Paddy moloney - age four brothers
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Celebrating a chieftain: Paddy Maloney ar Chloch le Carn, RTÉ 1
A celebration of the life and career of Paddy Moloney, uilleann piper, tin whistle player, composer and founding member of The Chieftains is celebrated in this week’s episode from the series of Cloch le Carn on RTÉ 1 at 7pm on Tuesday 8th March.
Born in 1938 into a musical household in Donnycarney on the northside of Dublin, Paddy was surrounded by traditional music from a young age. He would master his craft as an uilleann piper under the watchful eye of tutor Leo Rowsome.
He came to prominence in the late 1960s as part of the group Ceoltóirí Chualann. Paddy would be instrumental in the arrangement and selection of music for the group which was put together by musical director and composer, Seán Ó Riada. The group would record the renowned live album, ‘Ó Riada sa Gaiety’ in 1969.
During his time as managing director of Claddagh Records Paddy would produce over 40 albums, many of them going on to become classics of the genre including The Liffey Banks by Tommie Potts and The Star Above the
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Paddy Moloney: A chieftain in every sense of the word
Paddy Moloney
Born: August 1st, 1938
Died: October 12th, 2021
Paddy Moloney’s legacy is writ large across the Irish traditional music firmament. Uilleann piper and whistle player, founder, composer and arranger with The Chieftains for almost 60 years, he was unquestionably a chieftain or taoiseach in the Celtic mythological sense of that word: a dynamic leader whose intuitive understanding of the relationship between traditional music and its audience forged a path to success that nobody else would have dreamed possible.
Paddy was the second of five children born to two Laois natives, John and Kate Moloney (née Conroy) in Donnycarney. His father came from farming stock and was a quartermaster sergeant in the army, before working in the Irish Glass Bottle Company. Paddy was the first of his family to take up music, on the encouragement of his mother Kate, who bought him his first tin whistle.
He attended the Christian Brothers but his formative education was at the hands of the renowned Dublin piper Leo Rowsome, with wh
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Paddy Moloney: The man who put Irish music on the map
BBC News NI
It's the group that, according to the Rolling Stones' Keith Richards, put Irish music "on the map".
With a career spanning six decades, the Chieftains remains one of the most influential and heralded music groups to emerge from Ireland - and all led by Paddy Moloney, the charismatic performer at the heart of the group, whose funeral took place on Friday following his death at the age of 83.
The group's musicians have collaborated with some of the world's biggest stars - from Mick Jagger to Sting, Dolly Parton and Luciano Pavarotti - and have sold out some of the most famous concert halls across the world, helping to bring traditional Irish music out of the pubs and backrooms of Ireland's towns and villages and to a global audience.
Here's a look back at the six-decade career of Moloney and the Chieftains, focusing on some of the achievements that went into building their legacy as some of Ireland's truly gre
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