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Donaghy
Donaghy is an Irish surname. Notable people and characters with the name include: * Kieran Donaghy, Gaelic footballer for Austin Stacks and Kerry, and basketball player * Bernard Donaghy (died 1953), Northern Irish footballer * Don Donaghy (1936–2008), American photographer * Eileen Donaghy (1930–2008), Irish traditional singer * Frederick Anthony Donaghy (1903–1988), American-born Catholic bishop in China * Gerard Donaghy (1954–1972), Northern Irish youth killed by British security forces * Jack Donaghy, a fictional character in ''30 Rock'' * Judi Donaghy (born 1960), American vocalist, producer and songwriter * Mal Donaghy (born 1957), Northern Irish footballer * Mary Donaghy (born 1939), New Zealand Olympic athlete * Michael Donaghy (1954–2004), American poet and musician * Plunkett Donaghy, Tyrone Gaelic footballer * Siobhán Donaghy (born 1984), English singer-songwriter * Tim Donaghy (born 1967), American basketball referee * Tom Donaghy, American playwrigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siobhán Donaghy
Siobhán Emma Donaghy (born 14 June 1984) is an English-Irish singer and songwriter. She is best known as a founding member of the girl group Sugababes. Donaghy left the Sugababes in 2001 and released her debut solo album, '' Revolution in Me'', in 2003, which contained three single releases. Her second studio album, '' Ghosts'', was released in 2007. Donaghy appeared in a remixed version of the hit stage show ''Rent'' (titled ''Rent Remixed'') for its 2007–2008 run, playing the role of Mimi alongside Denise van Outen. In 2012, Donaghy and her former Sugababes colleagues, Buena and Buchanan confirmed their reunion. The original trio were not able to release music under the name "Sugababes" as it was still owned by the management company. They instead released music under the new name, Mutya Keisha Siobhan, until they secured the legal rights to the Sugababes name again in 2019. History Donaghy was born on 14 June 1984 in London to Irish parents and has two sisters called B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kieran Donaghy
Kieran Donaghy (born 1 March 1983) is an Irish Gaelic footballer and basketball player. He plays for Tralee club Austin Stacks and, formerly, at senior level for the Kerry county team. Donaghy won four All-Ireland Senior Football Championship medals, eight Munster Championships and three National League titles with Kerry, and is the recipient of three All Stars Awards. He announced his retirement from inter-county football on 11 September 2018. Donaghy is also a long-time basketball player, currently playing for Tralee Warriors in the Irish Super League. Inter-county 2005 Donaghy's emergence in 2006 was regarded as a "rags to riches story". In 2004, before he made his breakthrough on the Kerry senior side, Donaghy took part in the GAA reality TV show ''Underdogs'' on TG4. He played in a one-off game against Kerry while on the show. He made his Kerry debut against Dublin in 2005 and won a Munster Senior Football Championship medal with the county that year. Donaghy previously ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Donaghy
John Francis "Jack" Donaghy ( ) is a fictional character on the NBC sitcom ''30 Rock'', airing from 2006 to 2013. The character was created by series creator Tina Fey, and is portrayed by Alec Baldwin. He was introduced as the Vice President of East Coast Television and Microwave Oven Programming for General Electric. As Vice President, he serves as the protagonist Liz Lemon's (Fey) boss as well as her personal mentor. As the series progresses, their relationship develops and informs their respective storylines. Donaghy climbs up the corporate hierarchy to achieve his professional dream of leading General Electric as its president and chairman. Donaghy's penchant for wealth, power, authority, Republican values, and social status has been acclaimed as a high point of the series and his characterization. Fey intended for the character to serve as an oppositional but complementary counter to Lemon, expressed through various gender, social, and power dynamics. Baldwin received two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerard Donaghy
Gerard V. Donaghy (20 February 1954 – 30 January 1972), sometimes transcribed as Gerald Donaghey, was a native of the Bogside, Derry who was killed by members of the 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment on Bloody Sunday in Derry, Northern Ireland. Early life Both of Donaghy's parents had died by 1966, when he was 12 years old,Pringle, Peter''Those Are Real Bullets: Bloody Sunday, Derry'' (1972) 12 March 2002, pp. 74–75, 114–16; / and he was raised by his elder siblings, Mary and Patrick. According to Donaghy's older sister, Mary Doherty, Donaghy was a bright scholar but "one of those children who was very bright but who just never used his brains." In 1969, at the age of 15, he and his siblings moved to Meenan Square, where he lived until his death. In 1970, Donaghy obtained a job in the Waterside with Carlin's Brewery as a delivery hand on a beer lorry. He lost this employment shortly before his seventeenth birthday in 1971 when he was sentenced to six months' impriso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Donaghy
Don Donaghy (born Leonard Donald Donaghy in Pennsylvania; 2 November 1936 – 23 July 2008) was a member of the New York school of photography. Donaghy studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art after which he pursued street photography in Philadelphia and New York City using a Leica 35mm camera. His first exhibition ''Two Young Philadelphians: Don Donaghy & George Krause,'' was held in 1962. Donaghy's first published work was a re-creation of this exhibition in the Fall 1962 issue of Contemporary Photographer, titled same as the show.George Krause, Anne Tucker (1992) George Krause: A Retrospective, , page 19Yancey Richardson Gallery > Past Exhibitions > 2006(Oct 27 to Nov 25, 2006 show) * Chance Encounters: Photographs from the Collection of Norman Carr and Carolyn Kinder Carr ( orcoran Gallery of Art 2008) Street Seen: The Psychological Gesture in American Photography, 1940–1959 Milwaukee Art Museum, 2010 Collections Donaghy's work is held in the following permanent coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plunkett Donaghy
Plunkett Donaghy is a former Gaelic footballer who played for the Moy club and the Tyrone county team. With his county, Donaghy won three Ulster Senior Football Championship medals (in 1984, 1986 and 1989) and an All Star in 1986. He lives in The Moy, Co. Tyrone. Background Donaghy is one of nine children to Pat and Maisie Donaghy. Donaghy's father Pat played for Moy and Tyrone and was on the county panel when Tyrone won their first-ever Ulster Senior Football Championships in 1956 and 1957. His mother Maisie, originally from Brackaville, was a widely acclaimed Irish folk singer (under the stage name Eileen Donaghy) whose success brought her on tour around the world. Donaghy is married with six children. His father-in-law is legendary football manager Dessie Ryan, a former footballer for Tyrone and New York who coached Queen's University Belfast to two victories in the Sigerson Cup and is considered one of the most influential men in GAA history. Plunkett's brother Colm al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mal Donaghy
Malachy Martin Donaghy (born 13 September 1957 in Belfast) is a former Northern Ireland international footballer who played for Luton Town and Manchester United. Career Club career The current Northern Ireland Under-19 coach, originally from West Belfast, began his football career as a goalkeeper with little-known Down and Connor League side team St. Agnes', before moving on to play as an outfield player for works team Post Office Social Club. After barely six months, he was on the move again, this time joining Amateur League side Cromac Albion, where his blossoming talent was spotted by then Larne boss Brian Halliday. Donaghy's rapid rise in the game continued when, after just 20 matches with the Inver Park club, he was transferred to Luton Town in June 1978 for a fee of £20 000. He spent 10 years at Luton Town, overseeing the most successful era of their history to date. He collected a Second Division title winner's medal in 1982, enabling him to experience First Divisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Donaghy
Michael Donaghy (May 24, 1954 – September 16, 2004) was a New York City poet and musician, who lived in London from 1985. Life and career Donaghy was born into an Irish family and grew up with his sister Patricia in the Bronx, New York, losing both parents in their early thirties. He studied at Fordham University and did postgraduate work at the University of Chicago, where, at 25, he edited the ''Chicago Review''. Donaghy commented: "I owe everything I know about poetry to the public library system (in New York City) and not to my miseducation at university ..I mean, the Bronx, who knows, now it may be full of cappuccino bars and bookshops, but back in those days it wasn't. My parents would say something like 'go out and play in the burning wreckage until dinnertime' and I'd make a beeline for the library." He founded the acclaimed Irish music ensemble Samradh Music and played the tin whistle, the bodhran and was a flute player of distinction, music echoing in the themes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Anthony Donaghy
Frederick Anthony Donaghy, M.M. (January 13, 1903 – February 5, 1988) was an American-born Catholic missionary and bishop. As a member of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America (Maryknoll), he was assigned to missions in China. He served as the Bishop of Wuzhou from 1956-1975. Early life and education Frederick Donaghy was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, to James and Rose (King) Donaghy and was one of six children. His brother William became a Jesuit and served as president of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Frederick Donaghy graduated from Holy Cross in 1925 and started his studies for the priesthood at St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore. He professed vows in the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America in 1928 and was ordained a priest on January 27, 1929. Priesthood His first mission assignment was to Kaying and he became fluent in the Hakka dialect. He was engaged in pastoral work and taught in the minor seminary. He was then ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Donaghy
Jessie Mary Hayward (née Donaghy, born 7 December 1939) is a former New Zealand high jumper and long jumper. She represented her country at the 1956 Summer Olympics and 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, winning a silver medal in the high jump at the latter event. Early life and family Hayward was born Jessie Mary Donaghy in Thames on 7 December 1939, the daughter of Nona Jessie Donaghy (née Baverstock) and James Stanly Donaghy. She grew up on her parents' farm at Waitakaruru, near Ngatea. After leaving school she worked in Ngatea for a motor company, before moving to Auckland in 1960 where she worked for a bank. In 1963, she married a dairy and poultry farmer, John Clive Hayward, and they lived on their farm at Netherton, near Paeroa. Athletics Donaghy took up high jumping at the age of 14, when she entered a competition in Hamilton "just for fun", and cleared a height of . At an athletics meet in Te Aroha in January 1955, Donaghy jumped at an event won by the nati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Donaghy
Tom Donaghy is an American playwright who works in television and film. Biography Tom Donaghy was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended Hofstra University for two years before transferring to the New York University Tisch School of the Arts Undergraduate Drama Program. His teachers at NYU included Edward Albee, Wendy Wasserstein, Julian Beck and Judith Malina, Jean-Claude van Itallie, Ron Argelander, Anne Bogart, John Guare, Gregory Mosher, William H. Macy and David Mamet. During this time he work/studied with Richard Schechner in the Department of Performance Studies, and interned at Mabou Mines, where he assisted JoAnne Akalaitis during post-production of her film ''Dead End Kids.'' He received a BFA in 1986. Upon graduating, Donaghy was part of a group of students who founded Atlantic Theater Company in Chicago and Burlington, Vermont. The company then established itself in New York City as an off-Broadway acting ensemble. Theater Donaghy’s first play, the o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eileen Donaghy
Eileen Donaghy (16 July 1930 – 26 October 2008) was an Irish traditional singer. Donaghy was well known for her recordings of ballads such as ''The Oul Lammas Fair'' and ''My Lagan Love'' and was known as the "First Lady of the Moy". Eileen Donaghy was born Mary Josephine McNally in Brackaville, Coalisland, County Tyrone. Her family always called her "Maisie". She was the second of three children and the elder daughter of Hugh Patrick and Brigid (née Corey) McNally. She left school at 14 and worked as a darner in Derryvale weaving factory. She was a member of a variety group that performed in local halls. Donaghy married Tyrone footballer Pat Donaghy in 1956. The couple lived for a while in Coalisland, before moving to Moy. Her big breakthrough was the 1958 Ulster Football Final at Clones, where she sang "The Boys from the County Armagh" to a packed stadium. She toured the world as part of the traditional folk scene in the early 1960s and was successful in Ireland, the UK, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
