Mícheál Ó Domhnaill

Mícheál Ó Domhnaill was born in Kells, County Meath, on 7 October 1951, entering a household where his father collected traditional songs and his mother sang in choirs. That domestic music seeped into his bones before he could consciously choose it, shaping the guitarist and composer who would later transform Irish traditional sound. Kells did not merely host his birth; it tuned him.