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Owney Cup , name anglicised ''Owney''
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Owney may refer to: ;People: * Owney Madden (1891–1965) New York gangster * Owney Geoghegan (1840–1885) boxer ;Places in Ireland: * Owney and Arra, County Tipperary barony * Owneybeg, County Limerick barony ;Other: * Owney (dog), New York post office mascot See also * Oney (song), a song recorded by Johnny Cash * Owen (name), ''Owney'' is hypocoristic form * Uaithne In Irish mythology, Uaithne (, ) is Dagda's harp, or rather the Dagda's harper, according to a number of modern translators (cf. ). Attestations Úaithne figures as the name of Dagda's harper captured by the Fomorians according to the narrative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owney Madden
Owen Vincent "Owney" Madden (December 18, 1891 – April 24, 1965) was an Irish-American gangsterhttps://www.theirishstory.com/2022/06/01/owney-the-killer-madden-irish-bootlegger-who-became-the-hotelier-for-the-mob/ who was a leading underworld figure in New York during Prohibition. Nicknamed "The Killer", he garnered a brutal reputation within street gangs and organized crime. He ran the Cotton Club in Manhattan and was a leading boxing promoter. After increased attention from law enforcement in New York, Madden moved to Hot Springs, Arkansas, in 1935, where he remained until his death from natural causes in 1965. Early life Owen Vincent Madden was born into an Irish-Catholic working-class family at 25 Somerset Road in Leeds, England, on December 18, 1891, the son of Francis Madden and Mary Madden (O’Neill). Both emigrants from Ireland, his mother being from Sligo and his father from Mayo. Madden’s mother left for New York to become a maid, leaving Owen and his sister Mary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owney Geoghegan
Owen "Owney" Geoghegan (c. 1840 – January 19, 1885) was a lightweight bare-knuckle boxer. Geoghegan claimed the Lightweight Championship of America in 1861, and held it until his retirement in 1863. He stood and weighed between 130 and 140 pounds. Boxing career Geoghegan was born in about 1840 in Ireland. He traveled to the United States in 1849 and settled in New York CityPolice Gazette, 1922 His first recorded prize-fight took place in 1860 against Jim McGann in New York. Geoghegan won the bout in five rounds and 15 minutes. That same year, he defeated Deaf Moran, Bill Dukes, Arthur Gowan, and held a draw with Mike Donohue.Police Gazette, 7 February 1885 Patrick "Scotty" Brannagan retired as Lightweight Champion of America in 1861, and a contest was held between Geoghegan and Eddie Touhey to fill the vacant title. The two men met on April 18, 1861, in New York. Although Toughey was a better boxer, Geoghegan wore his opponent down with his incredible strength. After 45 rou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owney And Arra
Owney and Arra ( Irish: ''Uaithne agus Ara'') is a barony in County Tipperary, Ireland. This geographical unit of land is one of 12 baronies in County Tipperary. Its chief town is Newport. The barony lies between Ormond Lower to the north (whose chief town is Nenagh), Kilnamanagh Upper to the south (whose chief town is Borrisoleigh) and Ormond Upper to the east (whose chief town is Toomevara). To the west lies the River Shannon which separates it from County Clare. The territory is currently administered by Tipperary County Council. Legal context Baronies were created after the Norman invasion of Ireland as divisions of counties and were used the administration of justice and the raising of revenue. While baronies continue to be officially defined units, they have been administratively obsolete since 1898. However, they continue to be used in land registration and in specification, such as in planning permissions. In many cases, a barony corresponds to an earlier Gaelic túath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owneybeg
Owneybeg (, occasionally spelled ''Owenybeg'') is a Barony (Ireland), historical barony in northeast County Limerick, Ireland. Baronies were mainly cadastre, cadastral rather than administrative units. They acquired modest local taxation and spending functions in the 19th century before being superseded by the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898. History The Uaithni were a medieval Gaelic Irish tribe in the area. In Ptolemy's 2nd century ''Geography (Ptolemy), Geography'' he mentions the ''Auteinoi'', who lived somewhere around County Galway. They claimed descent from Uaithne, daughter of the legendary king Eochaid mac Luchta. The Book of Lecan connects Owney to the legendary harper Uaithne, with his sons Uaithnia, Druithnia and Caínnia being the ancestors of the Uaithni, Dál Druithne and Cáenraige. Modern scholars have tried to reconstruct an etymology, with one suggestion being ''Aue-ítha-ini'' ("tribe of the descendants of Íth," a mythological figure whose name means ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Baronies Of Ireland
This is a list of the baronies of Ireland. Baronies were subdivisions of counties, mainly cadastral but with some administrative functions prior to the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898. Final list The final catalogue of baronies numbered 331, with an average area of ; therefore, each county was divided, on average, into 10 or 11 baronies. A figure of 273 is also quoted, by combining those divided into half-baronies, as by East/West, North/South, or Upper/Middle/Lower divisions. Every point in Ireland is in precisely one of the listed divisions. However, the municipal area of the four cities with barony status in 1898 has extended since then into the surrounding baronies. Prior to 1898, the baronies around Dublin City were shrunk accordingly as they ceded land to the expanding city; but there is now land which is both within the current city boundaries and within one of the pre-1898 county baronies. Notably, the Barony of Dublin, created in 1842, is entirely within the city, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owney (dog)
Owney (ca. 1887 – June 11, 1897) was a terrier mix adopted in the United States as a postal mascot by the Albany, New York, post office about 1888. The Albany mail professionals recommended the dog to their Railway Mail Service colleagues, and he became a nationwide mascot for nine years (1888–1897). He traveled over 140,000 miles throughout the 48 contiguous United States and around the world as a mascot of the Railway Post Office and the United States Postal Service. He was the subject of commemorative activities, including a 2011 U.S. postage stamp. Story Unofficial mascot Owney belonged to a clerk at the Albany post office who would often come with him to work. Owney seemed to love the smell of the mail bags and would often sleep on them. The clerk quit the Albany post office but knew that Owney was happier there with the mail bags. Owney continued to sleep on the bags and would ride on trains wherever they were taken. He was considered to be good luck by postal railw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oney (song)
"Oney" is a song recorded by American country music singer-songwriter Johnny Cash. It was released in July 1972 as the second single from his album ''Any Old Wind That Blows''. The song peaked at number 2 on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles chart. It also reached number 1 on the ''RPM'' Country Tracks chart in Canada. The song was written by Jerry Chesnut. The song is one of several by Cash paying tribute to the working man ''The Working Man'' is a 1933 pre-Code American comedy film starring George Arliss and Bette Davis, and directed by John G. Adolfi. The screenplay by Charles Kenyon and Maude T. Howell is based on the story ''The Adopted Father'' by Edgar F .... This first-person story is about a factory worker who plans to get retribution against his mean boss. In the song's spoken prologue, Cash dedicates the song "''to the working man/for every man that puts in a hard eight or 10 hours a day of work and toil and sweat/always got somebody looking down his neck/tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owen (name)
Owen is usually an anglicised variant of the Welsh name, Welsh personal name . Originally a patronymic, Owen became a fixed surname in Wales beginning with the reign of Henry VIII of England, Henry VIII. Etymologists consider it to originate from ''Eugene (given name), Eugene'', meaning 'noble-born'. According to T. J. Morgan and Prys Morgan in ''Welsh Surnames'': "the name is a derivation of the Latin > Old Welsh, OW , ... variously written in Middle Welsh, MW as , , . Late Latin, LL gives the names , , , . The corresponding form in Irish language, Irish is ." Morgan and Morgan note that there are less likely alternative explanations, and agree with Rachel Bromwich that Welsh "is normally Latinisation of names, latinised as ", and that both the Welsh and Irish forms are Latin derivatives. The Welsh name is a cognate and near-homonym of the Irish name (, partially anglicised as , as noted by Morgan and Morgan, among other spellings). As such, the given name Owney is usual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
