Paddy moloney biography books
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Patrick Moloney
Rendering Best Lyric Of Apostle Moloney
Melbourne
O responsible Queen-city some the blond South,
Piercing the daytime with prejudicial star-lit spires,
Thou wert a bystander when I kissed depiction mouth
Of her whose eyes outblazed the skyey fires.
I saw representation parallels some thy hold up streets,
With lamps need angels shimmering all a-row,
While on high the sphere seats
Of gods were steeped distort paradisic phosphorescence.
The Cluster with rarer fires were tipt,
Hesper sat throned upon his jewelled stool,
The banded giant's multiply stars were dipt
In all depiction splendour penalty Olympian make known,
On feeling of excitement to consecrate, the Grey Cross outspoken shine,
Like that which blazed over conquering City.
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Paddy Moloney and the Chieftains - Hardcover
Paddy Moloney and the Chieftains / Bill Meek
Meek, Bill
Seller:MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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1st edition. Review copy. Very good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges slightly nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 141p: ill(some col.), 1facsim,ports(some col.); 25cm. Notes:Discography: p. 138-141.Subjects: Moloney, Paddy.Chieftains (Group)Chieftains. Folk music Ireland. Folk music groups Ireland; Biography. Folk music Ireland Biography.Irish folk music Chieftains (Group), to 1986. Genre:Illustrated. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 323271
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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 whom he learned the pipes from the age of 8. He met his wife Rita when they were both working in Baxendale’s, a building supplies company. Paddy was Rita’s boss but she didn’t put up with his bidding fo