John Feeney

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John Feeney (tenor)

John Feeney (9 August 1903 – 1967), was an Irish tenor.

Biography

Feeney was a native of Swinford, County Mayo. After nine years working in England as a labourer, in 1928 he emigrated to the United States, where for thirty years he was one of the leading Irish-American musicians, rated alongside Michael Coleman, James Morrison and The Flanagan Brothers. He became a labelmate of Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, and Bing Crosby on Decca Record Company, and was a regular performer on The Shaefer Show on radio.

Feeney's voice was described as easy, warm and relaxed, his repertoire including Irish favourites such as Galway Bay and Moonlight In Mayo, as well as recitals of Mozart, Handel and Schubert lieder. He regularly played sold-out performances in Carnegie Hall.

John Feeney returned to Ireland in 1964, where he died three years later.

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John Feeney (filmmaker)

John Feeney (10 August 1922 – 6 December 2006) was a New Zealand-born director of documentary films. He worked with the New Zealand National Film Unit, National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and made films and did photography in Egypt. He was nominated for two Academy Awards.

Early life

Feeney was born in Ngaruawahia and attended at Victoria University. During the Second World War he served as a lieutenant in the Royal New Zealand Naval Reserve, escaping from Singapore and taking part in the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944. He then served as a research assistant with the War History Branch of the Navy Department in Wellington until 1948.

New Zealand National Film Unit

His New Zealand film credits include Legend of the Wanganui River and Hot Earth.

NFB

Feeney directed ten NFB productions 1954 to 1963, working most often with producer Tom Daly. Most of his NFB films focused on the Canadian Arctic and the Inuit.

In 1958, Feeney received his first nomination for an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject for The Living Stone, about Inuit carving.

Platonic Academy

Coordinates: 37°59′33″N 23°42′29″E / 37.99250°N 23.70806°E / 37.99250; 23.70806

The Academy (Ancient Greek: Ἀκαδημία) was founded by Plato (428/427 BC – 348/347 BC) in ca. 387 BC in Athens. Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) studied there for twenty years (367 BC – 347 BC) before founding his own school, the Lyceum. The Academy persisted throughout the Hellenistic period as a skeptical school, until coming to an end after the death of Philo of Larissa in 83 BC. Although philosophers continued to teach Plato's philosophy in Athens throughout the Roman era, it was not until 410 AD that a revived Academy was established as a center for Neoplatonism, persisting until 529 AD when it was finally closed by Justinian I.

The Platonic Academy has been cited by historians as the first higher learning institution in the Western world.

Site

Before the Akademia was a school, and even before Cimon enclosed its precincts with a wall, it contained a sacred grove of olive trees dedicated to Athena, the goddess of wisdom, outside the city walls of ancient Athens. The archaic name for the site was Hekademia (Ἑκαδήμεια), which by classical times evolved into Akademia and was explained, at least as early as the beginning of the 6th century BC, by linking it to an Athenian hero, a legendary "Akademos".

New Academy (Moscopole)

The New Academy or Greek Academy was a renowned educational institution, operating from 1743 to 1769 in Moscopole, an 18th-century cultural and commercial metropolis of the Aromanians and leading center of Greek culture in what is now southeastern Albania. It was nicknamed the 'worthiest jewel of the city' and played a very active role in the inception of the modern Greek Enlightenment movement.

Background

Moscopole, now Voskopojë, a small village in south Albania, was an 18th-century city inhabited predominantly by Aromanians. It became a center of Greek culture, with Greek being the language of education in the local schools, as well as the language of the books published by the local printing house, founded either in 1720 or in 1731. Seemingly it was the second printing press founded in the Ottoman Empire, after the also Greek printing press in Istambul. Education was so actively promoted, that the city emerged as a leading center of Greek intellectual activity.

John Feeney (newspaper proprietor)

John Feeney (1839 in Birmingham – 3 May 1905), was a newspaper proprietor and philanthropist, and a proprietor of the Birmingham Post, in partnership with John Jaffray (later Sir John Jaffray, baronet) in succession to his father John Frederick Feeney.

He was the second son of his father. In his will, he left most of his considerable fortune to charity, mostly for the benefit of the City of Birmingham. By this or in his lifetime: