Kieran Hanrahan [1] (born 1957) is an Irish radio host and musician. [2] [3] Born in Ennis, County Clare, he began playing traditional Irish music on the tenor banjo at the age of fourteen. Over the years, Hanrahan has helped to found a number of traditional bands, including Stockton's Wing, Inchiquin, and the Temple-house Ceili Band. [4]
Hanrahan has hosted radio programs for the Irish national broadcaster RTÉ since 1991. [5] Hanrahan is an assistant lecturer at the Conservatory of Music and Drama at Dublin Institute of Technology where he works in the Traditional Music program. [6] He achieved a 1st Class Honors master's degree (MMus Hons) [7] and was also awarded the DIT Gold medal for Academic Achievement in 2012. [8] Currently he hosts Céilí House, a radio program on traditional Irish music aired weekly in Ireland on RTÉ Radio 1. [9] For the last five years, Kieran Hanrahan has been the artistic director of the Temple Bar TradFest in Dublin, Ireland. [10]
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