Colm Ó Snodaigh

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Colm Ó Snodaigh is a member of the traditional Irish folk group Kíla. Born in Dublin and reared on the south side of Dublin by Sandymount's snot-green-sea, Colm is a native Irish speaker and was schooled at both Scoil Lorcáin and Coláiste Eoin. He completed a degree in Physiotherapy at University College Dublin in 1988.

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[edit] Music-Ceol

He plays the flute, tin whistle, guitar, saxophone and percussion. He also sings with the group Kíla and released a solo album entitled Giving in 2007 where he sings in all the tracks.[1] The album is a mixture Colm's own compositions written in both Irish and English. He released another little known album in 1990 of 10 acoustic pop songs in Irish only, entitled Éist.

[edit] Writing

He has written one book of short stories entitled Turasóireacht (tourism/tripping) which was published in 1995 by Coiscéim. His début novella Pat The Pipe - Píobaire (piper) was published to great acclaim in 2007 and a translation of Sandy Fitzgerald's children's story Céal & an Buachaill Gorm (Cale & the Blue Boy) was published in early 2008. He writes a monthly article on music for online magazine Beo.ie.

[edit] Football

In a previous life he pursued a career in football with modest success. After not-so-successful periods with Shamrock Rovers, Shelbourne and UCD he was a panel member of the Bray Wanderers side that won the FAI Cup in 1990 at Lansdowne Road with a 3-0 win against St Francis, performed so admirably in the European Cup-Winners-Cup against Turkish side Trabzonspor and finished runners-up in the first division to win promotion to the premier division of the League of Ireland in 1991. That same year he was a central member of Bray's reserve side that finished runners-up in the League of Ireland B championship. He won the B team player of the year award in 1990 and was a member of the first team that lost the President's Cup final 3-1 against a more experienced and technically superior Dundalk FC side. Having decided that music was ultimately more important to him than football he became a member of Leinster Senior league side Pegasus FC where, over a seven year period, he was a member of their FAI Intermediate Cup winning team in 1992 against Bluebell, top scorer in 1996/7, selected for the Leinster Senior League selection team in 1992 and captained the side that got relegated from the senior division in 1997 following a defeat away to Bluebell on a bright sunny early May afternoon.

[edit] Trivia

  • He is the son of Irish Gaelic publisher and author Pádraig Ó Snodaigh and artist Cliodhna Cussen.
  • His famed brothers are Rónán, Aengus and Rossa Ó Snodaigh and his unfamed brothers are Fergus and Cormac!

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