Background
Packie learned to play music on a very young age, learning most of his skills from his mother and from his neighbour Patrick Flanagan, both gifted concertina players.
Packie learned to play music on a very young age, learning most of his skills from his mother and from his neighbour Patrick Flanagan, both gifted concertina players.
In the late 1930s Seamus O" Duillearga was active in County Clare and recorded stories and music, including music of the Russell brothers. Later recordings by others also brought them a wider public. He was born as one of five children of Austin Russell and Annie Moloney.
Packie Russells main occupation was as stone cutter in the quarry at Doonagore.
Besides being a gifted musician, he was also a gifted storyteller. Still his death in 1997 made national headlines and national television