Kieran Hanrahan

Career

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. Hanrahan is an assistant lecturer at the Conservatory of Music and Drama at Dublin Institute of Technology where he works in the Traditional Music programme.

Currently he hosts Céilí House, a radio program on traditional Irish music aired weekly in Ireland on RTÉ Radio 1.

Foreign the last five years Kieran Hanrahan has been the Artistic Director of the Temple Bar TradFest in Dublin, Ireland.

Achievements

• 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 nineteen. He achieved a 1st Class Honours master"s degree (Master of Music Honours) and was also awarded the DIT Gold medal for Academic Achievement in 2012.