This film is the first film account of the life and work of Dónal Lunny, one of Ireland’s outstanding artists and is an appraisal of the creative process of this unique artist whose influence and impact on Irish traditional music has been enduring and far reaching.  

The film reveals a life lived entirely for art’s sake. The major events of his creative and personal life have converged with major cultural, political and historic changes in Ireland and around the world and reflects the impact this had on his art from the 1950s to the present day.  

Music fuses with the personal material of Dónal Lunny’s biographical journey and brings the artist into being in this film. That journey is the journey of Irish culture and people who lived through those decades from the 1950s to the present day.