Early Life and Family
Joe Dolan was born at the County Hospital Mullingar, County Westmeath on October 16, 1939, the youngest of eight children. He lost both his parents at a young age - his father, a bicycle shop proprietor, died when Joe was eight; his mother when he was fifteen. He sang in school, and his mother had encouraged him to take up the piano.
He made his first stage appearance at a talent show held in a marquee on the Fair Green in his native Mullingar.
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