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Housing Units (2000): 105
Land area (2000): 0.336565 sq. miles (0.871699 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.336565 sq. miles (0.871699 sq. km)
FIPS code: 21720
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 41.695179 N, 90.674635 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 52746
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Donahue
Wikipedia
Donahue is the Americanized version of Irish surname Donohoe, which, in turn, is an Anglicized version of the ancient Irish name "Donnchadh" (sometimes "Donncha").
Donncha was a common “first name” in 9th Century Ireland, and when the use of surnames became more common in Ireland around the 10th Century, many people looked to a respected common ancestor to form a surname. The ancestors of the modern Donahues took the name O’Donnchadha, meaning "the son of Donnacha" or "of the line of Donnacha". The modern Donahues are descended from one of at least eight unrelated Donnachas, each of whose descendants adopted the surname O’Donnchadha.
There are eight known O'Donoghue tribal areas in Ireland; in Munster the areas of Tipperary, Cork and Kerry, then there are Kilkenny, Wicklow, Dublin and Meath in Leinster and in Connaught there are Galway, Mayo, Sligo and Cavan. Considerable migration took place over the centuries and family groups took root in many other counties (e.g. Clare, Limerick, Waterford, Roscommon, and others), which would today be recognised as their areas of origin.
The Donohoes of the ancient Kingdom of Breifne, centered in modern-day Co. Cavan, are genetically linked to 4th-century Irish warlord Niall of the Nine Hostages.
When the name O’Donnchadha became Anglicized, at least 30 different spellings developed in Ireland, but by the 19th Century the most common spelling was "Donohoe." Of 2,800 families reporting variations of the name at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (1847-1864), 2,483, or 88%, were listed as “Donohoe.” None were listed as “Donahue.” The name distribution geographically during this same period reflects that there were significant clusters of Donohoes found in various parts of Ireland, including County Cavan, County Cork, County Galway, and County Kerry.
The name Donahue may refer to one of several people:
- Ann Donahue (born 1955), American television writer
- Art Donahue (1913-1942), American pilot who flew for the Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain
- Cornelius Donahue (1850–1878), American Old West outlaw
- Edward Donahue, American college sports coach
- Elinor Donahue (born 1937), American actress
- Heather Donahue (born 1974), American actress
- Jack Donahue (1804–1830), Australian outlaw
- Jack Donahue (born 1944), Louisiana politician and philanthropist
- Jed Donahue, American competitive eater
- Jerry Donahue (born 1946), American guitarist
- Jiggs Donahue, American baseball player
- Jim Donahue (1862–1935), American baseball player
- John Donahue, American baseball player
- John F. "Jack" Donahue, American founder of Federated Investors
- Jonathan Donahue, American rock guitarist
- Joseph Donahue (born 1954), American poet
- Joseph Patrick Donahue (1870-1959), American Catholic bishop
- Laura Kent Donahue (born 1949), American politician
- Lisa Donahue (born 1976), American reality TV contestant and actress
- Mike Donahue (1871–1960), American athlete and football coach
- Pat Donahue, American baseball player
- Patty Donahue (1956–1996), American New Wave singer
- Phil Donahue (born 1935), American talk show host
- Red Donahue (Francis Rostell "Red" Donahue, 1873–1913), American baseball player
- Sam Donahue (1918-1974), American saxophonist
- Terry Donahue (born 1925), Canadian female professional baseball player
- Terry Donahue (born 1944), American college football coach
- Tom Donahue (1928–1975), American disc jockey, record producer and concert promoter
- Tom Donahue (filmmaker) (born 1968), American film director and producer
- Thomas Michael Donahue (1921–2004), American astronomer
- Thomas R. Donahue (born 1928), American organized labor activist
- Tim Donahue (1870-1902), American baseball player
- Timothy Donahue, American executive
- Troy Donahue (1936–2001), American actor
In 2002, Phil Donahue returned to television to host a show called Donahue on MSNBC.
Usage examples of "donahue".
An hour after he posts it Donahue tells him he has the wrong forms of thymine and guaninethe enol, not the keto form.
An hour after he posts it Donahue tells him he has the wrong forms of thymine and guanine—the enol, not the keto form.
He remembered a Sally Jessy, or maybe it was a Donahue, with some hotel maid from Miami Beach who'd found like forty-two grand under a bed.
In the precable era, Phil Donahue was promiscuously called a "legend," a "star," the "daytime guru," "daytime television's biggest star" - even a "major star.
Pop found out that antique dealer from Boston - Donahue, his name had been - had gotten fifty bucks more than he'd ought to have gotten for a 1915 Victor-Graff gramophone (which had actually turned out to be a much more common 1919 model), Pop had lost three hundred dollars' worth of sleep over it, sometimes plotting various forms of revenge (each more wild-eyed and ridiculous than the last), sometimes just damning himself for a fool, telling himself he must really be slipping if a city man like that Donahue could skin Pop Merrill.
Dick Vollman, Chip Hobart, and sixteen-year-old Tony Donahue sat in a breezeway half a block up from Larry's tract house, passing a bottle of Canadian Club back and forth, chasing it with warm Seven-Up.