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"An inveterate collector of folk songs, be they traditional or contemporary, familiar or obscure."
The songs on which Danny was raised came from his mother and great-grandmother and from the last of Dublin's street singers -- men who commented on the events of the day through their witty and often biting ballads, and from some of Dublin's finest literati, including poet Patrick Kavanagh and playwright Brendan Behan, who were neighbours.
Kavanagh and Behan were among the first to encourage his singing. Leaving school at fourteen years of age, he started doing odd jobs, including general factotum in Dublin's Pike Theatre, where he began to pick up from the traveling players songs from the Irish countryside.
In his teenage years an aching curiosity about what lay behind the Dublin mountains would impel him, alone, down the rural roads of Ireland, cycling and camping all the over the country. He journeyed into the Wicklow mountains, southwest to the grandeur of Kerry and West Cork, out onto the stony Aran Islands and Connemara, across majestic Yeats Country in County Sligo, to nearby County Mayo and stunning Achill Island. He began to hear and learn the folk songs of rural Ireland, and they made an idelible impression on the young Dublin lad, engendering an early passion for his country's songs and history that would become his life's joyful vocation.
