Billy Whelan

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Person

Country

IE

Active from

1950-05-22

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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. Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy

   · 2013 · cited 13,117x

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

   · 2016 · cited 11,419x

3. NIA‐AA Research Framework: Toward a biological definition of Alzheimer's disease

   · 2018 · cited 9,245x

4. GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral

   · 2017 · cited 8,075x

5. Macromolecular structure determination using X-rays, neutrons and electrons: recent developments in <i>Phenix</i>

   · 2019 · cited 7,209x

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