Dan Furey

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{{short description|Irish dance teacher and fiddle player}}

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| birth_date = 12 September 1909

| birth_place = England

| death_date = 7 August 1993

| death_place = Lackyle, Labasheeda

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| resting_place = Killofin cemetery, Labasheeda

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| nationality = Irish

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| known_for = dance classes

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Dan Furey (England, 12 September 1909 - Lackyle, Labasheeda, 7 August 1993) was an Irish dance teacher and fiddle player. Furey specialized in classes for set dancing, céilí dancing and step dancing.{{cite news |title= Dan Furey|newspaper= Clare Champion|date= 15 September 1995}} p. 10

Furey started in the 1930s with his lessons. At first only local, later in the whole of West-Clare, normally travelling by bicycle. In that period, many primary schools invited him to give lessons. From there his fame as dance teacher and fiddler spread and in the 1980s he was invited to give lessons in Great Britain and the United States.{{cite news |title= Dan Furey|newspaper= Clare Champion|date= 15 September 1995}} p. 10[http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/people/dan_furey.htm Clare Library - Dan Furey]

In 1993, he fell ill and was hospitalized in Ennis General Hospital. There he drove doctors and nursing staff berserk, by keeping dancing, even in bed. The climax came during the Willie Clancy Summer School in July 1993, when a party of musicians broke away from the school and organized a seisiún.{{cite news |title= Dan Furey|newspaper= Clare Champion|date= 15 September 1995}} p. 10