Kieran Hanrahan

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Kieran Hanrahan is an Irish radio host and musician, born in Ennis, Co. Clare in 1957. He began playing traditional Irish music on the tenor banjo at the age of fourteen, and had won the All-Ireland banjo championship by the time he was eighteen^{[citation needed]}. Over the years, Hanrahan has helped to found a number of traditional bands, including Inchiquin, Stockton's Wing, and the Templehouse Ceili Band.

Hanrahan has hosted radio programs for the Irish national broadcaster RTÉ since 1991. Currently he hosts Céilí House, a radio program on traditional Irish music aired weekly in Ireland on RTÉ Radio 1.

[edit] Discography

• Various artists: The Field (Film soundtrack) (1990)
• The Chieftans: The Long Black Veil (1995): Hanrahan appears as a guest musician.
• Kieran Hanrahan plays the Irish Tenor Banjo (1998)
• This Is My Father (Film soundtrack) (1998): In addition to performing on the soundtrack for this film, Hanrahan also appears onscreen as a band leader.
• Various artists: Agnes Browne (Film soundtrack) (2000)

[edit] External links

• Céilí House Official Webpage
• Short bio of Hanrahan at the Dublin Institute of Technology