The Hog Nail Boots  
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
               

It would be difficult to overestimate the many talents of Dinny McLaughlin and his effect on Irish culture.There is an enormous range of talent to consider besides his virtuoso fiddle playing: Dinny is also a tin-whistle player, piano player, a gifted composer, Irish dancer, a music teacher and a dance teacher.

Aileach

 
'From Bare Foot Days' A Life Of Music, Song And Dance. Written by Liz Doherty
Out Now -
Available On-Line

Dinny has been many things to many people. Talent, fame and fortune could well have lured him away to other lands on many occasions. But it has been Inis Eoghain's great good fortune that he chose to remain in his native place, rooted in the community that shaped and fashioned him and that was, in turn, musically shaped and fashioned by him.

Colm McGlynn

           
 

From Barefoot Days - A Life of Music, Song and Dance in Inishowen is a collection of the life-stories, music , songs and poems of Dinny McLaughlin, Inshowen's richest cultural treasure. It was collected and edited by Dr. Liz Doherty, a former student of Dinny's, and published by Druid Publications.

Click here To Listen To A Couple Of Tracks From Dinnys CD
"Play It By Ear"

Liz Doherty CD "Quare Imagination" Available Here

Aileach CD Available Here

   
                     
 

Latest News

  • March 31st "A Tribute to the Master - Dinny McLaughlin" The opening concert of the Ar Ais Arís Festival Inishowen Gateway Hotel 8pm

  • Ar Ais Arís Buncrana Traditional Arts Festivel (Face of the Fiddler Art Competition)
    6th - 10th Feb Dinny will be visiting Buncranas schools to tell a story and play a tune for the pupils
    who then draw or paint a picture of him

  • R.T.E. Radio 1's Ceili House presented by Kieran Hanrahan will broadcast not 1 but 2 shows from the Tullyarven Mill in Buncrana:
    Feb 11th Dinny McLaughlin and friends, Featuring Aileach, Michael Carey, Martin Tourish, Treasa Doherty and Feb 18th The Ar Ais Arís Buncrana 2006 Festival , featuring Liz Doherty, Jim & Damaris Woods, Michael Gallanagh, Tom Byrne and the best of traditional music and song from around Inishowen.
  • 7th - 18th Oct Celtic Colours International Festival, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. With Liz Doherty, Jim & Damaris Woods & Ryan MacNeil

  • Featured musician on TG4 Geantrai Programme from McGrorys Culdaff, presented by Liz Doherty, October 2nd

  • Featured musician on RTE Fleadh programme from Letterkenny


 
                     
 
 
   
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