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- Timothy V Murphy was born in County Kerry, Ireland. Murphy began his career in Dublin where he trained in the Focus Theater.
Living in Los Angeles, California; Murphy is known for his roles as Galaan in the FX hit, Sons of Anarchy and Ian Doyle in Criminal Minds.
Murphy is known for the films; Disney's Lone Ranger opposite Johnny Depp; Appaloosa starring and directed by Ed Harris; Jorma Taccone's comedy Macgruber opposite Val Kilmer; National Treasure: Book of Secrets with Nicolas Cage and Ed Harris and the Indies Not That Funny opposite Tony Hale. As well as Jason Momoa's directorial debut Road to Paloma and Looms by the Funk Brothers.
A lifetime member of the Actors Studio, Murphy is an award winning stage actor and was nominated for Best Actor in Martin McDonagh's The Beauty Queen of Leenane. Other awards have included best ensemble for The Lost Plays of Tennessee Williams and best revival for the Brecht Musical, Happy End.
Murphy was voted "Best Villain in American Television" for his work on Sons of Anarchy. - Cinematographer
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PJ Dillon is a cinematographer born in Listowel, Co. Kerry, Ireland. He is best know for his work on Game of Thrones, The Alienist, Vikings, Penny Dreadful and Strangerland.
An Emmy nominee for his work on The Alienist, he has also been nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography by the American Society of Cinematographers and for Best Cinematography by the British Society of Cinematographers on two occasions. He has also been awarded the Irish Film and Television Academy Award for Best Cinematography three times.
He conceived and co-wrote the screenplay for Black '47.- Director
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After school Barrett attended Tralee IT where he studied Film, TV and Media. Also worked and trained in Radio with Kerry Radio.
Barrett won the IFTA Rising Star Award at the Irish Film and Television Academy Awards in Dublin for his debut feature 'Pilgrim Hill'. Previous winners of the award include Michael Fassbender and Saoirse Ronan.
In 2012 at the age of 24, Barrett's debut feature film 'Pilgrim Hill' premiered at the Galway International Film Festival in Ireland and immediately garnered critical acclaim, with critics calling the film "a masterful debut from a first time filmmaker". He won the Bingham Ray Best New Irish Talent Award at the Festival and the film won the Irish Times Best Film of the Festival. The film was then personally selected by Tom Luddy to have it's World Premiere at the prestigious Telluride Film Festival in Colorado. Barrett was also selected as the Great Expectation at the Festival, an honour bestowed to such filmmakers as Alexander Payne.
In January 2014, Barrett shot his second feature film 'Glassland' in Dublin, starring Jack Reynor, Will Poulter and Toni Collette. 'Glassland' had it's Irish premiere in July 2014 at the Galway International Film Festival and won Best Film garnering unanimous critical acclaim.- Writer
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Seanie Sugrue was born on 6 October 1983 in Tralee, Kerry, Ireland. He is a writer and director, known for Misty Button (2019), A Horrible Time and Catch 22: Based on the Unwritten Story by Seanie Sugrue (2016).- Maurice Walsh, very popular Irish author in the 1930's. Worked some time as an excise officer in the Scottish Highlands consequently many of his books are set in Scotland but include many Irish characters. Many of his stories are set in Scotland and Ireland in that wonderful period between the two wars. Full of fun, fights, good humour, love and mystery.
- Horatio Herbert Kitchener was born in Ballylongford, Ireland on June 24, 1850, the son of Lt. Col. Henry Kitchener. After attending boarding school in Switzerland, Horatio was admitted to the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, England in 1868. Commissioned as an officer in the Royal Engineers in 1871, he spent most of the next 28 years at British army posts in Africa, rising to the rank of major general. He led part of the British-Egyptian Expeditionary force in the reconquest of the Sudan from 1896 to 1898 against the Dervish Mahdists where at the Battle of Omdurman on September 2, 1898, he defeated the Mahdists and was later given the title Baron Kitchener of Khartoum, later elevated to earl.
During the 1899-1902 Boer War in South Africa, General Kitchener was assigned as chief of staff to the British commander, Lord Roberts. While General Sir Redvers Buller handled operations in the eastern theater of operations, Kitchener served as Roberts' second in command in the western theater, spearheading the British advance into the Boer republics of the Orange Free State and Transvaal in early 1900, leading to the capture of the Boer capital of Pretoria. When Roberts and Buller returned to England in November 1900, Lord Kitchener succeeded Roberts as commander in chief for the drawn-out guerrilla phase of the war. From then on, Lord Kitchener directed the British campaign against General Louis Botha's Boer guerrillas launching hit-and-run raids against British posts everywhere in South Africa. In a long and brutal campaign, Kitchener imposed a "scorched earth" policy of burning crops, destroying Afrikaner farms and villages, and establishing a network of blockhouses across parts of South Africa which slowly tied down the Boers, impairing their commando raids. It was not until May 31, 1902 that the Boer leaders gave in and within months the last of the Boer guerrillas were starved into surrendering. Kitchener was then made commander of the British troops in India and promoted to Field Marshall.
y 1914 at the start of World War I, Kitchener was appointed secretary for war and placed in charge of organizing the British war effort. Unlike most of his contemporaries, Kitchener believed that the war would be long and costly, and accordingly instituted a massive recruiting drive. Almost 2.5 million British and Colonial troops were raised through this effort. In addition to the mass mobilization and supply of his armies, Lord Kitchener personally oversaw the British campaigns from the Near East, to the Western Front in France, to Africa. Kitchener was made a Knight of the Garter, Great Britain's highest honor in June 1915.
Lord Kitchener died in the line of duty on June 5, 1916 when, en route to a conference with the Russian high command in St. Petersburg, the ship he was on, the HMS Hampshire, struck a mine off the Orkney Islands. Kitchener was not among the few dozen survivors. He was then declared missing in action, and later declared dead. Had he survived, some experts believe that World War I would have ended a year earlier than it did. - Actor
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Richard Wall was born on 18 January 1977 in Kerry, Ireland. He is an actor and writer, known for An Tain Darkness Descends (2011), Anton (2008) and DeCameraOn (2020).- Danny Sheehy was born in 1952 in County Kerry, Ireland. He died on 9 June 2017 in Rivermouth Minho, Spain / Portugal border.
- Malachi Martin was born on 23 July 1921 in Ballylongford, County Kerry, Ireland. He was a writer, known for El rehén del Diablo (1982), Last Days: Hype or Hope? (1996) and The Bob Braun Show (1967). He died on 27 July 1999 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Eamon Kelly was born on 30 March 1914 in Glenfesk, County Kerry, Ireland. He was an actor, known for Excalibur (1981), Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width (1967) and Brigit (1988). He died on 24 October 2001 in Dublin, Ireland.
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Katie McNeice is a multi-award winning Writer Director and Editor who crafts thoughtful identity-films with a particular focus on sexuality and gender. She was recently nominated for an IFTA for Best Script Film for her debut feature project WHO WE LOVE, which she shares with Co-Writer and Director Graham Cantwell.
Her debut short film IN ORBIT has received 57 awards including a Special Jury Mention at the Galway Film Fleadh and a ZeBBie nomination for Best Short Script from the Writers Guild of Ireland. Rural drama LAMBING is Ireland's first film on the experience of intersex babies and their parents, and recently made its World Premiere at the 2022 Galway Film Fleadh. This project is funded by the IMDb Script to Screen Award and the 2021 Kildare ShortGrass Film Bursary.
Shorts also include Irish language project 'FOCAIL BAILE CROÍ (Words Home Heart), funded by Comórtas Fisín Pitching Competition and the 2022 Screen Kerry Short Film Bursary. FOCAIL BAILE CROÍ is produced by Maggie Ryan of Escape Pod Media and will be shot in September.
Feature projects include WHO WE LOVE which she co-wrote with Graham Cantwell. This film earned her the Inaugural Rising Talent Award at the Kerry International Film Festival and was nominated for six IFTAs at the 2022 Irish Film & Drama Awards including Best Script and Best Film. She is currently developing a feature adaptation of award-winning LGBT children's novel THE DEEPEST BREATH by Meg Grehan from Little Island Books. Katie is also set to make her feature directorial debut next year with NORTH OF NOWHERE, a neo-noir thriller written by Sam Uhlemann and produced by Juliane Wothe of New Stage Films.- John B. Keane was born on 21 July 1928 in Listowel, Kerry, Ireland. He was a writer, known for The Field (1990), The Field (1968) and Durango (1999). He was married to Mary O'Connor. He died on 30 May 2002 in Listowel, Kerry, Ireland.
- Derdriu Ring was born on 11 April 1973 in Cahirsiveen, County Kerry, Ireland. She is an actress, known for Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001), My Not So Irish Bride (2014) and You Go First.
- Eamon Keane was born on 30 March 1925 in Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland. He was an actor, known for The Field (1990), Underground (1970) and Desecration (1981). He died on 7 January 1990 in Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland.
- Ruby Knox was born in County Kerry, Ireland.
- During WWII, she was an Irish post office clerk who also recorded the local weather statistics. The readings she took on June 3, 1944, which indicated stormy weather for the English Channel on June 5, were eventually consulted by Britain's Met Office, where they were the basis of the decision to change the date of the D-Day landings to June 6. (Although Ireland was neutral, the head of government, Eamon de Valera, agreed to share weather intelligence with the Allies.)
- He won seven senior All-Ireland medals with Kerry and a host of underage titles. He won six all-star awards in a row - a unique record. He also captained Ireland to victory against Australia in their own country. He played on the Kerry team from 1976 until he retired in 1992.
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Fiona Kelly was born in 1959 in County Kerry, Ireland. She is an actress, known for Garage (2007), Nothing Personal (2009) and Eireville (2002).- is an Irish politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Ireland for the South constituency since July 2009. He is a member of Fine Gael, part of the European People's Party.
He served as the 34th President of the Gaelic Athletic Association from 2003 to 2006. He was the first person from County Kerry to hold the office, being elected at his first attempt by a record margin at the GAA Congress in 2002. In July 2006, he took up the position of Executive Chairman of the Irish Institute of Sport, a body that was set up in Ireland to support elite athletes and players, and served as Executive President until he announced his resignation in July 2008.
Kelly was educated at Kilcummin National School, Tralee CBS and St Brendan's College, Killarney. He qualified as a primary school teacher in St Patrick's College of Education, Drumcondra and then attended University College Dublin where he received a B.A. and Higher Diploma in Education. He worked as a teacher in Dublin (Cromcastle Green, Kilmore West) and in St. Brendan's, Killarney. - Michael Dwyer was born on 2 May 1951 in Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland. He died on 1 January 2010 in Ireland.
- Mark Daly was born in 1973 in Kenmare, Co. Kerry, Ireland. He is known for Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates Jr. (2010) and Treasure Island (1997).
- Moss Keane was born on 27 July 1948 in County Kerry, Ireland. He died on 5 October 2010 in Portarlington, County Laois, Ireland.
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Donal Dineen was born in County Kerry, Ireland. He is known for Make Me an Island (2020), The Art of Music (2012) and Peace to the Ashes (2022).- Brendan Kennelly was born in 1936 in Ballylongford, County Kerry, Ireland. He was married to Margaret O'Brien. He died on 17 October 2021 in Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland.
- Bryan MacMahon was born on 29 September 1909 in Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland. He was a writer, known for General Electric Theater (1953) and The Celts (1987). He died on 14 February 1998.
- Páidí Ó Sé was born on 16 May 1955 in County Kerry, Ireland. He died on 15 December 2012 in County Kerry, Ireland.
- Sean O'Callaghan was born on 10 October 1954 in Tralee, Co. Kerry, Ireland. He died on 23 August 2017 in Jamaica.
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Pat Carr was born on 13 March 1915 in Tralee, Co. Kerry, Ireland. Pat is known for The Thin Red Line (1964). Pat died on 23 May 1970 in Barrow, Nr. Ardfert, Co. Kerry, Ireland.- Visual Effects
Justin Hourigan was born in Killorglin, Co. Kerry, Ireland. He is known for Ear to the Ground (1993) and The Rocker: Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott (1996).- Séamus Begley was born on 26 August 1949 in Ballynabuck, Dingle, County Kerry, Ireland. He was an actor, known for Song of Granite (2017), Come on Up to the House (2019) and The Tommy Tiernan Show (2017). He was married to Mary Begley. He died on 9 January 2023 in Dingle, County Kerry, Ireland.
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Christie Hennessy was born on 19 November 1945 in Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland. He is known for I Went Down (1997), Get Well Soon (1997) and Kelly (1989). He was married to Gill Erickson. He died on 11 December 2007 in London, England, UK.- Shane Finn was born in County Kerry, Ireland. He is known for Pushing Limits Podcast (2019), Dead Hedgehogs Podcast (2020) and The Bootcast (2019).
- Micheal O'Muircheartaigh was born on 20 August 1930 in Dingle, County Kerry, Ireland. He is an actor, known for Most Important (1999), Jeff & Kammy's Journey to Croker (2017) and Turas Teanga (2004). He is married to Helena O'Muircheartaigh. They have eight children.
- He was born in the hill country above Castle Island on the 6th of December 1925, in a blizzard. After working as a teacher he began writing as a journalist producing a column three times a week for the Evening Press. Now he writes for a variety of publications, including the Sunday World and Magill Magazine
He was, quite simply, one of Ireland's finest sports writers. Over a lengthy career, Con covered many of the greatest Irish and international sporting events, from classic gaelic football and hurling finals to soccer and rugby world cups, the Olympics and memorable race meetings at home and abroad. He has also written about sports biggest stars, from George Best to Muhammad Ali.
More Than a Game gathers together the finest examples of his sports journalism from the mid-1970s to the early 2000s. Con would guide you to some of the greatest moments and characters in world sport. - Brid Lynch was born in 1913 in County Kerry, Ireland. She was an actress, known for Professor Tim (1957), The Poacher's Daughter (1958) and Silent Evidence (1962). She died on 27 October 1969 in Dublin, Ireland.