Steve Cooney
Birth name	Stephen Cooney
Born	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Genres	Irish music, classical music
Occupation(s)	Musician composer producer
Instrument(s)	Guitar, bass guitar, didgeridoo, keyboards
Years active	1969–present

Stephen Cooney is an Australian-Irish^[1] 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.^[1]

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.^[2]

In 2019 he recorded and published at Claddagh Records the album Ceol Ársa Cláirsí:Tunes of the Irish Harpers for Solo Guitar.^[3]

Personal life

Cooney was married to Sinéad O'Connor from 2010 to 2011.^[4]

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 Sixto Rodriguez

Rodriguez Alive (1981)

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)
Blackwater (1996)
Runaway Sunday (1997)
Another Sky (2000)
The Blue Idol (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

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 The Cassidys

Singing from Memory (1998)

With Kíla

Lemonade & Buns (2000)

With Andy Irvine

Rain on the Roof (1996)
Way Out Yonder (2001)

With Tim O'Brien

Two Journeys (2001)

With 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

Spirit of the Gael (2002)

With Patrick Street

Street Life (2002)

With Virgin Prunes

...If I Die, I Die (2004)

With Noel Hill

The Irish Concertina Two: Teacht Aniar (2005)

With Sinéad O'Connor

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

Sinéad O'Connor

Sinéad O'Connor

Studio albums

Compilations

EPs

Gospel Oak

Singles

Featuring

Other songs

Video albums

Books

Rememberings (2021)

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