Former UK Slam
Champion Poet,
Irish Times Speaker
of the Year & Grand Marshal
of the Dublin Riviera,
Racker Donnelly has performed for many music, comedy,
arts, folk & story clubs & festivals, with the Chieftains in Bray & with
Dara O Briain at Bloomsbury Theatre. He has featured repeatedly for Liverpool Irish Festival & Whitby Folk Week.
Racker has done his poetic comedy show in Ireland, Melbourne, Sheffield, London & New York. He has MCd & performed in concerts for Bray Arts, London’s City Hall, Musical Traditions Club, Keith Summers Festival, London Arts Festivals, the Irish Cultural Centre, in Trafalgar Square & the Bray Mermaid, & has been the featured poet on BBC Radio 4’s SATURDAY LIVE & on lots of Irish radio shows. Many of his poems were commissioned for Irish National Radio & replayed on pick-of-the-week Playback.
He also does Burns' Nights, Patrick's Days, Bloomsdays & Music-Hall Nights & Story/Poetry/Comedy events, usually in English.
ARDAL O’HANLON
This guy blew me away!
SUNDAY TRIBUNE
James Joyce himself would have loved this.
Clever, humorous, articulate, marvellous.
BBC RADIO 4
Brilliant. Genius. Lovely stuff.
KINGSTON GUARDIAN
Racker, whose poems are roaringly funny,
left the audience crying with laughter.
FINTAN O'TOOLE
The Great Racker.
WICKLOW PEOPLE
The spellbound audience never took their eyes
off Donnelly.
PADDY MOLONEY of THE CHIEFTAINS
I'd like to bring him to all the gigs.
IRISH WORLD
Getting to the end of his CD, I played it all again.
I have grown to love it. Fabulous.
KIT WRIGHT
A wonderful performer, an ace poet.
KEN HALL
Never less than brilliant. The best performance poet I've ever heard:
a breath of fresh air on the London folk scene.
DICK GAUGHAN
Mighty!
LEON ROSSELSON
I've never heard anything like it.
ARCHIE FISHER
He certainly fooled me.
IRISH POST
The man is a genius with words.
A former journalist, teacher, lexicotomist and borough council group leader, Racker [as Peter] Donnelly wrote an acclaimed musical play A WOMAN'S WARTIME and the epic drama WOKKA~DOODLE~DANDY or Woking? You Must Be Joking!
