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[1] [2] [3] John McDermott is best known for his rendering of the songs "Danny Boy" and "Loch Lomond". Born in Glasgow, Scotland, McDermott moved with his family to Willowdale, Toronto, Canada in 1965. Growing up in a musical family, his only formal musical training was at St. Michael's Choir School in Toronto, Ontario in 1971 and 1972
John Richard McDermott was born 30 August 1919 in Pueblo, Colorado, the younger of two sons of Henry McDermott, an oil broker. McDermott was a young child when his father committed suicide. [4] The family eventually moved to Los Angeles where McDermott's mother, Hazel, worked in a beauty parlor. He graduated from Hollywood High School in 1936.
McDermott was born in Red Bank, New Jersey, the seventh of ten children of the late Robert and Jacqueline (Sullivan) McDermott. At the age of two, his family moved to Hudson, Massachusetts, where he attended St. Michael's parochial school, He then went to Hudson Catholic High School until the family relocated to Central Valley, New York, where he graduated from Monroe-Woodbury High School.
McDermott was born in New York City to John J. and Helen Kelly McDermott. [2] He was the first of eight children in a lower-middle class family. [3] He earned an undergraduate degree in 1953 at St. Francis College. He went to Fordham University to complete a master's degree and a Ph.D. in 1959. (Dissertation title: "Experience is Pedagogical ...
John J. McDermott (October 16, 1874 – before 1906) was an Irish-American athlete. Nicknamed "J.J." or "little Mac", he won the first marathon run in the United States in 1896, as well as the inaugural Boston Marathon , then known as the B.A.A. Road Race, in 1897.
Alice McDermott's ninth novel perfectly captures the manner and mood of that era and the constricted lives that women led as “helpmeets” for their husbands. McDermott won the National Book ...
John McDermott (runner) (1880–1948), American marathoner; John McDermott (singer) (born 1955), Scottish-Canadian singer; John F. McDermott, American psychiatrist; John J. McDermott (philosopher) (1932–2018), distinguished professor at Texas A&M University; John McDermott (Scottish artist) (born 1957), Scottish artist and veteran affairs ...
Alice McDermott has long chronicled the struggles of Irish Americans. Her ninth novel, 'Absolution,' recounts the Vietnam War from a new perspective. 'I look for the scary story': How Alice ...