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• Moran, Israel
• Moran Hill in North Korea
• Morán Municipality in Venezuela
• Moran Station in Seongnam, South Korea
• Moran Town in Assam, India
• Moran, British Columbia, a locality in Canada, at Moran Canyon on the Fraser River

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• Moran, California
• Moran, Indiana
• Moran, Kansas
• Moran, Texas
• Moran, Wyoming
• Moran Township, Michigan
• Moran Township, Minnesota
• Moran State Park, Washington
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• Moran (Maasai) or Il-murran, warriors among the Maasai of Kenya
• Moran (surname), Irish surname (and list of people with that name)
• Morán, Spanish surname
• Moran (Syriac), Syriac title for Jesus Christ
• Baron Moran, British peerage title
• Moran, a female Irish Quidditch player in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Moran Dam, a proposed dam on the Fraser River at Moran, British Columbia, Canada
• MORAN, an acronym for Multi-Operator Radio Access Network

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• Moren (disambiguation)
• Morin (disambiguation)
• Moron (disambiguation)

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Dylan Moran
Born	(1971-11-03) 3 November 1971 (age 40) Navan, County Meath, Ireland
Medium	Stand up, Film, Television
Nationality	Irish
Years active	1992–present
Genres	Observational comedy, Deadpan, Satire, Surreal humour
Subject(s)	Politics, Family, Current events
Notable works and roles	Bernard Black in Black Books (also writer of; 2000–2004) David in Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Website	http://www.dylanmoran.com/
Youngest winner of Perrier Comedy Award (1996)
BAFTA Awards
Situation Comedy Award 2005 Black Books (writer) Situation Comedy Award 2001 Black Books (writer)

Dylan Moran (born 3 November 1971) is an Irish stand-up comedian, writer, actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his sardonic observational comedy, the UK television sitcom Black Books (which he co-wrote and starred in), and his work with Simon Pegg in Shaun of the Dead and Run Fatboy Run. Moran also appeared as one of the two lead characters in the Irish black comedy titled A Film with Me in It in 2008. He is a regular performer at national and international comedy festivals including the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Just for Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Kilkenny Comedy Festival. In 2007 he was voted the 17th greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups and again in the updated 2010 list as the 14th greatest stand-up comic. In 2012, he became the first professional English-speaking comedian ever to perform in Russia, after two sold-out shows in neighboring Estonia, with his routine referencing Russia's new law banning "homosexual propaganda" and jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky.^[1]

Biography[link]

Early life[link]

Moran was born in Navan, County Meath, Ireland. He attended St. Patrick's Classical School, where he experimented early on with standup, (with fellow comic Tommy Tiernan and Hector Ó hEochagáin) and left at age 16^[2] with his Leaving Certificate. After leaving school, it has been said that Moran spent four years unemployed "drinking and writing bad poetry".^[3] At one point, Dylan worked as a florist but quit after a week because he hated the job.^[3]

Career[link]

Dylan Moran came to comedy at age 20 after watching Ardal O'Hanlon and other comedians perform at Dublin's Comedy Cellar, a small fifty-seater comedy club with no microphone in the upstairs of The International Bar on South Wicklow Street. He began his stand up there in 1992 and, although nervous, got a good reception.^[2] In 1993, he won the So You Think You're Funny award at the Edinburgh Festival. He went on to become the youngest person to win the Perrier Comedy Award in 1996 at the Edinburgh Festival at age 24.^[3] Gurgling For Money was Moran's first major one man stand up UK tour in 1997. He went on to perform at many other festivals including the Hay Festival, Montreal comedy festival, Vancouver Comedy Festival and the Edinburgh Festival. Between 1995 and 1997 Moran wrote a weekly column for The Irish Times.

Moran won his first major television role in 1998 playing Ian Lyons in the BBC 2 sitcom How Do You Want Me?, with Charlotte Coleman.^[2] He went on to appear in a small role in the 1999 movie Notting Hill as Rufus the thief. In 2000, Black Books was launched on Channel 4. The sitcom, about a miserable, unsociable, drunken, chain-smoking, and disorganized book shop owner, Bernard Black, was the original idea of Moran and brought into existence with the aid of co-writer and fellow Irishman Graham Linehan, and producers Mark Buckley and Albert Kenny of Kenley Studios. The second series was televised in 2002, and the third, which aired in 2004, was greeted with great enthusiasm by critics and fans alike.^[2] In the same year Moran appeared in his first major film role playing David in the comedy Shaun of the Dead.

Moran toured his new shows Monster I and Monster II in 2004, including performances in New York and Milan, as well as a tour across Britain and Ireland, culminating in a week-long run at London's Palace Theatre, before two shows at Dublin's Vicar Street, and finally an appearance at the Hay Festival. The tour was described by The Times as a "masterclass of comic charisma: swinging from topic to topic in a manner seemingly spontaneous but actually tightly organised".^[2]

A live DVD of the Monster II tour, filmed on 28 May at Dublin's Vicar Street, was released that year, as Moran's first live stand-up DVD. After a successful run at the Helen Hayes Theater in New York City in 2004 as part of the British/Irish Comedy Invasion (including performances by top British and Irish comedians such as Eddie Izzard, fellow Black Books star Bill Bailey and Irish comedian Tommy Tiernan) Moran returned to New York for a month-long run at the Village Theatre. He then performed a two-week London West End run at the Wyndham's Theatre, 1–13 November 2004.

His third major tour, Like, Totally, opened at the Buxton Opera House on 3 May 2005,^[2] and as with his previous tours the stand-up routine was accompanied by projected cartoons drawn by Moran. A DVD of the tour was released in December 2005. Moran appeared as the character of Gordon in the comedy film Run, Fat Boy, Run, released in September 2007 which cast Moran as the best friend to Dennis (Shaun of the Dead co-star Simon Pegg), having played an adversary to Pegg's character in Shaun of the Dead.

In June 2008, Moran appeared with Ardal O'Hanlon & Tommy Tiernan at the Echo Arena in 'The Three Fellas',^[4] a one-off comedy event, part of the city's 'European Capital of Culture 2008' celebrations. Between October and December 2008, Moran embarked on a new UK tour entitled What It Is, starting at the Grand Opera House in York, and ending at Oxford's New Theatre. Other notable venues include Colston Hall at Bristol, Nottingham's Royal Concert Hall, The O2 Arena (London), the Waterfront Hall Auditorium in Belfast and the Corran Halls in Oban. The tour was extended into 2009 and has now been released on DVD.

A compilation DVD of highlights from Dylan's three previous stand up shows was made available in November 2010 called Dylan Moran: Aim Low.

Yeah, Yeah, a stand-up tour of Scandinavia, the Baltic states, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the UK began in April 2011.

Awards and commendations[link]

At the Edinburgh Festival Fringe he has won the 'So You Think You're Funny? Award' in 1993, and the Perrier Award in 1996, but later dismissed the latter as "a load of media rubbish," stating Bill Bailey deserved it more.

A popular poll commissioned by Channel 4 ranked him the 14th Greatest Comedy Stand-up.^[5] Moran was declared "the greatest comedian, living or dead" by the French newspaper Le Monde in July 2007.^[6] He has also twice won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Situation Comedy, both for Black Books.

Filmography[link]

Television[link]

• How Do You Want Me? (Ian Lyons) (1998-1999)
• Black Books (Bernard Black) (2000-2004) (also creator and writer)

Film[link]

• Notting Hill (Rufus the Thief) (1999)
• The Actors (Tom Quirk) (2003)
• Shaun of the Dead (David) (2004)
• A Cock and Bull Story (Dr. Slop) (2005)
• Tell It to the Fishes (Finn) (2006)
• Run Fatboy Run (Gordon) (2007)
• A Film with Me in It (Pierce) (2008)
• The Decoy Bride (Charley) (2011)

Stand-up DVDs[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

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• Dylan Moran Official Website
• Dylan Moran at the Internet Movie Database
• Channel 4 interview
• BBC review of Monster tour
• LF Interview during Yeah Yeah tour

IMSA Del Mar Grand Prix - October 1990

Rocky Moran, Sr. (born February 3, 1950 in Pasadena, California) is a retired American race car driver. Moran, Sr. started three Indianapolis 500-mile (800 km) races (1988, 1989, and 1990 Indianapolis 500) with a best finish of 14th in 1989.^[1]

Moran also teamed with P. J. Jones and Mark Dismore to win the 1993 24 Hours of Daytona event.^[2]

Moran is the father of racer Rocky Moran, Jr.. With his son, Moran, Sr. opened the Moran Raceway kart track in Beaumont, California.^[3] In 2007, the track was closed.

References[link]

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Caitlin Moran (born 5 April 1975 as Catherine Elizabeth Moran) is a British broadcaster, TV critic and columnist at The Times, where she writes three columns a week: one for the Saturday Magazine, a TV review column, and the satirical Friday column "Celebrity Watch". Moran is British Press Awards (BPA) Columnist of the Year for 2010, and both BPA Critic of the Year 2011, and Interviewer of the Year 2011^[1]

Early life and career[link]

Moran's father is a rock musician. She is the eldest of 8 children and has 4 sisters and 3 brothers. She was born in Brighton and then lived in a three bedroom council house in Wolverhampton with her parents and siblings. She attended Springdale Junior School and was then educated at home from the age of 11, having attended secondary school for only three weeks.^[2]

At the age of 13 in October 1988 she won a Dillons young readers' contest for an essay on Why I Like Books and was awarded £250 of book tokens. At the age of 15, she won The Observer's Young Reporter of the Year.^[3] She began her career as a journalist for Melody Maker, the weekly music publication, at the age of 16.^[4] Moran also wrote a novel called The Chronicles of Narmo at the age of 16, about being born into a family of five home-educated children in Wolverhampton. In 1992 she launched her television career, hosting the Channel 4 music show Naked City,^[5] which ran for two series and featured a number of then up-and-coming British bands such as Blur, Manic Street Preachers, and the Boo Radleys. Johnny Vaughan co-presented with her on Naked City.

In December 1999, Moran married The Times rock critic Peter Paphides in Coventry and the couple have two daughters born in 2001 and 2003.

Opinion of the Catholic Church[link]

On the 15th of July 2010, Caitlin Moran posted on her Twitter site: “The Catholic Church: they hate women and gays, and f*ck kids. On a day-to-day level, that’s a tough sell.” ^[6],[7]

Awards and honors[link]

• 2011 Galaxy National Book Awards, Book of the Year, How to Be A Woman
• 2011 Galaxy National Book Awards, Popular Non-Fiction Book of the Year, How to Be A Woman
• 2011 British Press Awards, Interviewer of the Year
• 2011 British Press Awards, Critic of the Year
• 2011 Irish Book Award, Listeners Choice category, How to Be A Woman
• 2010 British Press Awards, Columnist of the Year

Bibliography[link]

• Moran, Caitlin (1992). The Chronicles of Narmo. Corgi. ISBN 0-552-52724-6. 
• Moran, Caitlin (2011). How to Be A Woman. Ebury Press. ISBN 978-0-09-194073-7. 

References[link]

External links[link]

• Caitlin Moran on Myspace
• On Twitter

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Jason Matthew Patrick Moran (22 September 1967 – 21 June 2003) was an Australian criminal from Melbourne, Victoria, and one of the leaders of the Moran crime family, notable for its involvement in the Melbourne gangland killings. He sported a 12 cm scar on the side of his face.

Early life[link]

Moran was the son of Lewis Moran and Judy Moran. Mark Moran was his half-brother. Moran attended Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School. He met his future wife, Trisha Kane, at 15 years of age. She is the daughter of Les Kane, a Melbourne painter and docker and reputed criminal who was murdered in his family home on 19 October 1978.^[1]

During the 90's Moran emeged as one of Melbourne's main dealers in party drugs. During this time he had a team of up and coming western suburbs gangsters led by Bluey Watkins and Toofie Abudul running drugs for him. Watkins has been a missing person since the mid 90's while Abudul served time for conspiracy.

Moran was reported to have shot Carl Williams in the stomach during an argument in Gladstone Park on 13 October 1999, giving rise to lengthy violent turf wars known as the Melbourne gangland killings. ^[2] Jason Moran had attended the funeral of another slain mobster, Victor Peirce.

Alphonse Gangitano and Moran, along with associate Mark John McNamara, were charged over an attack in the Sports Bar nightclub in King Street, Melbourne, on 19 December 1995,^[3] for which Moran received a term of imprisonment.

Moran was considered by many to be a "dead man walking" and when paroled from prison in September 2001 was allowed to leave Australia due to fears for his life. He later returned to give evidence in the inquest into the death of Gangitano on 20 November which began on 14 January 2002. Moran was suspected in Gangitano's murder.^[4] Gangitano was found dead in the laundry of his Templestowe house by his wife in 1998. ^[5] A coroner found that Jason Moran and Graham Kinniburgh were present during Gangitano's murder in January 1998.^{[citation needed]}

Murder[link]

Pasquale Barbaro and Moran were gunned down on 21 June 2003 at a junior football clinic in Essendon, where they had been watching Moran's young children. On returning to their motor vehicle they were shot dead by a lone gunman.^[6] Police feared that the murders would lead to further violence in the Melbourne underworld war.^[7] Father Joe Giaccobe, a friend of the Moran family performed Moran's funeral. During the service another priest, Father Joe Martins said:

"Any funeral presents a challenge. Obviously, the church does not make judgements about the person. They need the prayers and whatever the church can do for them...They have to answer to God. We will not deny them".^{[citation needed]}

Moran's father, Lewis Moran, was unable to attend the service due to incarceration at Port Phillip Correctional Centre. Authorities refused Moran's request to allow him to be released from prison to attend the service. Lewis Moran was later murdered while drinking in a Brunswick bar.^[8]

On 28 February 2007, Carl Williams pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court of Victoria to the murder of Jason Moran. The actual shooting was done by Victor Brincat with Williams having organised the killing. He was sentenced to life imprisonment on 7 May 2007. Carl Williams was murdered while incarcerated at Barwon prison on 19 April 2010.

References in popular culture[link]

In the drama series Underbelly Jason Moran is played by actor Les Hill.

References[link]

External links[link]

• "Lest we forget: Jason Moran was a drug-dealing killer"
• The Murder of Jason Moran Melbourne Underworld (an online reference guide from the Crime Writers Association of Australia)