About the Author

Charles Gannon was born in 1955, educated in Belvedere College, Dublin, and worked for RTÉ as a sound operator, vision mixer and technical director. An amateur musician, he studied viola da gamba with John Beckett in the mid 1970s and performed with him in concerts at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and other venues. He wrote a biography of his father, Cathal Gannon: The Life and Times of a Dublin Craftsman (Lilliput 2006).