James Nolan
James Nolan (born 27 January 1977 in Tullamore, Co Offaly) is an athletics coach who was an Irish international runner from 1996 until 2008. He was a two time Olympian who specialized in the 800 metres between 1996 and 2000 before changing to the 1500 metres later that year. He was runner up in the 800 metre race at the European U23 athletics championship in 1999 and runner up over 1500 metres at the European Indoor Championship in 2000. Nolan ran in numerous championships in the years thereafter, racing in over 25 countries during his thirteen-year career but never met his early promise and his international racing wound down with a final showing at the 2008 World Indoor Championship: later that year he was unable to qualify for the 2008 Olympics and he retired in early January 2009 four years after his Irish Sports Council grant was withdrawn citing injury problems . He had a longer career and more consistently qualified for championships than contemporaries such as David Matthews and Gareth Turnbull but as stated after his earlier medal wins struggled particularly at outdoor events to do more than qualify for championships. Nolan was involved in a well publicised row in 2004 when RTÉ's commentator Jerry Kiernan accused him of being a dilettante at that year's Olympics. The controversy brought the normally quiet and self-contained Nolan to the attention of the wider Irish public when he launched a savage attack on the pundit in response . He is now a sports coach, having graduated from UCD in 2008, which he attended from 1996-2001 on a sports scholarship and then 2005-2008, with a BSc in sports management and he is now involved with projects such as www.fastkids.i.e. Nolan was r appointed head of athletics by the Paralympic Council of Ireland in 2009 and is also middle distance coach at his old university UCD for 2010/11. He is married to Afton whom he met whilst he trained regularly in South Africa between 2001 and 2005.
James Nolan (author)
James Nolan is a poet, fiction writer, essayist, and translator. A regular contributor to Boulevard, his work has appeared in New Orleans Noir (Akashic Books), Utne Reader, The Washington Post, and Andrei Codrescu's Exquisite Corpse among other magazines, anthologies, and newspapers. He has translated the work of Spanish-language poets Pablo Neruda and Jaime Gil de Biedma. Nolan is a fifth-generation native of New Orleans and lives in the French Quarter.
Career
Nolan received his PhD from the University of California (Berkeley and Santa Cruz) and has gone on to teach Literature and Creative Writing at universities in Florida, San Francisco, Barcelona, Madrid, and Beijing. Until recently, he was the Writer-in-Residence at New Orleans' Tulane and Loyola Universities, where he directed the Loyola Writing Institute. Nolan currently teaches creative writing for the Arts Council of New Orleans.
He has been the recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts grant and two Fulbright Fellowships. His collection of short stories, Perpetual Care, won the 2007 Jefferson Press Prize and the 2009 Next-Generation Indie Book Award for Best Short story Collection. Nolan was awarded the 2008 Faulkner–Wisdom gold medal in the novel category for the manuscript of his first novel Higher Ground.
James Nolan (disambiguation)
James Nolan (born 1977) is an Irish athlete and athletics coach.
James Nolan may also refer to:
Nolan
Nolan is both a surname and a given name, of Irish origin from Ó Nualláin, with alternate spellings including Nolen, Noland, Nolin, and Nalon. Notable people with the name include:
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Nolan (disambiguation)
Nolan is a surname and a given name.
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Nolan, James Filmography
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1982, role: actor , character name: Father
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1981, role: actor , character name: Grandfather Gibbons
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1979, role: actor , character name: Dr. Tapler
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1978, role: actor , character name: Bartender
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1977, role: actor , character name: Appliance Store Clerk
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1976, role: actor , character name: Gambler
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1973, role: actor , character name: Clerk
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1971, role: actor , character name: Train Conductor
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1971, role: actor , character name: Liquor Proprietor
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1970, role: actor , character name: Father Steven Lonigan
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1968, role: actor , character name: Detective
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1966, role: actor , character name: Monsignor Jim
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1960, role: actor , character name: Detective
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1959, role: actor , character name: Police Lieutenant
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1959, role: actor , character name: Chick, Cop on the Take
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1957, role: actor , character name: Police Sgt. Waldo Harrington
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1956, role: actor , character name: Matt's Lawyer
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1951, role: actor , character name: Detective
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1951, role: actor , character name: George Peck
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1950, role: actor , character name: Charlie Malloy, Lawyer
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1950, role: actor , character name: Deputy
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1949, role: actor , character name: Agent Benson
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1949, role: actor , character name: Motor Officer
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1949, role: actor , character name: Major
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1949, role: actor , character name: Smaller Cop at Roadside Bar
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1949, role: actor , character name: Dave
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1949, role: actor , character name: Policeman
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1949, role: actor , character name: Policeman
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1949, role: actor , character name: Stranger on Street
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1949, role: actor , character name: Camser
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1949, role: actor , character name: Shad
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1949, role: actor , character name: Policeman
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1949, role: actor , character name: Reporter
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1949, role: actor , character name: Det. Parker
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1949, role: actor , character name: Al Merlo
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1949, role: actor , character name: Dan McCabe
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1949, role: actor , character name: Undetermined role
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1949, role: actor , character name: Johnson
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1949, role: actor , character name: Legionnaire Colonel's Aide
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1949, role: actor , character name: Charles Lindsay
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1949, role: actor , character name: Detective Faber
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1948, role: actor , character name: Herbie
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1948, role: actor , character name: ROT Captain on First Train
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1948, role: actor , character name: Policeman Danny Briggs
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1948, role: actor , character name: Sheriff Bradley
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1948, role: actor , character name: Harry - Detective
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1948, role: actor , character name: Jim Andrews
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1948, role: actor , character name: Henry
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1948, role: actor , character name: American Colonel
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1948, role: actor , character name: Bill Sanger
James, Nolan Filmography
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2010, role: producer
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2010, role: producer
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2010, role: writer
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2010, role: director
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2010, role: editor
Nolan, James Filmography
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2011, role: actor , character name: James
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2010, role: actor , character name: James Nolan
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2010, role: actor , character name: The Greatest Man that Ever Lived
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2010, role: actor , character name: The Greatest Man that Ever Lived
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2010, role: actor , character name: Adrian
