Dominic Kirwan is proud to hail from Omagh, Co Tyrone.
Dominic’s introduction to entertainment came when he was an enthusiastic and successful Irish dancer with the much respected Seamus Kerrigan School Of Irish Dancing and was successful as an Ulster Minor Dance Champion. In fact Dominic still boasts a spring in his step and audiences still love to see him dance in his concerts.
Dominic’s first recording was a single entitled “Alice in Wonderland” released through the Homespun record label. Dominic Kirwan found success in regional talent competitions. One such success led to the recording of Dominic’s first LP “The Green Fields of Ireland” This album received considerable airplay on Ireland’s radio stations and remains something of a collector’s item.
His first major step towards the big time came in 1989 when he was signed to the Ritz record label, which boasted many of Ireland’s major recording artists including ‘Daniel O’Donnell’, ’The Furey Brothers’ and ’Foster and Allen’. This was a successful partnership lasting 15 years and saw Dominic notching up sales in excess of over 1 million albums, videos and DVDs.
| This association also gave him the springboard needed to take to the road touring the UK extensively. Every year Dominic takes on an exhausting touring schedule seeing his excellent live shows sell out the world over including Australia and New Zealand. He is also proud to have toured with some of the greats including Charlie Pride, Tammy Wynette and Kenny Rogers. The album also marked a new chapter in Dominic’s career seeing him team up with widely experienced new management, of Robert Pratt for Chimes International whose roster includes Don Williams, Foster and Allen and Jack Jones. The album “A Little Bit More” also saw him reunited with renowned producer Terry Bradford who produced Dominic’s most successful chart albums of the 90s titled On The Way To A Dream and The Music’s Back. |