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Seoirse Mac Cluain
Seoirse () is an Irish masculine given name. It is the Irish equivalent of George. The name was rare in Ireland prior to the ascension of the House of Hanover to the throne of the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in the early 18th century. A rare variant of the name is Seorsa. People People with the name Seoirse include: *Seóirse Bodley (1933–2023), Irish composer and associate professor of music *Seoirse Brún (George Browne; fl. 1876), Irish scribe * Seoirse Bulfin (born 1979), Irish hurling manager and player * Seoirse Clancy (George Clancy; 1881–1921), Irish nationalist politician * Seoirse Mac Cluain (1894–1949), Irish-language scholar *Seoirse Mac Tomáis, the Irish name of George Derwent Thomson (1903–1987), British classical scholar, Marxist philosopher, and scholar of the Irish language * Seoirse Ó Dochartaigh (born 1946), Irish musician, artist and writer See also *List of Irish-language given names This list of Irish-language given names shows Irish l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George (given Name)
George () is a masculine given name derived from the Greek language, Greek Georgios (; , ). The name gained popularity due to its association with the Christian martyr, Saint George (died 23 April 303), a member of the Praetorian Guard who was sentenced to death for his refusal to renounce Christianity, and prior to that, it might have been a theophoric name, with origins in Zeus Georgos, an early title of the Greek god Zeus. Today, it is one of the most commonly used names in the Western world, though its religious significance has waned among modern populations. Its diminutives are Geordie and Georgie, with the former being limited primarily to residents of England and Scotland. The most popular feminine forms in the Anglosphere are Georgia (name), Georgia, Georgiana, and Georgina (name), Georgina. History Etymology and origins Its original Greek form, Georgios, is based on the Greek word ''georgos'' (γεωργός), 'farmer'. The word ''georgos'' itself is ultimately a c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Hanover
The House of Hanover ( ) is a European royal house with roots tracing back to the 17th century. Its members, known as Hanoverians, ruled Hanover, Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Empire at various times during the 17th to 20th centuries. Originating as a cadet branch of the House of Welf (also "Guelf" or "Guelph") in 1635, also known then as the House of Brunswick-Lüneburg, the Hanoverians ascended to prominence with Hanover's elevation to an Electorate of the Holy Roman Empire in 1692. In 1714 George I, prince-elector of Hanover and a descendant of King James VI and I, assumed the throne of Great Britain and Ireland, marking the beginning of Hanoverian rule over the British Empire. At the end of this line, Queen Victoria's death in 1901, the throne of the United Kingdom passed to her eldest son Edward VII, a member of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, through his father Albert, Prince Consort. The last reigning members of the House of Hanover lost the Duchy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingdom Of Great Britain
Great Britain, also known as the Kingdom of Great Britain, was a sovereign state in Western Europe from 1707 to the end of 1800. The state was created by the 1706 Treaty of Union and ratified by the Acts of Union 1707, which united the Kingdom of England (including Wales) and the Kingdom of Scotland to form a single kingdom encompassing the whole island of Great Britain and its outlying islands, with the exception of the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. The unitary state was governed by a single Parliament of Great Britain, parliament at the Palace of Westminster, but distinct legal systems—English law and Scots law—remained in use, as did distinct educational systems and religious institutions, namely the Church of England and the Church of Scotland remaining as the national churches of England and Scotland respectively. The formerly separate kingdoms had been in personal union since the Union of the Crowns in 1603 when James VI of Scotland became King of England an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingdom Of Ireland
The Kingdom of Ireland (; , ) was a dependent territory of Kingdom of England, England and then of Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain from 1542 to the end of 1800. It was ruled by the monarchs of England and then List of British monarchs, of Great Britain, and was Dublin Castle administration, administered from Dublin Castle by a viceroy appointed by the English king: the lord deputy of Ireland. Aside from brief periods, the state was dominated by the Protestant English (or Anglo-Irish people, Anglo-Irish) minority, known as the Protestant Ascendancy. The Protestant Church of Ireland was the state church. The Parliament of Ireland was composed of Anglo-Irish nobles. From 1661, the administration controlled an Irish Army (1661–1801), Irish army. Although ''de jure'' styled as a kingdom, for most of its history it was ''de facto'' an English Dependent territory, dependency (specifically a viceroyalty). This status was enshrined in the Declaratory Act 1719, also known as th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seóirse Bodley
Seóirse Bodley (; 4 April 1933 – 17 November 2023) was an Irish composer and associate professor of music at University College Dublin (UCD). He was the first composer to become a Saoi of Aosdána, in 2008. Bodley is widely regarded as one of the most important composers of twentieth-century art music in Ireland, having been "integral to Irish musical life since the second half of the twentieth century, not just as a composer, but also as a teacher, arranger, accompanist, adjudicator, broadcaster, and conductor". Biography Bodley was born George Pascal Bodley in Dublin. His father was George James Bodley (1879–1956), an employee of the London Midland & Scottish Railway Company (Dublin office), and later of the Dublin Ports and Docks Board. His mother, Mary (''née'' Gough, 1891–1977), worked for the Guinness brewery.Cox (2010), p. 1. He attended schools in the Dublin suburbs of Phibsboro and Glasnevin before he moved at the age of nine to Coláiste Mhuire at Parnell Squ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seoirse Brún
Seoirse Brún (George Browne), was an Irish scribe, fl. 1876. Brún, a native of Creggduff, Annaghdown, County Galway, is known only from a manuscript called RBÉ F006. It contains the following note: ''George Browne Cregg Duff This Book/Belongs to him For Certain No Other Person/in This Locality can claim on This/Book but him Alone When he is Dead/and his bones are rotten This Little Book/Will tell his Name when he is quite/Forgotten Given under My ha this 18th Day of Oct 1876 - George Browne/Cregg Duff Annadown/County of Galway Ireland, The European Iliad.'' The Annaghdown-Headford has Irish speakers as of 2009. He may have been descended from one of The Tribes of Galway, the family Browne. See also *Sir Dominick Browne, M.P., ca. 1585?-ca. 1656. *Mary Bonaventure Browne, Poor Clare and historian, born after 1610, died after 1670. * Geoffrey Browne, M.P., died 1668. * Dominick Browne, Mayor of Galway, 1688-1689. * Michael Browne (1895–1980), Bishop of Galway and Kilma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seoirse Bulfin
Seoirse Bulfin (born 1979) is an Irish hurling manager and former player. He has had a close association as a coach with Davy Fitzgerald with a number of inter-county teams. Playing career Bulfin first played hurling at juvenile and underage levels with the Bruff club. He eventually progressed onto the club's adult teams with whom he had a 20-year association before his retirement in 2017. As a student at Mary Immaculate College, Bulfin lined out for the college's senior team in the Fitzgibbon Cup and captained the team in his final year in 2003. At inter-county level, he was goalkeeper on the Limerick minor hurling team during the 1997 Munster MHC campaign. Coaching career Buflin's coaching career began after being appointed GAA development officer at Limerick Institute of Technology in 2003. It was here that he began his close association with Davy Fitzgerald and he was part of the LIT management team for the Fitzgibbon Cup successes in 2005 and 2007. Bulfin joined Fitzgera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Clancy (politician)
George Clancy (; 18 March 1881 – 7 March 1921), was an Irish nationalism, Irish nationalist politician and Mayor of Limerick. He was shot dead in Limerick by Auxiliary Division, Royal Irish Constabulary Auxiliaries in 1921 during the Irish War of Independence. The previous Mayor, Michael O'Callaghan, was assassinated on the same night by the same group. Life Clancy was born at Grange, County Limerick. He was educated at Crescent College, Limerick, and thereafter at the Catholic University in St Stephen's Green, now University College Dublin. Among his friends at the university were James Joyce, Francis Sheehy-Skeffington and Tom Kettle. He helped form a branch of the Conradh na Gaeilge, Gaelic League at college and persuaded his friends, including Joyce, to take lessons in Irish language, Irish. He played hurling and was a good friend of Michael Cusack (Gaelic Athletic Association), Michael Cusack. With Arthur Griffin he joined the Celtic Literary Society.Richard Ellmann, Ellm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seoirse Mac Cluain
Seoirse () is an Irish masculine given name. It is the Irish equivalent of George. The name was rare in Ireland prior to the ascension of the House of Hanover to the throne of the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in the early 18th century. A rare variant of the name is Seorsa. People People with the name Seoirse include: *Seóirse Bodley (1933–2023), Irish composer and associate professor of music *Seoirse Brún (George Browne; fl. 1876), Irish scribe * Seoirse Bulfin (born 1979), Irish hurling manager and player * Seoirse Clancy (George Clancy; 1881–1921), Irish nationalist politician * Seoirse Mac Cluain (1894–1949), Irish-language scholar *Seoirse Mac Tomáis, the Irish name of George Derwent Thomson (1903–1987), British classical scholar, Marxist philosopher, and scholar of the Irish language * Seoirse Ó Dochartaigh (born 1946), Irish musician, artist and writer See also *List of Irish-language given names This list of Irish-language given names shows Irish l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Derwent Thomson
George Derwent Thomson (; 1903 – 3 February 1987) was a British classical scholar, Marxist philosopher, and scholar of the Irish language. Classical scholar Thomson studied Classics at King's College, Cambridge, where he attained First Class Honours in the Classical Tripos and subsequently won a scholarship to Trinity College, Dublin. At TCD he worked on his first book, ''Greek Lyric Metre'', and began visiting Na Blascaodaí in the early nineteen-twenties. He became a lecturer and then Professor of Greek at University College Galway. He moved back to England in 1934, when he returned to King's College, Cambridge, to lecture in Greek. He became a professor at Birmingham University in 1936, the year he joined the Communist Party of Great Britain. Thomson pioneered a Marxist interpretation of Greek drama. His ''Aeschylus and Athens'' (1941) and ''Marxism and Poetry'' (1945) won him international attention. In the latter book, he argued a connection between the work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seoirse Ó Dochartaigh
Seoirse Ó Dochartaigh (; born 17 June 1946) is an Irish singer, guitarist, composer, record producer, painter, writer, and publisher. Career Born in Belfast, Ó Dochartaigh's family's background is on the Inishowen peninsula in County Donegal where the family returned to in 1947. Story-telling, folklore, and history was transmitted through his father George O'Doherty (the name is an anglicization of his own), while music, and particularly singing, was passed on by his mother, Bridget (née Toner) who hailed from County Armagh. He studied fine arts (painting) at the Ulster College of Art, Belfast (now the Belfast School of Art at Ulster University), 1966–70, followed by postgraduate studies in education at Cardiff University, 1970–1. In music, he did not pursue formal studies and was self-taught on the guitar. He is resident in County Donegal since 1977. He learned the Irish language in many summer courses at Coláiste Bhríde at Rann na Feirste in the Donegal Gaeltacht where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Irish-language Given Names
This list of Irish-language given names shows Irish language given names, their Anglicisation (linguistics), anglicisations and/or English language equivalents. Not all Irish given names have English equivalents, though most names have an anglicised form. Some Irish names have false cognates, i.e. names that look similar but are not etymologically related, e.g. is commonly accepted as the Irish equivalent of the etymologically unrelated names Anna (name), Anna and Anne. During the "Celtic Revival, Irish revival", some Irish names which had fallen out of use were revived. Some names are recent creations, such as the now-common female names "freedom" and "vision, dream". Some English-language names are anglicisations of Irish names, e.g. Kathleen (given name), Kathleen from and Shaun from . Some Irish-language names derive from English names, e.g. from Edmund. Some Irish-language names have English equivalents, both deriving from a common source, e.g. Irish (anglicised ''Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
