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Michael Magee (born May 1990), [1] also known as Michael Nolan, [2] is a writer from Northern Ireland.. His first novel, Close to Home, won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, was a category winner in the Nero Book Awards, and was the Waterstones Irish Book of the Year.
"Maggie May" is a song cowritten by singer Rod Stewart and Martin Quittenton, performed by Stewart for his album Every Picture Tells a Story, released in 1971. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked it number 130 in The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. [3] In 2017, the Mercury Records single was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. [4]
Maggie's was founded by and named after the late Maggie Keswick Jencks, who died of cancer in 1995. Like her husband, architectural writer and critic Charles Jencks, she believed in the ability of buildings to uplift people. In 2016, Maggie's merged with Cancerkin, a charity in the United Kingdom which offers support to breast cancer patients ...
Elizabeth Bell (1862–1934) – Belfast’s first female physician, direct-action protester. [1] Louie Bennett (1870–1956) – suffragette, trade unionist, writer [2] Mary Fleetwood Berry (1865–1956) – suffragist, radical feminist; Cadiz sisters – Rosie and Lily also known as Jane and Maggie Murphy
4 January – Author Maggie O'Farrell, born in Coleraine, wins the 2010 Costa novel award for her novel, The Hand That First Held Mine [10]; 17 April – Epic fantasy television series Game of Thrones, filmed in Belfast and on location elsewhere in Northern Ireland, premieres on HBO in the United States
Linda Nolan (born 23 February 1959) is an Irish singer, actress and television personality. [1] After moving with her family to Blackpool at the age of three in 1962, she attained fame as a member of the girl group The Nolans in 1974, along with her sisters Anne, Denise, Maureen, Bernie and Coleen.
Also features 1971 chart toppers in both the UK and US "Maggie May" and "Reason to Believe". The release of You're In My Heart coincided with Stewart's biggest ever UK stadium tour throughout November and December 2019, a continuation of his hugely successful summer stadium tour.
In November 2019, BBC Arts included Judith Hearne on its list of the 100 most influential novels. [9]Commenting in the Belfast Telegraph, writer Carlo Gébler stated: " [T]he author communicates her specificity (she is a lonely, damaged, needy, alcoholic, Catholic middle-aged woman who yearns for love) with enormous tenderness and precision."