musical gathering run by Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann. In the early 1960s he began adjudicating at the Fleadh and attended many seminars and workshops associated with traditional music. He served for nearly 20 years at the annual Scoil Éigse, where he passed on his songs and his singing techniques to young singers.[2] For over a decade, beginning in the 1960s, he was a regular on the English Folk club circuit, where he sang alongside Joe Heaney and Louis Killen, and became friends with the likes of Bert Lloyd, Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger, Bill Leader and Hamish Henderson. In the mid-1970s he transferred to Salthill, County Galway for seven years. During that time in the west of Ireland he had the space to give himself over to writing. Not only did he write poetry and compose many songs, he also wrote his acclaimed The Stone Fiddle. He returned to live in Donegal in 1982. He began broadcasting as far back as 1952, first for Radio Éireann and later for BBC, working with Seán Mac Réamoinn, Seán O'Boyle and Peter Kennedy. Throughout the 1960s he wrote and presented many programmes on RTÉ radio. In the 1980s he collaborated with Ciarán Mac Mathúna of RTÉ on a four-part radio documentary on Irish Traditional Singing. He worked with the BBC producer Tony McCauley scripting and presenting two award-winning television documentaries on the traditions of the area around his home in west Fermanagh. In the new century was the subject of a TG4 series Sé Mo Laoch. His family songs appeared in the repertoires of countless traditional singers, including such commercial artists as The Chieftains, Planxty, Steeleye Span, Paul Brady, Dolores Keane, Andy Irvine, Dick Gaughan, Altan, The Voice Squad, Dervish, Cara Dillon and others. Death Tunney died on 7 December 2002 at the age of 81. He was buried at Conwall Cemetery in Letterkenny. Discography The Lark in the Morning (1956) Tradition Records TLP 1004, which also featured Liam Clancy, Tommy Makem and many others. The Man of Songs (1962) Folk Legacy FSE 1[3] Paddy Tunney (1962) Folk Legacy FSE 7[4] A Wild Bee's Nest (1965) Topic 12T139 The Irish Edge (1966) Topic 12T153 Ireland her Own (1967) With Arthur Kearney. Also featuring Joe Tunney and Frank Kelly. The Mountain Streams Where the Moorcocks Crow (1975) Topic 12TS264 The Flowery Vale (1976) Topic 12TS289 Lough Erne Shore (1982) Mulligan LUNA 334[5] The Stone Fiddle (1981)