List of Irish women writers

This is a list of women writers who were born in Ireland or whose writings are closely associated with that country.

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Mary Jane Adams (1840–1902), Irish-American poet
Cecil Frances Alexander (1818–1895), Anglo-Irish hymn writer and poet
Eleanor Jane Alexander (1857 - 1939), poet and novelist
Deborah Alcock (1835–1913), historical novelist, memoirist
Cecelia Ahern (born 1981), novelist, short story writer
Liz Allen (born 1969), investigative journalist, best selling novelist
Colette Nic Aodha (born 1967), poet
Geraldine Aron (born 1951), playwright
Mary Arrigan (born 15 February 1943),  illustrator, artist and novelist
Sarah Atkinson (1823–1893), biographer, essayist, philanthropist

B
Mary Barber (c.1685–c.1755), successful poet, author of Poems on several occasions
Leland Bardwell (1928-2016), poet, novelist, playwright
Alex Barclay, pseudonym of Yve Williams, (born 1974), journalist and crime writer
Jane Barlow (1857–1917), poet, novelist
Margaret Barrington (1896–1982), short story writer, essayist
Samantha Barry (born c.1981), journalist, editor
Eileen Battersby (c.1958–2018), literary critic
Henrietta Battier (c.1751–1813), poet, satirist, actress
Sara Baume (born 1984), novelist
Annie O'Meara de Vic Beamish, (1886-1969), novelist, playwright, translator
Louisa Beaufort (1781–1863), antiquarian, writer and artist
Emily Elizabeth Shaw Beavan, (1818-1897), poet
Mary Beckett (1926–2013), playwright for radio, short story writer, children's writer
Louie Bennett (1870–1956), suffragette, journalist and novelist
Tara Bergin (born 1974), poet
Sara Berkeley (born 1967), poet
Maeve Binchy (1939–2012), novelist, playwright, short story writer, columnist
E. Owens Blackburne (1848-1894), pen name writer and novelist, Elizabeth Casey
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington (1789–1849), novelist, essayist, letter writer
Gertrude Elizabeth Blood (1857–1911), journalist, writer, playwright and editor
Eavan Boland (born 1944), poet, non-fiction writer
Angela Bourke (born 1952), writer, historian, interested in folklore
Eva Bourke, German-born Irish poet since c.1985
Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973), novelist, short story writer, author of Eva Trout
Sarah Bowie, Irish illustrator and writer
Clare Boylan (1948–2006), journalist, critic, novelist, short story writer
Hilary Boyle (1899–1988), journalist, broadcaster, and activist
Maeve Brennan (1917–1993), short story writer, journalist, from 1934 in the United States
Sarah Rees Brennan (born 1983), young adult novelist
Teresa Brayton (1868–1943), poet, contributed to American newspapers
Charlotte Brooke (c.1740–1793), writer, translator of Irish-language poetry
Mary Brück (1925–2008), astronomer, science historian
Catherine Dorothea Burdett (1784–1861), novelist
Patricia Burke Brogan (fl. 1990s), playwright and poet
Charlotte Brooke (c.1740–1793), poet, author of Reliques of Irish Poetry
Mary Bonaventure Browne (17th century), nun, abbess, historian
Frances Browne (1816–1879), poet, novelist, children's writer
Colette Bryce (born 1970), poet
Ann Buckley (fl. 1990s), musicologist, non-fiction writer
Selina Bunbury (1802–1882), prolific novelist
Anne Burke (fl.1780–1805), was an Irish novelist in the Gothic genre
Patricia Burke Brogan (born c.1934), playwright, novelist, poet, artist

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Margaret Callan (c.1817–c.1883), teacher, nationalist, writer, used the pseudonym Thornton MacMahon
Caitilin Dubh (fl. c. 1624), early poet, wrote elegies
Moya Cannon (born 1956), poet, journal editor
Ethna Carbery (1866–1902), poet, journalist, short story writer
Amy Carmichael (1867–1951), missionary, many works on her work in India
Orlaith Carmody (born 1960), businesswoman, writer and news reporter
Marina Carr (born 1964), playwright
Austin Carroll (1835–1909), nun and writer, emigrated to United States
Claudia Carroll (born c. 1969), best-selling author
Anne-Marie Casey (born 1965), screenwriter, novelist
Agnes Castle (c.1860–1922), novelist, playwright and short story writer
Anne Chambers, since 2007, novelist, screenwriter, biographer
Anna Maria Chetwode (fl. 1827), novelist
Lana Citron (born 1969) writer
Josephine Fitzgerald Clarke (1865-1953), Irish romance novelist
Maude Clarke (1892–1935), historian
Agnes Mary Clerke (1842–1907), astronomer, writer
Eliza Dorothea Cobbe, Lady Tuite (c.1764–1850), poet and children's writer
Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904), writer and suffragist
Patricia Cockburn (1914–1989), journalist and artist
Mary Colum (1884–1957), literary critic, memoirist
Helena Concannon (1878–1952), historian, non-fiction writer, politician
Evelyn Conlon (born 1952), novelist, short story writer
Marita Conlon-McKenna (born 1956), children's writer, author of Under the Hawthorn Tree
Susan E. Connolly (c 1970), fiction and non fiction writer
June Considine (born 1945), children's writer and novelist
Dorothea Conyers (1869–1949), romantic novelist
Roz Cowman (born 1942), poet
Mary Costello (fl. 2010s), short story writer, novelist
Ethna Byrne-Costigan (190-1991) writer and academic
Emily Crawford (1841–1915), journalist
Mabel Sharman Crawford (1820–1912), an Irish adventurer, feminist and writer
Isabella Valancy Crawford (1846–1887), Irish-born Canadian poet, short story writer, novelist
Máirín Cregan (1891–1975), nationalist and writer
Elizabeth Christitch (1861 – January 26, 1933)  Irish journalist, writer, poet, translator and Serbian patriot
Bithia Mary Croker (1848–1920), novelist
May Crommelin (1850–1930), novelist, travel writer
Sarah Crossan (fl. 2010s), young adult writer
Julia Crottie (born 1853), novelist and short story writer
Catherine Ann Cullen, Irish poet
Majella Cullinane (fl. 2010s), novelist, poet, now in New Zealand
Geraldine Cummins (1890–1969), spiritualist, novelist and playwright
Judi Curtin, Irish children's writer
Margaret Anna Cusack (1829–1899), nun, novelist, biographer, non-fiction writer, poet
Sidney Czira (1889–1974), journalist, broadcaster, writer and revolutionary

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Ita Daly (born 1945) novelist and short story writer
Mary E. Daly (fl. 1980s), historian
Mildred Darby (1867–1932), novelist
Ailbhe Darcy (born 1981), poet
Suzanne R. Day (1876–1964), feminist, playwright and novelist
Mildred Darby (1867–1932) Gothic novelist and owner of Leap Castle
Annabel Davis-Goff (born 1942), memoirist, novelist, reviewer, now in the United States
Mary Davys (1674–1732), novelist, playwright, author of The Reform'd Coquet
Suzanne R. Day (1876–1964), feminist, novelist and playwright
Alice Dease (1874-1949), novelist
Charlotte Dease (1873–1953), prayer collector and writer
Denise Deegan (born 1966), screenwriter and young adult writer
Teresa Deevy (1894–1963), playwright, short story writer, also wrote for radio
Martina Devlin, award-winning columnist and best selling novelist
Polly Devlin (born 1944), novelist, short story writer, broadcaster
Éilís Ní Dhuibhne (born 1954), novelist, short story writer, children's writer, playwright, writes in Irish and English
Máirín Diamond (born 1957), poet
Eilís Dillon (1920–1994), children's writer, historical novelist, wrote in Irish and English
Lady Margaret Domville (1840 – 9 January 1929) , Irish aristocrat and a writer
Emma Donoghue (born 1969), playwright, historian, novelist, now living in Canada, author of Room
Aoife Dooley (born 1991), writer, illustrator and graphic designer.
Mary Dorcey (born 1950), short story writer, poet, novelist
Ellen Mary Patrick Downing, poet
Mary Downing (c.1815–1881), poet and nationalist
Catharine Drew (1832–1910), journalist
Nora Dryhurst (1856–1930), nationalist and writer
Dorothea Du Bois (1728–1774), musical entertainment writer
Ruth Dudley Edwards (born 1944), crime fiction novelist, journalist, broadcaster
Bella Duffy, (1849-1926), writer and translator

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Charlotte O'Conor Eccles (1860–1911), novelist, short story writer, columnist
Frances Anne Edgeworth (1769–1865), memoirist, botanical artist
Maria Edgeworth (1768–1849), novelist, children's writer, author of The Purple Jar
George Egerton, pen name of Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright (1859–1945), short story writer, novelist, playwright, translator
Marianne Elliott (born 1948), historian
Anne Enright (born 1962), essayist, short story writer, novelist, non-fiction writer
Erminda Rentoul Esler (c.1852–1924), novelist, short story writer
Elsa d'Esterre-Keeling (1857–1935), novelist

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Elaine Feeney (born 1979), poet
Eleanor Ffrench (died c. 1861), poet
Mrs. E. M. Field(1856–1940), children and historical
N. P. Figgis (1939 – 2014). archaeologist and author
Sarah Mary Fitton (c.1796–1874), writer interested in botany
Barbara Fitzgerald (1911–1982), novelist
Theodora FitzGibbon (1916–1991), cookbook writer, novelist, actress
Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick (born 1962), novelist, children's writer, illustrator
Patricia Forde (born c. 1960), children's writer
Anne Marie Forrest (born 1967), widely translated novelist
Ellen Forrester (1828–1883), nationalist and poet
Lorraine Francis (born 1958), children's writer
M. E. Francis (1859–1930), novelist
Celia de Fréine (born 1948), poet, playwright, screenwriter, librettist, writing in Irish and English
Katy French (1983–2007), model, television personality, columnist
Tana French (born 1973), novelist, actress, author of In the Woods
Sarah Mary Fitton (c. 1796–1874), botanist, non-fiction writer, children's writer
Anne Fuller (died 1790), novelist in the Gothic genre
Alice Furlong (1866–1946), poet, feminist, wrote in English and Irish

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Gertrude Gaffney (died 1959), journalist
Maureen Gaffney (born 1947), psychologist, non-fiction writer
Margaret Gallagher (fl. 1970s), writer specializing in gender and media
Miriam Gallagher (born 1940), plays, scripts, books, stories
Ruth Gilligan (born 1988), best selling novelist
Dr. Maude Glasgow (1876-1955), an early pioneer in public health and preventative medicine as well as an activist for equal rights.
Lady Blanche Girouard (1898-1940), writer
Eva Gore-Booth (1870–1926), poet, playwright, feminist
Clotilde Graves (1863–1932), novelist and playwright
Ida Margaret Graves Poore (1859-1941), writer and poet
Áine Greaney (c 1962), writer and editor
Alice Stopford Green (1847–1929), historian and nationalist
Sarah Green (fl.1790–1825), Irish-English novelist
Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852–1932), playwright, folk story writer, poet, memoirist, travelled widely
Frances Greville (c 1724–1789), poet, social celebrity
Constantia Grierson (c.1705–1732), editor, poet, classical scholar
Sarah Maria Griffin (c1988), Irish writer and poet
Elizabeth Griffith (1727–1793), playwright, novelist, essayist, translator
Beatrice Grimshaw (1870–1953), novelist, travel writer
Vona Groarke (born 1964), poet
Isabel Grubb (1881–1972), historian
Veronica Guerin (1958–1996), journalist
Althea Gyles (1868–1949), poet, artist

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Anna Maria Hall (1800–1881), playwright, novelist, short story writerist
C. J. Hamilton, (1841-1935) novelist and journalist
Marianne-Caroline Hamilton (1777–1861), artist and memoirist
Emma Hannigan (1972–2018), novelist, memoirist
Kerry Hardie (born 1951), poet and novelist
Elizabeth Hardy (1794–1854), novelist
Nancy Harris, successful playwright since c. 2012
Anne Le Marquand Hartigan (born 1940s), poet, playwright, painter
Johanna Harwood (born 1930), screenwriter
Anne Haverty (born 1959), novelist and poet
Mary Hayden (1862–1942), historian, Irish-language and women's rights activist
Annie French Hector, 'Mrs. Alexander' (1825–1902), popular novelist
Barbara Hemphill (died 1858), novelist
Claire Hennessy (born 1986), young adult novelist
Dorothea Herbert (c. 1767–1829), diarist, poet
Marie Herbert (born 1941), adventurer and author
Sarah Herbert (1824–1846), Irish-Nova Scotian author, publisher and educator
Jane Emily Herbert (1821–1882), acclaimed poet
Emily Henrietta Hickey (1845–1923), poet, writer on religion, translator
Elizabeth Hickey (1917–1999), historian
Mary Agnes Hickson (1821–1899), historian
F. E. Higgins, pen name of Fiona Higgins, novelist since 2007
Rita Ann Higgins (born 1955), poet, playwright
Pamela Hinkson (1900–1982), novelist
Mary Hobhouse (1864–1901), poet, novelist
Mary Anne Holmes (1773–1805), poet
Norah Hoult (1898–1984), novelist and short story writer
Caoilinn Hughes (fl. 2010s), novelist, short story writer
Margaret Wolfe Hungerford (1855–1897), popular novelist, short story writer
Arlene Hunt (born 1972), crime fiction novelist

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Rosamund Jacob (1888–1960), diarist, novelist
Anna Brownell Jameson (1794–1860), Irish-born British non-fiction writer, essayist
Biddy Jenkinson (born 1949), Irish-language poet, short story writer and dramatist
Rosemary Jenkinson (born 1967), poet, playwright and short story writer
Jennifer Johnston (born 1930), novelist, author of How Many Miles to Babylon?
Lauren-Shannon Jones (born c. 1989), is a horror playwright and performer

Kate Jordan (1862-1926), Irish-American novelist and playwright
Ann Henning Jocelyn (born 1948), writer, playwright and translator

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Julia Kavanagh (1824–1877), children's writer, novelist, stories mainly based in France
Rose Kavanagh (1860–1891), newspaper editor, columnist, poet
Úna-Minh Kavanagh (born 1991), journalist, travel writer
Molly Keane (1904–1996), novelist and playwright
Cathy Kelly (born 1966), journalist, widely translated women's fiction novelist
Maeve Kelly (born 1930), novelist, short story writer, poet
Mary Eva Kelly (1826–1910), poet, emigrated to Australia
Rita Kelly (born 1953), poet, writing in Irish and English
Mary Olivia Kennedy (1880–1943), journalst
Marian Keyes (born 1963), successful novelist, non-fiction writer, works widely translated
Molly Keane (1904–1996), novelist, playwright
Celine Kiernan (born 1967), young adult novelist, children's writer
Carla King (fl. 2000s), historian
Margaret King (1773–1835), children's writer, non-fiction works
Elaine Kinsella (fl. 2000s), radio dramatist
Olivia Knight (1830–1908), poet, essayist, columnist, from 1860 in to Australia
Kathleen Knox (1847 – 1930), an Irish author and poet who used the pen name Edward Kane in later life.

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May Laffan (1849–1916), novelist
Margaret Rebecca Lahee (1831-1895), Irish Lancashire dialect writer from the 19th century
Caitriona Lally (fl. 2018), novelist
Elish Lamont (c.1800–1870), artist, writer and poet
Lathóg of Tír Chonaill (9th century), poet
Rosamond Langbridge (1880–1964), novelist, playwright, poet
Maura Laverty (1907–1966), novelist, short story writer, journalist, broadcaster
Mary Lavin (1912–1996), pioneering novelist, short story writer
Emily Lawless (1845–1913), novelist, poet, biographer, historian
Alice Lawrenson, (1841-1900) – gardener
Sybil le Brocquy (1892–1973), playwright and conservationist
Mary Leadbeater (1758–1826), poet, short story writer, biographer, letter writer
Ada Leask (1899–1987), historian
Alicia Sheridan Le Fanu (1753–1817), playwright, published only one play: The Sons of Erin; Or, Modern Sentiment
Sarah Leech (1809–1830), poet
Alicia LeFanu (born 1791), poet, novelist
Elizabeth Emmet Lenox-Conyngham (1800–1889), poet
Mae Leonard poet, broadcaster, short story writer
Mary Isabel Leslie (1899-1978), known as Temple Lane, novelist
Sybil le Brocquy (1892–1973)
June Levine (1931–2008), journalist, novelist, feminist writer
Liadain (7th century), poet
J.S. Anna Liddiard (1773–1819), romantic poet
Ruth Frances Long (born 1971), novelist, young adult writer
Hannah Lynch (1859-1904), Irish novelist, journalist and translator
Patricia Lynch (1894–1972), children's writer, journalist, short story writer
Philomena Lynott (1930–2019), memoirist
Genevieve Lyons (born 1930), actress, novelist, educator

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Catherine Maberly (1805 – 1875) Irish writer
Aifric Mac Aodha (born 1979), poet
Dorothy Macardle (1889–1958), novelist, playwright, historian
Bridget G. MacCarthy (1904–1993), literary historian
Ethna MacCarthy (1903–1959), poet
Mary Stanislaus MacCarthy (1849–1897), nun, poet
Doireann MacDermott (born 1923), translator, philologist, non-fiction writer
Marisa Mackle (born c.1973), novelist
Eleanor MacMahon (1864–1956), romance novelist
Kathleen MacMahon, journalist and novelist
Charlotte Elizabeth MacManus (1850–1941), novelist
Máire MacNeill (1904–1987), journalist, folklorist, translator
Catherine Mary MacSorley (1848–1929), children's writer for girls, religious works
Marie MacSweeney, poet, shortstories
Máire MacSwiney Brugha (1918–2012), activist and writer
Audrey Magee (active since 2000), novelist
Catherine Gray, Lady Manners (1766–1852), poet
Mary Manning (1905–1999), novelist, playwright and film critic
Alicia Catherine Mant (1788–1869), children's writer
Harriet Evans Martin (died 1846), Anglo-Irish novelist, non-fiction writer
Harriet Letitia Martin (1801–1891), novelist
Mary Letitia Martin (1815–1850), novelist
Violet Florence Martin (1862–1915), novelist, co-authored works with Edith Somerville
Mary Mathew (1724–1777), diarist
Caitlín Maude (1941–1982), poet, teacher, actress, singer, wrote in Irish
Constantia Maxwell (1886–1962), historian
Joan McBreen (born 1947), poet
Eimear McBride (born 1976), novelist, author of A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
Kate McCabe (fl. 2005), novelist
Felicity McCall, journalist, playwright since c.2004
Nell McCafferty (born 1944), journalist, playwright, feminist
Justine McCarthy (fl. 2000s), journalist
Mary McCarthy (1951–2013), successful novelist
Letitia McClintock (1835-1917), writer and folklorist
Jenny McCudden, since c.2010, journalist, short story writer, poet
Mary McDermott (fl. 1832), poet
Mary McDonagh (born 1849), poet
Rosaleen McDonagh (fl. 2000s), activist and playwright
Medbh McGuckian (born 1950), Northern-Irish poet, literary writer
Maura McHugh (fl. 2000s), writer of horror novels, plays, comic books and short stories
Lisa McInerney (born 1981), novelist, short story writer, blogger
Pauline McLynn (born 1962), actress, novelist
Liz McManus (born 1947), politician, novelist
Janet McNeill (1907–1994), novelist, playwright and children's writer
Anna McPartlin (born 1972), novelist
Dervla McTiernan (born c.1977), crime novelist
L. T. Meade, pen name of Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith (1844–1914), prolific young adult and children's writer, mainly for girls, wrote over 300 books
Norah Meade (1888–1954), journalist
Roisin Meaney, Irish novelist
A. Garland Mears (1842–1920), novelist
Paula Meehan (born 1955), poet, playwright
Máighréad Medbh (born 1959), poet
A. L. Mentxaka (active since 2000s), playwright, critic, educator
Máire Mhac an tSaoi (born 1922), acclaimed Irish-language scholar, poet, translator
Betty Miller (1910–1965), novelist, non-fiction writer, biographer, columnist
Alice Milligan (1865–1953), acclaimed poet
Anna Millikin (fl. 1793–1810) Gothic novelist
Lia Mills (fl. 1990s), novelist, short story writer
Susan L. Mitchell (1866–1926), poet, known for her satirical verse
Dorothy Molloy (1942–2004), poet, journalist and artist
Frances Molloy (1947-1991), novelist
Mary Monck (c.1677–1715), poet
Sydney, Lady Morgan (1781–1859), poet, novelist, author of The Wild Irish Girl
Sinead Moriarty (born c. 1971), novelist
Sinéad Morrissey (born 1972), poet
Kathleen Mulchrone (1895–1973), Irish Celtic scholar, writer
Rosa Mulholland (1841–1921), prolific novelist, poet, playwright, biographer
Val Mulkerns (1925–2018)), novelist, journalist, columnist, broadcaster
Shelia Mulloy (1922–2013), historian
Margaret Mulvihill (born 1954), novelist and non-fiction writer
Iris Murdoch (1919–1999), Irish-born successful British novelist, philosopher, author of Under the Net
Agnes G. Murphy (1865-1931), Irish journalist and writer
C.E. Murphy (born 1973), American-born writer living in Ireland, writing using Irish mythology.
Dervla Murphy (born 1931), touring cyclist, travel writer
Elaine Murphy, playwright since c.2008
Kathleen M. Murphy (died 1963), poet
Maura Murphy (1928–2005), autobiographer
Nora J Murray (1888–1955), poet, short story writer, school teacher

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Angela Nagle (born 1984), non-fiction writer
Mary Nash (born 1947), historian
Kate Newmann (born 1965), poet and small press founder
Cláir Ní Aonghusa (born 1953), novelist, poet
Eibhlín Ní Bhriain (1925–1986), Irish-language journalist
Síle Ní Chéileachair (1924–1985), Irish-language short story writer
Dairena Ní Chinnéide (born 1969), poet and short story writer
Caitríona Ní Chléirchín (fl. 2010), poet
Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill (c. 1743–c. 1800), poet, lament in Irish
Nuala Ní Chonchúir (born 1970), novelist, poet
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (born 1942), poet, non-fiction writer
Annemarie Ní Churreáin (fl. 2010s), poet
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill (born 1952), poet, writing in Irish
Máire Ní Dhonnchadha Dhuibh (c.1702–c.1795), poet
Éilís Ní Dhuibhne (born 1954), novelist and short story writer in Irish and English
Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh (born 1984), poet, writing in Irish
Áine Ní Ghlinn (born 1955), poet, children's writer, writing in Irish
Máiréad Ní Ghráda (1896–1971), poet, playwright, broadcaster
Doireann Ní Ghríofa (born 1981), poet writing in Irish and English
Sorcha Ní Ghuairim (1911–1976), columnist, newspaper editor, teacher
Máire Bhuí Ní Laoghaire (1774–1849), poet in the oral tradition
Bríd Ní Mhóráin (born 1951), poet
Ailís Ní Ríain (fl. 2000s), composer and playwright
Siobhán Ní Shúilleabháin (1928–2013), dramatist, novelist and children's writer
Colette Nic Aodha (born 1967), Irish-language poet
Nuala Níc Con Iomaire (died 2010), playwright
Sister Nivedita (1867–1911), nun, essayist, non-fiction writer especially on India
Ellen Kyle Noel (1815-1873), Irish writer who published a number of novels through journals and serialization
Liz Nugent (born 1967), novelist

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Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh (1967–2014), historian
Kathy O'Beirne (born 1956), non-fiction writer
Kathleen O'Brennan (1876–1948), activist, journalist and playwright
Lily O'Brennan (1878–1948), writer and playwright
Charlotte Grace O'Brien (1845–1909), novelist, essayist, non-fiction writer and nationalist
Edna O'Brien (born 1930), acclaimed novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet, short story writer
Frances O'Brien (1840–1883), poet and novelist
Kate O'Brien (1897–1974), novelist, playwright, travel writer
Mary O'Brien (writer) (fl. 1785-1790), poet and playwright
Helen O'Clery (1910–2006), children's writer
Ellen Bridget O'Connell (1805–1883), poet
Gemma O'Connor (born 1940), novelist, short story writer
Niamh O'Connor (active since 2000), journalist, novelist
Mary Barry O'Delaney (1862–1947), journalist and nationalist
Mary O'Donnell (born 1954), novelist, poet, short story writer
Mary O'Donoghue (born 1975), novelist, poet, translator
Mary Jane O'Donovan Rossa (1845–1916), poet and political activist
Julia O'Faolain (born 1932), novelist, short story writer, emigrated to the United States
Nuala O'Faolain (1940–2008), best selling novelist, journalist, television producer, critic, memoirist
Ursula O'Farrell (born 1934), non-fiction writer on counseling
Sheila O'Hagan, poet since 1984
Adelaide O'Keeffe (1776–1865), poet and novelist
Nessa O'Mahony (fl. 1990s), poet
Mary O'Malley (born 1954), poet
Kathleen O'Meara (1839–1888), journalist, novelist, biographer
Louise O'Neill (born 1985), novelist, young adult writer
Mary Devenport O'Neill (1879–1967), modernist poet, playwright
Geraldine O'Neill (born c 1950s), historical novelist
Moira O'Neill, pen name of Agnes Shakespeare Higginson (1864–1955), popular Irish-Canadian poet
Caitriona O'Reilly (born 1973), poet, critic
Emily O'Reilly (fl. 1970s), journalist, non-fiction writer, ombudsman
Pat O'Shea (1931–2007), children's writer
Leanne O'Sullivan (fl. 2004), poet
Maureen Donovan O'Sullivan (1887–1966), educator, journal editor, historian
Suzanne O'Sullivan (fl. 2010s), non-fiction writer
Jane Ohlmeyer (fl. 1990s), historian
Adela Orpen (1855–1927), essay writer and novelist
Annette Jocelyn Otway-Ruthven (1909–1989), historian and early female academic
Olivia Owenson, Lady Clarke (1785–1845), poet and dramatist

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Siobhán Parkinson (born 1954), children's writer, novelist, non-fiction writer, translator, writes in English and Irish
Fanny Parnell (1848–1882), poet, known as the Patriot Poet
Julie Parsons (born 1951), novelist
Mrs F. C. Patrick, 18th-century Gothic novelist
Mabel Cosgrove Wodehouse Pearse (born 1872), novelist
Margaret Pender (1848–1920) an Irish writer and poet
Ethel Penrose (1857–1938) an Irish children's writer
Amelia Perrier (1841 – 1875) Irish novelist and travel writer
Alice Perry (1885–1969), poet, feminist and early engineering graduate
Daphne Pochin Mould, 20th-century historian, pilot, broadcaster and writer
Madeleine A. Polland (1918–2005), children's author
Nannie Lambert Power O'Donoghue, (1843–1940), poet, journalist, novelist, social activist
Mabel Cosgrove Wodehouse Pearse (born 1872), novelist
Nicola Pierce (born 1969), Irish writer and ghost writer
Laetitia Pilkington (c. 1709–1750), poet, memoirist
Louisa Lilias Plunket Greene (1833–1891), children's writer
Máire Wyse Power (1887–1916), Irish Celtic scholar
Stefanie Preissner (born 1988), dramatist, screenwriter, actress
Deirdre Purcell (born 1945), journalist, novelist, non-fiction writer, actress
Katherine Purdon (1852–1920), writer

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Marjorie Quarton (born 1930), children's writer, novelist

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Sophie Raffalovich (1860–1960), Irish nationalist and writer
Orlaith Rafter (fl. 1990s), actress and playwright
Mary Raftery (1957–2012), investigative journalist, filmmaker and writer
Elizabeth Reapy (fl. 2012), editor, novelist
Nell Regan (born 1969), poet and non-fiction writer
Christina Reid (1942–2015), playwright
Lorna Reynolds (1911–2003), writer, editor and academic
Grace Rhys (1865–1929), novelist, essayist, poet, children's writer
Jessie Louisa Rickard (1876–1963), popular novelist
Charlotte Riddell (1832–1906), influential novelist, short story writer, journal editor
Lucinda Riley (born 1965), novelist, actress
Nesca Robb (1905–1976), poet, non-fiction writer
Anne Isabella Robertson (c.1830–1910), writer and suffragist
Regina Maria Roche (1764–1845), popular novelist, author of The Children of the Abbey
Sally Rooney (born 1991), novelist
Amanda McKittrick Ros (1860–1939), novelist, poet
Orna Ross (born 1960), novelist, literary agent
Rosemarie Rowley (born 1942), poet
Margot Ruddock (1907–1951), actress, poet
Meda Ryan (fl. 1980s), historian
Roma Ryan, since 1982, poet, lyricist
Elizabeth Ryves (1750–1797), poet, playwright, novelist, journalist, translator

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Mary Anne Sadlier (1820–1903), Irish-Canadian novelist, short story writer
Blanaid Salkeld (1880–1959), poet, playwright, actress, salonist
Patricia Scanlan (born 1956), novelist
Eileen Shanahan (1901–1979), poet
Elizabeth Shane (1877–1951), poet
Elizabeth Shaw, artist, illustrator and children's writer
Mabel Sharman Crawford (1820–1912), feminist, travel writer
Nessa Ní Shéaghda(1916 – 1993), Irish Celtic Studies scholar
Eileen Sheehan (born 1963), poet, teacher
Helena Sheehan (fl. 1980s), philosopher, historian and non-fiction writer
Betsy Sheridan (1758–1837), diarist
Frances Sheridan (1724–1766), novelist, playwright
Dora Sigerson Shorter (1866–1918), poet, sculptor
Hester Sigerson Piatt (1870–1939), poet and journalist
Rhoda Cosgrave Sivell (1874-1962), poet
Niamh Sharkey author and illustrator of children’s picturebooks
Sharon Slater (fl. 2010s), historian
Doris E. Smith (1919–before 1994), romantic novelist
Annie M. P. Smithson (1873–1948), novelist and poet
Cherry Smyth (born 1953), academic, poet, writer and art critic
Ciara Elizabeth Smyth (fl. 2010s), playwright
Edith Somerville (1858–1949), novelist in collaboration with her cousin Violet Florence Martin
Eithne Strong (1925–1999), writer and poet, Irish and English languages
Deirdre Sullivan, Irish children's writer and poet
Elinor Sweetman (c.1861–1922), poet

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Jemima von Tautphoeus (1807–1893), novelist, focus on Bavaria
Alice Taylor (born 1938), novelist, memoirist, poet and children's writer
Katherine Thurston (1875–1911), novelist, author of The Masquerader
Mary Tighe (1772–1810), poet
Melesina Trench (1768–1827), diarist, letter writer, essayist, poet
Una Troy (1913–1993), novelist, playwright
Eliza Dorothea Cobbe, Lady Tuite (c. 1764–1850), author and poet
Lizzie Twigg (1882–1933), poet
Katharine Tynan (1859–1931), novelist, poet, biographer

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Noelle Vial (1959–2003), poet
Ethel Lilian Voynich (1864–1960), novelist, author of the successful The Gadfly
Moira Verschoyle (1903–1985)

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Helen Waddell (1889–1965), poet, translator, playwright
Maureen Wall (1918–1972), historian
Catherine Walsh (born 1964), poet
 Dolores Walshe (born 1949), short story writer, novelist and playwright
Elizabeth Hely Walshe (1835-1869), writer
Maria Webb (1804–1873), philanthropist and historian
Liz Weir (born 1950), storyteller and children's writer
Biddy White Lennon (1946–2017), actress and food writer
Sheila Wingfield (1906–1992), poet
Agnes Romilly White (1872–1945), novelist
Ida L. White (19th century), poet, feminist
Isabella Whiteford Rogerson (1835–1905), poet
Jane Wilde (1821–1896), poet, interested in folk tales
Catherine Wilmot (1773–1824), travel writer, diarist, letter writer
Florence Mary Wilson ( –1946) , poet
Laurie Winkless (fl. 2010s), physicist and science writer
Denyse Woods (born 1958), novelist
Isabella Letitia Woulfe (1817-18700, novelist
Maev-Ann Wren (born 1950s), economist, journalist, newspaper editor, non-fiction writer
Frances Wynne (1863–1893), poet
Grace Wynne-Jones (fl. 1990s), playwright, journalist, writer

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Ella Young (1867–1956), poet, Celtic mythologist, children's writer, emigrated to California
Rose Maud Young (1866–1947), diarist, writer

See also
List of Irish writers
List of women writers

References

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Irish women writers, List of
Writers
Women writers, List of Irish


Matthew Antoine

Matthew Antoine (born April 2, 1985) is an American skeleton racer who has competed since 2003.

Antoine graduated from the California University of Pennsylvania in 2009 with a degree in sports management, wellness and fitness.

Antoine won gold in the mixed team event at the FIBT World Championships 2012 in Lake Placid, New York.  His best World Cup race finish was first at Lake Placid in December 2013.  He ranked third overall in the 2013–14 Skeleton World Cup.

He won the bronze medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, the first U.S. medal in men's skeleton since Jimmy Shea won gold at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Antoine and John Daly were named to represent the U.S. at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang; He finished 11th.

References

External links

 @MattAntoine on Twitter

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XHSCAK-FM

XHSCAK-FM is a community radio station broadcasting to Taxco de Alarcón, Guerrero on 107.9 FM. It is known as Plata Radio and owned by Domi Bello de Tenorio, A.C.

History

Domi Bello de Tenorio filed for a station in Taxco on October 6, 2016. The concession was received on August 27, 2018 and the station began broadcasting in 2019.

References

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Juho Paksujalka

Juho Paksujalka (29 April 1883, Hiitola - 13 September 1951, Anjala) was a Finnish farmer and politician. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1933 to 1936 and again from 1939 to 1948, representing the Agrarian League.

References

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Veronika Decides to Die (film)

Veronika Decides to Die is a 2009 American psychological drama film directed by Emily Young from a screenplay by Roberta Hanley and Larry Gross, based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Paulo Coelho. It stars Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jonathan Tucker, Melissa Leo, David Thewlis, and Erika Christensen. While the novel originally takes place in Ljubljana, Slovenia, the film is set in New York City.

Plot
Although living what looks like a successful life, Veronika is depressed and cannot find meaning in her existence. Intending suicide, she takes an overdose, blaming her attempted suicide on the failure of the world to recognize what is "real". She wakes inside an exclusive and expensive mental asylum only to learn that the overdose has left her prone to an aneurysm that will kill her in a matter of weeks.

At first, Veronika wants only to accelerate the process, and even a visit by her adoptive parents fails to rekindle her will to live. Her parents love her, but while they are prepared to spend their dwindling resources to get her what help they can (not knowing her death is imminent anyway), they do not truly understand her. They discouraged her from accepting a full musical scholarship at Juilliard because they wanted her to get a degree that could earn her a living. They do not see how she despairs at their constraints.

In spite of herself and in spite of her disappointment with her materialistic life, Veronika finds renewed purpose through playing the asylum's piano and through observing and then connecting with the schizophrenic Edward. Not only does she recover her own will to live, Veronika helps Edward come out of his catatonic state, and the pair soon "escape" (Dr. Blake, looking out his window, observes them escaping, but does not send for anyone to bring them back) from the asylum together, determined to enjoy Veronika's final days as a couple.

Veronika does not know that her aneurysm is the invention of her unorthodox psychiatrist Dr. Blake, who is testing his theory that convincing her she has only weeks to live will restore her to health and cure her desire to commit suicide. He explains his treatment through letter to his estranged wife, a colleague from the asylum. As long as she does not know the truth, he theorizes, she will consider each day as if it might be her last and thus treasure it. This is, he notes, actually true, as nobody knows when their end will come.

When Veronika drifts off one morning on a bench at sunrise, Edward believes he has lost her, but his grief transforms to joy when she wakes. Celebrating what they believe might be one more day, the pair embrace and walk happily on the beach in the morning light, laughing and hold hands.

Cast
 Sarah Michelle Gellar as Veronika Deklava
 Jonathan Tucker as Edward
 Erika Christensen as Claire
 Melissa Leo as Mari
 David Thewlis as Dr. Blake
 Adrian Martinez as Male Nurse #1

Production
Shooting for the film began on May 12, 2008, in New York City and concluded on June 21. The novel was adapted for film by Muse Productions, Das Films, and Velvet Steamroller Entertainment. It was reported that Kate Bosworth was previously attached to the project.

Release
Veronika Decides to Die had a special screening in Brazil on August 7, 2009, followed by an August 21 release. On its opening weekend, it grossed US$90,455 with 61 screens. The film was released in Poland on October 2, 2009, in Sweden on October 30, 2009, and in South Korea on November 19, 2009. It was released in Argentina on July 1, 2010, in Austria on November 18, 2010, in Germany on September 30, 2010, in Lithuania on April 23, 2010, and in Mexico on September 10, 2010. In Australia, it was released on a region-free PAL DVD. It was never officially released in the United Kingdom.

In the United States, the film was released by Entertainment One Films in select theaters and on VOD on January 20, 2015, and on DVD on March 17, 2015. To promote the release, a scene was shown on The Hollywood Reporters website in January 2015. That same year, the film was made available on Netflix.

References

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Career Soldiers

Career Soldiers may refer to:
 Career Soldiers (band), a Street punk / Hardcore punk band from Southern California.
 Standing army, an army composed of full-time professional soldiers who do not disband during times of peace.


The Curious Savage

The Curious Savage, written by John Patrick, is a comedic play about Ethel P. Savage, an elderly woman whose husband recently died and left her approximately ten million dollars. Contrasting the kindness and loyalty of psychiatric patients with the avarice and vanity of "respectable" public figures, it calls into question conventional definitions of sanity while lampooning celebrity culture. The play was first produced in New York by the Theatre Guild and Lewis & Young at the Martin Beck Theatre and opened October 24, 1950, with Lillian Gish in the role of Ethel. Peter Glenville directed the production.

Plot

Act l
The play opens with the five residents of a sanatorium awaiting a new resident. The current residents of the sanatorium, called The Cloisters, function normally, excepting one small ailment. Fairy May (a plain girl who has difficulty telling fantasy from truth) sees herself as a person of great beauty. Jeff (a concert pianist and military veteran) believes that he was horribly scarred in the war, even though he survived the plane crash that killed all his men without a scratch. Florence dotes on a doll as if it were her 5-year-old living son (who had died at infancy). Hannibal (a statistician who lost his reason after being replaced by an electronic calculator and not finding work again) believes himself to be a concert violinist, even though he cannot play the violin. Mrs. Paddy, who had been told by her husband to "shut up" years before, rarely speaks except to shout out protracted lists of things she hates (including electricity, which she has given up for Lent) She believes herself to be a great artist, though her painting style is simplistic.

Soon, Mrs. Savage (the widow of a millionaire) and her stepchildren arrive, and the five residents eavesdrop from the hallway outside. Ethel's three stepchildren, Titus (a U.S. senator), Lily Belle (a self-proclaimed ingenue), and Samuel (a judge), had been shocked to find out that their stepmother had set up a memorial fund with her money in order to help average people pursue their dreams. On the basis of her "eccentric" behavior (such as taking up acting and the goals of her fund) they had her committed to The Cloisters so that they could take the money from her. When Ethel's three stepchildren leave, the five inmates introduce themselves to Mrs. Savage. Mrs. Savage tells them of her escapades in the theater before they all leave for Garden Hour. She then reveals to Miss Willie, her nurse, and Dr. Emmett, her doctor, that she has hidden the money that her stepchildren tried to take from her.

Act II
The residents of The Cloisters ask Ethel about her stepchildren. She reveals the sad history of her unpleasant "brood," when the stepchildren themselves arrive, trying to pry from her the whereabouts of the Savage fortune. She deceives each of them by giving fake locations for the fortune, and they are each sent on a wild goose chase in which they end up humiliating themselves. They return and convince Ethel to reveal the fortune, which is in the form of half-million dollar negotiable bonds. They are in the teddy bear that she has been carrying around with her, and Mrs. Savage is about to hand them over, only to have Mrs. Paddy turn out the lights. The room is thrown into darkness and chaos. When the lights come back on, the money is gone.

Act III
The staff begin to search for Mrs. Paddy and the bonds. After much effort from all, Mrs. Paddy is found, but she does not have the bonds. Dr. Emmett asks Miss Willie to search Fairy May. When Fairy returns from being searched, she exclaims there is a fire upstairs in Mrs Paddy’s bathtub. No one believes her and they all continue arguing. Jeff and Florence both falsely confess to taking the bonds, perhaps in an attempt to protect whomever they believe to be the guilty party. Hannibal then tells Dr. Emmet that he knows a woman took the bonds, because he was pushed during the blackout by a woman wearing perfume. He smells Lily Belle, but not her perfume. He smells smoke, and Ms. Willie brings in the burnt bundle of bonds. The siblings leave in frustration. The Doctor tells Ethel that she can leave if she wants to. Each of her new friends bestow a going away gift to Ethel. Miss Willie reveals that she is Jeff’s wife and works at the Cloisters in hopes that he one day remembers her. She also reveals that it was she who took the bonds and just pretended to burn them. Ethel, empowered, takes the bonds and leaves the Cloisters, having a final vision of her five new friends as happy and fulfilled.
Jeff is playing the piano without flaw. Hannibal on the violin is perfect. Mrs. Paddy has painted a masterpiece. Florence is with a real living child. Fairy May is beautiful.

Theme
Primarily a comedy, the play sets up a contrast between the patients and Mrs. Savage's stepchildren. By the end of the play, the viewer wonders who the crazy ones really are.

Playwright John Patrick states in his foreword to his play:
"It is important in 'The Curious Savage' that the gentle inmates of The Cloisters be played with warmth and dignity. Their home is not an asylum nor are these good people lunatics. Any exaggeration of the roles will rob them of charm and humor. The whole point of the play is to contrast them with Mrs. Savage's children and the insane outside world. To depart from this point of view for the sake of easy laughs will rob the play of its meaning."

Characters

The Residents
Florence Williams: (20s-40s) The elegant "mother" of The Cloisters, she believes she has a five-year-old son named John Thomas; in fact, John Thomas is a doll. During Mrs. Savage's stay at The Cloisters, Florence believes that John Thomas has the measles.

Fairy May: (early 20s) Fairy is a compulsive liar who is obsessed with having others love her. She is unkempt throughout the play, but believes herself to be stunningly beautiful. She is also very childlike, behaving and speaking in the tone of a six-year-old.

Jeffrey: (20s-30s) Once a military pilot, Jeff was shot down in the war, surviving a crash that killed all his men. He now believes that he has a scar on his face, which he constantly hides from others. He plays the piano, but is too shy to do so around other people. He is also married to Miss Willie, but does not remember that he is, due to the crash. Miss Willie works at the Cloisters in the hopes that one day her Jeffrey will remember her.

Hannibal: (20s-40s) Hannibal, once a statistician, was fired and replaced by an electronic calculator. He has then taken up the violin, which he wrongly believes he can play beautifully. He is a kind man with a vast array of knowledge stored in his sometimes sarcastic head.

Mrs. Paddy: (40s-50s) Mrs. Paddy paints with the quality of Hannibal's violin playing. She paints only seascapes, which strikes Hannibal as "odd, because she's never seen the ocean." The other patients say that Mrs. Paddy stopped talking when her husband told her to "shut up" one day, and she hasn't spoken since. She only speaks to announce what she hates. She hates "everything in the world." Her main lines are lists of random things she hates, strung together loosely alphabetically. Her tirades are ignored by the other characters. She has given up electricity for Lent and turns off all the lights multiple times throughout the play, causing mayhem.

The Savages
Titus: He is the eldest step-son of Mrs. Savage. He has been sent so many threatening letters that he is listed by Western Union as a "tangible asset"; Titus is the least popular senator in congress. He is sober, humorless, and direct. Titus also has a temper that tends to come out most when dealing with his mother.

Lily Belle: Lily Belle, the middle step-child, was once married to a Slovak prince, and has remarried five times since then. A celebrity heiress, she is arrogant, chic, and self-assured. She is also very selfish and is constantly putting forth the effort to make sure others are respecting her. When Lily Belle first met Ethel, she bit her new stepmother's finger and has promptly been just as vicious ever since.

Samuel: The youngest step child of Ethel, Samuel has the distinction of being the judge with the most overturned decisions in the U.S. He walks in the shadows of his siblings, offering a sassy, short comment every once in a while, only to be shot down.

Mrs. Ethel P. Savage: Referred to as "Mrs. Savage" for the majority of the play, she is a witty, kindhearted, blue haired woman with a shifted viewpoint of humanity. The events of the play are centered around her and her decision to hide the money which she has inherited from her late husband from her greedy stepchildren, to give away to those less fortunate or to fulfill others' random, yet important lifelong dreams. She dislikes her stepchildren, but learns to love the residents of The Cloisters, accepting their own realities and delusions with an open-mindedness that others on the outside do not.

The Staff
Dr. Emmett: The staff doctor for this wing of The Cloisters, Dr. Emmett is kind, warmhearted, and he works hard to help his patients.

Miss "Willie" Wilhelmina: Miss Willie is an administrative assistant and nurse. She is married to Jeff, but struggles to pretend not to be because he doesn't remember her. She occasionally calls Jeff her pet name "Bingo." He is the reason she is working here, but she is nonetheless extremely kind and understanding towards all the residents of The Cloisters.

Sources
http://www.ericdsnider.com/theater/the-curious-savage/
http://www.djmproductions.net/savg.html
http://www.sodburyplayers.org.uk/Plays/2006CuriousSavage.html - Sodbury Players
The play itself

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Jim McCalliog

James McCalliog (born 23 September 1946) is a Scottish former footballer, who played for Chelsea, Sheffield Wednesday, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Manchester United, Southampton and Lincoln City in the Football League and who also had spells with Chicago Sting and Lyn (Oslo).

He played for Southampton in their victorious 1976 FA Cup Final against his former employers Manchester United and made the pass that set up Bobby Stokes for the only goal. He also appeared in the 1966 FA Cup Final for Sheffield Wednesday in a 3–2 defeat by Everton, and scored one of the Owls' goals.

He also won five caps for Scotland and scored the third goal in Scotland's 3–2 win over World Cup winners England at Wembley in 1967.

Playing career

Club
McCalliog was selected to play for Glasgow Schools, before signing as an amateur with Leeds United in May 1963. However, he remained on the books of the Yorkshire club for just four months before joining Chelsea in September 1963.

He made his senior debut on his 18th birthday in a 3–0 League Cup win at Birmingham City, but managed just seven league appearances over a two-year stay. His only goals for Chelsea came on 21 November 1964, when he scored twice at Birmingham in a 6–1 victory. However, his potential was noted and, in October 1965, he transferred to Sheffield Wednesday for a then-record fee for a teenager of £37,500.

His first season at Hillsborough saw him help the club to the FA Cup Final with a goal in their 2–0 semi-final victory over Chelsea at Villa Park. He scored again in the Final against Everton, with the opening goal in the fourth minute as his team took a 2–0 lead. Unfortunately for his team, Everton then mounted one of the greatest comebacks in FA Cup final history, and eventually ran out 3–2 winners.

After almost four seasons and 174 appearances for the Owls, McCalliog moved on to fellow top-flight side Wolverhampton Wanderers for £70,000, where he was virtual ever-present over the next three seasons. He played in the club's run to the 1972 UEFA Cup Final, scoring a vital away goal against Juventus en route. In the final, a two-legged match against Tottenham Hotspur, he scored Wolves' only goal in a 2–1 first leg defeat at home. The second leg ended a 1–1 draw, leaving McCalliog with a runners-up medal.

The 1973–74 season saw his appearances hampered by injuries and he did not win his place back for Wolves' League Cup win over Manchester City; Alan Sunderland taking his spot. Days later, on deadline day in March 1974, he left Wolves to join Manchester United for £60,000.

United were then struggling near the foot of the First Division, and although McCalliog soon made his mark with three goals in three wins, the club were relegated at the end of the season. He played enough games in the following season to win a Second Division championship medal but had been sold by manager Tommy Docherty before the season's end to Southampton for £40,000.

He made his Southampton debut away to Oldham on 15 February 1975 and appeared 14 times that season. The following season (1975–76) he made 37 league appearances, scoring 7 goals, as Southampton laboured away in the Second Division.

Their league campaign was overshadowed though by a run to that year's FA Cup Final, during which McCalliog scored at Aston Villa and Bradford in the preceding rounds. He gained the first winners' medal of his career as he supplied the through-ball for Bobby Stokes to hit the winner against favourites Manchester United.

The following season saw manager Lawrie McMenemy start to dismantle the cup-winning team and McCalliog was released at the end of the season, having lost his place in the first team to Alan Ball in January. He moved to the United States to ply his trade with the Chicago Sting, before a brief spell as player-coach with SFK Lyn in Norway.

He returned to Britain in September 1978, as a player/coach at Lincoln City but soon fell out with manager Colin Murphy and his contract was paid up early in 1979. He briefly moved on to non-league Runcorn as player/manager, before quitting football, and taking over a pub in Lytham St. Anne's in 1979.

In March 1990, he was combining the job of publican with that of community officer in North Yorkshire when Halifax Town parted company with manager Billy Ayre, and he was asked to step into the breach. However, his spell with Halifax was not successful, as they hovered around the foot of the Football League, and he resigned in October 1991 to be succeeded by John McGrath. McCalliog has not held a senior position in football since.

International
McCalliog represented Scotland at schoolboy, youth and under-23 level. He made four appearances for Scotland during 1967–68 (whilst with Sheffield Wednesday) and a further appearance (against Portugal) in April 1971 (when with Wolverhampton Wanderers). On his Scotland debut he scored the third goal in Scotland's 3–2 win over 1966 FIFA World Cup winners England at Wembley. Speaking in 2014, Scotland manager Bobby Brown said that McCalliog had been the "crux" of the team.

Life after football
After leaving Halifax, he settled with his second wife in Yorkshire where they ran the George & Dragon pub at Wetherby. After another divorce, at the end of 2005 he was running a pub in Leeds. He later took over the King's Arms pub in Fenwick, Ayrshire, close to his native Glasgow but left this establishment around 2010 and now runs Langside Bed and Breakfast in Fenwick, Ayrshire with his present wife Debbie.

Honours
Southampton
FA Cup winner: 1976

Sheffield Wednesday
FA Cup finalist: 1966

Wolverhampton Wanderers
UEFA Cup finalist: 1972

References

Bibliography

External links

Manchester United career summary
Manchester United profile
Scotland profile

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1893–94 Stoke F.C. season

The 1893–94 season was Stoke's fifth season in the Football League.

Stoke finished the season in 11th position after picking up 29 points of which 27 were claimed at the Victoria Ground. Indeed, Stoke's home form of 1893–94 was excellent with 13 wins from 15 but their away from was terrible as they failed to win any away game during the season. Stoke also competed in the short lived United Counties League which was won on goal average by West Bromwich Albion.

Season review

League
In 1893–94 the Stoke side was broken up with Alf Underwood, Bill Rowley and Ted Evans all losing their first choice status. Eleventh place in the table was achieved, thanks in main to an excellent home record of 13 wins from 15. The only defeat in front of their own fans came shortly after Christmas when Wolverhampton Wanderers won 3–0 whilst eventual champions Aston Villa were held 3–3 in the other game. As their home form was good Stoke's away from was awful picking up just two points and conceded 62 goals on their travels. Indeed, from 1 April 1893 to 17 March 1895 not one away win was gained and by coincidence it was Sheffield Wednesday whom Stoke beat on each occasion at the start and at the end of that dismal run. There was tragedy during the season as young defender Jack Proctor fell ill with pneumonia and died at the age of 22.

Stoke also competed in the United Counties League this season which involved two groups of four teams playing each other twice and the winners of each group playing each other to win the title. Stoke finished 2nd in their group behind West Bromwich Albion on goal average. West Brom went on to lose to Derby County in the final. The tournament failed to get the supporters in through the gates and after just one season the United Counties League was scrapped.

FA Cup
Season 1893–94 also saw one of Stoke's best FA Cup displays since they entered the competition in 1883. Competing in gale-force winds, they knocked out Everton 1–0 with a Joe Schofield goal in the final minute of the match. The Stoke players were praised by watching reporters for making the match highly entertaining in difficult conditions. Alas they went out in the next round defeated by Sheffield Wednesday.

Final league table

Key: P = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GA = Goal average; Pts = Points

Results

Stoke's score comes first

Legend

Football League First Division

FA Cup

United Counties League
 Derby County won the other group and beat West Bromwich Albion in the final. The United Counties League was not deemed a success due to poor attendances and was scrapped after just one season.

Table

Squad statistics

References

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Michael Raelert

Michael Raelert (born 29 August 1980) is a German triathlete who is the 2009 and 2010 Ironman 70.3 World Champion. In 2010, Raelert won Ironman 70.3 races at Switzerland, California, and Germany, as well as the 28th Avia Wildflower Triathlon.

Raelert's older brother, Andreas Raelert, is also an active triathlete.

References

External links
 Michael and Andreas Raelert website

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Forever Not Yours

"Forever Not Yours" is the first single from the A-ha album Lifelines. It was sent to radio stations in parts of Europe on 22 February 2002 (15 April in Belgium) and was released commercially on 2 April.

The cover of the commercial release features a closeup shot of the black front end of a 1950s Cadillac standing on flatland. The A-ha logo in dark red is in the top right hand corner of the sleeve with the title in black letters underneath. The reverse of the sleeve features more flatland which has been fenced off with a small blue and white wooden panel. The sky is blue grey above with the A-ha logo in white letters at the top and track information in black underneath. The disc itself is a picture disc, showing the steering wheel and dash board photographed from inside the car. The A-ha logo is in silver at the bottom of the disc with title in white underneath. The photographs used on this single were taken by Andy Frank.

Words by Morten Harket and Ole Sverre Olsen
Music by Magne Furuholmen and Morten Harket
Produced by Stephen Hague and Martin Landquist
Additional arrangement by Keller, Schroeder
Recorded at Lydlab Studios, Oslo and Strongroom, London

Formats and track listing

CD: WEA. / 0927 44859-2 Europe
"Forever Not Yours" - (4:08)
"Differences" (Original Demo) - 2:49
"Hunting High And Low" (Live In Oslo) - 7:07
"Manhattan Skyline" (Live In Oslo) - 6:14

Forever Not Yours video
Director: Harald Zwart
The video was filmed on location in Cuba.
The theme of the video was based on the Biblical floods and Noah's Ark.
There are many famous faces entering the 'VIP entrance' in this video, including look-a-likes for Desmond Tutu, Madonna, Lenny Kravitz, and Elizabeth II.
In the final scene, A-ha once again makes fun of themselves: the VIP entrance turns out to be an entrance to a work hall for the crew.
Morten: " 'Forever Not Yours' is one of those songs that sums us up. Melancholy, and at the same time uplifting - soaring."

Chart positions
 #1 (Norway)
 #1 (Poland)
 #1 (Latvia)
 #1 (Lithuania)
 #1 (Macedonia)
 #1 (Romania)
 #1 (Russia)
 #3 (Estonia)
 #4 (Denmark)
 #4 (Moldova)
 #7 (Singapore)
 #7 (Slovakia)
 #9 (Slovenia)
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361st Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

The 361st Infantry Division () was an infantry division of the German Army during the Second World War, active from 1943 to 1945. It was redesignated as a Volksgrenadier division in 1944. It saw active service on the Eastern Front when the Soviets launched Operation Bagration, during which it suffered significant losses. It later fought in France before being absorbed by the 559th Volksgrenadier Division on 10 March 1945.

Operational history

The 361st Infantry Division was formed in Denmark during the period from October to November 1943, and formally established on 26 November under the command of Generalleutnant Baron Siegmund von Schleinitz. The division nominally fell within the responsibility of Wehrkreis VI (military district VI). At its core were remnants of the 86th Infantry Division, which had been disbanded due to significant losses incurred during fighting on the Eastern Front. Three battalions

of infantry also came from the 94th and 137th Infantry Divisions, as well as the 141st Reserve Division.

The division was dispatched to the Eastern Front in March 1944 and the following month became involved in the fighting in the Kamenets-Podolsky pocket. In the summer of 1944, the Soviet forces launched Operation Bagration and, as part of XIII Army Corps, it incurred casualties during this time. It, along with the rest of XIII Army Corps, became encircled at Brody and was trapped. While some personnel were able to fight their way out, its commander, Generalleutnant Gerhard Lindemann, and most of his men became prisoners of war. What was left of the division retreated into Poland and it was transferred to Germany for a rest and refit.

Now under the command of Oberst Alfred Philippi, it received reinforcements from, among others, the 569th Volksgrenadier Division. It was now designated as a Volksgrenadier division and returned to action in the Arnhem sector. It was shifted to eastern France and then in the Vosges Mountains where it took on troops from the 553rd Infantry Division (de). The division ceased to exist on 10 March 1945, when it was absorbed by the 559th Volksgrenadier Division (de).

On 20 April 1945 troops of the 361th V.G.D. have been seen by Dutch resistance in the Alblasserwaard and Betuwe (some of troops in the towns Buren, Kerk-Avezaath, Zoelen, Asch, Zoelmond and Beusichem were of 361 V.G.D.), bicylces were seen with the two crossed horseheads a regimental h.q.flag and V.G.D.361 written on it same goes for some cars (exept for the missing Regt.hq flag).
At 24 April 45 a sign was seen in Buren with "Philippi" further more some redcross-cars wereseen in Zoelen at the same date, on the cars the sign with the two crossed horseheads and "vers.regt.361". So it seems that the parts of the division was not totally absorbed by the 559th V.G.D. or the staff was waiting for a new task. (NIOD, Amsterdam)

Commanders
Generalleutnant Baron Siegmund von Schleinitz (20 November 1943 – 29 May 1944);
Generalmajor  Gerhard Lindemann (30 May – 31 October 1944);
Generalmajor Alfred Philippi (1 September 1944 – 10 March 1945).

Notes
Footnotes

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Pappotherium

Pappotherium is an extinct genus of mammals from the Albian (early Cretaceous) of Texas, US, known from a fossilized maxilla fragment bearing two tribosphenic molars, discovered within the Glen Rose Formation near Decatur, Wise County, Texas.

The fossil was discovered by Bob H. Slaughter within some deposits dating back to 112.6 – 109 million years ago. On the basis of the morphology of the molars' cusps, in 1965 Slaughter established the new genus Pappotherium and the new species P. pattersoni; he also created an apposite family, Pappotheriidae. Both this family and the genus are nowadays still monotypic.

Slaughter argued that Pappotherium should have been a basal form close to the metatherian-eutherian divergence point; this mammal likely was an arboreal insectivore.

Etymologically speaking, the name Pappotherium is a compound of the Latin words pappus (from ancient Greek πάππος, páppos, “grandfather”) and therium (from ancient Greek θηρίον, thēríon, “beast”, a common suffix among extinct mammals), with the full meaning of “mammal-grandfather”.

The second part of the unique species' name, pattersoni, was instead chosen in honor of the American paleontologist Bryan Patterson.

More recently, it has been recovered as a possible deltatheroidean. The most recent phylogeny including Pappotherium is reproduced below.

References

Bibliography
Slaughter, B. H. 1965, "A therian from the lower Cretaceous (Albian) of Texas", Postilla 93, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, pp. 1–18.
Davis, B. M. & Cifelli, R. L. 2011, "Reappraisal of the tribosphenidan mammals from the Trinity Group (Aptian–Albian) of Texas and Oklahoma", Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56 (3),  pp. 441–62.

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Problepsis flavistigma

Problepsis flavistigma is a moth of the  family Geometridae. It is found in Kenya and Sierra Leone.

Subspecies
Problepsis flavistigma flavistigma
Problepsis flavistigma dilatistigma Prout, 1917 (Kenya)

References

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Ruslan Abdulgani

Ruslan Abdulgani (November 24, 1914, Surabaya — June 29, 2005, Jakarta, his first name is also spelled Roeslan) was an Indonesian government official and diplomat known for his role as a leader during the Indonesian National Revolution in the late 1940s, and as a key minister and United Nations ambassador in the Sukarno government during the 1950s and 1960s.

Ruslan was born and raised in Surabaya, East Java. He came from an upper-middle-class family; his father was a neighborhood shopkeeper and owned a small fleet of taxis. His mother, his father's second wife, was a religious tutor, giving reading and religion lessons from the Qur'an. According to a memoir of his childhood, which Ruslan wrote in the 1970s, his mother was also a strong Javanese nationalist, and it was from her that he first learned about Dutch colonial rule and the possibility of independence.

During the Indonesian fight for independence from the Dutch in the late 1940s, Ruslan was a key lieutenant under Sukarno, earning the future president's trust and ensuring him a secure place in the new government. In the 1950s he served most prominently as foreign minister, representing Indonesia abroad during the tumultuous decade when, under Sukarno's leadership, Indonesia tried to transform itself into a postcolonial, anti-imperialist success story.

Ruslan's most prominent moment as a public servant came in 1955, when he served as secretary-general of the Bandung Conference, a major meeting of African and Asian countries working to form what became the Non-Aligned Movement as an alternative to alignment with one of the Cold War superpowers.  Ruslan served as Indonesia's foreign minister from March 1956 to April 1957. From July  1959 to March 1962, he was head of the Supreme Advisory Council (DPA); in October 1962 he became Minister of Information.

While being foreign minister, Ruslan was briefly arrested in August 1956 by the Indonesian military in West Java, and accused of corruption. Part of a power struggle between the Sukarno government and dissatisfied military officers, he was promptly pardoned by vote of Sukarno's cabinet, and the military was forced to release him.

While being a minister in 1964, he was a first rector of Teacher and Education Science Institute or now is Indonesia University of Education. He acted as rector until 1966.

After Suharto replaced Sukarno as president in 1967, Ruslan served briefly as Indonesian ambassador to the United Nations. He left formal government service in 1971, but continued to play a role as an elder statesman in Indonesian politics. After president Suharto stepped down in 1998, he emerged as an advisor to presidential candidate Megawati Sukarnoputri, Sukarno's daughter, and as a critic of Suharto's Golkar successors, Jusuf Habibie and Abdurrahman Wahid.

In 1998 Dutch historians Bob de Graaff and Cees Wiebes published a book, Villa Maarheeze: De Geschiedenis van de Inlichtingendienst Buitenland (Villa Maarheeze: The History of the Netherlands Foreign Intelligence Service) in which they alleged that Ruslan had secretly worked for the Dutch government during the conflict over Papua (Irian Jaya) in the 1960s, by passing confidential information about Indonesian activities. Ruslan vehemently denied the charges, saying that he had seldom even communicated with the Dutch government even in his official government capacities.

Ruslan's wife Sihwati Nawangwulan, also a prominent activist during Indonesia's independence movement, died in 2001 at the age of 85. Ruslan and Sihwati had five children together. Ruslan died in June 2005 after suffering from stroke and pneumonia. He was one of the last survivors of Indonesia's war for independence.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono called him "a leader who never said bad things about others". Suharto called him "a great man and leader who has given so much for the country he loves".

His second daughter, Retnowati Abdulgani-Knapp, wrote a biography about her father, A Fading Dream: The Story of Roeslan Abdulgani and Indonesia, which was published in 2003. In it, she described Ruslan as a lifelong fighter against colonialism and imperialism.

Abdulgani was awarded the Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold with Sash for Services to the Republic of Austria in 1956.

Documentary: http://www.hollanddoc.nl/kijk-luister/landen-en-regios/indonesie.html?playurn=urn:vpro:media:program:3183124&currentPage=1

References

Further reading
 Abdulgani-Knapp, Retnowati. A Fading Dream: The Story of Roeslan Abdulgani and Indonesia.  Singapore: Times Books International, 2003.
 Abdulgani, Ruslan. "My childhood world." Indonesia 17:113-135, 1974. Trans. William H. Frederick.
 Asia-Africa Speaks From Bandung. Jakarta: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Indonesia, 1955.
 de Graaff, Bob; and Wiebes, Cees. Villa Maarheeze: De Geschiedenis van de Inlichtingendienst Buitenland. The Hague: Sdu Uitgevers, 1998.
 Finch, Susan, and Daniel S. Lev. Republic of Indonesia cabinets: 1945–1965. Ithaca: Modern Indonesia Project, Cornell University, 1965.
 Goh Cheng Teik.  "Why Indonesia's attempt at democracy in the mid-1950s failed."  Modern Asian Studies. 6(2):225-244, 1972.
 "Ruslan calls Dutch book 'slanderous'." The Jakarta Post November 29, 1998.
 "Independence fighter Ruslan dies at 91." The Jakarta Post June 29, 2005.

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Traikutaka dynasty

The Traikutakas were a dynasty of Indian kings who ruled between 388 and 456. The name "Traikutakas" seems to be derived from the words for a three-peaked mountain ("Tri-kuta"). The Traikutakas are mentioned in Kalidasa's Raghuvamsa, in which they are located in the area of northern Konkan. The dominions of the Traikutakas further included Aparanta and northern Maharashtra.

The coins of the Traikutaras are found extensively in southern Gujarat, and southern Maharashtra beyond the Ghats. Their design is very close to that of the Western Satraps, from which they probably inherited some territories, and traces of the obverse legend with Greek letters can still be seen.

Traikuta  rule of Aparanta or Konkan  begins in A.D. 248 (Traikuta era) exactly the time of Abhira Ishwarsena rule, hence Traikutas are identified with the dynasty of Abhiras.

The Traikutakas reckoned in a specific era, known as the Traikutaka era, or usually the Kalachuri or Chedi era, starting in 249.

Trikuta-Abhiras

It is generally supposed that Traikutakas were a different dynasty of Abhira, and hence are sometimes called Abhira-Traikutakas . Indradutta, Dahrasena & Vyaghrasena were well known kings from this dynasty. Traikutikas were known for their Vaishnava faith, who claimed to be Yadav of Haiheya branch and Dahrasena performed Ashvamedha yajna too

Traikutaka rulers
The following Traikuta rulers are known from the coins and inscriptions of Gupta period-
 Maharaja Indradatta (only mentioned on the coins of his son)
 Maharaja Dahrasena, son of Indradatta (A.D. 455), he performed Ashwamedha
 Maharaja Vyaghrasena, son of Dahrasena (A.D. 480)

Further reading

References

References

 "A catalogue of the Indian coins in the British Museum. Andhras etc.." Rapson

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The Crystal Palace (novel)

The Crystal Palace is the second novel in "The Book of Elementals" series by Phyllis Eisenstein. (The first novel Sorcerer's Son was first published as a mass market paperback from Del Rey Books in 1979.) The Crystal Palace was originally released in 1988 as a mass-market paperback from Signet. It was last in-print in both hardcover and trade paperback in the 2002 omnibus volume The Book of Elementals (with Sorcerer's Son) from Meisha Merlin Publishing. (Eisenstein completed the manuscript for the final volume in the trilogy, The City in Stone, but the novel was left unpublished after Meisha Merlin suddenly ceased operations in 2007.)

Plot summary

Sorcerer Cray Ormoru and his friend, the seer Feldar Sepwin, craft an enchanted mirror that allows whoever gazes upon it to see their heart's desire. For Cray himself, the mirror remains blank for many years, until one day he sees in it the image of a young girl. With no idea of who she is, he watches the girl transform into a lovely woman over the years, and Cray realizes that he is destined to find her. When he does, he learns that this is Aliza, a sorceress who lives in a crystal palace which is partly within the demon realm and who is dedicated solely to the study of her craft.

Cray finds Aliza to be a skilled young sorceress, but also cold, aloof, and entirely focused on sorcery. Cray encourages her to take an interest in the outside world and forms a budding friendship. However, this friendship is strongly discouraged by Aliza's sorcerer grandfather, Everand. Despite Everand's disapproval, Aliza and Cray travel to the demon realm and also to the home of Cray's sorceress mother, Delivev. During this latter journey, Aliza looks into the mirror of heart's desire and causes it to shatter. This causes some initial confusion, but it is quickly revealed this is because Aliza's soul has been stolen from her.

Ultimately, her grandfather Everand is shown to be a villain of the worst degree. He uses Aliza's soul and his capture of Feldar as leverage to demand Aliza and Cray's obedience. However, Cray rallies his allies from the demon realm in order to confront and defeat Everand and free Aliza's soul. With her soul freed, Cray and Aliza realize their love for each other.

External links
A taste of The Crystal Palace (from the author's official website)
Fantastic Fiction page

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Boku Mo Wakaran

Boku Mo Wakaran (in Japanese : ボクも分からん, meaning "I don't understand" in the Kansai-ben dialect) is Bogdan Raczynski's first album, released March 29, 1999, on Rephlex Records.  Raczynski mailed a demo of this album to Rephlex Records' head Richard D. James, which resulted in him getting his first record deal.
On the CD, Track 24 contains two songs

Track listing

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Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies

The Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies (Danish: Instituttet for Fremtidsforskning) is a Danish non-profit, independent think tank founded in 1969 by Thorkil Kristensen, former OECD Secretary-General for the betterment of our society. As one of Scandinavia's leading futures studies think tanks, the Institute's mission is to facilitate knowledge about potential futures, to inspire and equip decision-makers  and the public to make the best possible decisions about the future, in the present. Today, the globally oriented institute advises organisations on a strategic level all over the world, including Fortune 500 companies, government ministries and agencies, and non-government institutions. The Institute also hosts various events during the year and collaborate on others, in Denmark and abroad. Lastly the Institute produce several publications, such as reports, magazines and books.

The Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies is organised as an association consisting of a wide range of member organisations and individuals. CIFS is not associated with any specific university or governmental body. The Institute's products include seminars, analyses, reports, courses, newsletters, books, and the award-winning magazine Scenario. The work at the Institute rests on the assumptions outlined by military strategist Herman Kahn in his book: The Year 2000: A Framework for Speculation on the Next Thirty-three Years, and later adapted for strategic business planning by Pierre Wack from Royal Dutch Shell.

History
The Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies was founded in 1969 by Professor Thorkil Kristensen, a member of the Club of Rome who had previously been the Danish Minister of Finance and later the OECD Secretary-General. The organisation was established in collaboration with a number of Danish organisations who had a desire to qualify their decision-making basis through futures studies.

Thorkil Kristensen was the CEO of the Institute from 1969 to 1988, after which Rolf Jensen took over until 2000. During this period, the Institute published the book The Dream Society, which became an international bestseller and was translated to several languages putting CIFS on the world map. From 2000 to 2013, the international outlook was expanded under the leadership of first Johan Peter Paludan and later Axel Olesen, and an especially Nordic focus characterised the circle of members and projects. In 2004 CIFS published the follow-up to The Dream Society, the book Creative Man. In 2010 CIFS launched the print magazine SCENARIO, which has since been sold from newsstands around the world. Claus Kjeldsen was the CEO of CIFS from 2013 to 2018.

In 2019, the Institute became the facilitator of the Nordic Health 2030 Movement, a multi-stakeholder initiative intended to create collaboration about a new outlook on health.

List of CEOs
 Thorkil Kristensen (1969-1972, 1973-1988)
 Niels Ivar Bech (1972-1973)
 Rolf Jensen (1988-2000)
 Johan Peter Paludan (2001-2004)
 Axel Olesen (2004-2013)
 Claus Kjeldsen (2013-2018)
 Daria Krivonos (2018-

Work
The Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies research covers a wide variety of topics from identification and statistically based analysis of global trends to subjective and emotional responses to the future. The work of the Institute is interdisciplinary, and its staff covers a number of academic disciplines and professional backgrounds, including astrophysics, biochemistry, literature, history, theology, sociology, political science, cultural studies, business studies, and economics.

Some of the Institute's books include:
 Jensen, Rolf. The Dream Society: How the Coming Shift from Information to Imagination will Transform your Business
Mogensen, Klaus Æ. Creative Man: The Future Consumer, Employee, and Citizen

The Institute is the Danish Partner of the EUROCONSTRUCT network, which provides analysis and forecasts of construction in 19 Western and Central Eastern European countries.

The Nordic Health 2030 Movement
CIFS is facilitating the Nordic Health 2030 Movement. The movement was inspired by the gathering of over 30 leading decision makers across the Nordics during 2019, who all acknowledged the need for and the value in turning towards preventive health and agreed to develop a collaborative network for achieving this goal. What everyone shares in the Nordic Health 2030 Movement is a commitment to achieving better health on both an individual and a societal level. Everyone does what they can to contribute, from engaging in more preventive health activities in everyday life, to working to develop and implement better healthcare policies.

The Nordic Health 2030 Movement rests on three sets of principles that have the aim of making personalised and preventive care a reality for all:

 The New Social Contract (the Resilience Workstream): Everyone should contribute; nobody should be left behind. That is the balance of the responsibility that we should all bear together.
 The New Data Models (the Data Workstream): All individuals and professionals should be able to experience meaningful input and output of health-related data in real-time.
 The New Business Models: All organisations providing health care should be incentivised and rewarded for preventive efforts provided to individuals.

The result of the process has been published in the magazine Nordic Health 2030: Towards Preventive Health.

The Copenhagen Method™
Three distinct features characterise The Copenhagen Method™ for scenario planning, developed at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies. The method is:

 Action-oriented
 Dialogue-based
 Dynamic

This contrasts with a traditional and more static approach to scenario planning, where organisations develop general scenarios for the next 10, 25, or 50 years. While such scenarios may be inspirational, they rarely enable organisations to act.

The Institute develop most of its products in direct stakeholder collaboration with organisations and their top management. The purpose of The Copenhagen Method™ therefore is to systemize the scenario planning process in a way that makes the results relevant and easy to turn into practical action. This is primarily achieved through careful selection of the particular uncertainties that exist for the individual organisation and through ongoing input from the organisation's management.

It is crucial to The Copenhagen Method™ that the results are co-created in direct collaboration with the client organisation's decision-makers to ensure ownership and a common, internal language. This dialogue-based approach also ensures an elevated level of relevance, because the Institute not only tailor the project to the organisation's unique needs, but also regularly test our ideas and assumptions throughout the process.

SCENARIO Magazine
The award-winning SCENARIO Magazine is published four times a year and can be purchased in newsstands and bookstores in a wide variety of countries. The magazine is developed and edited at CIFS in collaboration with writers, scientists, thinkers, and creatives from around the world. SCENARIO provides the reader with an unprecedented insight into trends, zeitgeist, scientific breakthroughs, and new patterns of behaviour that will shape our future society.

List of Awards
 Anders Bording Media Prize. Winner, 2011
 The Society for News Design. Best of News Design, Award of Excellence, 2014
 The Society for News Design. Best of News Design, Award of Excellence, 2016
 Stack Awards. Commended for Best Original Non-Fiction, 2017

Global Scanning Network
The Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies Global Scanning Network (GSN) is a network of CIFS employees, and a team of global ambassadors. The ambassadors are Master or PhD graduates and working professionals on a six-month rotation, providing expert perspectives in the realms of science and technology, politics, culture, design, innovation, business management, finance, marketing and branding. The GSN represents a diverse, global group of individuals contributing unique observations, profitable ideas, and sharp insights into specific industry challenges. With the GSN, the Institute collect, compare and evaluate a wide range of signals – including new and emerging trends, technologies, values, products, concepts, companies, services, and ideas. The intention is to help identify what's happening now and what could emerge tomorrow. It is a process that seeks to identify the earliest indications of a potentially disruptive development, but also tracks changes to established phenomena or trends. In the Global Scanning Review, CIFS publish a carefully chosen selection of the best observations.

References

Further reading
 Kruse, Martin. The realism in fictionalised scenarios in future studies. Odense University, 2008
 Andersen, Poul Nyboe. Thorkil Kristensen, En ener i dansk politik. Odense University Studies and Social Sciences vol 177., 1994
 Wack, Pierre. Shooting the rapids. Harvard Business Review, nov-dec 1985

Relevant Links
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Esfanjeh

Esfanjeh (; also known as Isfanjeh and Esfanjak) is a village in Khorram Dasht Rural District, Kamareh District, Khomeyn County, Markazi Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 208, in 53 families.

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Santiago Luna

Santiago Luna Torres (born 29 November 1962) is a Spanish professional golfer.

Luna's father was on the staff at Puerta de Hierro Golf Club in Madrid. He turned professional in 1982 and has spent over twenty years on the European Tour, playing in over five hundred tournaments. He ranked in the top one hundred on the Order of Merit twelve times, with a best of 31st place in 1998. His sole win on the European Tour came in 1995 at the Madeira Island Open, but he has several victories in other professional tournaments. He has represented his country in international competition several times, and in 1999 he helped Spain to the runner-up position at the World Cup.

Professional wins (16)

European Tour wins (1)

Alps Tour wins (2)

European Senior Tour wins (4)

Other wins (9)
1988 Les Bulles Laurent-Perrier (France), Campeonato de España
1990 Campeonato de España
1992 Campeonato de España
1998 King Hassan II Trophy
1999 Oki Telepizza - APG (Spain)
2000 Campeonato de España
2002 King Hassan II Trophy
2003 King Hassan II Trophy

Results in major championships

Note: The Open Championship was the only major Luna played.

CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place.

Team appearances
Professional
Alfred Dunhill Cup (representing Spain): 1991, 1998
World Cup (representing Spain): 1995, 1998, 1999

See also
2005 European Tour Qualifying School graduates
2006 European Tour Qualifying School graduates
2008 European Tour Qualifying School graduates

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Trochosa aquatica

Trochosa aquatica is a species of wolf spider found in eastern Asia which was first described in 1985.

Description
The males measure 5.8-7.65mm in length, females 5.6-9.0mm. The female has a dark brown carapace with paler more yellow median and lateral stripes. The abdomen is dark grey with yellowish stripes and the legs are reddish brown. The normally smaller male is similar to female but has yellowish brown legs.

Habitat
Trochosa aquatica is found among in leaf litter or in small depressions near paddy fields. The adult spiders are found from May to August.

Distribution
Japan (Honshu and Kyushu), Korea and China.

Taxonomy
Closely related to Trochosa wuchangensis of China.

References

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Caroline Wilkinson

Caroline M. Wilkinson FRSE (born 27 October 1965) is a British anthropologist who has been a professor at the Liverpool John Moores University's School of Art and Design since 2014.  She is best known for her work in forensic facial reconstruction and has been a contributor to many television programmes on the subject, as well as the creator of reconstructed heads of kings Richard III of England in 2013 and Robert the Bruce of Scotland in 2016.

Wilkinson holds a PhD in facial anthropology from the University of Manchester (2000), and from 2000 to 2005 led the Unit of Art and Medicine at the university. Between 2005 and 2014 she taught at the University of Dundee in the award-winning Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification, where from 2011 she was Professor of Craniofacial Identification and Head of Human Identification.

She first became known to television audiences as a result of her regular appearances on the BBC series Meet the Ancestors, and also appeared on History Cold Case while working at the University of Dundee (2005 – 2014).

Facial reconstruction

In 2013, Wilkinson created a facial reconstruction of King Richard III, whose remains had been uncovered in a car park and positively identified using DNA.

In December that year, Wilkinson created a facial reconstruction of Saint Nicholas, working from anatomical knowledge, tissue depth data, and the latest reconstruction technology.  From his skeletal remains, it was known that his broken nose had "healed asymmetrically, giving him a characteristic nose and rugged facial appearance".

In 2016, Wilkinson helped create facial reconstructions of Robert the Bruce, using a skull believed to have belonged to the Scottish king. Two versions were created, one standard one and another based on the belief that he had suffered from leprosy.

She is the author of several works on the subject of facial identification and depiction.

Awards
In 2012, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and was awarded the 2013 RSE Senior Prize for Public Engagement. Wilkinson was awarded the Combined Royal Colleges medal of the Royal Photographic Society in 2016, for "outstanding contribution to the advancement of medical photography or medical imaging."

Works
"Juvenile forensic facial reconstruction – a detailed accuracy study" (with Whittaker, DK). Proceedings of the 10th Meeting of the International Association of Craniofacial Identification, Bari, Italy; 98-110 (2002)
"Measurement of eyeball protrusion and its application in facial reconstruction." (with Mautner, SA.) J For Sci 48 (1) 12-16 (2003)
"The reconstruction of faces showing healed wounds."(with Neave, RAH) J Archaeological Science 30; 1343-1348 (2003)
"The relationship between the soft tissues and the skeletal detail of the mouth." (with Motwani, M and Chiang, E.) J For Sci. 48 (4) 1-5 (2003)
"In vivo facial tissue depth measurements for White British children". J. Forensic Sci 47 (3): 459-465
Forensic Facial Reconstruction (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
"Craniofacial Identification" (Cambridge University Press, 2012) Co-editor.

References

External links
Faculty page at Liverpool John Moores University

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Askim (disambiguation)

Askim can mean:

Askim - a municipality in Østfold, Norway
Askim - a borough in Gothenburg, Sweden
Askim Hundred - a hundred in Västergötland, Sweden
Askim- Also "Aşkım" is "my love" or "sweet friend" in Turkish. Derived from the word "aşk" / "ask" which means "Love" as in 'falling in love' in Turkish.
Askim - a song by jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington featured on the album The Epic.


Erick Fedde

Erick James Fedde (born February 25, 1993) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Washington Nationals of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played college baseball at UNLV. He was drafted by the Nationals in the first round of the 2014 Major League Baseball draft.

Amateur career
Fedde attended Las Vegas High School in Sunrise Manor, Nevada. He was a pitcher and an outfielder. Among his teammates was Bryce Harper, a catcher who would later become the 2010 Major League Baseball draft's top overall pick, as well as Fedde's future Nationals teammate. He was drafted by the San Diego Padres in the 24th round of the 2011 Major League Baseball draft, but did not sign and attended the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV).

Fedde started 15 games as a freshman in 2012. He finished the year 6–5 with a 3.59 earned run average (ERA) and 66 strikeouts in  innings. As a sophomore in 2013, he again started 15 games, going 7–5 with a 3.92 ERA and 83 strikeouts in  innings. During the summer he pitched for the United States collegiate national team, and briefly played collegiate summer baseball in the Cape Cod Baseball League for the Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox. In his first start of the 2014 season he struck out a career high 11 batters and allowed only one hit. In May 2014, Fedde underwent Tommy John surgery, ending his season. He finished the season, 8–2 with a 1.76 ERA and 82 strikeouts in  innings.

Professional career
Fedde was considered a top prospect for the 2014 Major League Baseball draft, and the Nationals selected him in the first round, 18th overall. He signed with the Nationals on July 18, for $2.51 million. Fedde did not play at all in 2014 due to injury. He spent 2015 with both the Auburn Doubledays and the Hagerstown Suns, where he posted a combined 5–3 record and 3.38 ERA between the two clubs. Fedde began the 2016 season with the Potomac Nationals, and was promoted to the Harrisburg Senators in August. Fedde ended 2016 with an 8–5 record along with a 3.12 ERA.

During the Nationals' 2017 season, with the team struggling with its bullpen during the first half, Fedde was temporarily moved to a relief role. While pitching out of the bullpen, he was promoted from Class-AA Harrisburg to the Class-AAA Syracuse Chiefs on June 13, 2017. After less than a month, Fedde was switched back to starting. The move proved fortuitous for the Nationals, who lost Joe Ross from their rotation in July after he tore his ulnar collateral ligament of the elbow and saw veteran starter Stephen Strasburg lose time due to a nerve impingement in his throwing arm.

Fedde was promoted to the major leagues to start the first game of a double-header against the Colorado Rockies on July 30, 2017.. On August 7th, Fedde was optioned back to Syracuse after the return of Gio González from paternity leave.

References

External links

UNLV Rebels bio
Fast-working Fedde setting standard for UNLV
Champions on the rise

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Furia Alacranera

Furia Alacranera (Eng.: Scorpion's Rage) is the title of the first studio album released by music group Alacranes Musical.

Track listing
The track listing from Allmusic.

CD

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Portland Bight Protected Area

The Portland Bight Protected Area (PBPA) was created by the Jamaican government in 1999 to protect a large marine and terrestrial area on the island of Jamaica located southeast of Kingston. Nearby cays such as Little Goat Island are included. It is the largest protected area in Jamaica and comprises . Although the first priority in forming the protected area was to protect the coral reefs, it also serves to protect vulnerable and endemic species.  The PBPA includes  of wetlands on the island, and coastlines of mangroves, as well as sea-grass beds that serve as a nursery for fish and shellfish breeding. The Caribbean Coastal Area Management Foundation (C-CAM) has been charged with managing zones within the protected area.

On land there are  of dry limestone forests, 60 known caves, and it includes a population of 50,000. Part of the task in forming the PBPA going forward is to find a balance between protecting the ecosystem from destruction by economic development and allowing the human inhabitants a means to live and work.

As of August 29, 2013, the PNP Government of Jamaica is proposing to develop the Goat Islands, in the PBPA, as a transhipment hub in conjunction with the Chinese government. Environmentalists argue that this will have a severe impact on the entire protected area.

As of September 23, 2016, the current Prime Minister, Andrew Holness of the JLP, has stated that the Goat Islands are no longer being considered as a base for a transhipment hub.

See also
 Hellshire Hills

References

External links
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Bonewaldesthorne's Tower

Bonewaldesthorne's Tower is a medieval structure on the northwest corner of the city walls of Chester, Cheshire, England; it is attached by a spur wall to the Water Tower.  It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.  Built as part of Chester's defensive system, it was used in the 19th and early 20th centuries as a museum.

History
The tower has been documented since 1249.  It was rebuilt or altered in 1322–26 when it became the gatehouse to the Water Tower.  The Chester Mechanics' Institution was founded in 1835.  The Institution wished to open a museum to show its artifacts and the city council leased the Water Tower and Bonewaldesthorne's Tower at a nominal rent for this purpose.  The museum opened in 1838.  A camera obscura was installed in the tower in 1840 and an observatory in 1848.  Around this time a statue of Queen Anne which had formerly been in the Exchange before it burned down was installed on the steps of the tower.

The Institution closed in 1876 and the exhibits came into the possession of the city council.  Although it was recognised that the tower was not suitable as a museum, there was at the time nowhere else to show all the exhibits.  The tower closed as a museum in 1901–02 while the city walls were rebuilt, and re-opened in 1903, attracting 12,000 visitors that season.  The towers were closed to the public in 1916 and in the 1920s they were let for non-museum use.  In 1954 they were bought by the Grosvenor Museum, which reopened them to the public in 1962. Bonewaldesthorne's Tower and the adjacent Water Tower have housed a museum of the history of medicine, 'Sick to Death', since August 2016.

Architecture
The plan of the tower is rectangular.  It is built in red sandstone coursed rubble and stands on a tall plinth.  Seven steps lead up from the walkway on the city walls to an arched doorway.  On the opposite side another doorway leads on to the spur wall to the Water Tower.  The top of the tower is battlemented.  Inside the tower is a fireplace and a closed staircase which is lit by a single slit window.

See also

Grade I listed buildings in Cheshire West and Chester

References

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