Career

Flatley was the first American to win the World Irish Dance Championships and also won numerous All-Ireland Flute Championships. From 1978-79 he toured with Green Fields of America. Later he toured with The Chieftains in the 1980s.
Flatley received the National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage Fellowship in 1988.In May 1989, Flatley set a Guinness Book world record for tapping speed at 28 taps per second.Flatley was named one of National Geographic Society's Living Treasures in 1991 for mastery of a traditional art form by a living person - the youngest person at that time ever to receive this accolade.

 

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