Dónal Lunny is an Irish folk musician and producer who was born on March 10th, 1947. He performs with a left-handed guitar, bouzouki, keyboards, and bodhrán. He has been at the vanguard of the revival of Irish traditional music for more than 50 years as a founding member of well-known ensembles such as Planxty, The Bothy Band, Moving Hearts, Coolfin, Mozaik, LAPD, and Usher’s Island. Manus Lunny, a musician and producer, has a brother named Lunny. With singer-songwriter Sinéad O’Connor, he had a son named Shane, who was discovered dead on January 7, 2022, at the age of 17.
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In addition, he has a daughter from his marriage to Japanese wife Itami Hideko, whom he wed in 2002, and two daughters from his first marriage to wife Julia, which ended when his oldest daughter Cora was three.
He attended Newbridge College for his secondary education before enrolling at the Patrician Brothers’ school in 1963 for his Intermediate Certificate year. [4]: 6 As a young adult, Lunny joined his older brother Frank and Christy Moore in the sporadic band Rakes of Kildare. They mainly performed in bars, although they were also scheduled for a few shows, including one on Easter Monday 1966 at Hugh Neeson’s pub in Newbridge.