John o biography
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“You have a light shining out of you… John… You have. It’s a gift, and it’s a sin not to use your gift, and you use it beautifully.”
“The excellent John O’Dea. We’re so proud of him, this bloke.”
– Peter Goers ABC Radio 14/09/2004
John’s music is Definitively Australian and sits somewhere between Traditional Australian country and folk. He is a storyteller through his music and loves every minute of it.
With eight excellent albums to his credit, “If Stones Could Talk”, “Old Rusty Ute”, “Storyteller”, “This Old Guitar”, “Flinders Ranges Magic”, “Happy Days”, “Under a Parachilna Sunset” and his latest release “A Dream And A Song”, South Australian-based singer-songwriter John O’Dea has a wealth of material to draw on.
A natural performer, he released his first album of original songs in 2004. Since then, the now retired farmer makes his living teaching music to students, entertaining • At age 18, John entered the University of Ireland in Maynooth, studying English Literature, Philosophy and Theology. During these formative college years, he recalled feeling his, "mind awakening - an exciting, frightening and lonely experience," and began writing in poetic form eller gestalt. John was ordained into the priesthood in 1982, completing a MA in the same year. In 1986, he began his doctoral studies at the University of Tübingen in Germany and was awarded his PhD in Philosophical Theology in 1990. John wrote a provocative dissertation on the German philosopher, Hegel, later commenting, ‘Hegel struck me as someone who puts his eye to the earth at the most unusual vinkel and manages to glimpse the circle toward which all things aspire. He sticks to the hard edge of what fryst vatten absolutely real, while encouraging this rik imagination that allows you to glimpse how dualities and contradictions actually entwine around each other.' John's insights into the Self as an unfolding journey of conscio • British author, scriptwriter, and political campaigner John O'Farrell John O'Farrell (born 27 March 1962) is a British author, comedy scriptwriter, and political campaigner. Previously a lead writer for such shows as Spitting Image and Have I Got News for You, he is now best known as a comic author for such books such as The Man Who Forgot His Wife and An Utterly Impartial History of Britain. He is one of a small number of British writers to have achieved best-seller status with both fiction and nonfiction.[1] His books have been translated into around thirty languages and adapted for radio and television.[2] O'Farrell co-wrote the musical Something Rotten!, which opened on Broadway in Apr
John O'Farrell (author)
Born (1962-03-27) 27 March 1962 (age 62)
Maidenhead, Berkshire, EnglandOccupation Writer Nationality British/Irish Alma mater University of Exeter Period 1986–present Genre Fiction, nonfiction