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By then, she had an online following and encouraged girls in Finglas to express themselves through rap. [10] She appeared in the 2012 documentary Ireland's Rappers and in the 2014 RTÉ2 reality series Connected. [11] [12] President Michael D. Higgins, seeing her perform in 2012, said she was "letting her life flow through the rhythms and sounds ...
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]
Patrick Finglas (died 1537) was a leading Irish judge and statesman of the sixteenth century, who was regarded (except perhaps in his last years) as a mainstay of the English Crown in Ireland. He was also the author of an influential "Breviat", or tract, called Of the Getting of Ireland, and of the Decay of the same , concerning the decline of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ireland portal This is a sub ... People from Finglas (1 C, 19 P) Pages in category "Finglas" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
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.