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Guiney
Guiney is an Irish surname is mainly found in Cork and Kerry, also in the forms 'Guinee' and 'Geaney'. The name 'MacGuiney', a variant of 'MacGeaney', is found in County Cavan.The Surnames of Ireland, Edward MacLysaght, 1985, Irish Academic Press Notable people with the surname include: * Ben Guiney, American baseball player * Bob Guiney, star of the fourth season of ''The Bachelor'' *Louise Imogen Guiney, American poet * Mary Guiney, chairperson of the Clerys department store group *Patrick Guiney, Irish Nationalist politician *Patrick Robert Guiney, American Civil War soldier *Rod Guiney, Irish sportsperson See also *Guineys Michael Guiney's Ltd, more commonly known and referred to as Guiney's (), is an Irish department store founded in June 1971. The store specialises in homewares, menswear, womenswear and children's clothing. They have 11 stores in the Republic of ..., a department store in Ireland References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Guiney
Mary Guiney (nee Leahy, 2 March 1901 - 23 August 2004) was an Irish businesswoman and centenarian, best known as the long serving chairperson of Clerys & Co. Early life and education Mary Leahy, known as May in her youth, was born 2 March 1901 at the family farm at Creeves, near Shanagolden, County Limerick. Her parents were John and Hannah Leahy (née Cuddihy) and it is believed she had an older brother and sister, a younger sister and two younger brothers. Her family sent her to the Dominican College in Eccles Street in Dublin. After she left school, she gained employment in Guineys & Co. on Talbot Street, owned by Denis Guiney. Career Leahy married widower Denis Guiney on 19 October 1938, in the St Mary's Pro-Cathedral, Dublin. She became a partner in the business, with the couple overseeing the flourishing of their shop at 79-80 Talbot street. This success allowed them to purchase the department store Clerys & Company on Dublin's main street, O'Connell Street, after it w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Imogen Guiney
Louise Imogen Guiney (January 7, 1861 – November 2, 1920) was an American poet, essayist and editor, born in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Biography The daughter of Gen. Patrick R. Guiney, an Irish-born American Civil War officer and lawyer,''The American Magazine'', Vol 8 (1888) from County Tipperary and Jeannette Margaret Doyle, she was raised Roman Catholic and educated at the Notre Dame convent school in Boston and at the Academy of the Sacred Heart in Providence, Rhode Island, from which she graduated in 1879. Over the next 20 years, she worked at various jobs, including serving as a postmistress and working in the field of cataloging at the Boston Public Library. She was a member of several literary and social clubs, and according to her friend Ralph Adams Cram was "the most vital and creative personal influence" on their circle of writers and artists in Boston (see Visionists). In 1901, Guiney moved to Oxford, England, to focus on her poetry and essay writing. She d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Robert Guiney
Patrick Robert Guiney (15 January 1835 in Parkstown, County Tipperary, Ireland – March 21, 1877 in Boston) was an American Civil War soldier. Early life and career Patrick Robert Guiney was the second and eldest surviving son of James Roger Guiney, who was descended from Jacobites, and Judith Macrae. James Guiney, impoverished after a failed runaway marriage, brought with him on his second voyage to New Brunswick his favourite child Patrick, then not six years old. After some years, Mrs. Guiney and their younger son, William, rejoined her husband, recently crippled by a fall from his horse; they settled in Portland, Maine. The young Guiney worked as a wheel boy in a rope factory, and at the age of fourteen apprenticed to a machinist in Lawrence, Massachusetts, but stayed only a year and a half before returning to Portland. He hoped to better himself through education, and attended the public grammar school. He matriculated at Holy Cross College, Worcester. His depletin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Guiney
Robert Guiney (born May 8, 1971) is an American television personality, singer, and insurance carrier consultant for Lincoln Financial, a Fortune 200 company. He was a contestant on the first season of ''The Bachelorette'' and later, appeared as the bachelor in the fourth season of '' The Bachelor''. He hosted '' GSN Live'' from 2009 until the show's ending in 2012. Life and career Guiney was born in Riverview, Michigan. He is a 1989 graduate of Riverview Community High School. In 1993, he graduated from Michigan State University, where he was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity and a walk-on quarterback for Michigan State University's football team. He started his own branch of a mortgage company, Allied Home Mortgage, with a childhood friend in 1999. Personal life Guiney's first appearance on reality television was as a contestant on ''The Bachelorette'', where he was ultimately eliminated by Trista. Although she failed to give him a rose to advance, the two remained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Guiney
Patrick Guiney (16 March 1867 – 12 Oct 1913) was an Irish Nationalist politician, agrarian agitator and Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Born in Newmarket, County Cork, he was the eldest son of Timothy Guiney, a shopkeeper and later clerk of Kanturk poor law union, and Ellen Carver. He was educated at St. Patrick's Monastery, Mountrath, County Laois.Cadogan, Tim & Falvey, Jeremiah: ''A Biographical Dictionary of Cork'', p. 117; Four Courts Press (2006), He served three terms of imprisonment for activity in the Land War and later Plan of Campaign movement during the 1880s under the Coercion Act. He became a farmer and served as councillor for Newmarket and on Cork County Council (1908–1911) as well as Chair of Newmarket Agricultural Society, Newmarket Gaelic League and Newmarket Old-Age Pensions Committee. With strong family connection in the North Cork area, Guiney had built a personal political base ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Guiney
Benjamin Franklin Guiney (November 16, 1858 – December 5, 1930), was an American professional baseball player, who played in and with the Detroit Wolverines, of the National League. He batted right and left and threw right-handed. Guiney had a .083 career batting average, with one career hit in 12 at-bats. He was born and died in Detroit, Michigan. External links Ben Guiney Memorialat Find A Grave Find a Grave is a website that allows the public to search and add to an online database of cemetery records. It is owned by Ancestry.com. Its stated mission is "to help people from all over the world work together to find, record and present fin ... 1858 births 1930 deaths Major League Baseball catchers Baseball players from Michigan Detroit Wolverines players Ironton (minor league baseball) players 19th-century baseball players {{US-baseball-catcher-1850s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rod Guiney
Roderick P. Guiney (born 19 March 1970) is an Irish sportsperson. He plays hurling with his local club Rosslare and was a member of the Wexford senior inter-county team in the 1990s and 2000s. He has a twin brother named Dave Dave may refer to: Film, television, and theater * ''Dave'' (film), a 1993 film starring Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver * ''Dave'' (musical), a 2018 stage musical adaptation of the film * Dave (TV channel), a digital television channel in the ... who also played hurling with Wexford. Teams References 1970 births Living people Rathnure hurlers Wexford inter-county hurlers All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship winners {{Wexford-hurling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Cavan
County Cavan ( ; gle, Contae an Chabháin) is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Ulster and is part of the Border Region. It is named after the town of Cavan and is based on the historic Gaelic territory of East Breffny (''Bréifne''). Cavan County Council is the local authority for the county, which had a population of 76,176 at the 2016 census. Geography Cavan borders six counties: Leitrim to the west, Fermanagh and Monaghan to the north, Meath to the south-east, Longford to the south-west and Westmeath to the south. Cavan shares a border with County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland. Cavan is the 19th largest of the 32 counties in area and the 25th largest by population. The county is part of the Northern and Western Region, a NUTS II area, and in that region, is part of the Border strategic planning area, a NUTS III entity. The county is characterised by drumlin countryside dotted with many lakes and hills. The north-western area of the county is spar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
