- Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin
Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin is an
Irish language television personality fromAghamore ,County Mayo in Ireland. Originally a schoolteacher, Mac Dhonnagáin was invited to present children's programmes onRTÉ Television in the early 1980s. He went on to become an anchoring presenter on theIrish language arts programme,Cúrsaí Ealaíona .Mac Dhonnagáin, a guitarist and singer, also recorded two albums while working for RTÉ in Dublin:
Solas Gorm , a tongue-in-cheekblues collection, andRaiftearaí san Underground , a more-serious collection in Irish and English.With the creation of
TG4 in 1996 and the concomitant rise of an Irish language television industry in the West of Ireland, Mac Dhonnagáin resettled in theConamara Gaeltacht , where he is a scriptwriter for television dramas and comedies, most notably theIrish Film and Television Awards winning teenage drama showAifric , and the owner/director of a music publisher,Futa Fata , which specializes in material for children. The publisher's most successful production to dateFact|date=May 2008 has been the award-winningGugalaí Gug , a collection of children's rhymes put to music.Mac Dhonnagáin lives in Conamara with his wife and four children.
In 2007 Mac Dhonnagáin was named Uachtarán an Oireachtais, an honorary title given by the Irish language festival
Oireachtas na Gaeilge , which was being held in Westport that year.
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