Rita O’Reilly Biography – Rita O’Reilly Wiki
Rita O’Reilly is an artist and the widow of the late composer Paddy Moloney. Paddy Moloney was an Irish musician, composer, and producer who co-founded and led the Irish musical group The Chieftains and played on every one of their albums. He formed the original lineup for The Chieftains in 1962. His mother bought him a tin whistle when he was six and he began to learn the Uilleann pipes at the age of eight.
In addition to the tin whistle and the Uilleann pipes, he also played button accordion and bodhrán. In the late 1950s, he met Sean O Riada and joined his group Ceoltoiri Chualann in the early 1960s.
Along with Sean Potts and Michael Tubridy, Moloney formed the traditional Irish band The Chieftains in Dublin in November 1962. As the bandleader, he was the primary composer and arranger of much of the Chieftains’ music and composed for films including Treasure Island, The Grey Fox, Braveheart, Gangs of New York, and Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon.
He did session work for Mike Oldfield, The Muppets, Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, Sting, Don Henley, and Stevie Wonder.
Together with Garech de Brún (anglicized to Garech Browne) of Luggala, he founded Claddagh Records in 1959. In 1968 he became a producer for the label and supervised the recording of 45 albums until 1975.
Rita O’Reilly Age
Her age remains undisclosed. However, Her husband, the late composer Paddy Moloney was born on August 1, 1938, in Donnycarney, Ireland, and died on October 11, 2021. He was 83 years.
Rita O’Reilly Husband
She was married to composer Paddy Moloney. They met when Moloney joined Baxendales – a large building firm – where he worked in accounting after leaving school to fund his musical ambitions.
Her husband died on October 11, 2021. He was 83.
Rita O’Reilly Children
The couple share three children – sons Aonghus and Pádraig, and daughter actress and producer Aedin, who was born on July 5, 1968, in Dublin, Ireland.
