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Nuala
Nuala ( , ) or Fionnuala is an Irish feminine given name, derived from Irish mythology - being either a diminutive form of Fionnuala ("fair shoulder"), the daughter of Lir, or an alternate name for Úna (perhaps meaning "lamb"), wife of Finvarra, king of the fairies. In modern Irish storytelling, Nuala means "born of the sea". People of this name include: People * St Nuala, Irish Saint * Nuala Ahern (born 1949), Irish politician * Nuala Archer (born 1955), Irish American poet * Nuala Butler, Irish judge * Nuala Carey, Irish weather presenter * Nuala Considine (1927–2018), Irish crossword compiler * Nuala Creed (born 1954), Irish sculptor * Nuala Fennell (1935–2009), Irish economist and politician * Nuala Gregory, Irish-New Zealand artist and academic * Nuala Hafner (born 1976), Australian media personality * Nuala Helsby, professor of molecular medicine and pathology * Nuala Holloway, Irish artist, model and actress * Nuala Kennedy (born 1977), Irish musician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuala O'Donnell
Nuala O'Donnell ( Irish: ''Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill''; – ) was an Irish noblewoman of the O'Donnell dynasty who took part in the Flight of the Earls. She was known as "the Lady of the Piercing Wail". After the death of her sibling Rory, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, she became the key representative of the O'Donnell clan. During her time in Continental Europe, she petitioned both Philip III of Spain and James I of England to assist the O'Donnells. She died circa 1630, presumably in Leuven, where she is interred. Early life Born in sixteenth-century Tyrconnell, Nuala was the daughter of Hugh McManus O'Donnell, Gaelic Lord of Tyrconnell and Chief of the Name of Clan O'Donnell. Historian Jerrold Casway states that Nuala's mother was Hugh McManus's second wife Iníon Dubh, whom he married in 1569. Historian Paul Walsh notes that, from the evidence available, Nuala's maternal heritage is unclear. Casway estimates Nuala's birth year as . Similarly, historian Helena Concannon reasoned tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuala Ní Chonchúir
Nuala Ní Chonchúir (born 14 January 1970) is an Irish writer and poet. Biography Born in Dublin in 1970, Nuala Ní Chonchúir is a full-time fiction writer and poet, is living in County Galway. She holds a BA in Irish from Trinity College Dublin and a Masters in Translation Studies (Irish/English) from Dublin City University. She has worked as an arts administrator in theatre and in a writers' centre; as a translator, as a bookseller and also in a university library. Nuala teaches creative writing on a part-time basis. Ní Chonchúir was featured in ''The Irish Times'' "People to watch in the year ahead" on Saturday 3 January 2009. Works Ní Chonchúir has published five novels, four collections of short fiction and three poetry collections - one in an anthology. Her short story "The Wind Across the Grass" (the title story from her 2004 collection) won the RTÉ Francis MacManus Award in 2002. She was writer in residence for the 2009 Cúirt International Festival of Literat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuala Kennedy
Nuala Kennedy (born 30 January 1977) is an Irish composer, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Career She grew up in Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland, where she played piano and flute in a local ceili band and studied classical piano at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. Dundalk is an area rich in mythology and musical heritage and has strong historical links to Scotland. This was to influence her later career when she moved at age eighteen to Edinburgh. In Edinburgh Nuala studied Design at Edinburgh College of Art and played regularly at sessions throughout the city. Nuala holds a post graduate diploma in Education from the University of Edinburgh and a Master of Music from Newcastle University. In late 2000 Nuala began playing alongside Kris Drever and Anna-Wendy Stevenson in a weekly Friday session at Sandy Bell's pub in Edinburgh. The trio became known as Fine Friday and toured in the UK, Europe and Australia, releasing two albums before disbanding. In 2007 Compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuala O'Faolain
Nuala O'Faolain (; 1 March 1940 – 9 May 2008) was an Irish journalist, television producer, book reviewer, teacher and writer. She became well known after the publication of her memoirs ''Are You Somebody?'' and ''Almost There''. She wrote a biography of Irish criminal Chicago May and two novels. Personal life O'Faolain was born in Clontarf, Dublin on 1 March 1940, the second eldest of nine children. Her father, known as 'TerryO', was a well-known Irish journalist, writing the "Dubliners Diary" social column under the pen name Terry O'Sullivan for the '' Dublin Evening Press''. She was educated at University College Dublin, the University of Hull and Oxford University. She taught for a time at Morley College and worked as a television producer for the BBC and RTÉ. O'Faolain described her early life as growing up in a Catholic country which in her view feared sexuality and forbade her even information about her body. In her writings she often discusses her frustration at the se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuala Fennell
Nuala Fennell (; 25 November 1935 – 11 August 2009) was an Irish Fine Gael politician and feminist activist. In the 1970s, Fennell became a significant figure in Ireland's women's movement, co-founding various organisations advocating for women's rights, including the Women's Political Association and Action, Information and Motivation (AIM). Fennell played a pivotal role in the establishment of Ireland's first women's refuge and was a strong advocate for legal reforms concerning family law and women's equality. In 1981, she became Fine Gael Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South, a seat she would hold until 1987 and regain from 1989 to 1992. She also served as a Senator from 1987 to 1989. During her time as a TD, she held the position of Minister of State for Women's Affairs and Family Law. Throughout her career, Fennell was known for her pragmatic approach to political change, striving for legislative progress to improve women's rights in Ireland. Her achievements during h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuala Gregory
Nuala A. Gregory is an Irish–New Zealand artist and academic, and is a full professor at the University of Auckland, and Dean of the Faculty of Creative Arts and Industries. Gregory works mainly in acrylics and collage. Early life and education Gregory was born in West Belfast, and is an Irish Catholic. Her parents were working class, and lived in the conflict zone. After graduating from Ulster University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1988, Gregory spent ten years as part of an arts collective. She then applied for teaching positions in England, Scotland and New Zealand, due to lack of local opportunities, and The Troubles. She said "I always felt the need to get out of that environment, because you couldn’t thrive. You could struggle; there was little hope and genuine danger." Gregory secured a part-time teaching position at Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland in 1997, and was promoted to full-time senior lecturer and Head of Painting the following year. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuala McAllister
Nuala McAllister is a Northern Irish politician (b. 1990) who is an Alliance Party Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA). She was elected as an MLA in the 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly election for Belfast North. Early life McAllister was raised in a Catholic family, but now claims to be an atheist. Her mother was a "working class, north Belfast Catholic woman who had eight children" and Nuala was "made to read at Mass until I was 16 and go to Mass every single Sunday ... at quite a young age I'd already begun to question everything”. “Why was always a question for me and, quite quickly, I just didn’t believe." She was educated at Dominican College, Fortwilliam, and then at Ulster University. Political career Councillor (2014–2022) McAllister was elected as an Alliance Party councillor for the Castle DEA in North Belfast on Belfast City Council at the 2014 local elections, taking 9.64% of the first preference votes. She was re-elected at the 2019 local ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuala Butler
Nuala Butler is an Irish judge who has served as a Judge of the Court of Appeal since October 2022. She previously served as a Judge of the High Court from 2020 to 2022. Early life Butler was educated at Mount Anville Secondary School, followed by University College Dublin, from where she graduated with a BCL degree in 1984 and an LL.M. degree in 1989. She obtained a BL degree from the King's Inns. Legal career She qualified as a barrister and was called to the Bar in 1986, becoming a senior counsel in 2003. She practised on the Dublin and Eastern circuits. Butler frequently appeared in matters involving judicial review and planning and environmental law on behalf of the government, An Bord Pleanála and other public bodies. She was appointed by the Supreme Court of Ireland to argue against the constitutionality of part of the Planning and Development Bill 1999 (with Paul Gallagher and James Connolly) in a reference made by President Mary McAleese under Article 26 of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuala O'Loan, Baroness O'Loan
Nuala Patricia O'Loan, Baroness O'Loan, (born 20 December 1951), is a public figure in Northern Ireland. From 1999 to 2007, she was the first Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland. In July 2009, it was announced that she was to be appointed to the House of Lords and she was so appointed in September 2009. In December 2010, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, appointed her as the chairman of its governing authority. She is a columnist with ''The Irish Catholic''. Background O'Loan was born and educated in Hertfordshire, England, one of eight siblings. She studied law at King's College London, graduating in 1973, and became a law lecturer in Northern Ireland. In 1977 she survived an IRA bombing at Ulster Polytechnic, Jordanstown, while pregnant; she lost the baby as a result. She is married to Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) councillor and former North Antrim MLA, Declan O'Loan; they have five sons. In June 2006, one of her sons, Damian, was seriously wounded i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuala McKeever
Nuala McKeever (born 1964) is an actress from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Early life and education McKeever grew up in the west of the city and graduated from Queen's University Belfast with a degree in languages. Career After graduating from university, McKeever worked at BBC Northern Ireland for eight years, initially as a secretary before becoming a researcher. One of the first projects she worked on after quitting her research job was ''The Wilsons'', for BBC Radio Ulster. This was followed by an appearance in ''Two Ceasefires and a Wedding'' (1995), a short film made for the BBC by the Northern Irish comedy group Hole in the Wall Gang. The resulting comedy television series ''Give My Head Peace'' made McKeever a household name in Northern Ireland. She played the character "Emer" for two series. After leaving ''Give My Head Peace'', she was hired by UTV. Here she wrote and produced ''McKeever'', a sketch show. Her first play, ''Out of The Box'', directed by Andrea Mont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuala Considine
Nuala Considine (10 October 1927 – 24 July 2018) was an Irish woman considered to be the world's most prolific crossword compiler. She produced crossword puzzles for newspapers and magazines across Europe and the United States, including The Irish Times, The Telegraph, The Spectator, The Financial Times, Woman's Realm, The Washington Post and New Scientist. Her first crossword was published when she was 18, and she continued to produce them by hand until shortly before her death, aged 90. She used the ''noms de plume'' Excalibur and Alaun to create cryptic puzzles with names such as The Toughie and The Stinker. Early life Considine was born Aisling Fionnuala "Nuala" Máire Kiernan to Dr Thomas J Kiernan, a diplomat, and Delia Murphy, a renowned folk singer, in London on 10 October 1927. She had a brother Colm and two sisters, Blon and Orla. Her father was one of the Irish Free State’s earliest diplomats, and was first secretary at the Irish High Commission in London when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill (; born 1952) is a modern Irish poet whose works have been described as having a "major influence in revitalizing the Irish language in modern poetry". Biography Born in Lancashire, England, of Irish parents, she moved to Ireland at the age of 5 and was brought up in the Corca Dhuibhne Gaeltacht and in Nenagh, County Tipperary. Her uncle, Monsignor Pádraig Ó Fiannachta of Dingle, was an authority on Munster Irish. Her mother brought her up to speak English, though she was an Irish speaker herself. Her father and his side of the family spoke very fluent Irish and used it every day, but her mother thought it would make life easier for Nuala if she spoke only English instead. She studied English and Irish at UCC in 1969 and became part of the ' Innti' group of poets. In 1973, she married Turkish geologist Doğan Leflef and lived abroad in Turkey and Holland for seven years. One year after her return to County Kerry in 1980, she published her first col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |