Bill Whelan

Person · Open Library

Works

7

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

IE

Active from

1950-05-22

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

88,652

Total plays

839,056

Bill Whelan (born May 22, 1950) is the Irish composer who composed Riverdance, a piece for the interval of the Eurovision Song Contest. It was a ten-minute display of traditional Irish dancing that eventually became a full-length stage production and spawned a worldwide craze for Irish dancing and celtic music. Whelan is a native of Limerick, and was educated at Crescent College, University College Dublin and the King's Inns. He worked as a pianist for The Waterboys during their Fisherman's Blu

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The ERA5 global reanalysis

   · 2020 · cited 24,136x

2. Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy

   · 2013 · cited 13,542x

3. The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease

   · 2011 · cited 13,444x

4. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

   · 2016 · cited 11,688x

5. The diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease

   · 2011 · cited 9,149x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Bill

Gender

male

Citizenship

United Kingdom

Place of birth

Limerick

Occupation

composer

Languages spoken

English language

Notable work

Riverdance

Genre

Irish folk music

Instrument

piano

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