- Donal Dineen
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- This is an article about the photographic broadcaster. It is not about the Dean of University of Limerick's Kemmy Business School. [1]
Donal Dineen Birth name Donal Dineen Born 5-05-1969
County Kerry, IrelandShow Small Hours Station(s) Today FM Time slot Weekdays, 00:00 - 02:00 Style Disc jockey Country Ireland Previous show(s) Here Comes the Night Website Official site Donal Dineen is an Irish radio presenter, photographer, film maker and former television presenter from County Kerry. He currently presents an assortment of electronica and world music on his Small Hours (formerly Here Comes the Night) late-night radio show on Today FM. He is also known for presenting the now defunct No Disco TV series on Network 2.
Career
Dineen studied communications in Dublin City University. It was here that he first picked up a camera as it was part of his course. From this point onwards he developed a fascination with the visual image. His first exhibition, This Storm is an Angel, for Galway Arts Festival in 1993, was a series of photographs taken around his home in Kerry, which focused on family, place and identity. 2009 exhibitions include an installation for the Dublin Electronic Arts Festival (DEAF) entitled Words Are Something Else, and solo photographic shows for Kilkenny Arts Festival and The Joinery Gallery, Dublin.
Musically, Dineen is credited with breaking David Gray amongst other artists in Ireland.[1] His programme, Here Comes The Night, was first aired on the opening day of Radio Ireland (now Today FM)'s existence, 17 March 1997.Still with Today FM he now presents Small Hours between Monday - Thursday from midnight - 02:00.
On 30 December 2007, The Small Hours had a two-hour radio special broadcast from the living room of David Gray's London home, where Gray and Liam Ó Maonlaí traded songs and stories on the piano and acoustic guitar, "intermittently picking their Desert Island discs for Dineen to spin".[2] Dineen also had a line-up in the Body & Soul area of Electric Picnic 2008.[3]
As a Curator Dineen has worked on several musical series, most significantly A Month of Sundays [2] which was devised with The Model Arts and Niland Gallery Sligo in 2006 and evolved into a touring series in 2007.
In November 2009 he curated a mini festival called Fresh Air which profiled "his selection of the most exciting and experimental sound makers working today. The aim is to bring to light the sheer diversity and calibre of music being made on these shores, and to bring new music, live or recorded, to air". [3]
References
- ^ "Here Comes the Light". Film Ireland, 1998. http://www.filmireland.net/98/dineen.htm. Retrieved 2008-11-02.
- ^ "Didn't you listen to anything we said last year?". Irish Independent. 2008-01-05. http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/didnt-you-listen-to-anything-we-said-last-year-1258251.html. Retrieved 2008-11-02.
- ^ "The folk singer who will play in your living room". Irish Independent. 2008-08-30. http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/the-folk-singer-who-will-play-in-your-living-room-1465990.html. Retrieved 2008-11-02.
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