Category: Ceol dem’ chuid /My music

This is named after the month, as I could not think of a name for the tune. It arrived as I was tinkering with notes and wondering what to play for the aforementioned TG4 event in 2008, that is if I were to be asked to play! I had a small problem in that I […]

I had this idea to assemble 4 cd recordings or collections of music that I would publish and that each one would represent a stage in a boy’s growing into manhood. I also had the idea of associating them with one of the four elements. So the first collection was published under the title “Amidst […]

The first polka arose out of a piece of music I was commissioned to compose by Ionad Culturtha Bhaile Mhuirne in 2008. It was for string quartet, traditional Irish flute and Irish ‘Sean-nós’ singer. When emailing the tunes to the lads I thought the Polka would never do on its own so I made the […]

In 2008 the Cork County Council completed a major refurbishment of the County Hall, which for many years was the tallest building in Ireland. They asked me to compose a piece for them for the occasion of their official opening of these municipal offices. Cork is by far the biggest county in Ireland and therefore […]