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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 Christy Moore at the Frank Harte Festival & with Dara O Briain & Ardal O'Hanlon at Bloomsbury Theatre. 

Racker Donnelly has MCd & performed in concerts at London’s City Hall & the Musical Traditions Club (where he's a resident performer), the Royal Festival Hall & the Purcell Room, London Arts & Community Festivals, Irish Centres & the Irish Embassy, in Trafalgar Square, the Bray Mermaid & the Ashmolean Museum & has been the featured poet on BBC Radio 4’s SATURDAY LIVE & for Poet in the City & on lots of Irish radio shows. Many of his poems were commissioned for Irish National Radio & replayed on pick-of-the-week Playback. 

Having posted over 2,175 of his Rackerhymes on Facebook, Racker also sings & babbles in Irish/Scottish/Music-Hall Nights & Story/Poetry/Comedy events, usually in English.

  SEAMUS HEANEY

  Wow!

  CHRISTY MOORE

  It's always good to hear you. What you do is very musical.

 

  SUNDAY TRIBUNE

  James Joyce himself would have loved this. 

  Clever, humorous, articulate, marvellous. 

 

  BBC RADIO 4

  Brilliant. Genius. Lovely stuff.

 

  KINGSTON GUARDIAN

  Roaringly funny, left the audience crying with laughter.

 

  MARTIN CARTHY

  A wonderful performer.

  ELIZA CARTHY

  Awesome.

 

  WICKLOW PEOPLE

  The spellbound audience never took their eyes  off Donnelly. 

   SUNDAY INDEPENDENT

  Radio as it should be!

   FOLK LONDON

  The hilarious poet and raconteur.

   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.

 

    KEN HALL

   Never less than brilliant. The best performance poet I've ever heard:

   a breath of fresh air on the London folk scene. Racker for Poet Laureate!

 

    ARDAL O'HANLON

   This guy blew me away!

 

    IRISH POST

   The man is a genius with words. Brilliant material.

   SIDMOUTH HERALD

   One of Folk's most respected living performers.

 

 

Sheffield-bred, Dublin-buttered, a former journalist, teacher, lexicotomist and council group leader, Racker [as Peter] Donnelly also wrote an acclaimed musical play A WOMAN'S WARTIME, which toured for years, and the epic drama WOKKA-DOODLE-DANDY or Woking, You Must be Joking! 



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