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McCaughey
McCaughey is an Irish surname. Spelling variations include: McHaughey, MacCaughey, McGaughey and O'Coffey, among others. Modern spelling comes from the original Mac hEochaidh. The McCaugheys are descendants of the ancient Dál Fiatach dynasty, rulers of the Ulaid. They trace their descent from Fiatach Finn mac Dáire, a King of Ulster and High King of Ireland in the 1st century AD. The McCaughey Family originated from Ireland in the 19th century as a travelling family, part of the traveling community that were spread around Ireland in County Louth, County Limerick, County Cork, and County Antrim. People * Billy McCaughey (1950–2006), convict * Cecil McCaughey (born 1909), English footballer * Davis McCaughey (1914–2005), scholar, administrator and politician * Gerald T. McCaughey (born 1956), executive * John McCaughey (1840–1928), Irish-born Australian pastoralist, brother of Samuel and namesake of the John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize * Martha McCaughey (born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy McCaughey
William McCaughey (c. 1950 – 8 February 2006) was a member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary's Special Patrol Group and the illegal Ulster Volunteer Force's Glennane gang in the 1970s. He was imprisoned for 16 years for murder from 1980 to 1996. On his release he worked as a loyalist and Orange Order activist until his death in 2006. Early life Growing up a Presbyterian in a townland outside Ahoghill, County Antrim, McCaughey was given the nickname "The Protestant Boy" which he carried into adulthood.Dillon, Martin (1989). ''The Dirty War''. London: Arrow Books. p.222 His father, Alexander McCaughey, was an elder in the local Trinity Presbyterian Church. He was described by investigative journalist Martin Dillon as a "pillar of respectability". McCaughey served in the Ulster Special Constabulary (USC), better known as 'the B Specials', and when that was disbanded, he joined the regular Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC). A former bodyguard to Ulster Unionist minister Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davis McCaughey
John Davis McCaughey (12 July 1914 – 25 March 2005) was an Irish-born Australian academic theologian, Christian minister, university administrator and the 23rd Governor of Victoria from 1986 to 1992. Early life and academic career McCaughey was born in Belfast, Ireland, on 12 July 1914. He was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1941 and during the next decade he also worked for the British Council of Churches. In 1953 the McCaughey family emigrated to Australia for him to become the Professor of New Testament Studies for the theological hall at Ormond College, University of Melbourne. He was Master of Ormond from 1957 to 1979. He served as Deputy Chancellor of the University of Melbourne in 1978 and 1979. He was also involved in the foundation of La Trobe University in the mid-1960s. Uniting Church in Australia McCaughey was a key architect in the formation of the Uniting Church in Australia, which brought together many congregations of the Presbyterian Church of Austra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel McCaughey
Sir Samuel McCaughey (1 July 1835 – 25 July 1919) was an Irish-born pastoralist, politician and philanthropist in Australia. Early life McCaughey was born on 1 July 1835 at Tullynewey, near Ballymena, Ireland, the son of Francis McCaughey, farmer and merchant, and his wife Eliza, ''née'' Wilson. McCaughey came to Australia with an uncle, Charles Wilson, a brother of Sir Samuel Wilson and landed at Melbourne in April 1856. He immediately went to the country and began working as a jackaroo, in three months was appointed an overseer, and two years later became manager of Kewell station while his uncle was on a visit to England. Career In 1860, after his uncle's return, he acquired an interest in Coonong station near Urana with two partners. His brother John, who came out later, became a partner in other stations. During the early days of Coonong station McCaughey suffered greatly from drought conditions, but overcame these by sinking bores for artesian water and constru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize
The John McCaughey Prize, also known as the John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, McCaughey Prize, McCaughey Art Prize or McCaughey Art Award, is an Australian art prize awarded to an artist or artists, under which the National Gallery of Victoria and the Art Gallery of New South Wales acquire work by the winning artist. The John McCaughey Memorial Prize was instituted by Mona McCaughey in 1957, to commemorate her father John, an Irish-born pastoral industry investor who had died in Sydney on 20 June 1928. John was the younger brother of Sir Samuel McCaughey, also a pastoralist. Two prizes were established, one in Melbourne (administered through the National Gallery of Victoria) and one in Sydney (administered through the Art Gallery of New South Wales). It is awarded periodically, typically every few years. As an acquisitive prize, it enables the National Gallery of Victoria to acquire works from each of the winning artists. The prize fund is held by the John McCaughey Memorial Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin McCaughey
Gerard Patrick Martin McCaughey (24 February 1967 – 9 October 1990) was a Sinn Féin councillor and volunteer in the East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) from Aughnagar, Galbally, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. McCaughey was killed by undercover British Army soldiers in County Armagh in October 1990 along with fellow IRA volunteer, Dessie Grew.Transcript from "BRITS" Holding the line BBC Documentary Background McCaughey was the oldest son of Owen and Bridget McCaughey. He was a boyhood friend of several of the " Loughgall Martyrs" including Declan Arthurs, Seamus Donnelly, Tony Gormley and Eugene K ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott McCaughey
Scott Lewis McCaughey is an American singer, guitarist and songwriter and the leader of the Seattle and Portland-based bands The Young Fresh Fellows and The Minus 5. He was also an auxiliary member of the American rock band R.E.M. from 1994 until the band's break-up in 2011, contributing to the studio albums '' New Adventures in Hi-Fi'', '' Up'', '' Reveal'', ''Around the Sun'', '' Accelerate'' and '' Collapse into Now''. Career The Young Fresh Fellows McCaughey started his career with the indie rock band The Young Fresh Fellows. Beginning in January 1980, he was also a writer for the Seattle music magazine '' The Rocket''. R.E.M. From 1994 until 2011, McCaughey worked with R.E.M. both on stage and in the studio. "When R.E.M. came to Seattle to work on '' Automatic for the People'', Peter uckcalled me up. He probably didn't know anybody else in town. We'd go out to eat or have drinks pretty regularly while he was here. And then he ended up moving out here. Once he w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MacCaughey
McCaughey is an Irish surname. Spelling variations include: McHaughey, MacCaughey, McGaughey and O'Coffey, among others. Modern spelling comes from the original Mac hEochaidh. The McCaugheys are descendants of the ancient Dál Fiatach dynasty, rulers of the Ulaid. They trace their descent from Fiatach Finn mac Dáire, a King of Ulster and High King of Ireland in the 1st century AD. The McCaughey Family originated from Ireland in the 19th century as a travelling family, part of the traveling community that were spread around Ireland in County Louth, County Limerick, County Cork, and County Antrim. People * Billy McCaughey (1950–2006), convict * Cecil McCaughey (born 1909), English footballer * Davis McCaughey (1914–2005), scholar, administrator and politician * Gerald T. McCaughey (born 1956), executive * John McCaughey (1840–1928), Irish-born Australian pastoralist, brother of Samuel and namesake of the John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize * Martha McCaughey (born 196 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seán McCaughey
Seán McCaughey ( Irish: Seán Mac Eóchaidh) (8 June 1915 – 11 May 1946) was an Irish militant and Republican activist. He was an Irish Republican Army (IRA) leader in the 1930s and 1940s and hunger striker. Background McCaughey was born in Aughnacloy, County Tyrone in 1915 and in 1921 his family moved to Ardoyne district in north Belfast. McCaughey's father was a founding member of the Irish Republican Dungannon Clubs and organized the first branch of Sinn Féin in Tyrone. As a teenager McCaughy joined the Gaelic League and Sinn Féin and also became a long time student and teacher of the Irish language in the Glens of Antrim. McCaughey joined the IRA in 1935 and in 1938 was promoted to Officer commanding (O/C) of its Northern Command, headquartered near the town of Carrickmore, County Tyrone (which was the ancestral home of Joseph McGarrity and Patrick McCartan both leaders of the Irish republican organization Clan na Gael). In December 1939 McCaughy was arrested ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick McCaughey
Patrick McCaughey (born 1942) is an Irish-born Australian art historian and academic. McCaughey was born in Belfast, his father being Davis McCaughey. He migrated with his family to Melbourne, Australia. when he was ten years old. His secondary education was at Scotch College, Melbourne. He resided at Ormond College, University of Melbourne, where he studied Fine Arts and English Literature. He became art critic for ''The Age'' newspaper in Melbourne in 1966. He was well known for his advocacy of abstract expressionism and of Australian artists, in particular Fred Williams. On return to Australia from a year-long Harkness Fellowship in New York, he was appointed as the first professor of fine arts at Monash University in 1972 and the Monash Department of Visual Arts had its first intake in 1975. From 1981 he was the director of the National Gallery of Victoria. In 1988 he left Australia for the United States, where he held positions including director of the Wadsworth Atheneu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winsome McCaughey
Winsome McPherson McCaughey (; born 23 October 1943), was Lord Mayor of Melbourne from 1988 to 1989. She was the second woman to hold that position after succeeding Alexis Ord. Early life Winsome Howell was born and raised on a property at Baddaginnie, in north-east Victoria, where her great-grandparents had settled in 1870. After primary school she was sent to board at Morongo Girls' College in Geelong. She studied philosophy during her Bachelor of Arts at the University of Melbourne, and resided at University College from 1962 to 1964. Career McCaughey, alongside with Ruth Crow, helped establish the community-based childcare movement and was the founder and Director of the Community Child Care Association from 1972 to 1979. She drafted Australia's first Children's Services Policy for the Australian Social Welfare Commission. McCaughey was executive officer of the Reichstein Foundation from 1986 to 1988. McCaughey was the spokesperson for the residents' group Melbourn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martha McCaughey
Martha McCaughey (born October 25, 1966) is an American academic and author. She was the director of Women's Studies at Appalachian State University at, prior to that, at Virginia Tech. Her research and writings have dealt extensively with evolutionary psychology as applied to gender. She is the author of ''The Caveman Mystique: Pop-Darwinism and the Debates over Sex, Violence, and Science'' (2008, Routledge), which takes an original perspective on the "science wars" and also challenges both evolutionary psychologists and their feminist critics to think about masculinities as textual. Writings Among McCaughey's writings are two similarly titled books: ''Real Knockouts: the Physical Feminism of Women’s Self-Defense'' () in 1997 and ''Reel Knockouts: Violent Women in the Movies'' (), which she co-edited in 2001 with Neal King. ''Real Knockouts'' made McCaughey's mark in feminist theory, as the first comprehensive attempt to bridge the gap between academia and mainstream wome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
