Stephen Cooney is an Australian-Irish musician.

Early life

Cooney was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, where he learned to play the didgeridoo, and from the age of seventeen he played in a number of rock bands. He is of Irish ancestry.

Career

Cooney moved to Ireland in the early 1980s, and since then he played, noticeably the guitar, over 60 albums with Irish artists, such as the Irish band Altan, The Chieftains, Clannad and Andy Irvine. He also composes his own material and is a producer/arranger of traditional music. In 2019 he recorded and published at Claddagh Records the album ''Ceol Ársa Cláirsí:Tunes of the Irish Harpers for Solo Guitar''.

Personal life

Cooney was married to

Sinéad O'Connor Shuhada Sadaqat (born Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor on 8 December 1966; ) is an Irish singer-songwriter. Her debut album, ''The Lion and the Cobra'', was released in 1987 and charted internationally. Her second album, ''I Do Not Want What ...

from 2010 to 2011.

Selected discography

;With Franciscus Henri * '' Lord of the Dance'' (1969) ;With Mándu * ''To the Shores of His Heaven'' (1974) ;With Little River Band * '' Little River Band'' (1975) ;With Captain Rock * ''Buried Treasure'' (1975) ;With Seona McDowell * ''Down Country Roads on Gossamer Wings'' (1978) ;With Jake Walton * ''Sunlight and Shade'' (1983) * ''Songs from the Gurdy Man - Collection'' (1990) ;With Redgum * '' Frontline'' (1984) ;With Judy Small * ''Ladies and Gems'' (1984) ;With Antonio Breschi * ''Ode to Ireland'' (1982) * ''Tierras, Mares y Memorias'' (1986) ;With Dermot Morgan * ''Special Moments'' (1987) ;With Geraldine MacGowan and Anne Conroy * ''Winds of Change'' (1987) ;With The Chieftains * '' A Chieftains Celebration'' (1989) * '' The Long Black Veil'' (1995) * '' Santiago'' (1996) * ''Water from the Well'' (2002) ;With Sean Maguire * ''Portraid'' (1990) ;With Gerry O'Connor * ''Time to Time'' (1991) * ''Myriad'' (1998) ;With Áine Uí Cheallaigh * ''Idir Dha Chomhairle - In Two Minds'' (1992) ;With Tommy Sands * ''Beyond the Shadows'' (1992) * ''The Heart's a Wonder'' (1995) ;With Sharon Shannon * ''Sharon Shannon'' (1993) ;With Altan * '' Island Angel'' (1993) * ''

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'' (1997) * '' Another Sky'' (2000) * ''

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'' (2002) * ''Local Ground'' (2005) ;With Liam O'Flynn * ''Out to an Other Side'' (1993) * ''The Given Note'' (1995) ;With Déanta * ''Déanta'' (1993) ;With Máirtín O'Connor * ''Chatterbox'' (1993) ;With Martin Hayes (musician), Martin Hayes * ''Under the Moon'' (1995) ;With Dermot Byrne * ''Dermot Byrne'' (1995) ;With Matt Molloy * ''Shadows on Stone'' (1996) ;With Dordán * ''Christmas Capers'' (1996) * ''Celtic Aire'' (1999) ;With Alan Kelly * ''Out of the Blue'' (1996) ;With Various Artists * ''The Twentieth Anniversary Collection'' (1996) * ''Sult - Spirit of the Music'' (1996) * ''Celtic Christmas III'' (1997) * ''Magic Irish Romances'' (1998) * ''Celtic Christmas - Silver Anniversary Edition'' (2001) * ''Beginner's Guide to Ireland'' (2005) ;With Séamus Begley * ''Meitheal'' (1996) ;With Na Casaidigh, The Cassidys * ''Singing from Memory'' (1998) ;With Kíla * ''Lemonade & Buns'' (2000) ;With Andy Irvine * ''Rain on the Roof (Andy Irvine album), Rain on the Roof'' (1996) * ''Way Out Yonder (Andy Irvine album), Way Out Yonder'' (2001) ;With Tim O'Brien * ''Two Journeys'' (2001) ;With Secret Garden (duo), Secret Garden * ''Once in a Red Moon'' (2002) * ''Earthsongs'' (2004) ;With Sliabh Notes * ''Sliabh Notes'' (1995) * ''Gleanntán'' (1999) * ''Along Blackwater's Banks'' (2002) ;With Danny Doyle (singer), Danny Doyle * ''Spirit of the Gael'' (2002) ;With Patrick Street * ''Street Life (Patrick Street album), Street Life'' (2002) ;With Virgin Prunes * ''...If I Die, I Die'' (2004) ;With Noel Hill (musician), Noel Hill * ''The Irish Concertina Two: Teacht Aniar'' (2005) ;With

* ''Theology (album), Theology'' (2007) ;With Luka Bloom * ''Sunny Sailor Boy / You Couldn't Have Come at a Better Time'' (2011) * ''This New Morning'' (2012) ;With Clannad * ''Nádúr'' (2013)

References

External links

The Irish Tune Composers' Pages biography
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