Gallagher

Gallagher may refer to:

Places

  • Gallagher Township, Pennsylvania
  • Gallagher, West Virginia, an unincorporated place
  • People

  • Gallagher (comedian), American stand up comedian
  • Gallagher (surname)
  • Fictional characters

  • Mary Katherine Gallagher, fictional Saturday Night Live character
  • The Gallagher family, from Shameless:
  • Other

  • Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., American insurance brokerage
  • The Gallagher Index, in political science
  • See also

  • Gallager (disambiguation)
  • Gallaher (disambiguation)
  • Gallacher
  • Gallagher (surname)

    Gallagher (Old Irish: Ó Gallchobhair; Modern Irish: Ó Gallachóir), is an Irish Gaelic clan based most prominently in what is today County Donegal. The clan name originated in the 10th century as a derivative of its founder Gallchobhair mac Rorcan. They descend in the paternal line from the Northern Uí Néill's Cenél Conaill. The immediate progenitors of the Gallaghers held the High Kingship of Ireland during the 6th and 7th centuries in the form of Ainmuire mac Sétnai, Áed mac Ainmuirech, Máel Coba mac Áedo and Cellach mac Máele Coba; Áed was also an ancestor of the O'Donnell and O'Doherty clans. Indeed, during the Middle Ages, the Gallaghers were Marshals of the Kingdom of Tyrconnell, ruled by their previously junior kinsmen the O'Donnells.

    Etymology

    In Ireland the anglicized version of the name - "Gallagher" is pronounced "Gall-a-her". Outside there has been a corruption or alteration of the pronunciation, resulting in "Gall-ag-er" in some parts of Britain and the USA. The name Gallagher is an anglicisation of the Irish surname Ó Gallchobhair (or two newer spelling forms: Ó Gallchóir and Ó Gallachóir,), these being masculine forms; the corresponding feminine forms are Ní Ghallchobhair (newer forms Ní Ghallchóir and Ní Ghallachóir), and means "foreign assistance" or "foreign helper". Apart from the aforementioned spelling there are at least 30 recorded variants including Gallacher, Gallager, Gallaher, Gallocher, Galliher, Gallaugher, Galagher, Galegher, Goligher, Golliher, Gollaher and Gallahue.

    Gallagher (comedian)

    Leo Anthony Gallagher, Jr. (born July 24, 1946), known as Gallagher, is an American comedian and prop comic, known for smashing watermelons as part of his act.

    Early life

    Gallagher was born at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He grew up in Lorain, Ohio, until he was 9 years old. Because of his asthma he then moved to South Tampa, Florida, where he attended H.B. Plant High School. He graduated from the University of South Florida with a chemical engineering degree in 1970. He also received a minor in English literature, which he uses often in his skits to mock the language. According to his mother in a 1991 interview in the Nadig Press, Gallagher despised fruit, particularly melons, because she tried to force them on him to help with recurrent constipation in childhood.

    Career

    After college, Gallagher began working as comic/musician Jim Stafford's road manager. Stafford and Gallagher traveled to California in 1969, during which time Gallagher decided to perform himself. He began honing his own comedy act while frequenting both The Comedy Store and the Ice House. He was repeatedly denied appearance on The Tonight Show in the 1970s and 1980s, as Johnny Carson disliked prop comedy. However, he was liked by some of the program's staff, and Gallagher eventually performed several times on the show when guest hosts were filling in for Carson.

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