Franz Douskey is an American writer. Between the late 1960s and the early 1980s, his work was published in nearly two hundred publications.

Douskey has lived in Memphis, New Orleans, Tucson, and the West Indies. William M. Packard, editor of the New York Quarterly, listed Franz Douskey as a contemporary influential writer [1] along with James Dickey and Robert Penn Warren, with whom Douskey traveled from time to time (Read "Remembering James Dickey" in the New York Quarterly 61).

Douskey's version of the story of Chief Joseph was published in 1980 (in the Inland Boat Series), a few years before Robert Penn Warren's Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce was published (1983). While living in Memphis, Douskey became friends with Sam Phillips, the founder of Sun Records, who became an early mentor. Douskey traveled extensively in the 1960s before settling in Tucson. It was there that he met poet Richard Shelton, Edward Abbey, William Eastlake, Raymond Carver, and Charles Bukowski.

Douskey and Bukowski carried on what has been described as a long, antagonistic relationship, which was refereed by William M. Packard, who published both Bukowski and Douskey in many issues of the New York Quarterly.

Joe McDonagh (born 1953 in Ballinderreen, County Galway) is a retired Irish sportsman and former President of the Gaelic Athletic Association. He played hurling with his local club Ballinderren and with the Galway senior inter-county team in the 1970s and 1980s.

During his presidency, he'd set in motion the removal of the ban on security forces, all football games to be played in one calendar year and a minimum of two championship games for every inter-county team, even if it took until Seán McCague's term for them to be realised. In 2009 he was named in the Sunday Tribune's list of the 125 Most Influential People In GAA History.

A singer of considerable talent, he memorably sang "The West's Awake" from the Hogan Stand after Galway's All-Ireland Hurling victory in 1980 and he has appeared in Taibhdhearc Na Gaillimhe (Ireland's National Irish language theatre) productions.

Is ball ghníomhach é ar Coiste Náisiúnta an Oireachtais.

John R. "Johnny" Cash (February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003), was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Although he is primarily remembered as a country music icon, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll—especially early in his career—as well as blues, folk, and gospel. This crossover appeal led to Cash being inducted in the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and Gospel Music Hall of Fame.

Cash was known for his deep, distinctive bass-baritone voice; for the "boom-chicka-boom" sound of his Tennessee Three backing band; for his rebelliousness, coupled with an increasingly somber and humble demeanor; for providing free concerts inside prison walls; and for his dark performance clothing, which earned him the nickname "The Man in Black". He traditionally started his concerts by saying, "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash." and usually following it up with his standard "Folsom Prison Blues".

Frederick Jay "Rick" Rubin (born March 10, 1963) is an American record producer and the co-president of Columbia Records. Along with Russell Simmons, Rubin is the founder of Def Jam Records and also established American Recordings. With the Beastie Boys, LL Cool J and Run–D.M.C., Rubin helped popularize hip hop music.

Rubin has worked with artists as varied as Tom Petty, Black Sabbath, Trouble, Slipknot, Slayer, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Mars Volta, Danzig, Dixie Chicks, Metallica, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Weezer, Linkin Park, The Cult, Neil Diamond, Mick Jagger, System of a Down, Rage Against the Machine, Beastie Boys, Audioslave, The Avett Brothers, Adele and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. In the 1990s and 2000s, he produced the "American Recordings" albums with Johnny Cash. MTV called him "the most important producer of the last 20 years." In 2007, Rubin was listed among Time's 100 Most Influential People in the World.

Rubin was born in Long Beach, New York and grew up in Lido Beach, New York, in a Jewish family. His father was a shoe wholesaler and his mother a housewife. While a student at Long Beach High School he befriended the school's AV Director Steve Freeman who gave him a few lessons in guitar playing and songwriting and helped him create a punk band called "The Pricks". Their biggest claim to fame was being thrown off the stage at CBGB after two songs for brawling with the heckling audience. These hecklers were friends of the band instructed to instigate a confrontation so as to get the show shut down and create a buzz. Although he had no authority in New York City, Rubin's father traveled all the way from Nassau county to Manhattan wearing his Lido Beach auxiliary police uniform as he attempted to "shut down" the show.