 His guitar style had a dramatic impact on guitarists who followed in the genre.Both Mícheál and Dáithí were influenced in their early years by John Renbourn and Bert Jansch.In 1973, while playing the club circuit in Ireland and still a student at University College Dublin, Ó Domhnaill met Mick Hanly, a Limerick-born singer, guitarist, and dulcimer player, and soon the two formed a duo called Monroe.