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Paddy O'Brien

Hi. You should not be adding new content to the Paddy O'Brien (disambiguation) article in the fashion that you have. Please create another (new) article called Paddy O'Brien (accordionist) or similar. Your edits to the disambiguation page will be deleted soon enough, so you should move and create under a new article ASAP. Guliolopez (talk) 16:51, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

Sorry -- got lost trying to create a new page. I will make a new article called Paddy O'Brien (County Offaly). Hartobrien2 (talk) 17:43, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

Hello. I've copied your info below so you can create the new article:

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Paddy O'Brien
Born	(1945-09-13) September 13, 1945 Castlebarnagh, County Offaly, Ireland
Occupation	Musician, author
Nationality	Irish
Citizenship	U.S.
Subject	Irish traditional music
Notable awards	All-Ireland, Oireachtas, TG4 Gradam Ceoil Composer of the Year
Spouse	Erin Hart
Website
www.paddyobrien.net

Paddy O'Brien (born September 13, 1945) is an Irish accordion player and memoirist, author of The Road from Castlebarnagh: Growing Up In Irish Music and creator of the historic Paddy O'Brien Tune Collection: A Personal Treasury of Irish Traditional Music.

Life and career

Paddy O'Brien was born in Castlebarnagh, a small townsland outside of Daingean, County Offaly, in the Midlands of Ireland. He is the son of Christopher and Molly O'Brien, who had a small farm in Castlebarnagh. He attended National School in Daingean, and Tullamore Vocational School, and then became an apprentice for Bord na Mona at Boora, where he worked from 1961-1969. From an early age, he was interested in traditional music, and played in competitions and on television for RTE. In 1969, O'Brien moved to Dublin and became involved in the Irish traditional music scene there.

A product of County Offaly in the midlands of Ireland, Paddy O’Brien is regarded by serious players and collectors of Irish traditional music as one of the tradition’s most important repositories; in a musical career that spans more than fifty years, he has collected more than 3,000 compositions—jigs, reels, hornpipes, airs, and marches, including many rare and unusual tunes.

O'Brien's mastery of the two-row button accordion was also acknowledged through many prestigious awards: he was named Oireachtas champion four times, and All-Ireland senior accordion champion in 1975. In Ireland, he played and recorded with the famed Castle Ceili Band and Ceoltoiri Laighean.

In 1978, Paddy O'Brien began recording and playing in the United States, in Washington D.C., Saint Louis, Saint Paul, San Francisco, Boston, New York, and many places between. He has been featured on six recordings with Shanachie Records since 1978, and in 1988 released his first solo album, “Stranger at the Gate,” on the Green Linnet label. His second solo recording, “Mixing the Punch,” was released by New Folk Records in 2011, and his work has been included on many live recordings and compilations of Irish traditional music.

O'Brien has taught at the Swannanoa Gathering, the Goderich Celtic Week, and the Catskills Irish Arts Week, and at the prestigious Willie Clancy Summer School held in Milltown Malbay, County Clare, and has served several times as a master artist in the Minnesota State Arts Board Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program. He has played and toured with many wonderful musicians, including James Kelly, Martin Hayes, Susan McKeown, Tommy Peoples, Peter Ostroushko, Patrick Ourceau, and many others at concerts and festivals all around North America, Ireland, and Europe. In 2007 he was invited to play Irish traditional music for enthusiastic audiences in Moscow.

In 1994, O'Brien embarked on what was to become a milestone project in Irish traditional music, to record and assemble background information on 500 jigs and reels from his vast repertoire of traditional tunes; the result of that effort, Volume One of The Paddy OBrien Tune Collection: A Personal Treasury of Irish Traditional Music, has received accolades from players of Irish music around the world. In 2011, he released Volume Two of this ground-breaking work, featuring another 500 tunes, this time jigs and reels, but also hornpipes, slip jigs, and polkas. A third volume of the Paddy O'Brien Tune Collection is now in progress.

O'Brien currently tours nationally and internationally as a solo musician,and also plays dances and concerts around Minnesota and beyond with his seven-piece folk orchestra, O’Rourke’s Feast. He lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota with his wife, crime novelist Erin Hart, and teaches tunes from his collection to apprentices, and through the Center for Irish Music in Saint Paul.

Documentary Recordings

1. Paddy O'Brien Tune Collection: Volume One (1995)
2. Paddy O'Brien Tune Collection: Volume Two (2011)
3. Paddy O'Brien Tune Collection: Volume Three (in progress, 2014)

Discography

• Castle Céilí Band / Irish Pub Music / Arfolk SB 314 (1970)
• Castle Céilí Band / Castle Céilí Band / Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Éireann (1971)
• Ceoltoiri Laighean / The Crooked Road / Gael-Linn CEF 035 (1973)
• Ceoltoiri Laighean / The Star of Munster / Gael-Linn CEF 047 (1975)
• James Kelly, Paddy O’Brien,and Dáithí Sproule / Is It Yourself? / Shanachie 29015 (1978)
• James Kelly, Paddy O’Brien,and Dáithí Sproule / Spring in the Air / Shanachie 29018 (1982)
• Hill 16 / Hill 16 / Meadowlark101 (1984)
• Paddy O’Brien, Dáithí Sproule, Karen Andersen, Erin Hart / Stranger at the Gate / Green Linnet GLCD 1091 (1988)
• Irish accordion anthology / The Big Squeeze / Green Linnet 9014 (1988)
• Seán O’Driscoll / Up the Airy Mountain (guest) Green Linnet (1988)
• Peter Ostroushko / Blue Mesa (guest)/ Red House Records RHR30(1989)
• Paddy O’Brien Paddy O’Brien Tune Collection, Volume One (1995)
• James Kelly, Paddy O’Brien, Dáithí Sproule / Traditional Music of Ireland / Shanachie 34014 (1995, re-release)
• Irish music anthology / Hunger No More / Eire Arts, MN Food Share (1997)
• Live concert recording / Gaelic Roots Festival 1995 / Boston College, Kells 9514 (1997)
• Chulrua / Barefoot on the Altar / Pied Piper Productions PPP 301 (2000)
• Irish music anthology / The Ice Palace / Irish Music & Dance Association (2001)
• Chulrua / Down the Back Lane / Shanachie 22001 (2003)
• Paddy O’Brien, Jamie Gans,and Dáithí Sproule / Snug in the Blanket / Black Tea Tunes BTT012 (2004)
• Accordion anthology / Minnesota All Stars / Rounder 82161-6110-2 (2005)
• The Doon Céilí Band / Around the World for Sport / Shanachie 23001 (2006)
• Chulrua / The Singing Kettle / Shanachie 23002 (2007)
• Paddy O’Brien, Dáithí Sproule, Karen Andersen, Erin Hart / Stranger at the Gate / Green Linnet GLI 1091 (re-release by Compass Records, 2008)
• Live concert recording / Young Irish Musicians Weekend / Center for Irish Music (2008)
• Irish music anthology / Hooley in the Heartland / Irish Music & Dance Association (2009)
• Paddy O’Brien, Tom Schaefer,Paul Wehling, Erin Hart / The Sailor’s Cravat / New Folk Records WCM001 (2011)
• Paddy O’Brien / Paddy O’Brien Tune Collection, Volume Two (2011)
• Paddy O’Brien, Theresa Baker / Mixing the Punch / New Folk Records WCM003 (2011)

Awards

• 1969 Oireachtas / First Place Solo Accordion, First Place Céilí Band (Castle Ceili Band)
• 1970 Oireachtas / First Place Solo Accordion
• 1970 Fleadh Cheoil (All-Ireland) /First Place Trio with fiddler Joe Ryan and flute player Micheál Ó hAlmhain
• 1973 Oireachtas / First Place Solo Accordion
• 1975 Fleadh Cheoil / First Place Senior Accordion
• 1977 Oireachtas / First Place Solo Accordion, First Place Duet with Joe Ryan
• 1989 Minnesota State Arts Board / Master Artist—Folk Arts Apprenticeship
• 1993 Minnesota State Arts Board / Master Artist—Folk Arts Apprenticeship
• 1994 National Endowment for the Arts / Folk Arts Project Grant
• 1996 Minnesota State Arts Board / Master Artist—Folk Arts Apprenticeship
• 1998 Minnesota State Arts Board / Master Artist—Folk Arts Apprenticeship
• 2006 Bush Foundation, Saint Paul MN / Bush Artist Fellowship
• 2006 Minnesota Irish Fair / Legacy Fund Grant
• 2008 Minnesota State Arts Board / Artist Initiative Grant
• 2010 Irish Music & Dance Association / IMDA Honors Lifetime Achievement
• 2012 TG4 Gradam Ceoil (Irish Traditional Music Awards)/ Cumadóir - Composer of the Year
• 2013 Minnesota State Arts Board / Folk and Traditional Arts Grant

Books

• The Road from Castlebarnagh: Growing Up In Irish Music, a memoir, published by Orpen Press, Dublin (2012)

References

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Hello and thanks -- I've created the new article, Paddy O'Brien (County Offaly) and taken material off the disambiguation page. I've also looked at the conflict of interest guidelines. I've tried to create completely neutral biographical entries for Paddy O'Brien (my husband) and Erin Hart (myself); is this not allowed? Thanks. Hartobrien2 (talk) 19:22, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

It is not strictly forbidden, but it is discouraged. When writing about ourselves, we tend to exaggerate the positive and ignore the negative. For example: you've listed a number of awards that you and your husband have won, but have provided no sources for that information. Clearly, you know what awards you've won, but unless that information can be verified by independent sources (i.e. not your own website), it presents a problem and is likely to be deleted. Without evidence of such awards, your entire article fails Wikipedia's notability standards and may well be deleted. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 19:30, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

Conflict of interest

If you have a close connection to (or are the subject of) articles you have written at Paddy O'Brien (musician and author) and Erin Hart, you should be aware that you have a conflict of interest, and should familiarize yourself with that guideline. Please keep in mind that writing about yourself or close family members is strongly discouraged due to the difficulty of remaining neutral when writing about such topics. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 18:22, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

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August 2013

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Nomination of Erin Hart for deletion

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