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Colm Ó Snodaigh (born 22 May 1966) is a member of the traditional Irish folk group
Kíla
Kíla is a 1987 Irish folk music/world music group from the Gaelscoil, Irish language secondary school, Coláiste Eoin, Coláiste Eóin in County Dublin.
Band History
Kíla began in 1987 in the secondary in Coláiste Eoin, in the first year they ...
. He is also a writer and a former sportsman, winning honours in
football
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,
hurling
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and
tennis
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.
Personal life
Ó Snodaigh was born in Dublin and reared on the south side of
Dublin
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near
Sandymount
Sandymount () is an affluent coastal suburb in the Dublin 4 district on the Southside of Dublin in Ireland.
Etymology
An early name for the area was Scal'd Hill or Scald Hill. village; he is a native Irish speaker and was educated in the language at local
Gaelscoil
A Gaelscoil (; plural: ''Gaelscoileanna'') is an Irish language-medium school in Ireland: the term refers especially to Irish-medium schools outside the Irish-speaking regions or Gaeltacht. Over 50,000 students attend Gaelscoileanna at primary an ...
eanna:
Scoil Lorcáin
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and
Coláiste Eoin
Coláiste Eoin is a Catholic voluntary secondary (Irish language school) for boys, under the trusteeship of the Edmund Rice Schools Trust, in Booterstown, County Dublin, Ireland. It has hurling and Gaelic football teams, traditional Irish m ...
. He completed a degree in
Physiotherapy
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(BPhysio) at
University College Dublin
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in 1988.
He is the son of Irish-language publisher and author
Pádraig Ó Snodaigh
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Pádraig Ó Snodaigh (born 18 May 1935, Carlow, Ireland) is an Irish language activist, poet, writer and publisher. He worked for the Irish Electricity Supply Board, and later in the National Museum of Ireland. He is a former president ...
and artist Cliodhna Cussen. His brothers are Fergus,
Aengus
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, Cormac,
Rónán and Rossa. His great uncle
Dennis Cussen ran in the
1928 Amsterdam Olympics
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, in the 100 yards competition, held the world record for fastest time over 100 yards on grass for a time and also played
rugby
Rugby may refer to:
Sport
* Rugby football in many forms:
** Rugby league: 13 players per side
*** Masters Rugby League
*** Mod league
*** Rugby league nines
*** Rugby league sevens
*** Touch (sport)
*** Wheelchair rugby league
** Rugby union: 1 ...
for Ireland 15 times scoring a famous
hat-trick
A hat-trick or hat trick is the achievement of a generally positive feat three times in a match, or another achievement based on the number three.
Origin
The term first appeared in 1858 in cricket, to describe H. H. Stephenson taking three wic ...
of tries against England in 1926.
He is married to Lizbeth Goodman, Chair of Creative Technology Innovation and Inclusive Design for Education at UCD and founder/director of SMARTlab: a native New Yorker. Their son, Lúcas Alan Goodman- Ó Snodaigh, is thriving at primary school near the seaside in Bray surrounded by the Irish language, music, art, sports, poetry, family and friends. The family maintain close ties with family and friends in New York as well.
Music
Ó Snodaigh plays the flute, tin whistle, guitar, saxophone and percussion. He plays and sings with the group
Kíla
Kíla is a 1987 Irish folk music/world music group from the Gaelscoil, Irish language secondary school, Coláiste Eoin, Coláiste Eóin in County Dublin.
Band History
Kíla began in 1987 in the secondary in Coláiste Eoin, in the first year they ...
and also released two solo albums titled in 1990 and ''Giving'' in 2007. While featured Colm's songs in Irish and accompanied by Kíla's musicians and friends, ''Giving'' saw him branch out with songs in English, with production by Shay Fitzgerald and accompaniment by various other musicians. He is currently working on his follow-up to ''Giving''.
Writing
Ó Snodaigh has written one book of short stories entitled (Tripping/Touring) which was published in 1995 by
Coiscéim
Coiscéim (; "Footstep") is a prolific Dublin-based Irish-language publisher founded by writer, historian and language activist Pádraig Ó Snodaigh in 1980. With over 1,500 titles Coiscéim have published the largest number of titles amongst the 2 ...
. Subsequent stories have been published in the anthologies (2000) ag Cathal Póirtéir and in (2008). His début novella ''Pat the Pipe –'' was published in 2007 and was turned into a radio drama for Raidió na Life by his brother Rossa. He translated Sandy Fitzgerald's children's story (Cale & the Blue Boy) which was published in early 2008. He wrote a monthly article on music for online magazine Beo.ie from 2006 to 2011 and these articles formed the basis of a collection of essays on music in a book called (2013). One of the articles was included in the New Island publication ''Sunday Miscellany – A Selection from 2006 to 2008'' following its broadcast in 2008 on
RTÉ Radio 1
RTÉ Radio 1 ( ga, RTÉ Raidió 1) is an Irish national radio station owned and operated by RTÉ and is the direct descendant of Dublin radio station 2RN, which began broadcasting on a regular basis on 1 January 1926.
The total budget for th ...
. This same article was included, along with a sister article , as a tribute to Pádraig Ó Cléirigh, in a posthumous collection of Pádraig's short stories published by Coiscéím in 2010, entitled . For his 2017 book, , he researched the campaign of civil disobedience in the west Kerry Gaeltacht to keep the primary school open against the will of the then-Fianna Fáil government. His most recent publication is a translation of Swiss-Scottish author Vivienne Bailie's book '','' which was published by in 2019.
Sport
Football
After periods with
Shamrock Rovers
Shamrock Rovers Football Club ( ga, Cumann Peile Ruagairí na Seamróige) is an Irish association football club based in Tallaght, South Dublin. The club's senior team competes in the League of Ireland Premier Division and it is the most su ...
,
Shelbourne and
University College Dublin A.F.C.
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, Ó Snodaigh was a squad member of the successful
Bray Wanderers
Bray Wanderers Football Club ( ga, Cumann Peile Fánaithe Bhré) are an Irish association football club playing in the League of Ireland First Division. The club in its present form was founded in 1942 in Bray, and was known until 2010 as ''B ...
side that won the 1989–90
FAI Cup
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in at
Lansdowne Road
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with a 3–0 victory against
St Francis, lost in the
European Cup Winners Cup
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tie against
Trabzonspor
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, and finished runners-up in the
1990–91 League of Ireland First Division
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Overview
The First Division was contested by 10 teams and Drogheda United F.C. won the division.
Final table
See also
* 1990 ...
. That same year he was a central member of Wanderers reserve side that finished runners-up in the
League of Ireland B Division
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. He won the B team player of the year award in 1990 and was a member of the first team that lost the
LFA President's Cup
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final 3–1 against
Dundalk
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.
In time, he left Bray and became a member of
Leinster Senior League side Pegasus where, over a seven-year period, he was a member of their
FAI Intermediate Cup
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winning team in 1992 against
Bluebell United,
top scorer in 1996/7, selected for the Leinster Senior League selection team in 1992, was captain of the side that got relegated from the senior division in 1997 following a defeat away to Bluebell and played in every position for the side except goalkeeper.
Hurling
Following retirement from soccer, due largely to a serious knee injury, Ó Snodaigh, at the behest of his brother, Rossa, joined the St Kevin's Junior C hurling team. In two seasons, he helped them win the Junior C Dublin Shield twice and the league once. In his second season, he scored many goals. He mostly played at right or left full forward.
Tennis
He played tennis for twenty years at the
Sandymount
Sandymount () is an affluent coastal suburb in the Dublin 4 district on the Southside of Dublin in Ireland.
Etymology
An early name for the area was Scal'd Hill or Scald Hill. tennis club, Claremont and latterly Claremont/Railway Union. He played Class 2 for the senior team, in the summer league and won the U19 singles title.
References
External links
Biography on Kila's websiteInterview on Beat 102/103 FM 2007
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Irish male singer-songwriters
Living people
Musicians from County Dublin
Leinster Senior League (association football) players
Bray Wanderers F.C. players
Shamrock Rovers F.C. players
Shelbourne F.C. players
University College Dublin A.F.C. players
League of Ireland players
Republic of Ireland association footballers
Association footballers from County Dublin
1966 births
Association footballers not categorized by position
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