Halfway Home: My Life 'til NowIn Halfway Home, a beautifully written memoir, Ronan Tynan, a member of the enormously popular Irish Tenors, shares his remarkable story of overcoming adversity and attaining worldwide success in several different areas. Diagnosed with a lower limb disability at birth, Ronan Tynan had his legs amputated below the knee when he was twenty years old. Eight weeks later, he was climbing the stairs of his college dorm, and within a year, he was winning races in the Paralympic Games, amassing eighteen gold medals and fourteen world records. After becoming the first disabled person ever admitted to the National College of Physical Education, he served a short stint in the prosthetics industry and began a new career in medicine. He continued his studies at Trinity College, where he specialized in orthopedic sports injuries. After earning his medical degree, Ronan chose music for the next act in his life. Less than one year after he began studying voice, he won both the John McCormick Cup for Tenor Voice and the BBC talent show Go for It. He went on to win the prestigious International Operatic Singing Competition in France, and in 1998 his debut Sony album, My Life Belongs to You, became a top-five hit in England within just two weeks and eventually went platinum. Later that year, he was invited to join The Irish Tenors, furthering a journey that started in a small Irish village and has brought him to the world's grandest stages. In Halfway Home, Tynan movingly describes his life story, which Barbara Walters called "so amazing you may find it hard to believe." |
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Contents
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Section 2 | 15 |
Section 3 | 19 |
Section 4 | 28 |
Section 5 | 34 |
Section 6 | 51 |
Section 7 | 61 |
Section 8 | 73 |
Section 15 | 138 |
Section 16 | 149 |
Section 17 | 162 |
Section 18 | 170 |
Section 19 | 182 |
Section 20 | 200 |
Section 21 | 210 |
Section 22 | 217 |
Section 9 | 83 |
Section 10 | 96 |
Section 11 | 103 |
Section 12 | 108 |
Section 13 | 120 |
Section 14 | 127 |
Section 23 | 221 |
Section 24 | 228 |
Section 25 | 231 |
Section 26 | 251 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Halfway Home: My Life 'til Now |
| Author | Ronan Tynan |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Simon and Schuster, 2002 |
| ISBN | 0743234863, 9780743234863 |
| Length | 240 pages |
| Subjects | › › Biography & Autobiography / Music History / Europe / Ireland Music / General |
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