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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.
Bono's family moved to a new house on Cedarwood Road, between the Northside suburbs of Finglas [24] [25] and Ballymun [26] [27] when he was six weeks old, and he grew up there. [23]: 16 [a] The Hewson brothers grew up in an interdenominational Christian household; their mother was a member of the Church of Ireland, and their father was a Roman ...
Dignam was born in the National Maternity Hospital on Holles Street in Dublin on 23 May 1960. His father, Christopher Dignam Sr, worked for CIÉ as an upholsterer. [2] He grew up in the north Dublin suburb of Finglas, attending Naomh Feargal primary school and Patrician College. [3]
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 ...
Michael Cleary (23 November 1933 – 31 December 1993) [1] was an Irish Roman Catholic priest, who also became a radio and TV personality. [2] Described in some sources as a "powerful and charismatic figure" in the Catholic Church in Ireland, [2] he presented a late-night radio phone-in show in Dublin in the 1980s and hosted his own television chat show.
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 ...