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Neil Tobin.. The voice....ahhh that voice! The voice of the award-winning presentation in the Lismore Heritage Centre is Niall Toibin's; the voice of Lyon's Tea is Niall Toibin; and the Irish National Bank was built on a foundation of Niall Toibin's radio campaign. Niall began training that voice as a child in the cathedral choir and the Opera House in Cork. In his teens, Niall joined a drama society attached to the Keating Branch of the Gaelic League. It was when Niall started acting in amateur plays with the Compantas Amharclaine na Gaeilge that he became "determined to be an actor." More... |
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The Nolan Sisters.. The Nolan family consisted of Irish Catholic parents Tommy and Maureen (both singers), six daughters and two sons. The family moved from Dublin to Blackpool in 1962 and three years later their youngest daughter was born. "The Singing Nolans" toured the Northern club circuit for several years as a full family unit, before the five eldest girls broke away to form The Nolan Sisters in the early 1970s. |
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Conal Gallen Conal has 17 albums and four videos to his credit along with 11 television appearances and several hit fun singles. He has also received several awards, including, ' Best Irish Comedian in the UK ' 2001/2002, presented by The Irish World newspaper in London, and ' Comedian of the Year ' 2000 presented by LM/FM Radio. The US also recognised Conal Gallen's talent when in 2001 The Donegal Association in Boston invited him to their Annual Banquet and presented him with an award as Ireland's Ambassador of Humour. More... |
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The Saw Doctors are a folk-rock band from Tuam, County Galway in the west of Ireland, named after the itinerant craftsmen who once traveled from sawmill to sawmill sharpening and repairing saws.The band boasts a fervent following both at home and abroad and hold the record for Ireland's biggest-selling single ever. Ireland's Dublin-based music cognoscenti have often sneered at the band's rootedness in "backward" West of Ireland locales. However, the Saw Doctors have nevertheless proved themselves a true "people's band," and have a fervent following, especially in Ireland and among Irish-Americans in the United States. |
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Johnny McEvoy - The Boston
Burglar - #1 Song in Ireland 40 Years Ago on the 19th May 1967 !! One of Ireland's most enduring artists, Johnny McEvoy's career spans more that three decades. When your want a great ballad singer, there's nobody like Johnny McEvoy. More... |
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Mary Black. She was born into a musical family. Her father had been a fiddler, her mother a singer, and her brothers had their own group. She sang in her family's group in her youth, and her mother Patty had a song in her brothers' 1996 album, What A Time/Shay, by Michael and Martin Black. Her sister Frances Black is also an acclaimed vocalist. Mary Black went on to play in other groups including the traditional Irish band, De Dannan from 1984–1986. Since 1986 she has had a successful solo career, where she went on to try contemporary styles ranging from jazz to country. She was named "Best Female Artist" in the IRMA poll in 1987, 1988, 1992, 1994 and 1996[1]. She is married to Joe O'Reilly of Dara Records and they have three children, Conor, Danny and Roisin. More... |
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Susan McCann... Prior to bursting onto the Irish scene, Susan and husband, Dennis Heaney had a three piece group that played the local pubs and cabaret spots around her home in Newry, Co. Down. The success of the single led to the formation of her band, The Storytellers. In 1979, Susan was
invited to perform at the Royal Albert Hall in London. She rose to the
occasion thrilling 4,000 fans in Britain's most prestigious concert venue.
1980 was the year Susan went to Nashville to record an LP at Porter
Wagoner's studios. The sessions so impressed Porter that he asked he to
appear with him at The Grand Ole Opry and on his TV program! |
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Neily O'Connor - No information (Yet !!) |
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Since their formation back in the summer of 1990,
Goats Don't Shave have risen to become one of the most popular bands Ireland
has ever produced. Their name comes from a pub incident in which a drunken old man was told to go and have a shave and clean himself up - his response was to walk away muttering the words Goats Don't Shave!! They began performing their Celtic folk-rock in between their day jobs; which included plumbing and fishing, at which point the lads started to pick up regular bookings. Next they went around the country, cadging money to record a small tape. More... |
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Batt Burns, an elementary school principal in the village of Sneem, on The
Ring of Kerry, began a second career as a Seanachie ( storyteller ) after
he had won The All-Ireland Teachers Talent Competition in Dublin in 1983.
Prior to that he had worked to make significant changes in the curriculum of Irish Primary Schools by his experimental work in Environmental Studies and this led him into writing a series of textbooks on this topic. As a youth in the Kerry Hills, he was surrounded by storytellers, and he spent invaluable years with his storytelling grandfather, Michael Clifford.
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Seamus Moore Seamus Moore entered and won a talent contest at the I & B Records, Annual Irish Music and dance Festival in Southport with his own composition 'The JCB Song. Two years later he was presented with a gold record, at the same festival, for sales in excess of 50,000 of the single and cassette.
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Brendan Grace is an Irish comedian. He played the part of Murphy in the 1995 movie Moondance, and in 1996 he appeared in the Irish TV sitcom Father Ted as Father Fintan Stack. Brendan Grace's work for children's charities has won him many accolades. Grace was appointed president of Ireland's Performing Artists Trust Society, and he also received an honour which was bestowed on him by former Irish Prime Minister Charles Haughey, making him a Commissioner Of Peace in Ireland. Brendan's career has spanned over 35 years and he has worked with such legends as Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Liza Minnelli. The late Mr. Sinatra referred to him as his "man in Europe". |
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