Cyril Kelly
speaker
68 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 14 Jun
Cyril Kelly’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 1.
Appearances
Three evenings a week, a fiver a night, in the clifftop marine hotel, Ballybunion.
The bar crammed with cork, city slickers, West Limerick farmers.
condensation on darkening window panes, the tide foaming on the beach below as you soft-pedalled a snatch from a Mozart concerto.
Or when you loud-pedalled your beloved jazz, riffing with Ellington, Fats Waller, Herbie Hancock.
Well after midnight, into early hours, razzmatazz, you were high-octane, relentless, non-stop.
And then I hear how, last month, in palliative care, you played one long rivale of your old defiance.
a retinue of support behind your chair, you settled yourself at the foyer's only honky-tonk piano.
And there, watched in disbelief by daughters, sons and wife, you give a final heroic rendition of Sinatra's That's Life.
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