director is Patricia McBride. With a seating capacity of 383, the theatre provides a range of programming including drama, comedy, music, pantomime, and family shows as well as workshops and classes. It is used annually as a festival venue, including for the Earagail Arts Festival, and has twice hosted Fleadh Cheoil, Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann. It is a main partner of the Earagail Arts Festival, which takes place each year in July, the Irish Aerial Dance Fest which takes place each June and the Letterkenny Trad Week which takes places each January. The theatre was named after Grianán of Aileach (‘Stony House of the Sun’), a prehistoric ring fort located in Burt believed to date back to 1700 BCE. History In 1995, Labour politician Seán Maloney (Irish politician), Seán Maloney advised the then Minister for the Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht Michael ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Letterkenny
Letterkenny ( , meaning "hillside of the O'Cannons"), nicknamed the Cathedral Town, is a large town in County Donegal, Ireland, on the River Swilly in the north-west of Ulster. Along with the nearby city of Derry, Letterkenny is a regional economic gateway for the north-west of Ireland. Letterkenny began as a market town at the start of the 17th century, during the Plantation of Ulster. A castle once stood near where the Cathedral of St Eunan and St Columba, County Donegal's only Catholic Church, Catholic cathedral, stands today. Letterkenny Castle, built in 1625, was located south of Mt Southwell on Castle Street. County Donegal's largest third-level institution, Atlantic Technological University, Atlantic Technological University (ATU) Letterkenny, is located in the town, as are St Eunan's College, Highland Radio, and a Hinduism, Hindu temple. Letterkenny was also the original home of Oatfield (confectioner), Oatfield Sweet Factory, a confectionery manufacturer; the factory c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack L
Jack Lukeman (born Seán Loughman 11 February 1973), usually simply known as Jack L, is an Irish songwriter, musician, record producer, vocal artist and broadcaster. Early life Lukeman was born as Seán Loughman in St Vincent's Hospital, Athy; son of Seán Loughman, who was a mechanic, and his wife, Rose. Lukeman grew up in Bennetsbridge, near Athy, County Kildare. Lukeman attended a youth club in Athy known as Aontas Ogra at the age of 12 years old, where he was involved in artistic ventures as well as playing music there. He left school at 15. After spending a short period in the family business, he began playing music full-time at 18 cutting his teeth on the Bohemian busking scene around Europe in the early 90s. Playing across Holland, Belgium and Germany sometimes playing with art rock band Serious Women with David Constantine and Martin Clancy whom he has continued to collaborate with over the years. His first vocal performance can be heard on Serious Women's album 38SCR, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Kenny
Jonathan Kenny (28 September 1957 – 15 November 2024) was an Irish comedian and actor, best known as one half of the Irish comic duo D'Unbelievables with Pat Shortt. They were a successful duo until 2000, releasing ''One Hell of a Video, D'Unbelievables, D'Video, D'Telly, D'Mother'' and ''D'collection'' but the group stopped touring after Kenny was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Early life Jonathan Kenny was born in Hospital, County Limerick, on 28 September 1957. His mother's Maiden and married names, maiden name is Dirraine and his maternal grandparents came from Inishmore in the Aran Islands. He started his career in , aged 15, performing with the Limerick band Gimik before switching to acting. Career Kenny had dyslexia and never received formal training. He played two characters in separate episodes of ''Father Ted'': Michael Cocheese in "The Passion of Saint Tibulus" and Fred Rickwood in "A Song for Europe (Father Ted), A Song for Europe". He later said that the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Shortt
Patrick Shortt (born 12 December 1967) is an Irish actor, comedian, writer, and entertainer. His role in the 2007 film '' Garage'' led to him receiving the IFTA for Best Actor. He is most notably remembered for his role as Tom in the television series ''Father Ted''. Career Shortt toured alongside Jon Kenny as the comedy duo D'Unbelievables. They released "One Hell of a Video", "D'Unbelievables", "D'Video" (a live random sketch show), "D'Telly" (featuring Shortt and Kenny playing various characters – primarily two brothers who run a shop together), "D'Mother" (in which Kenny's character oversaw the running of a public house alongside his "mother" – who was later revealed to be his father, in a role played by Shortt) and "D'collection". One character played by Shortt was Dan Clancy, known for telling "his stories". The pair were highly successful in Ireland, selling out the Vicar Street venue for 14 weeks. The duo stopped touring in 2000 after Kenny was diagnosed with Hodgk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brendan Grace
Brendan Grace (1 April 1951 – 11 July 2019) was an Irish comedian and singer. He portrayed the comedy schoolboy character 'Bottler', appeared in the 1995 film ''Moondance'', and played Father Fintan Stack in the Irish TV sitcom ''Father Ted''. His 1975 song "The Combine Harvester" was a number one hit in Ireland, as well as his cover of " The Dutchman" in 1982. Early life Born in the heart of Dublin in 1951, Grace was raised on Echlin Street, in the inner city Liberties neighbourhood. His father Seamus worked as a bartender, an ambulance man and other odd jobs to keep the family going. Like many young Dubliners of the time, Grace left school young to begin working. His first job was as a messenger boy, an occupation he often referred to in his live act. Music career At the age of 18, Grace formed a folk group band known as the Gingermen. During a gig one night, the band found themselves two members short; in an attempt to calm an anxious crowd, Grace was thrust upon the sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Maxwell
Andrew Maxwell (born 3 December 1974) is an Irish comedian and narrator, known for narrating the MTV reality series '' Ex on the Beach''. Career In 1992, Maxwell tried stand-up comedy for the first time at the Comedy Cellar at The International Bar in Dublin, and from 1995, he made regular appearances on BBC Two's ''Sunday Show''. Other credits for Maxwell include '' RI:SE'' as the United States correspondent, a regular guest slot on a weekly topical comedy-style chat show '' The Panel'' which ran on Irish channel RTÉ One from 2003 until 2011, and regular appearances on British TV shows ''Never Mind the Buzzcocks'' and ''Mock the Week''. He appeared on the '' Secret Policeman's Ball'' in 2006, while a ''Funny Cuts'' special for E4, called ''Andrew Maxwell – My Name Up In Lights'' aired that same year. In 2014, Maxwell appeared in Comedy Central's ''Drunk History'' and was the narrator of '' Ex on the Beach'', an MTV reality television series. Maxwell has narrated every seri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Delamere
Neil Delamere ( ; born 1979) is an Irish comedian. He is a regular on the BBC Northern Ireland television show '' The Blame Game'', and was the BBC Fighting Talk Champion of Champions in 2022. Early life and education Delamere is from Edenderry, County Offaly. He has a degree in Computer Applications from Dublin City University (DCU). Career He began his career in 2004 at the Edinburgh Festival. Since then he has worked for both Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) and the BBC, in programmes such as the BBC comedy series '' One Night Stand'', BBC radio and television panel quiz '' The Blame Game'' and RTÉ topical comedy show '' The Panel''. He hosted ''Neil Delamere's Just For Laughs'', a comedy television show in which he interviewed acts performing at the Montreal Festival. He featured on '' Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow'' on 4 July 2009. Delamere made his debut appearance on Radio Five Live's panel show '' Fighting Talk'', broadcast on 11 December 2010, and won. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Murphy (comedian)
Colin Murphy (born 16 July 1968) is a Northern Irish comedian from Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland. He now lives in south Belfast. He is best known for his television work hosting and co-writing ''The Blizzard of Odd'', ''The Unbelievable Truth (radio show), The Unbelievable Truth'', and as resident panellist on ''The Blame Game (radio), The Blame Game'' for BBC Northern Ireland and ''The Panel (Ireland), The Panel'' for RTÉ. He has also acted in the film ''Divorcing Jack (film), Divorcing Jack'' with Rachel Griffiths and David Thewlis. Public appearances Murphy mainly tours in Ireland and usually hosts the comedy show in The Empire Bar, Belfast. He occasionally appears at other venues in the UK such as the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and has performed at Cat Laughs, Kilkenny Cat Laughs, Melbourne Comedy Festival, and ''Just for Laughs''. He was host of Queen's Comedy Club, which ran in the Mandela Hall of the Queen's University Belfast Students' Union until 2018. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Carr
James Anthony Patrick Carr (born 15 September 1972) is an Irish-British comedian, presenter, writer and actor. He is known for his rapid-fire deadpan delivery of One-line joke, one-liners. He began his comedy career in 1997, and he has regularly appeared on television as the host of Channel 4 panel shows such as ''8 Out of 10 Cats, 8 Out of 10 Cats'', ''8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown'' and ''The Big Fat Quiz of the Year''. Early life and education James Anthony Patrick Carr was born on 15 September 1972, in Hounslow, London. He is the second of three sons born to Irish parents Nora Mary (née Lawlor; 19 September 1943 – 7 September 2001) and Patrick James "Jim" Carr (born 1945), an accountant who became the treasurer for computer company Unisys. His parents were married in 1970 and separated in 1994, never divorcing. Carr spent most of his early life in the village of Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire, where he attended Farnham Common School and Burnham Gramma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Byrne (comedian)
Edward Cathal Byrne (born 16 April 1972) is an Irish actor and comedian. He has presented the British television shows ''Just for Laughs (British TV series), Just for Laughs'' and ''Uncut! Best Unseen Ads'', has been a guest on numerous television panel games and has appeared on a number of television cooking shows. Early life Byrne was born on 16 April 1972 in Dublin, Ireland, and grew up in nearby Swords, County Dublin, Swords. His father was a sheet metal worker who became a supervisor, and his mother was a radiographer and lectured in radiography. Career Stand-up comedy Deciding to study horticulture at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, he was made entertainments convener at the Students' Union in his second year of study. Byrne also volunteered at the Student Association Welfare Office in his first year. Byrne started a comedy night called ''International Comedy Cellar, The Comedy Cellar'' in the basement of the 13th Note public house on Glassford Street, Glasgow. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dylan Moran
Dylan William Moran ( ; born ) is an Irish comedian, writer, actor and artist. He is best known for his observational comedy, the comedy series '' Black Books'' (which he co-wrote and starred in), and his work with Simon Pegg in films such as '' Shaun of the Dead'' and '' Run Fatboy Run''. He was also one of two lead characters in the Irish black comedy film '' A Film with Me in It''. He is a regular performer at national and international comedy festivals such as the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Just for Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and the Kilkenny Comedy Festival. In 2007, he was voted the 17th greatest stand-up comedian by Channel 4; in the updated 2010 list, he was ranked as the 14th greatest. Early life Dylan William Moran was born in 1971 in Navan, County Meath. He attended St Patrick's Classical School, where he experimented early on with stand-up alongside fellow comedians Tommy Tiernan and Hector Ó hEochagáin; he le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dara Ó Briain
Dara Ó Briain ( , ; born 4 February 1972) is an Irish comedian and television presenter based in the United Kingdom. He is noted for performing stand-up comedy shows all over the world and for hosting topical panel shows such as ''Mock the Week'', '' The Panel'', and '' The Apprentice: You're Fired!''. In 2009, the ''Irish Independent'' described Ó Briain as "Terry Wogan's heir apparent as Britain's 'favourite Irishman. In 2012, he was nominated for a BAFTA TV Award for Best Entertainment Performance for his work on ''Mock the Week''. He has also been a newspaper columnist and written books for both adults and children. His first children's book, ''Beyond the Sky'', was nominated for a Blue Peter Book Award in 2017. Early life Ó Briain was born in 1972 in Bray, County Wicklow, and adopted into what he described as "a stable home" where he enjoyed a happy childhood with his "supportive" parents. He attended Coláiste Eoin secondary school, a '' Gaelcholáiste'' (Irish-sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
