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O'Hanlon Sept
O'Hanlon is an Irish surname associated with the Ó hAnluain sept. As with other similar names, the added prefix "O'" means "son of" (Hanlon). Notable people with that surname include: * Ardal O'Hanlon (born 1965), Irish comedian * Cressida O'Hanlon, Australian politician * Evan O'Hanlon (born 1988), Australian Paralympian * Fergal O'Hanlon (1936–1957, Irish Republican Army member * Fran O'Hanlon (born 1948), American basketball coach * George O'Hanlon (1912–1989), American actor * Hugh O'Hanlon (1938–2020), British nuclear physicist * John O'Hanlon (chess player) (1876–1960), Irish chess master * John O'Hanlon (Lackaghmore) (1889–1920), Sinn Féin member shot during the Irish War of Independence * John O'Hanlon (politician) (1872–1956), Irish politician and journalist * John O'Hanlon (writer) (1821–1905), Irish priest and writer * Killian O'Hanlon (born 1993), Gaelic footballer * Michael E. O'Hanlon (born 1961), American policy consultant * Michael F. O'Hanlon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ó HAnluain
The Ó h-Anluain (anglicised as O'Hanlon) family was an agnatic extended family comprising one of a string of dynasts along the Ulster-Leinster border. Depending on the advantage to the Irish clan, clan, the Chief of the Name—The O'Hanlon—supported either the Earl of Tyrone or authorities within the English Pale. During the 15th century, ties were close with the famed Earls of Kildare. Frequently, members of the Irish clan, clan would fight on both sides during a rebellion. Some would be outlawed; others pardoned; some ending up on the winning side. The heart of "O'Hanlon's Countrie" was centered on south central Ulster, much of it being in what is now the Republic of Ireland. The first O'Hanlon on record is Flaithbheartach Ua h-Anluain, lord of Ui Niallain, whose murder in the year 983 AD is recorded in the ''Annals of the Four Masters''. The anglicised version of the name is usually given as Hanlon or O'Hanlon, but there are many variants: Handlon, Handlan, Hanlan, Hanl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Killian O'Hanlon
Killian O'Hanlon (born 1993) is an Irish Gaelic footballer who plays as a midfielder for club side Kilshannig, divisional side Avondhu and at inter-county level with the Cork senior football team. Playing career Kilshannig O'Hanlon joined the Kilshannig club at a young age and played in all grades at juvenile and underage levels before joining the club's junior team. He enjoyed his first success at adult level when the club secured the North Cork JAFC title in 2014, before claiming a second divisional title five years later. On 9 November 2019, O'Hanlon claimed a County Junior Championship title when he captained Kilshannig to a 0–22 to 0–11 defeat of St. James's in the final. Cork O'Hanlon first lined out for Cork when he joined the Cork minor team in advance of the 2011 Munster Minor Championship. He made his first appearance for the team on 13 April 2011 when was at left wing-back for Cork's 2–10 to 0–11 win over Clare. O'Hanlon lost his place on the starting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia O'Hanlon
Laura Virginia O'Hanlon Douglas (July 20, 1889May 13, 1971) was an American educator best known for writing a letter as a child to the New York newspaper ''The Sun'' that inspired the 1897 editorial " Is There a Santa Claus?". The editorial, by Francis Pharcellus Church, contains the line "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus", and brought attention to O'Hanlon for the rest of her life. Historian Gerald Bowler called it "the most famous editorial in history." Early life Laura Virginia O'Hanlon was born on July 20, 1889, in New York City, to Philip F. O'Hanlon, a surgeon who worked in a consulting capacity for the New York City Police Department, and Laura Virginia O'Hanlon . "Is There a Santa Claus?" In 1897, Virginia asked her father whether Santa Claus existed. His answer did not convince her, and she decided to pose the question to the New York newspaper ''The Sun''. Sources conflict over whether her father suggested writing the letter'''' or she elected to on her own ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siobhán O'Hanlon
Siobhán O'Hanlon (1963 – 11 April 2006) was an Provisional IRA volunteer and Sinn Féin activist. Family O'Hanlon was born in North Belfast in 1963, one of six children of a republican family. Her father, Sam, had been interned, and her maternal uncle was IRA Army Council member Joe Cahill, who died in July 2004. O'Hanlon married Pat Sheehan with whom she had a son, Cormac. One of her sisters, Eilis, is a newspaper columnist critical of physical force Irish republicanism; the two apparently remained estranged at the time of Siobhán's death. IRA activity In 1983 O'Hanlon was jailed after being found in a bomb-making factory. She served four years of a seven-year sentence for explosives offences. She was again arrested in Los Angeles County in 1989, briefly jailed then deported after admitting she concealed her conviction on US immigration forms. Some British newspapers claim she was involved in an attempted Provisional Irish Republican Army bombing in Gibraltar, prevent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rory O'Hanlon (Irish Judge)
Roderick Joseph O'Hanlon (11 April 1923 – 27 March 2002) was an Irish judge and barrister who served as a Judge of the High Court from 1981 to 1995. He was also President of the Law Reform Commission. He was dismissed by the Irish Government from presidency of the Law Reform Commission in 1992, after commenting that if Ireland's membership of the European Union forced the introduction of abortion to Ireland, the country should withdraw from the bloc. He later sued the Government and won substantial damages. Post-retirement, O'Hanlon took an active part in campaigning to oppose the divorce referendum of 1995, calling divorce "a grave offence against natural law". During the lead-up to the referendum on the Maastricht Treaty, it was revealed in an interview that he was a member of the secretive Catholic organisation, Opus Dei. He died in March 2002 after a battle with stomach cancer Stomach cancer, also known as gastric cancer, is a malignant tumor of the stomach. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rory O'Hanlon
Rory O'Hanlon (born 7 February 1934) is an Irish former Fianna Fáil politician who served as Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann from 2002 to 2007, Leas-Cheann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann from 1997 to 2002, Minister for the Environment from 1991 to 1992, Minister for Health from 1987 to 1991 and Minister of State for Social Welfare Claims in 1982. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cavan–Monaghan constituency from 1977 to 2011. Early life Born in Dublin in 1934, O'Hanlon was brought up in a family that had a strong association with the republican tradition. His father, Michael, who studied medicine was a member of the Fourth Northern Division of the Irish Republican Army during the War of Independence and took the Republican side during the Irish Civil War. As is made clear during a personal interview with Tim Pat Coogan for his biography of Michael Collins, O'Hanlon confirmed his father's military service on Bloody Sunday in Dublin where he assisted members of Mic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Redmond O'Hanlon (outlaw)
Count Redmond O'Hanlon (), (c. 1640 – 25 April 1681) was a 17th-century Irish tóraidhe or rapparee; an outlawed member of the Gaelic nobility of Ireland who still held to the code of conduct of the Chief of the Name, traditional chiefs of the Irish clans. Historian John J. Marshall has called Redmond O'Hanlon Ireland's answer to Robin Hood and Rob Roy MacGregor. Stephen Dunford has further dubbed O'Hanlon, "The Irish Skanderbeg." Family background Although born in impoverished circumstances, Redmond was part of the ''Derbfine'' of the last Ó hAnluain, O'Hanlon Chief of the Name, Tigerna, Lord of AirgÃalla, and Master of Tandragee Castle. During the Nine Years War (Ireland), Nine Years' War, Sir Oghie O'Hanlon had allied the Clan with Queen Elizabeth I of England against Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, Hugh O'Neill and Red Hugh O'Donnell. In 1606, Sir Oghie received his Clan's lands under the policy of Surrender and regrant. According to Royal decree, the family's manor wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Redmond O'Hanlon
Redmond O'Hanlon FRGS FRSL is an English writer and scholar. Early life and education O'Hanlon was born in Dorset, England. He was educated at Marlborough College and then Oxford University. After taking his M.Phil. in nineteenth-century English studies in 1971 he was elected senior scholar, and in 1974 Alistair Horne Research Fellow, at St Antony's College, Oxford. He completed his doctoral thesis, ''Changing scientific concepts of nature in the English novel, 1850–1920'', in 1977. Though very religious when he was young, O'Hanlon became an atheist upon his discovery of the works of Charles Darwin. Career From 1970 to 1974, O'Hanlon was a member of the literature panel of the Arts Council of Great Britain. He was elected a member of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History in 1982, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1984 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1993. For 15 years, he was the natural history editor of ''The Times Literar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat O'Hanlon
Patrick O'Hanlon is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played 17 games for Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs and 35 games for Parramatta Eels in the National Rugby League. National Youth Competition A Mackay Brothers junior, O'Hanlon was signed by Parramatta after being selected for Queensland U/18's & Australian schoolboys. Dominating in 2010 and 2011, O'Hanlon in 2010 was named on the bench to play first grade against the New Zealand Warriors in round 17, but did not play. NRL career O'Hanlon made his NRL debut in round 17, 2011 against the Brisbane Broncos, coming off the bench to play centre for the injured Jacob Loko. O'Hanlon played nine games in his debut season for Parramatta as the club narrowly avoided the wooden spoon. Parramatta defeated the Gold Coast in the final round of the regular season at Cbus Super Stadium to avoid the dreaded award. O'Hanlon scored his first try in round 3, 2012 against the North Queensland Cowboys. O'Hanlon si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paddy O'Hanlon
Patrick Michael O'Hanlon (8 May 1944 – 7 April 2009) was an Irish barrister and nationalist politician. Born in Drogheda County Louth, but resident in Mullaghbawn, South Armagh since childhood, partly due to an exclusion order, O'Hanlon studied at St Colman's College and at University College Dublin where he studied law. Prominent in the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA), he was elected at the 1969 Northern Ireland general election, as an independent Nationalist MP for South Armagh. In August 1970, he was a founder member of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP). O'Hanlon was jailed several times during his activity for NICRA in advocating Civil Rights for Catholics and one-man-one-vote in Armagh Jail. His father, also Paddy, had been an active participant in the Irish War of Independence and lost a limb during the original Dungooley Ambush in 1922 during the Irish Civil War. The journalist Toby Harnden erroneously stated that the leg was buried in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael F
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Michael E
SS ''Michael E'' was a cargo ship that was built in 1941. She was the first British catapult aircraft merchant ship (CAM ship): a merchant ship fitted with a rocket catapult to launch a single Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft to defend a convoy against long-range German bombers. She was sunk on her maiden voyage by a German submarine. Description ''Michael E'' was built by William Hamilton & Co Ltd, Port Glasgow. Launched in 1941, she was completed in May of that year. She was the United Kingdom's first CAM ship, armed with an aircraft catapult on her bow to launch a Hawker Sea Hurricane. The ship was long between perpendiculars ( overall), with a beam of . She had a depth of and a draught of . She was measured at and . She had six corrugated furnaces feeding two single-ended boilers with a combined heating surface of . The boilers fed a 443 nominal horsepower triple-expansion steam engine that had cylinders of , and diameter by stroke. The engine was buil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
