Racker Donnelly
Racker Donnelly
Brilliant. Genius. Lovely stuff.
Brilliant. Genius. Lovely stuff.
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
A genius with words.
A genius with words.
Irish Post
Irish Post
Left the audience crying with laughter.
Left the audience crying with laughter.
Kingston Guardian
Kingston Guardian
Racker Donnelly, a storyrhymer & entertainer, has done thousands of performances in Ireland, England, Scotland, America & Australia.
His storyrhymes & songs, mostly comic, are about Sheep, Smoking, Tennis, Oysters, Joyce, Midsummer, Politics, Christmas, The Dublin Riviera, Yeats, Football, Dracula, Wilde, Foul Rulers, Goldilocks, Boris, Irish Proverbs, English History, Pigs, Woking, Yorkshire, plus several biographical tributes & whatever you're having yourself.
On Facebook he has posted over 2,175 of his Rackerhymes. He sometimes writes & performs "travestations" of works by Robert Burns, Brian Merriman, Geoffrey Chaucer, German Poets, James Joyce, & Anon.
In June 2015 in Melbourne he performed his sequel to James Joyce's Ulysses & returned to the Celtic Club there for a full-length show. He features on the Irish Wall of Fame in Melbourne's Drunken Poet.
Racker is a resident performer at the Musical Traditions Club in London.
TO BUY A RACKER CD OR A NEW BOOKLET (Racker Tales),
post a tenner (sterling or euro) with your address to
Racker Donnelly, 405 The Beaux-Arts Building, 10-18 Manor Gardens, London N7 6JW
for Rhymes of the Racker or On the Rack or Racker Tales to receive your CD or Booklet by return of post.
(The email address is rackerdonnelly@talktalk.net)
Racker was a guest for Sidmouth Folk Week for the fifth time in 2022.
Over the years Racker has done Irish & Scottish tours, including the Edinburgh & Frank Harte Festivals, 3 Liverpool Irish Festivals, 3 London Irish Cultural Centre Festivals 2 Sheffield Literary Festivals, 5 Sidmouth Folk Weeks, 4 Whitby Folk Weeks, 20 Bloomsdays, 12 Burns Nights, 8 Patrick's Nights, 2 Heaney Nights, 4 Flann O'Brien afternoons, & in London's Festival Hall, City Hall, Irish Centres & the Bloomsbury & Rose Theatres, & in Oxford's Ashmolean Museum.
Future & previous performances are listed under Gigs.
A CD ~ Rhymes of the Racker ~ has been re-issued
& another CD ~ On the Rack ~ is also available & a new booklet (Racker Tales)
Here you'll find story rhymes to read & hear,
with details of past & future shows