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McEvoy
McEvoy (; ga, Mac Fhíobhuí or or alternatively ) is an Irish surname. It is closely related to the name McAvoy and with the placename Clandeboye, an anglicised version of Clann Fhiodhbhuidge. The name translates as either "son of the fair-haired lad" or "son of the woodsman", depending on the original Gaelic version referred to. Notable people with the surname include: * Ambrose McEvoy (1878–1927), English artist * Andy McEvoy (1938–1994), Irish footballer * Anne Marie McEvoy, American actor * Barry McEvoy, Irish actor * Ben McEvoy (born 1989), Australian rules footballer * Brian McEvoy (born 1974), Irish hurler * Cameron McEvoy (Born 1994), Triple Australian Olympic swimmer * Charles McEvoy (1879–1929), British playwright * Christopher McEvoy (1899–1953), English flying ace * Don McEvoy (1928–2004), English footballer and manager * Dorothy McEvoy (1910–1994), English cricketer * Eleanor McEvoy (born 1967), Irish singer-songwriter * Eugenie McEvoy (1879–1975 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleanor McEvoy
Eleanor McEvoy (born 22 January 1967) is an Irish singer-songwriter. She composed the song "Only a Woman's Heart", title track of '' A Woman's Heart'', the best-selling Irish album in Irish history. Early life and beginnings McEvoy's life as a musician began at the age of four when she began playing piano. At the age of eight she took up violin. Upon finishing school she attended Trinity College Dublin where she studied music by day and worked in pit orchestras and music clubs by night. McEvoy graduated from Trinity with an Honors Degree in music in 1988, and spent four months busking in New York City. In 1988, she was accepted into the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra where she spent four years before leaving to concentrate on songwriting. Career 1992–2000 McEvoy built up a following in clubs in Dublin with her three piece band, Jim Tate on bass, Noel Eccles on drums, and latterly Bill Shanley on guitar. During a solo date in July 1992, she performed a little-known, sel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugenie McEvoy
Eugenie McEvoy (1879-1975) was an American artist known for her landscapes, flowers, portraits, and, particularly, the painting, ''Taxi! Taxi!'' (1928) which depicts a busy city street as seen from the back seat of a taxicab. She also performed in a sharpshooting act on the vaudeville stage, ran a kennel for breeding show dogs, served as manager and technical director of theatrical production companies, operated a large resort property in the Catskill region of New York, and worked with her husband in a piano restoration business. Early life and training Eugenie McEvoy learned to paint sometime before 1906 while she was living in France. Because there is no record that she received any formal instruction, it is possible that she learned from her first husband, the American painter, George A. Aldrich, who was an illustrator and decorative artist specializing in romantic rural landscapes. Mature style In 1918 McEvoy became a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenny McEvoy
Kenneth McEvoy (born 4 September 1994) is a retired Irish professional footballer. McEvoy started his career with Tottenham Hotspur, and had loan spells at Peterborough United, Colchester United, Stevenage and York City. He joined York permanently in January 2016, before being released at the end of the 2015–16 season. He signed for hometown club Waterford in early 2017 but departed the club in August of that year. Club career Tottenham Hotspur McEvoy was born in Waterford, County Waterford, where he played at the under-21 level with Villa FC. He joined the Tottenham Hotspur academy in July 2011. Since joining the Tottenham Academy, McEvoy quickly make an impact for the team, where he played for the under-18 team and scored eight goals in twenty-two appearances in the 2011–12 season. In the middle of the 2012–13 season, McEvoy was promoted to the under-21 team and first featured for the reserve team when he appeared as an unused substitute against Liverpool U23 on 11 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick McEvoy
Frederick Joseph McEvoy (12 February 1907 – 7 November 1951) was an Australian born British multi-discipline sportsman and socialite. He had most sporting success as a bobsledder in the late 1930s, winning several medals including three golds at the FIBT World Championships. He married three wealthy heiresses and was a close friend of Errol Flynn. He usually shortened his name to Freddie McEvoy and was nicknamed "Suicide Freddie". Sporting achievements Bobsleigh McEvoy was the British flag bearer at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. He was the first Australian to win a Winter Olympics medal. He was part of the four-man bobsleigh team alongside James Cardno, Gary Dugdale, and Charles Green who won the bronze medal in the four-man event. He also finished fourth in the two-man event with Cardno. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben McEvoy
Ben “Big Boy” McEvoy (born 11 July 1989) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the St Kilda Football Club and Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Early career McEvoy is an Australian Institute of Sport and AFL Academy graduate. He was an All-Australian selection in the NAB AFL Under 18 championships, averaging seven marks per game as a ruck/forward. He played junior football with Dederang-Mt Beauty and U18 football with the Murray Bushrangers in the TAC Cup. In 2007 he captained the Murray Bushrangers and won the best and fairest award. AFL career St Kilda McEvoy was recruited by with the ninth selection in the 2007 AFL Draft from the Murray Bushrangers. With an injury to Michael Gardiner he made his debut for St Kilda against Fremantle in 2008. This was his only game for that year and he has been in and out of the St Kilda senior side for the next two years, wearing the number 5 jumper. In that time he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cameron McEvoy
Cameron McEvoy (born 13 May 1994) is an Australian competitive swimmer who represented his country at the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2016 Summer Olympics and 2020 Summer Olympics. Career Junior At the 2011 World Junior Championships in Lima, Peru, McEvoy won gold medals in the 50 m and 100 m freestyle, and a bronze in the 200 m freestyle. Senior McEvoy swam in the heats of the 4 × 100 m freestyle and 4 × 200 m freestyle relays at the 2012 Olympics in London. Australia went on to finish in fourth and fifth place, respectively. At the 2013 and 2015 World Aquatics Championships he has won a total of four medals, including the silver medal in the 100-metre freestyle in 2015. At the 2014 Commonwealth Games, he won six medals. A month later at the 2014 Pan Pacific Championships, he won five medals including the gold medal in the 100-metre freestyle. He also won national titles in the 100- and 200-metre freestyle in 2014 and 2015. At the 2016 National Championships and Olympic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny McEvoy
Johnny McEvoy (born 24 April 1945) is an Irish people, Irish singer and entertainer of Country and Irish genre born in Banagher, County Offaly, Ireland. Personal life Johnny was born in 1945, one of four children with two sisters and a brother to John and Emily McEvoy. His father was a bus driver and his mother was a housewife. Johnny's father was not initially supportive of his musical career: "It wasn't a bad relationship. We just seemed to have no relationship... until, I became famous." His mother, by contrast, was supportive, and suggested that he record Mursheen Durkin. He met his wife Odette in 1967 and they married in 1970. The song The Planter's daughter is written about her and references her supposed ancestry from Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, Strongbow. They have two children: Jonathan and Alice. McEvoy has admitted to finding fame "scary" and believes that it triggered his manic depression, an issue he first spoke about on Gay Byrne's talk show in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambrose McEvoy
Arthur Ambrose McEvoy (12 August 1877 – 4 January 1927) was an English artist. His early works are landscapes and interiors with figures, in a style influenced by James McNeill Whistler. Later he gained success as a portrait painter, mainly of women and often in watercolour. Biography McEvoy was born and baptised in Crudwell, Wiltshire, in 1877, the son of Charles Ambrose McEvoy, a Scottish engineer, and his wife Mary Jane, although his parents’ address was given as 3 Carlisle Street, Soho Square, London. His younger brother Charles became a playwright. Encouraged by Whistler, who spotted his talent early on, McEvoy enrolled at the Slade School of Fine Art in London when he was fifteen. At the Slade he was part of the group around Augustus John and William Orpen. McEvoy had the reputation for a fine technical skill in oils, learnt from study with Whistler. He later worked with Walter Sickert in Dieppe. While at the Slade he was fellow pupil of Gwen John, with whom he had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niamh McEvoy (Parnells Gaelic Footballer)
Niamh McEvoy is a former senior Dublin ladies' footballer. She was a member of the Dublin team that won the 2010 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship final. She was one of two players named Niamh McEvoy who played for Dublin in the 2010 final. The player sharing her name, Niamh McEvoy of St. Sylvester's, replaced her when she came on as a second-half substitute. She had previously played for Dublin in the 2003, 2004 and 2009 All-Ireland finals. McEvoy also captained the Dublin team. Early years, family and education Between 1997 and 1999 McEvoy attended Coláiste Íde where she gained a Diploma in Sport and Fitness Administration/Management. Between 2007 and 2011 she attended Dublin City University where she gained a BSc in Physical Education and Biology. Playing career Club At club level, McEvoy played for Parnells and DCU. She was a member of DCU team that won the 2010 O'Connor Cup. Inter-county McEvoy was a member of the Dublin team that won the 2010 All- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael J McEvoy
Michael J McEvoy (born August 29, 1961) is an American screen composer, orchestrator and multi-instrumentalist. 1980s As a session musician, writer and arranger, McEvoy worked on various projects with the producer Adam Kidron, including albums by Delta 5, Orange Juice, Scritti Politti and Ian Dury. In 1988, he met Curiosity Killed the Cat and joined the group for their second album, '' Getahead'', as a co-writer and keyboard player. In 1989, he scored his first feature film, ''Vroom'', (directed by Beeban Kidron starring Clive Owen and David Thewlis) followed by ''Bearskin'' in 1990 starring Tom Waits. 1990s During the 1990s, McEvoy's credits as a songwriter included songs by Soul II Soul on their album ''Volume II: 1990 New Decade'' and the soul diva Teena Marie ("Since Day One" on ''Ivory''). He co-produced the James Taylor Quartet album ''Supernatural Feeling'' and was the musical director on tours with Soul II Soul and Steve Winwood, playing keyboards, Hammond organ and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James McEvoy (philosopher)
James J. McEvoy (14 October 1943 in Larne, Northern Ireland–2 October 2010) was an Irish philosopher and priest. His principal academic interests were related to medieval philosophy, particularly the work of John Scotus Eriugena and Robert Grosseteste. He also wrote about the philosophy of friendship. Biography McEvoy undertook undergraduate and postgraduate study in the Department of Scholastic Philosophy at Queen’s University of Belfast, where he wrote his MA thesis on Robert Grosseteste's commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite's ''Celestial Hierarchy.'' He studied for his Bachelor of Divinity at St Patrick's College, Maynooth, and was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1968 for the Diocese of Down and Connor. In 1974 he was awarded his PhD by the Université catholique de Louvain for a dissertation on the philosophy of Grosseteste, which he wrote under the supervision of Fernand Van Steenberghen. McEvoy held chairs of philosophy at The Queen’s University Belfas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael McEvoy
Michael Stephen Anthony McEvoy (born 25 January 1956) is an Indian-born former English first-class cricketer who played first-class and List A cricket between 1976 and 1990, with the bulk of his career being between 1980 and 1984. He was playing for the Essex Second XI at the age of 17, but his debut in first-class cricket was in a County Championship match against Middlesex in August 1976; he scored 18 and 13, opening the batting in both innings. At the start of September, he scored his maiden first-class half-century, producing an innings of 61 against Somerset. McEvoy remained a bit-part player in the Essex side for the rest of the 1970s, but this changed in 1980 when he played in 16 first-class and eight List A games. His final aggregate of 600 first-class runs was the most he scored in any season, albeit with only two fifties and an average of little more than 20. He again played a fair number of first-team games in 1981, and claimed his only three first-class wickets w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
