Racker Donnelly, a storyrhymer & entertainer, has done thousands of performances in Ireland, Britain, America & Australia.  

His storyrhymes & songs, mostly comic, are about Sheep, Smoking, Tennis, Oysters, Joyce, Midsummer, Politics, Christmas, The Dublin Riviera, Yeats, Football, Dracula, Wilde, Foul Rulers, Goldilocks, Irish Proverbs, English History, Burns, Chaucer, Pigs, Woking, Yorkshire, plus several biographical tributes & whatever you're having yourself.

On Facebook he has posted 1680 of his Rackerhymes. 

In June 2015 in Melbourne he performed his sequel to James Joyce's Ulysses & returned to the Celtic Club there for a full-length show. He features on the Irish Wall of Fame in Melbourne's Drunken Poet. 

Based in London, Racker is a resident performer at the Musical Traditions Club. 

His email address is [email protected], mobile 07444 603153.

In August 2016 he did ten shows for Sidmouth Folk Week.

He was to have been a guest there for the fifth time in 2020.

Over the years Racker has done Irish & Scottish tours, including the Edinburgh & Frank Harte Festivals, 3 Liverpool Irish Festivals, 2 Sheffield Literary Festivals, 4 Sidmouth Folk Weeks, 4 Whitby Folk Weeks, 20 Bloomsdays, 12 Burns Nights, 8 Patrick's Nights, 2 Heaney Nights, 3 Flann O'Brien afternoons, Festival Hall, City Hall, Irish Centres & the Bloomsbury & Rose Theatres.

Future & previous performances are listed under Gigs.

A CD ~ Rhymes of the Racker ~ has been re-issued

& a new CD ~ On the Rack ~ is also available. 

           Here you'll find poems to read & hear,

          with details of past & future shows

For information about the CDs

RHYMES OF THE RACKER

(old & gold)

& ON THE RACK

(new & blue),

see Off the Rack.