Mick Delahunty & His Orchestra Clonmel County Tipperary Ireland.

Mick Delahunty & His Orchestra Clonmel County Tipperary Ireland. At Pilltown County Waterford 1980 charity gig performance. This video is in memory of his daughter Mary Delahunty it was her wish for this video to be shared on her passing copyright Mary Delahunty Mick Delahunty and his big band were a fixture on the Irish Ballroom scene for 50 years. Based in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, the band were part of the generation of sit down orchestras that preceded the showband era ushered in by The Clipper Carlton and others in the later 1950s. The first advert for the band we have found was in July, 1940. In 1957, the band was resident in the Showboat Ballroom in Youghal, Co. Cork (and would be so for many years) In the very early 1960s, a small war or words took place across entertainment columns across Ireland as to the quality of the new upstart showbands against the established orchestras like Maurice Mulcahy and Mick Delahunty. Mick's band were still considered one of the top outfits in the country touring as a 14-piece orchestra.