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"George Kenneth "Ken" Saunders (1910–2005) was a New Zealand writer, born in England, who had a substantial career in Australia. Career After leaving Canterbury University, he secured a job writing scripts for radio 3ZD Christchurch. Hoping to expand his horizons, he emigrated to Australia in August 1939 with wife Mona. Introduced by Peter Finch to ABC Federal Controller of Productions Frank Clewlow, who was recruiting staff for the newly reconstituted Argonauts Club and its companion program "The Children's Session", he was immediately put to work developing the on-air characters of 'Mac', 'Joe' and 'Elizabeth', and concocting humorous vignettes to brighten up the show. He was also writing scripts for the Macquarie Network's Lux Radio Theatre, but with Australia's entry into World War II, he was recruited into the CSIRO, leaving only Sundays for him to develop scripts for the ABC. Mona handled his correspondence as well as scripts and quizzes for the Argosy and Brains Trust, weekend programs associated with the Argonauts. After the War, he was able to devote more attention to stories for the Children's Hour. The Moon Flower, a science fiction serial aired in 1953, was so successful he went on to write a dozen more; all highly speculative yet incorporating important principles of Science. The Stranger was sold overseas as a radio serial and also published as a novel. Around 1957 he and Mona moved to England to gain experience writing for television but kept up his commitments with the ABC by writing a serial The Nomads about a family caravanning about Europe. In the end it ran for 400 episodes. It was not without its detractors, however; in 1960 the politician Sir Wilfrid Kent Hughes saw the story as subtle Communist propaganda and made a vitriolic speech to the Ballarat Young Liberals to that effect. Mona Saunders (née Beri) (1910–1994) wrote their joint autobiography Lucky Couple, published in 1998. Screen *The Stranger 1964-65 ABCTV series (12 × 30min episodes) *Wandjina! 1966 ABCTV series (7 × 30min episodes) Publications *The Stranger Whitcombe & Tombs, Sydney 1978 *Wanganui Adventure Whitcoulls, Christchurch New Zealand 1977 *The Forest Rangers Whitcoulls, Christchurch New Zealand 1979 *Maggie Jackson's Kid Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra 1998 *Lucky Couple (Mona Saunders and Ken Saunders), The Caxton Press 1998 *ABC Children's Hour Annuals 1956 - Educational Press for ABC, Sydney 1956 - Sources *The Golden Age of the Argonauts Rob Johnson, Hodder & Stoughton 1997 References Category:New Zealand radio writers Category:New Zealand expatriates in Australia Category:Australian radio writers Category:Australian science fiction writers Category:Australian television writers Category:1910 births Category:2005 deaths Category:Australian male novelists Category:Male television writers Category:20th-century screenwriters "
"Battle of Kismayo may refer to: * Fall of Kismayo (2007), an offensive by the Somali National Army and Ethiopian forces against Islamic Courts Union (ICU) fighters * Battle of Kismayo (2008), an offensive begun by Islamist al-Shabaab and ICU fighters * Battle of Kismayo (2009), an offensive begun by Sheikh Ahmed "Madobe" and his Ras Kamboni Brigade forces * Battle of Kismayo (2012), an offensive led by Somali National Army forces and AMISOM allies "
"The Sheares Brothers, Henry (1753–98), and John (1766–1798) were Irish lawyers and republicans who were members of the Society of United Irishmen, who died in the 1798 rebellion. Early lives The Sheares brothers were the sons of Henry Sheares, a liberal banker from Cork who also sat in the Irish Parliament for the Borough of Clonakilty. Henry attended Trinity College Dublin, bought an officer's commission and then studied as a lawyer, being called to the bar as a barrister in Michaelmas term, 1790. John had qualified as a barrister in Michaelmas term, 1789. Their father had died in 1776, leaving a large income of £1,200 p.a.Libraryireland article accessed 2009 Politicisation in Paris In 1792 the brothers went to Paris and were swept away by the popular enthusiasms of the French revolution. They met leaders such as Brissot and Roland, both of whom were to be executed in 1793. In particular they witnessed the introduction of the guillotine, on which 1,400 were to die in 1792.Independent, Feb 2007 On the boat from France to England they met Daniel O'Connell (then a student) who was disgusted by the increasingly bloodthirsty nature of the revolution. O'Connell remained an advocate of non-violence thereafter.http://www.libraryireland.com/biography/HenryandJohnShearesUnitedIrishmen.php United Irish They joined the United Irish movement on their return to Dublin in January 1793, when it was still legal. However, France declared war on Britain (and by extension, on Ireland) in February 1793. The Society's initial aims of securing 1) Catholic Emancipation and 2) universal suffrage were unsuccessful, amounting to the administration's 1793 Relief Act. Its stance became more radical, and in turn the Irish administration feared a group inspired by France, banning it in 1794. The Sheares brothers principally organised the movement in Cork, while continuing with their legal careers. A Mr. Conway, one of their keenest members in Cork, informed the administration of their activities.Notes on Conway; accessed Oct 2009 During 1793 the brothers also joined the Dublin Society of the United Irishmen, where another spy, Thomas Collins, passed on their names.McDowell, RB Proceedings of the Dublin Society of the United Irishmen Irish Manuscripts Commission, Dublin 1998; passim. Their two other less famous brothers had enlisted in the British army and were killed in action. On the arrest of most of the United Irish "Directory" members in March 1798, John was chosen as a replacement on the approach to the outbreak of rebellion. His main act at this point was to decide on the date - 23 May. Arrests The Directory fatally stayed in Dublin, where the United Irish had less support. Already quietly betrayed by Conway and Collins, John also befriended Captain Warnesford Armstrong from County Down, who claimed to be a busy member of the party there. John never checked this, and Armstrong informed the authorities of the brothers' whereabouts, also appearing as a witness in the ensuing trial. They were arrested on 21 May and indicted on 26 June. (Christina, Lady Longford sets her 1942 play 'The United Brothers' in the drawing room of Lady Steele (Maria Verity widow of Sir Parker Steele Bt of Hampstead, Co Dublin) at 11 Merrion Square, Dublin, she had prevented John Sheares from marrying her daughter Maria Steele who later tried to save the brothers.Verity Family Records, Glamorgan Archives (DDXcb) Executions Inevitably the brothers were tried on 12 July, as the rebellion was at its height, and were hanged, drawn and quartered on 14th. The presiding judge was Hugh Carleton, 1st Viscount Carleton, the Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas, who was much criticised for taking the case, as the boys' father, a close friend, had appointed Carleton their guardian. Their lawyer was John Philpot Curran who, with Sir Jonah Barrington, obtained a stay of execution in the hope that Henry would recant, but the brothers were already dead. They were buried at St Michan's nearby. Visitors are brought to their coffins on a tour of St. Michan's vaults. John's speech from the dock was later much quoted, including his justification: :"The accusation of which I speak, while I linger here yet a minute, is that of holding out to the people of Ireland a direction to give no quarter to the troops fighting for its defence. My lords, let me say thus, that if there be any acquaintances in this crowded court--I do not say my intimate friends, but acquaintances--who do not know what I say is truth, I shall be reputed the wretch which I am not; I say, if any acquaintance of mine can believe that I could utter a recommendation of giving no quarter to a yielding and unoffending foe, it is not the death which I am about to suffer that I deserve--no punishment could be adequate to such a crime. My lords, I can not only acquit my soul of such an intention, but I declare, in the presence of that God before whom I must shortly appear, that the favorite doctrine of my heart was that no human being should suffer death, but when absolute necessity required it." Family All four Sheares brothers died in the 1790s, but Henry's daughter Mary went on to marry the Revd. Piers Butler in 1823. Their sister Jane Sheares married Henry Westropp and had issue. Notes Category:People of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 Category:1750s births Category:1798 deaths Category:Protestant Irish nationalists Category:United Irishmen Category:Irish republicans Category:18th-century Irish people Category:Sibling duos "