TO THE LIGHT, Bell Productions. Go to Shop to purchase.

 

Johnny Duhan’s life is laid bare in TO THE LIGHT. It is a unique achievement in that it is the only full-scale autobiography that we know of that has been written in song. Johnny is well aware that song lyrics rarely achieve the heights of true poetry but he has paid as much diligence to the pure word as to the pure note in his long career as a songwriter. The stories, prose-poems and song-journal extracts that inspired the lyrics add continuity

and cohesion to ther work and make it a colourful and entertaining read.

 

 

Waltons Publishing presents The Voyage – A Johnny Duhan Songbook, which gathers together, for the first time, fifteen of Johnny’s finest songs.

 

Johnny's songs have been recorded by a diverse range of singers, including Christy Moore, Tommy Fleming, Mary Black, Mary Coughlan, Dolores Kerane, The Dubliners, The Irish Tenors, Eleanor Shanley. He has scored music for film and TV. 'The Voyage', one of his most popular songs, is performed regularly at weddings and anniversaries all over the world.

 

 

                   THERE IS A TIME

  “Let me recommend it.”  Christy Moore

 

THERE IS A TIME is the story of Johnny Duhan’s journey into song. It begins with a vivid account of his formative years of growing up in Limerick under strained family circumstances. On the road like a 60’s Don Quixote - “my lance a guitar, my horsepower a transit van” - he becomes one of the original Irish pop stars, fronting a band of innocents called Granny’s Intentions. But his journey turns out to be a bug-infested, drug-injested odyssey leading to betrayal and a cul-de-sac. Later he reincarnates himself as a songwriter with an inspired calling.

 

“A man who cares not a whit for trends, but rather one whose reason for living is, perhaps, to transcend such creative limitations.”

                                            Tony Clayton-Lea, In Dublin