Famous People
William Dollard (1842–1851) was the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint John in Canada. Noel Dobbyn was runner-up in the Irish version of mastermind in 2007. James McDonald (1824-1890) and Walter McDonald (1830-1899) were important pioneering missionary priests in Auckland, New Zealand. Bob o Keeffe former president of the GAA and who the leinster senior hurling trophy is named after was born in Glengrant, Carrigeen. There is two versions of the Bob O keeffe cup. The old one (pre 2006) depicted a man it in bare feet, which is how Bob played. Bob O Keeffe also trained Laois to their only hurling All Ireland in 1915.
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or people:
“Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks;
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.”
—Anonymous. Late 19th century ballad.
The quatrain refers to the famous case of Lizzie Borden, tried for the murder of her father and stepmother on Aug. 4, 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts. Though she was found innocent, there were many who contested the verdict, occasioning a prodigious output of articles and books, including, most recently, Frank Spiering’s Lizzie (1985)
“The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one’s neighbour and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.”
—Aleister Crowley (1875–1947)