In Conversation with Johnny Duhan
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Johnny Duhan\\xb7s songs are performed worldwide in a variety of languages, thanks to the focus put on them by Irish folk and traditional singers, including Christy Moore, The Dubliners, Dolores Keane and hosts of others. His song The Voyage has become a modern classic. Hot Press magazine editor, Niall Stokes, has predicted that The Voyage will be around centuries from now, after most popular songs of our time are long forgotten. Christy Moore has termed Johnny \\xb7One of our greatest songwriters.\\xb7 And the late Ronnie Drew described him as \\xb7one of my favourite songwriters\\xb7. Sylvie Simmons (author of Leonard Cohen\\xb7s biography I\\xb7m Your Man) had this to say about part one of Johnny\\xb7s autobiography, There is a Time: \\xb7When I started to read it I couldn\\xb7t put it down.\\xb7 After reading a chapter from part 2, The Voyage, Eoghan Harris wrote: \\xb7I read it over a cup of coffee that went cold as I could not stop to sip.\\xb7
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