Ronan

[roh-nahn]

noun

Irish Legend.

1. a king who killed his son, Mael Fothartaigh, after his wife had falsely accused the boy of attempting to seduce her, and who was himself killed by the children of Mael Fothartaigh.

Example Sentences

But as the saying goes - if you don't ask, you don't get and it worked out pretty well for Rónán Hession when Julia Roberts came on board as the narrator of Leonard and Hungry Paul, the BBC NI adaptation of his bestselling novel.

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But he was tempted back to the screen by the opportunity to work with his son Ronan, who directed and co-wrote his new film Anemone.

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That kind of fraternal family dynamic was something that Ronan Day-Lewis was keen to explore, when writing the script with his father.

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"It was just the idea of working with Ronan," the actor told BBC News.

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The actor and his son Ronan, 27, co-wrote the script for Anemone, which premiered at the London Film Festival on Tuesday.

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