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Reilly (band)

Reilly is an indie Christian alternative folk rock band based in Philadelphia. The band, originally called The John Reilly Band, was formed during the core members' college days by vocalist John Reilly, violinists Dan Huie and former member of the now defunct band On Loan, Noele Huie (née Parris), bassist Matthew Bomberger and drummer Jordan Lenhoff. They have recorded and released three albums - While I Was on Earth (2005), Let June Decide (2007), and Around the World (2010). The band has played several large festivals, such as Cornerstone, Creation, and Purple Door, and performed with well-known artists such as Switchfoot, Jars of Clay, and BarlowGirl. Frontman John Reilly was nominated for a 2009 GMA Dove Award for his collaboration “Joyful Noise” with Flame and Lecrae on Our World: Redeemed, and the band's song "Sunlight" was awarded "Best Music Video" at the 2009 San Diego Film Festival.

Reilly (surname)

Reilly is an Irish surname (other forms include O'Reilly and Riley), and is derived from the Gaelic Ó Raghallaigh Sept that was based in Counties Cavan and Westmeath. Reilly is among the ten most frequently found surnames in Ireland and although they are very widespread they can be mostly found in the region of the ancestral homeland.

People with the surname Reilly include:

  • Alan Reilly, Irish footballer
  • Arch Reilly, American baseball player
  • Ben Reilly, fictional comic-book character
  • Brandon Reilly (musician), frontman of the band "Nightmare of You"
  • Brandon Reilly (American football), American football wide receiver
  • Brent Reilly, Australian rules footballer
  • Charles Herbert Reilly, English architect
  • Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor and director
  • David Reilly (singer), American singer
  • Dianne Reilly, Australian politician
  • Donald Reilly, American cartoonist
  • Edward Reilly (disambiguation), several people
  • Frank J. Reilly, American illustrator and art educator
  • Ike Reilly, American musician
  • Jack Reilly (artist), American artist
  • James Reilly (disambiguation), several people
  • Jim Reilly, Irish drummer
  • John Reilly (disambiguation), several people
  • Kelly Reilly, English actress
  • Kevin Reilly (disambiguation), several people
  • Lawrie Reilly, Scottish footballer
  • Long John Reilly, American baseball player
  • Maggie Reilly, Scottish singer
  • Mal Reilly, English rugby league player
  • Matthew Reilly, Australian Author
  • Mike Reilly (umpire), American baseball umpire
  • Paddy Reilly, Irish singer
  • Paul Reilly (disambiguation), several people
  • Pauline Neura Reilly, Australian author and ornithologist
  • Rick Reilly, American sportswriter
  • Robert D. Reilly Jr, American rear admiral
  • Sean Reilly, Louisiana businessman and former legislator
  • Sidney Reilly, a Russian-born adventurer and Secret Intelligence Service agent
  • Thomas Reilly (disambiguation), several people named Thomas, Tom and Tommy
  • Tomás Francisco Reilly (1908-1992), American-born Catholic Bishop of San Juan de la Maguana, Dominican Republic
  • Vini Reilly, British post-punk musician
  • William K. Reilly, American company director

Usage examples of "reilly".

They kept coming faster and faster in overwhelming numbers and still General Reilly, alias St.

When Commander Reilly and the Hermans and your father and his troops and ours all reach the caps.

During a period of appeals, several people, including Edward Reilly, approached Hauptmann in prison with the hope that he would confess in return for a commutation of his death sentence to life.

His own lead counsel, Edward Reilly, privately thought his client guilty and stated that he hoped Hauptmann would get the chair.

Even Timothy Reilly, one of Sir Francis's trusted coxswains, had succumbed, and although he tried to answer Sir Francis's accusation, he reeled on his feet.

Jasper Billington Innes, thought Moggie Reilly, as he headed, undressing, for the shower, was one of the last people he'd have expected to aim to win by flim-flam.

Vernon Arkwright couldn't believe that Moggie Reilly was still technically in the saddle, even though clinging there with his fingernails and with his centre of gravity a yard off sideways.

Reilly was an OC-Organized Crime-expert who'd spent fifteen busy years attacking the Five Families of the New York Mafia, more often called LCN by the FBI, for La Cosa Nostra.

Reilly was at odds with the rest of the defense team for his poor handling of several aspects of the case and spent a total of thirty-eight minutes with Hauptmann before the trial.

Moggie 'the cat' Reilly, like many other jockeys, kept fit by regular running, and many, also, left their cars outside the pubs at night rather than be done for drink-driving, so no one paid any attention when Moggie jogged to The Stag, plucked his keys from their magnetic box and drove himself home.

My fends from the factery Joe Carp and Frank Reilly invited me to go with them to Muggsys Saloon for some drinks.

No customs checked them off the station: they came as they liked, and Allison Reilly walked up the ramp and through the yellow, chill gullet of the access tube to the lock, carrying two bottles of Cyteen's best, a collection of microfiches, two pair of socks, a deep-study tape, and six tubes of hand lotion—not a good place to shop, Viking, which was mostly mining and shipbuilding: there was freight and duty on all of it but the microfiches and the tape, but they were headed Over the Line into Alliance territory, and most everyone was buying something, in the thought that goods in that foreign territory might be different, or harder come by, and there was a general rush to pick up this and that item.

Reilly had come back from the Budapest thing two weeks ago looking like death and Bone was in Norfolk pounding his way through a refresher course in unarmed combat.

Crossing the green line, she fished out her dog tags and pulled them off one-handed as she reached the watch desk just the other side of the lock, smiled wearily at her several cousins of varying degree who sat that cheerless duty, and stuck the key-tag into the portable comp unit while Danny Reilly checked her off.