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Colm Wilkinson

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Colm Wilkinson (born 5 June 1944), also known as C. T. Wilkinson, is an Irish tenor and actor, best known for originating the role of Jean Valjean in ''Les Misérables'' (in the West End and Broadway) and for taking the title role in ''The Phantom of the Opera'' at the Sydmonton Festival and in the original Canadian production. [1]

82 relations: Actor, Actors' Equity Association, Alfie Boe, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Barack Obama, Bishop Myriel, Born to Sing (song), Bray, Broadway theatre, CAA Theatre, Cameron Mackintosh, Canadians, Cat Stevens, Cathal Dunne, County Mayo, Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Acting Ensemble, Crossmolina, Doctor of Law, Drama Desk Award, Drimnagh, Ed Mirvish Theatre, Eponym, Erik (The Phantom of the Opera), Eurovision Song Contest, Evita (musical), Father and Son (song), Folk rock, Happy Man (Cathal Dunne song), Helen Hayes Award, Honorary degree, Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest, Irish people, It's Nice to Be in Love Again, ITunes, Jean Valjean, Jekyll & Hyde (musical), Jesus Christ Superstar, Joan of Arc, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, John Owen-Jones, Judas Iscariot, Les Misérables (2012 film), Les Misérables (musical), Les Misérables in Concert: The 25th Anniversary, Les Misérables: The Dream Cast in Concert, London Palladium, Louise Pitre, LP record, Ma-Anne Dionisio, Musical theatre, ..., National Board of Review Award for Best Cast, National Memorial Day Concert, Ontario, Outer Critics Circle Award, PBS, President of the United States, Rock opera, Rolling Stone, Royal Albert Hall, Royal Variety Performance, Ryerson University, San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Performance by an Ensemble, Satellite Award for Best Cast – Motion Picture, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, Simon Bowman, Songs from Les Misérables, Sydmonton Festival, Ted Kennedy, Tenor, The Music of the Night, The O2 Arena, The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical), The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall, The Swarbriggs, The Tudors, Theatre World Award, Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy de Darcy, Tony Award, Toronto, United States Senate, Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Ensemble, Wicklow. Expand index (32 more) »

Actor

An actor (often actress for women; see terminology) is a person who portrays a character in a performance.

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Actors' Equity Association

The Actors' Equity Association (AEA), commonly referred to as Actors' Equity or simply Equity, is an American labor union representing the world of live theatrical performance, as opposed to film and television performance (which is represented by SAG-AFTRA).

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Alfie Boe

Alfred Giovanni Roncalli Boe (born 29 September 1973) is an English tenor and actor, notably performing in musical theatre.

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Andrew Lloyd Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber Kt (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre.

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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017.

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Bishop Myriel

Bishop Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel, referred to as Bishop Myriel or Monseigneur Bienvenu, is a fictional character in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables.

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Born to Sing (song)

"Born To Sing" was the Irish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1978, performed in English by Colm C. T. Wilkinson (the only Contest entrant to be known by his middle initials).

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Bray

Bray (formerly Brí Chualann) is a coastal town in north County Wicklow, Ireland.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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CAA Theatre

The CAA Theatre, formerly the Panasonic Theatre, is a live theatre owned and operated by Mirvish Productions in Toronto, Canada.

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Cameron Mackintosh

Sir Cameron Anthony Mackintosh (born 17 October 1946) is a British theatrical producer and theatre owner notable for his association with many commercially successful musicals.

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Canadians

Canadians (Canadiens / Canadiennes) are people identified with the country of Canada.

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Cat Stevens

Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou), commonly known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is a British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

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Cathal Dunne

Cathal Dunne (born 1951) is an Irish singer.

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County Mayo

County Mayo (Contae Mhaigh Eo, meaning "Plain of the yew trees") is a county in Ireland.

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Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Acting Ensemble

The Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Acting Ensemble is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Broadcast Film Critics Association.

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Crossmolina

Crossmolina or Crosmolina is a town in the Barony of Tyrawley in County Mayo, Ireland, as well as the name of the parish in which Crossmolina is situated.

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Doctor of Law

Doctor of Law or Doctor of Laws is a degree in law.

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Drama Desk Award

The Drama Desk Awards are presented annually and were first awarded in 1955 to recognize excellence in New York theatre productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway.

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Drimnagh

Drimnagh is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland, situated on the Southside of the city between Walkinstown, Crumlin and Inchicore, bordering the Grand Canal to the north and east.

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Ed Mirvish Theatre

The Ed Mirvish Theatre is a historic film and play theatre in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Eponym

An eponym is a person, place, or thing after whom or after which something is named, or believed to be named.

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Erik (The Phantom of the Opera)

Erik (also known as The Phantom of the Opera, commonly referred to as The Phantom) is the title character from Gaston Leroux's novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (1910), best known to English speakers as The Phantom of the Opera.

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Eurovision Song Contest

The Eurovision Song Contest (Concours Eurovision de la chanson), often simply called Eurovision, is an international song competition held primarily among the member countries of the European Broadcasting Union.

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Evita (musical)

Evita is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics and book by Tim Rice.

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Father and Son (song)

"Father and Son" is a popular song written and performed by English singer-songwriter Cat Stevens (now known as Yusuf Islam) on his 1970 album Tea for the Tillerman.

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Folk rock

Folk rock is a hybrid music genre combining elements of folk music and rock music, which arose in the United States and the United Kingdom in the mid-1960s.

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Happy Man (Cathal Dunne song)

"Happy Man" was the Irish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1979, performed in English by Cathal Dunne.

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Helen Hayes Award

A Helen Hayes Award is a theater award named for the famed actress Helen Hayes to recognize excellence in professional theater in the Washington, D.C. area since 1983.

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Honorary degree

An honorary degree, in Latin a degree honoris causa ("for the sake of the honor") or ad honorem ("to the honor"), is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived the usual requirements, such as matriculation, residence, a dissertation and the passing of comprehensive examinations.

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Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest

Ireland has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 52 times since making its debut at the 1965 Contest in Naples, missing only two contests since then (and). The contest final is broadcast in Ireland on RTÉ One.

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Irish people

The Irish people (Muintir na hÉireann or Na hÉireannaigh) are a nation and ethnic group native to the island of Ireland, who share a common Irish ancestry, identity and culture.

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It's Nice to Be in Love Again

"It's Nice to Be in Love Again" was the Irish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1977, performed in English by The Swarbriggs Plus Two.

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ITunes

iTunes is a media player, media library, Internet radio broadcaster, and mobile device management application developed by Apple Inc. It was announced on January 9, 2001.

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Jean Valjean

Jean Valjean is the protagonist of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables.

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Jekyll & Hyde (musical)

Jekyll & Hyde is a musical horror-drama loosely based on the novella The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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Jesus Christ Superstar

Jesus Christ Superstar is a 1970 rock opera with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice.

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Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc; 6 January c. 1412Modern biographical summaries often assert a birthdate of 6 January for Joan, which is based on a letter from Lord Perceval de Boulainvilliers on 21 July 1429 (see Pernoud's Joan of Arc By Herself and Her Witnesses, p. 98: "Boulainvilliers tells of her birth in Domrémy, and it is he who gives us an exact date, which may be the true one, saying that she was born on the night of Epiphany, 6 January"). – 30 May 1431), nicknamed "The Maid of Orléans" (La Pucelle d'Orléans), is considered a heroine of France for her role during the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years' War and was canonized as a Roman Catholic saint.

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John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (formally called the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, and commonly referred to as the Kennedy Center) is the United States National Cultural Center, located on the Potomac River, adjacent to the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., named in 1964 as a memorial to President John F. Kennedy.

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John Owen-Jones

John Owen-Jones (born 5 May 1971) is a Welsh musical theatre actor and singer, best known for his portrayals of Jean Valjean in Alain Boublil & Claude-Michel Schönberg's Les Misérables and of The Phantom in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera.

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Judas Iscariot

Judas Iscariot (died AD) was a disciple and one of the original Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ.

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Les Misérables (2012 film)

Les Misérables is a 2012 musical drama film directed by Tom Hooper and scripted by William Nicholson, Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg, and Herbert Kretzmer, based on the 1862 French novel of the same name by Victor Hugo, which also inspired a 1980 concept album and 1985 musical by Boublil and Schönberg.

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Les Misérables (musical)

Les Misérables, colloquially known in English-speaking countries as Les Mis or Les Miz, is a sung-through musical based on the novel Les Misérables by French poet and novelist Victor Hugo.

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Les Misérables in Concert: The 25th Anniversary

Les Misérables in Concert: The 25th Anniversary was performed and filmed at The O2 in North Greenwich, London, England on Sunday, 3 October 2010 at 1:30 pm and 7:00 pm.

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Les Misérables: The Dream Cast in Concert

Les Misérables: The Dream Cast in Concert (1995), also titled Les Misérables in Concert, is a concert version of the musical Les Misérables, produced to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the West End production.

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London Palladium

The London Palladium is a 2,286-seat Grade II* West End theatre located on Argyll Street in the City of Westminster.

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Louise Pitre

Louise Pitre (born January 1, 1957) is a Canadian actress in musical theatre.

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LP record

The LP (from "long playing" or "long play") is an analog sound storage medium, a vinyl record format characterized by a speed of rpm, a 12- or 10-inch (30 or 25 cm) diameter, and use of the "microgroove" groove specification.

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Ma-Anne Dionisio

Ma-Anne Dionisio (born 16 July 1973) is a Filipino-born Canadian singer and actress.

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Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.

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National Board of Review Award for Best Cast

The National Board of Review Award for Best Acting by an Ensemble (or Best Cast) is an annual film award given (since 1994) by the National Board of Review.

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National Memorial Day Concert

The National Memorial Day Concert is a free annual concert performed on the west lawn of the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., in celebration of Memorial Day since 1989.

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Ontario

Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada.

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Outer Critics Circle Award

The Outer Critics Circle Awards are presented annually for theatrical achievements both on Broadway and Off-Broadway.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.

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President of the United States

The President of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Rock opera

A rock opera is a collection of rock music songs with lyrics that relate to a common story.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Royal Albert Hall

The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London, which has held the Proms concerts annually each summer since 1941.

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Royal Variety Performance

The Royal Variety Performance is a televised variety show held annually in the United Kingdom to raise money for the Royal Variety Charity (of which Queen Elizabeth II is life-patron).

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Ryerson University

Ryerson University (commonly referred to as Ryerson) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Performance by an Ensemble

The San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Performance by an Ensemble (formerly for Best Cast) is an annual film award given by the San Diego Film Critics Society.

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Satellite Award for Best Cast – Motion Picture

The Satellite Award for Best Cast (or Best Ensemble) in a Motion Picture is one of the Satellite Awards given by the International Press Academy since 2004.

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Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

The Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture is an award given by the Screen Actors Guild to honor the finest acting achievements in film.

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Simon Bowman

Simon Bowman is a British actor and singer, born in, Cardiff and trained at Mountview Theatre School.

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Songs from Les Misérables

Les Misérables is a sung-through musical based on the novel Les Misérables by French poet and novelist Victor Hugo.

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Sydmonton Festival

The Sydmonton Festival is a summer arts festival presented in a deconsecrated 16th century chapel on the grounds of Sydmonton Court, the country estate of Andrew Lloyd Webber.

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Ted Kennedy

Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) was an American politician who served in the United States Senate from Massachusetts for almost 47 years, from 1962 until his death in 2009.

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Tenor

Tenor is a type of classical male singing voice, whose vocal range is normally the highest male voice type, which lies between the baritone and countertenor voice types.

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The Music of the Night

"The Music of the Night" (also labeled as just "Music of the Night") is a song from the 1986 musical The Phantom of the Opera.

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The O2 Arena

The O2 Arena (temporarily the sponsor-neutral "North Greenwich Arena", during the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Paralympics) is a multi-purpose indoor arena located in the centre of The O2 entertainment complex on the Greenwich Peninsula in south east London.

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The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)

The Phantom of the Opera is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe.

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The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall

The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall is a 2011 British film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical The Phantom of the Opera, which in turn was based on the 1910 French novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra by Gaston Leroux.

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The Swarbriggs

Thomas (Tommy) Swarbrigg and John James (Jimmy) Swarbrigg are Irish music promoters and former pop musicians.

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The Tudors

The Tudors is a historical fiction television series set primarily in the 16th-century Kingdom of England, created and entirely written by Michael Hirst and produced for the American premium cable television channel Showtime.

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Theatre World Award

The Theatre World Award is an American honor presented annually to actors and actresses in recognition of an outstanding New York City stage debut performance, either on Broadway or off-Broadway.

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Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy de Darcy

Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy of Darcy or of Temple Hurst, (1467 – 30 June 1537) was an English nobleman, the only son, and heir, of Sir William Darcy (1443 – 30 May 1488) and his wife, Euphemia Langton, the daughter of Sir John Langton.

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Tony Award

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprise the legislature of the United States.

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Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Ensemble

The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Ensemble is one of the annual awards given by the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association.

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Wicklow

Wicklow is the county town of County Wicklow and the capital of the Mid-East Region in Ireland.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colm_Wilkinson

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