Steve Cooney
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, most notably 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 the album Ceol Ársa Cláirsí:Tunes of the Irish Harpers for Solo Guitar at Claddagh Records.
Personal life
Cooney was married to Sinéad O'Connor from 2010 to 2011.Selected discography
;With Franciscus Henri- Lord of the Dance
- To the Shores of His Heaven
- Little River Band
- Buried Treasure
- Down Country Roads on Gossamer Wings
- Rodriguez Alive
- Sunlight and Shade
- Songs from the Gurdy Man - Collection
- Frontline
- Ladies and Gems
- Ode to Ireland
- Tierras, Mares y Memorias
- Special Moments
- Winds of Change
- A Chieftains Celebration
- The Long Black Veil
- Santiago
- Water from the Well
- Portraid
- Time to Time
- Myriad
- Idir Dha Chomhairle - In Two Minds
- Beyond the Shadows
- The Heart's a Wonder
- Sharon Shannon
- Island Angel
- Blackwater
- Runaway Sunday
- Another Sky
- The Blue Idol
- Local Ground
- Donegal
- Out to an Other Side
- The Given Note
- Déanta
- Chatterbox
- Under the Moon
- Dermot Byrne
- Shadows on Stone
- Christmas Capers
- Celtic Aire
- Out of the Blue
- The Twentieth Anniversary Collection
- Sult - Spirit of the Music
- Celtic Christmas III
- Magic Irish Romances
- Celtic Christmas - Silver Anniversary Edition
- Beginner's Guide to Ireland
- Meitheal
- Singing from Memory
- Lemonade & Buns
- Rain on the Roof
- Way Out Yonder
- Two Journeys
- An Dealg Óir
- Áilleacht
- Seven Daughters of the Sea
- Once in a Red Moon
- Earthsongs
- Sliabh Notes
- Gleanntán
- Along Blackwater's Banks
- Spirit of the Gael
- Street Life
- ...If I Die, I Die
- The Irish Concertina Two: Teacht Aniar
- Theology
- Sunny Sailor Boy / You Couldn't Have Come at a Better Time
- This New Morning
- ''Nádúr''