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"Francis Eugene "Frank" Galbally (13 October 192212 October 2005) was an Australian criminal defence lawyer. Early life and education Galbally was born in 1922, the eighth of nine children of William Galbally and Eileen Cummins, who both came from Gippsland farming families. He was educated at St Patrick's College, East Melbourne. After leaving school at the age of 16, he initially trained to be a priest at Corpus Christi College, Melbourne from 1939 but after the events of Pearl Harbor joined the Navy. While he was in the Navy, Galbally played Australian rules football in the Victorian Football League with Jock McHale's Collingwood. He made just six appearances, all in the 1942 VFL season. A leg injury sustained with an axe while cutting wood left him in hospital for two months and ended his career. He then studied law at the University of Melbourne, where he resided at Newman College. The Frank Galbally Memorial Prize for International Criminal Law at the university is named in his honour. In 1948, he joined his brother John's legal firm. He married Bernadette O'Bryan, daughter of Justice Sir Norman O'Bryan and they had eight children. Career Galbally was one of the first solicitors to practice as a trial advocate without joining the Victorian Bar. He practiced predominately in criminal law, but also appeared in coronial inquests, government inquiries, personal injury and medical negligence matters. He defended his first murder case in 1950 and by the end of his career had achieved an acquittal rate of 80 to 90 per cent. In 1965, Galbally established the law firm of Galbally and O'Bryan with his brother-in-law Peter, a leading personal injury lawyer, after his brother Jack left his firm to pursue a career in state politics. He later served as a member of the Council of the Law Institute of Victoria and the Solicitors' Board of Victoria. He oversaw the preparation of a report commissioned by the Australian Government, which recommended the changing of the policy of assimilation to one of multiculturalism. He was also chairman of the Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs and the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS). He was decorated several times by the Italian Government for his services to the Italian community in Australia. Honours Galbally was awarded the honour of Commendatore of the Order of Merit by the Italian Government in 1971. He was created a Commander of the order of the British Empire in 1977 in recognition of his service to the community. Representation During the 1980s, Galbally represented the Painters and Dockers Union in the Costigan Commission and was involved in the appeal to stop the Barlow and Chambers execution. Publications Jury Man, a novel written by Galbally, was made into the 1992 Edward R. Pressman film Storyville. He also wrote a highly popular autobiography, Galbally! published in 1989, which was followed by Galbally for the Defence in 1993. References Category:1922 births Category:2005 deaths Category:Australian lawyers Category:Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) Category:Collingwood Football Club players Category:Australian Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Category:Melbourne Law School alumni Category:20th-century lawyers "
"Nathan Long is an American fantasy author. He is well known for his Gotrek and Felix novels, along with The Blackhearts Trilogy and Jane Carver of Waar. Early history Long has been writing since the age of twelve. Once he broke into the industry, he wrote screenplays for fifteen years. His work resulted in three films and many animated and live-action TV episodes.Nathan Long's IMDB page He lives in Los Angeles, where he writes as well as playing regularly with his band, MI-6. Warhammer Novels =The Blackhearts= Long is responsible for a set of infamous characters in the Warhammer Fantasy universe, the Blackhearts. A gang of renegades and rebels thrown together by unfortunate circumstances, they are given the choice of being hanged for their crimes, or completing secret missions, both highly classified and suicidally dangerous. There have been three novels, published in an omnibus, along with two short stories, one serving as a prologue. =Gotrek and Felix= When William King stepped back from authoring the series to pursue other projects, the ongoing narrative of Gotrek's quest to seek out his doom was, as yet, unfinished. Black Library then approached Long, at the time a newly established, popular author in the Warhammer Fantasy universe, and asked him to continue the series. Since the release of Orcslayer, Long has written four additional novels, along with an audio-book, making it one of the longest- running Black Library runs in the imprint's history, along with Dan Abnett's Gaunt's Ghosts series. Long has been both hailed and criticised for his writing style, which differs substantially from that of King's, who was known for very flowery descriptive text. Long, however, writes with pace and emphasis on the brutal side of the two traveller's lifestyle. Long has also been quoted in an interview as stating that he has "... a rough idea ..."Interview with Mike Lee and Nathan Long of how Gotrek's eventual death will occur. Audiences may assume this will emerge sooner rather than later, due to the naming format of the books (each a combination of a race or role, and the word "slayer"), and the limited number of races and roles left to cover. Long was also one of the first few authors to publish an audio-book for the Black Library imprint, titled Slayer of the Storm God. Along with several short stories (mostly exclusive to events held by Games Workshop), these have helped fill out the universe immediately around Gotrek and Felix. His last book in the series, Zombieslayer, was released in September 2010. =Ulrika the Vampire= In addition to his work on Gotrek and Felix, Long also wrote Bloodborn, the first novel in a series surrounding Ulrika, a love interest of Felix Jaeger in the Gotrek and Felix novels, who has become a vampire and is learning to cope with her new form and its wants and needs. Bloodborn was released in June 2010, and was followed by a sequel, Bloodforged, and finally Bloodsworn, the final novel in the trilogy, which was released in 2012. Other work Long has also contributed to Black Library's range of novellas, with a short novel titled Battle for Skull Pass, released in 2008 and available exclusively to Games Workshop customers. The novella was based around the Dwarfs, and their battle to save the township of Karak Grom from greenskin invaders. It was written to accompany the Battle for Skull Pass box set, released by Games Workshop. In March 2012, Night Shade Books published Long's first original book, Jane Carver of Waar. The official blurb from Night Shade Books calls it "... a loving tribute and scathing parody of the swashbuckling space fantasies of yore ...," while Publishers Weekly describes it as an "... affectionate and often raunchy parody of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s John Carter of Mars books ...," with a biker heroine in the John Carter role. Nathan Long is lead writer for Wasteland 2,http://wasteland.inxile- entertainment.com/credits and a co-writer for Torment: Tides of Numenera,https://torment.inxile-entertainment.com/game/about/development- information two videogames developed by InXile Entertainment. Bibliography * Valnir's Bane (2004) - * The Broken Lance (2005) - * Tainted Blood (2006) - * Orcslayer (2006) - * Manslayer (2007) - * Battle for Skull Pass (2008) - * Elfslayer (2008) - * Slayer of the Storm God (Audio Book) (2009) - * Shamanslayer (2009) - * Gotrek and Felix: The Third Omnibus (2009) - * Bloodborn: Ulrika the Vampire Book One (2010) - * Zombieslayer (2010) - * Bloodforged (2011) - * Jane Carver of Waar (2012) - * Bloodsworn (2012) - * Jane Carver: Swords of Waar (2012) - Filmography * Gehenna: Where Death Lives (2016) - Screenplay (co-written with Hiroshi Katagiri and Brad Palmer) * Guyver: Dark Hero (1994) - Screenplay (also appeared as Cop #1) * The Sender (1998) - Writer Television Credits * Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight (2009–2010, head writer) ”Search for the Dragon” (ep.1) ”The Power of Two” (ep.5) ”Kamen Rider Thrust” (ep.9) ”The Hero of Gramercy Heights” (ep.16) ”Letter from the Front Line” (ep.20) ”A Rider’s Resolve” (ep.22) ”Kamen Rider Siren” (ep.23) ”Dark Temptation” (ep.24) ”Swan Song” (ep.30) ”Xaviax’s Wrath” (ep.31) ”Advent Master Returns” (ep.32) ”Dark Deception” (ep.36) ”The Enemy Within” (ep.37) ”For Ventara and Earth, Part 1” (ep.38) ”For Ventara and Earth, Part 2” (ep.39) ”A Dragon’s Tale” (ep.40) * L.A. Heat (1999) ”Words Will Never Hurt Me” (ep.9) ”Killing on Lily Lane” (ep.19, co-written with Nick Stone) ”When Irish Eyes Are Smiling” (ep.21, co-written with William Applegate Jr., Shari Lane Bowles, and William Lawlor) ”Captain Crimestopper” (ep.23, co-written with Mark Sikes) ”Wake Up Call” (ep.26) ”The Bigger They Are” (ep.37) ”Bad Reputation” (ep.42) * Ultimate Book of Spells (2002) ”Big Girls Don’t Cry” (ep.22) References External links * * Category:Living people Category:21st-century American novelists Category:American fantasy writers Category:American male novelists Category:Games Workshop Category:Warhammer Fantasy writers Category:21st- century American male writers Category:Year of birth missing (living people) "
"Íomar Fir Bolg () was an early Irish Saint. Writing on 5 November 1838, John O'Donovan reported that his field work for the Ordnance Survey had brought him to the parish of Killimer-Bologue, which was "according to tradition ... the principal establishment and the birth-place of St. Imor, whose life was preserved in the Country in Irish metre to a late period." O'Donovon, who appears to have been informed by a Mr. McEgan "who lives near the old church" included the following account of Íomar in his letter: > Imor was a very respectable man living in Sil-Anmhcadha a long time ago > [tradition never remembers dates] and had no idea originally of becoming a > saint, but had intended to apply himself to increasing the number of the > human family in a lawful manner [liberis procreandis operam dare sibi > proposuit] and for this purpose he married a very beautiful girl, a native > of Ely O'Carroll on the other side of the Shannon. But before he had seen > her she had been wooed by another who was driven to desperation on hearing > of her marriage with Imor, and he swore that he would never suffer her to be > brought to Connacht. Accordingly on the day that Imor went with a party of > his friends to take her home, he [his Munster rival], having collected a > body of the men of Slieve Bloom, attacked him on the way after he had cross > (the Shannon), and made a desperate effort to carry off the bride. But the > Connaught (party) were equally vigorous in resisting, and the poor girl was > killed in the struggle between them! After this Imor became a melancholy > recluse and swore to (he would) dedicate his virginity to God. He never took > holy orders, but still was always esteemed as an Irish saint. At the time of O'Donovan's visit, it measured 75 feet long and 18 broad, "It is the largest parish churcy of the period to which it must be referred, that I have yet seen in Ireland ... The greater part of the two side walls is destroyed, but the two gables, which are 75 feet asunder are in good preservation. The oldest tombstone in this church is a monument to William O'Tressy, who died in the year 16-4." St. Imor's well was situated at the side of the road immediately beside the church. See also * Íomar of the Sogain References * * Ordnance Survey Letters Galway 1838 and 1839, pp. 182–183, ed. Michael Herity, MRIA, FourMasters Press, Dublin, 2009. Category:People from County Galway Category:5th-century Irish people Category:6th-century Irish people Category:Medieval saints of Connacht "