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Nicholas Joseph Callan (22 December 1799 – 10 January 1864) was an Irish physicist and Catholic priest. He was professor of natural philosophy at Maynooth College in County Kildare from 1834, and is best known for his work on the induction coil .
Irish inventions and discoveries are objects, processes or techniques which owe their existence either partially or entirely to an Irish person. Often, things which are discovered for the first time, are also called "inventions", and in many cases, there is no clear line between the two. Below is a list of such inventions.
Brian D'Arcy CP OBE (born 1 June 1945) is an Irish Passionist priest, [1] writer, newspaper columnist, broadcaster, and preacher. D'Arcy hosts a weekly radio programme each Sunday afternoon on BBC Radio Ulster. [2] He is the author of several books, including A Little Bit of Religion and A Little Bit of Healing.
The Irish Times Literature Prizes were established in 1988, with the inaugural Irish Times International Fiction Prize (worth £7,500 in 1998) [50] awarded in 1989. [ 51 ] [ 52 ] The Irish Literature Prizes (four categories, each worth £5,000 in 1998) were awarded for fiction, poetry, and non-fiction written in English.
Myers was born in Leicester, and grew up in England. [1] [5] His father, an Irish GP, died when Myers was 15 and away at Ratcliffe College, a Catholic boarding school. [6]His father's early death created financial difficulties, though Myers managed to stay at the school with the help of both the school and the Local Education Authority.
Michael Redmond (born October 1950) [1] is an Irish stand-up comedian from Blackrock, Dublin. [2] He has a deadpan style of delivery and has been described as the "possessor of comedy's most mournful moustache". [3] He is best known for playing Father Stone in the Father Ted episode "Entertaining Father Stone". [4] [5]
The eldest of four children, he had a brother and two sisters. His mother had strong Irish republican views and was a member of Cumann na mBan. [3] From the age of six following the death of his father, Reid was raised in his mother's hometown of Nenagh, County Tipperary, [4] and his mother
People would not eat lunch with him during filming if he was in his Father Jack make-up [6] because the false flaky skin he was wearing would fall off into the food. Interviewing Kelly in 1997 for The Irish Times, Deirdre Falvey said of him: "In person he could not be further from Father Jack. Urbane, articulate, thoughtful, fit (he swims and ...