Taking their name from the legendary Irish tribe the Tuatha Dé Danann, the band De Dannan, (the subtle name change from Dé Danann to De Dannan happened on this 1985 album), grew from a weekly Sunday ...

De Dannan (originally Dé Danann) is an Irish folk music group. It was formed by Frankie Gavin (fiddle), Alec Finn (guitar, bouzouki), Johnny "Ringo" McDonagh (bodhrán) and Charlie Piggott (banjo) as a ...

President Michael D Higgins has led tributes to the traditional musician Alec Finn who has died aged 74. Finn was a founder member of De Danann, one of the most popular and enduring Irish trad acts ...

Three and a half decades after their 1975 debut, and seven years on from their break up, De Danann are back, minus their flamboyant fiddler Frankie Gavin. Founding members Alec Finn and Johnny "Ringo" ...