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Shanahan
Shanahan is a surname of Irish origin. According to historian C. Thomas Cairney, the O'Shanahans were one of the chiefly families of the Dal gCais or Dalcassians who were a tribe of the Erainn who were the second wave of Celts to settle in Ireland between about 500 and 100 Anno Domini, BC. Notable people with the surname include: * Bill Shanahan (born 1938), American former football coach * Brenda Shanahan (businesswoman), Irish businesswoman * Brenda Shanahan (politician) (born 1958), Canadian politician * Brendan Shanahan (born 1969), Canadian ice hockey executive and former player * Carol Shanahan (born 1957), English businesswoman * Charif Shanahan, American poet and translator * Christopher Shanahan (born 1960), Australian barrister * Dan Shanahan (born 1977), Irish former hurler * Danny Shanahan (1956–2021), American cartoonist * David Shanahan (other), various people * Dennis Shanahan, Australian journalist and editor * Doug Shanahan (born 1979), American lacross ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brendan Shanahan
Brendan Frederick Shanahan (born January 23, 1969) is a Canadian American professional ice hockey executive and former player who was the outgoing president and alternate governor for the Toronto Maple Leafs, having previously served as the director of player safety for the National Hockey League (NHL). On May 22, 2025 the Maple Leafs announced that Shanahan's time as president and alternate governor for the team would end on the expiration of his contract at the end of June 2025. Originally drafted by the New Jersey Devils second overall in the 1987 NHL entry draft, Shanahan played in the NHL with the New Jersey Devils (two stints), St. Louis Blues, Hartford Whalers, Detroit Red Wings, and New York Rangers. While playing with the Red Wings, he won three Stanley Cup championships (1997, 1998, 2002). In 2017 Shanahan was named one of the ' 100 Greatest NHL Players' in history. Known for his physical play and goal-scoring ability, Shanahan scored 656 goals in his NHL career spa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Shanahan
Daniel Shanahan (born 4 January 1977) is an Irish former hurler. He has been a selector with the Waterford county team since 2013. Born in Lismore, County Waterford, Shanahan was introduced to hurling by his father, a former hurler with Waterford. He was a Harty Cup runner-up with Lismore CBS while simultaneously enjoying championship successes at senior level with the Lismore club. Shanahan made his debut on the inter-county scene at the age of seventeen when he first linked up with the Waterford minor team. A two-time Munster runner-up in this grade, he later lined out with the under-21 team. Shanahan joined the senior team in 1995. He went on to play a key role for Waterford in attack during a hugely successful era, and won four Munster medals and one National Hurling League medal. He was an All-Ireland runner-up on one occasion. Shanahan represented the Munster inter-provincial team at various times throughout his career, winning one Railway Cup medal in 2007. At club ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol Shanahan
Carol Ann Shanahan (born 27 December 1957) is an English businesswoman and club chairperson of Port Vale F.C., Port Vale Football Club. Business career Shanahan was born in December 1957 in Skegness. She moved to West Bromwich at the age of six to live with her mother, who was the secretary to the West Bromwich Albion F.C., West Bromwich Albion club doctor; it was at The Hawthorns that Shanahan first became interested in association football, football. She left school without any formal qualifications. At age 17, she became the first female main-frame computer operator at Hoskins Systems in Birmingham. She met Kevin Shanahan in 1979, a fellow IT worker. The pair would later marry and have four children – Kate, Rosie, Patrick and Francesca – before founding Financial technology, fintech company Synectics Solutions in February 1992. Synectics works to prevent fraud and has international clients, including governments, banks, building societies, and insurance companies. Origina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Shanahan
Doug Shanahan (born January 11, 1979) is a lacrosse coach and player. He has been inducted into four Halls of Fame and has won a number of other trophies and accolades. He was twice a member of Team USA, and also won MVP of the world games. He attended Hofstra University, playing both football and lacrosse in college. College career From 1997 to 2001 Shanahan played both lacrosse and football. As a defensive back for the Pride, Shanahan was recognized as a 3 time All American in football. In 2000, he was also a Buck Buchanan Award finalist which is given to the top defensive player in Division 1AA. Following his senior year, he was signed as a free agent with the New York Jets. The Jets allowed Shanahan to go with Team USA and compete in the World Lacrosse Championships in Perth, Australia. Shanahan turned down several football offers from the Canadian Football League to pursue his career in the MLL. At Hofstra, Shanahan also was a 3 time All American in lacrosse, was named the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charif Shanahan
Charif Shanahan (born 1983) is an American poet and translator. His debut poetry collection ''Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing'' (Southern Illinois University Press, 2017) was the recipient of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award, selected by Allison Joseph, and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and the Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award. His second collection, ''Trace Evidence: Poems'' (Tin House, 2023), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry, and winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and the Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award. Education Shanahan earned an AB in Comparative Literature from Princeton University; an AM in Comparative Literature and Literary Translation from Dartmouth College; and an MFA in Poetry from NYU's Graduate Creative Writing Program, where he studied with Sharon Olds and Yusef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eileen Shanahan (journalist)
Eileen Shanahan (February 29, 1924 – November 2, 2001) was an American journalist who covered national economic policy for ''The New York Times'' from 1962 to 1977, was a high-ranking editor for newspapers located in Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, and Florida, and was the founding editor of '' Governing'', a magazine about state and local government. As a reporter in a male-dominated field, she faced discrimination and harassment and fought for fair treatment for women in journalism, serving as one of the named plaintiffs in a sex-discrimination lawsuit against the ''Times'' and later acting as a mentor and role model for younger women in her field. Early life and education Shanahan was born on February 29, 1924, in Washington, D.C. Her father, Thomas Shanahan, the son of Irish immigrants, was a government worker. Her mother, Malvena, was the daughter of Leopold Karpeles, who, as a Union soldier, became one of the first Jewish people to win the Medal of Honor. Shanahan has sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foss Shanahan
Foss Shanahan (10 June 1910 – 13 September 1964) was a New Zealand diplomat and public servant. Biography Shanahan was born on 10 June 1910 at Alexandra. He was educated at the Christian Brothers' Boys' School in Dunedin and Waitaki Boys' High School, passing the public service entrance examination in 1926. He joined the public service in 1928 and studied part-time at the University of Otago and Victoria University of Wellington, graduating from Victoria with a Master of Laws (LLM) in 1936. He started in the Customs Department, then in 1939 joined the Prime Minister’s Department, in the section that became the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. He was Assistant Secretary of the War Cabinet 1940-45, Deputy Secretary of the External Affairs Department 1943-55, Secretary of Cabinet 1946-55, and Head of Defence Secretariat 1949-55. He set up the Cabinet Secretariat, and was known as "Foss the Boss." He served as Commissioner then High Commissioner to Singapor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Shanahan
Danny Shanahan (July 11, 1956 – July 5, 2021) was an American cartoonist who was known for his work for ''The New Yorker'', which he worked for until 2020, when he was arrested on a charge of possession of child pornography. Life and career Daniel Patrick Shanahan was born on 11 July 1956 in Brooklyn, New York. He spent his early life in Long Island and later in Bethlehem, Connecticut, where he attended Paier College. Shanahan formally started his career in the 1980s, when he became an unofficial cartoonist for the United States Tennis Association. Between 1988 and 2020, Shanahan worked for ''The New Yorker'' as a cartoonist and illustrator. During that period, he published more than nine hundred cartoons in the magazine. His work has also appeared in Playboy. Legal trouble and death On December 10, 2020, he was arrested for possession of child pornography at his home in Rhinebeck, New York Rhinebeck is a village (New York), village in the Rhinebeck (town), New York, town ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie Shanahan
James Shanahan (born 6 December 1967) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for St Kilda and Melbourne in the Australian Football League (AFL). Early career He played with Hobart in the Tasmanian Football League from 1986 to 1990 and was in Hobart's 1990 TFL Premiership side, then also spent some time with Fitzroy pre-season in 1986 and had played with the Fitzroy reserves (at least one game at North Hobart) and became a police officer in Tasmania, when he was granted extended leave to play AFL. St Kilda Picked up as a late pick in the 1990 AFL Draft (pick 92), Shanahan spent two seasons with St Kilda's reserves before debuting in 1992 with the St Kilda Football Club. Shanahan played in St Kilda's 1996 AFL Ansett Australia Cup winning side – the club's first AFL Cup win. He was a tall, solid defender and was valuable to the club. Shanahan played in 22 of 22 matches in the 1997 AFL Premiership Season home and away rounds in which St Kilda Football Club quali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Shanahan
Jack Shanahan (born 3 August 1999) is an Irish professional drift driver from Cork. Shanahan was the 2016 and 2017 champion of the British Drift Championship and also won the Russian Drift Series in 2021. Career Shanahan began competing in the semi pro class of the Irish Drift Championship at the age of 13, in a Nissan 180SX, and competed in select rounds of the Drift Allstars European series. In 2014 he won his first major event, the British Drift Championship event at Lydden Hill in a new car, a BMW-powered Nissan 200SX, and finished third at the Drift Allstars event at Mantorp Park in Sweden. His 2015 BDC title triumph at the age of sixteen made him the youngest driver to win a major drifting title. Family His younger brother, Conor Shanahan, is also a drifter and competed in the Pro class of the British Drift Championship in 2017 after graduating from the Pro-Am class in 2016. In the 2016 season, the brothers shared the same car, a Nissan 180SX The Nissan 180 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holly Shanahan
Holly Shanahan (born 23 November 1981) is a New Zealand actress. She is best known for playing Leelee in ''Power Rangers Mystic Force'' and Camille in ''Power Rangers Jungle Fury''. Early life and career Shanahan grew up in the Taranaki village of Lepperton and attended New Plymouth Girls' High School. She participated in the Sheilah Winn Festival of Shakespeare in Schools, and the New Zealand Schools Shakespeare Production, and from that she was selected to go to the Globe in London as part of the Young Shakespeare Company in 2000. She studied theatre at Victoria University of Wellington. Shanahan is known for her roles in two entries of the ''Power Rangers'' franchise: ''Power Rangers Mystic Force'' and ''Power Rangers Jungle Fury''. She also made appearances in television shows '' The Insiders Guide to Happiness'', and'' Outrageous Fortune''. In 2008, she starred in the film, '' Second Hand Wedding'' alongside Patrick Wilson, Ryan O'Kane, and Geraldine Brophy. She won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eileen Shanahan
Eileen Shanahan (28 October 1901 – 28 January 1979) was an Irish poet. Her best-known poem, ''The Three Children (Near Clonmel)'', has been republished five times since its original publication in ''The Atlantic Monthly'' in 1929, and was included in the '' Oxford Book of Irish Verse'' (1958). Biography She was born in Dublin, where her father George Shanahan (1856–1944) was Assistant Secretary of the Irish Board of Works, 1895–1921 and Honorary Treasurer of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1925–44. Her maternal grandfather was J. J. Clancy (1847–1928), Irish Nationalist MP for North County Dublin from 1885 to 1918. Via her maternal grandmother Margaret Hickie, she was related to the revolutionary, poet and author Piaras Béaslaí. She was educated at St Catherine's Dominican Convent, Sion Hill, Blackrock, Dublin and at Alexandra College. She worked as a secretary in Dublin and from 1929 at the League of Nations in Geneva. She married a S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
