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Billy O'Callaghan (born 9 December 1974) is an Irish short fiction writer and novelist.He is best known for his short-story collection The Things We Lose, The Things We Leave Behind, which was awarded the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Award for the short story in 2013 [1] [2] [3] and his widely-translated novel My Coney Island Baby, which was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's ...
[citation needed] In a twist of history, 500 acres (2.0 km 2) of the ancient O'Callaghan land returned to O'Callaghan hands in the twentieth century, when Longueville House was bought by a descendant of Donough O'Callaghan. The ancestral estate of the O'Callaghans, now a luxury hotel, is owned by William O'Callaghan. [4]
Dromaneen Castle is a fortified house and National Monument located in County Cork, Ireland. [2] [3] [4]It was one of the three main castles of the ancient O’Callaghan clan. The ruin is that of a Jocobean mansion and it is said to have been built by Caher O’Callaghan in around 161
Liam O'Flaherty, though a native speaker of Irish, made his name as a writer in English. He returned to Irish in a collection called Dúil ("Desire"), containing stories in the west of Ireland. The reviews were disappointing and may have discouraged him from writing in Irish again, [ 17 ] but Dúil continues to be printed.
The next day, Lady O'Callaghan is going through her late husband's papers and finds both the death threats from anarchists and Jane Harden's letter. Convinced that her husband has been murdered, she calls in Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard. It turns out that O'Callaghan has died of an overdose of hyoscine, a drug used in anaesthesia. Suspicion ...
"Something to Live For" (song), a 1939 jazz standard by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn; Something to Live For (John O'Callaghan album), 2007; Something to Live For (Phyno album), 2021; Something to Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn, an album by Art Farmer, 1987; Something to Live For: A Billy Strayhorn Songbook, an album by John Hicks ...
The Dead is a 1987 drama film directed by John Huston, written by his son Tony Huston, and starring his daughter Anjelica Huston. It is an adaptation of the short story of the same name by James Joyce , which was first published in 1914 as the last story in Dubliners .
The Olympia Theatre, branded since 2021 for sponsorship purposes as the 3Olympia Theatre, is a concert hall and theatre venue in Dublin, Ireland, located on Dame Street. ...