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Patrick Johnston

Queen’s Prize to Queens University Belfast

By Julia Brodsky, Editorial Assistant
April / May 2016

March 25, 2016 by Leave a Comment

In February, the Centre for Secure Information Technology (C.S.I.T.) at Queen’s University Belfast received a royal award for its work in strengthening cyber security. Chancellor Tom Moran, Vice-Chancellor Professor Patrick Johnston, and Head of Cyber Security, Professor John McCanny accepted the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education, bestowed at Buckingham … [Read more...] about Queen’s Prize to Queens University Belfast

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John Keyes Byrne, better known as the Irish playwright Hugh Leonard, was born in Dublin on this day in 1926. He was adopted as a young boy by the Keyes family and took their last name as his middle name. He worked as a civil servant and acted in and wrote plays for community theater on the side. His first professionally produced play was “The Big Birthday Suit” at the Abbey Theater in Dublin in 1956. As Hugh Leonard, Byrne has had three plays appear on Broadway; “The Au Pair Man” (1973), “Da” (1978), and “A Life” (1980.) “Da” was awarded with a Tony and Drama Desk Award and in 1988 it was made into a film starring Martin Sheen and Barnard Hughes.

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