Erick Falc'her-Poyroux was born in 1964 in Nantes, Brittany (France), and Ireland has been his second home since the 1980s.

   He has been a Senior Lecturer since 1997 and, after 8 years at the University of Rennes, has been lecturing at the University of Nantes since 2005.
 

  The author of a Ph.D. on Irish music in 1996, he has translated or written several books on Ireland as well as on the Beatles and is regularly invited on regional or national radio stations and TV channels to speak about his passions.
 

  He is also the producer of an award-winning CD of Irish music (Diapason d'Or 1996), the author of a documentary on Irish music in France and has collaborated with the French national television archives (INA) for a documentary on Irish dance.
 

  An enthusiastic musician, he plays mainly guitar and drums and his tastes are eclectic, from Bach to the Bothy Band, The Beatles and Bulgarian polyphonies.

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