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Séamus Ennis (Irish: Séamas Mac Aonghusa; 5 May 1919 – 5 October 1982) was an Irish musician, singer and Irish music collector. [1] He was most noted for his uilleann pipe playing and was partly responsible for the revival of the instrument during the twentieth century, having co-founded Na Píobairí Uilleann, a nonprofit organisation dedicated to the promotion of the uilleann pipes and ...
The youngest of 11 children, O'Carroll was born in Finglas, Dublin on 17 September 1955. [3] His mother, Maureen , was a Labour Party TD and his father, Gerard O'Carroll, was a carpenter. His father died in 1962 when O'Carroll was seven, and Brendan's mother raised their eleven children with little money.
Christopher Dignam (23 May 1960 – 13 June 2023) [1] was an Irish singer who was best known as the lead singer of the popular Irish rock band Aslan.His career of over 40 years was characterised by numerous successes on the Irish charts as well as recurring problems with drug addiction and recovery.
Mary Callaghan is an Irish Social Democrats politician who has represented Ballymun-Finglas on Dublin City Council since 2019. She served as Deputy Lord Mayor of Dublin to then Lord Mayor Hazel Chu from 2020 to 2021. She was elected Deputy Mayor with a 43 to 9 margin, marking the third time in history that the top two positions in Dublin have ...
Watched by 750 million people worldwide, the royal wedding cost a staggering $48 million (about $156 million today) to put together. Setting the standard for royal weddings, it was also remembered ...
Fionan Hanvey was born in Dublin and attended primary and post-primary schools in Ballygall, a neighbourhood on Dublin's Northside, between Finglas and Glasnevin. [1] When he was fourteen years old and living on Cedarwood Road, between Finglas and Ballymun, he met Bono and Guggi at a party to which he had not been invited. Bono said: "We caught ...
The Finglas River, for which the area is named; a tributary of the Tolka. In 1932, Ireland's first commercial airport was set up at Kildonan in Finglas. [10] It was the site for the first Irish commercial aircraft, a Desoutter Mark II aircraft "EI-AAD", and the first commercial air taxi service, the Iona National Air Taxis and Flying School. [11]