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Dec 4, 2009 · Irish ballad singer Liam Clancy — the last surviving member of the influential Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem folk singing troupe — has died at age 74.
Dec 4, 2009 · Clancy died in his hospital bed flanked by his wife Kim and daughters Siobhan and Fiona, his manager and family said.
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Nov 7, 2023 · On November 7, 1990, the world lost Tom Clancy to stomach cancer, aged 66. Clancy left behind a wife, son, and five daughters, the youngest of whom was just two years old.
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The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem famously burst on the scene with an appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" in January 1961. “We weren’t that impressed,” wrote Liam in his autobiography. “We were arrogant. Young and arrogant. As they say in Ireland, we didn’t give a tinker’s damn. But we accepted.” There was a cancellation of one of the acts and t...
Liam could sing about anything—the sea, apple orchards, traveling people—but he also had a social conscience. He sang poignantly about homelessness in “Streets of London”. He sang about our delicate ecological balance on Mother Earth in “The Garden Song”. He did not avoid the hot issues of the Northern Ireland Troubles either. In the 1970s when RTE...
A couple of years ago, I came across one of the great oddities about the Clancys and Makem. There was an old rerun of Danny Thomas’ show Make Room for Daddyfrom 1963 on TV called “Oh, the Clancys.” They sang “Brennan on the Moor” and “Portláirge.” I was so surprised by this show I emailed the late Jerry Campbell who was their manager for most of th...
One of my proudest possessions is a copy of "The Mountain of the Women" that Liam sent me. I gave Liam a cameo in my Michael Collins fantasy novel, "Terrible Angel," sent him a copy in Ireland, and invited him to my book party at the old Lion’s Head, now the Kettle of Fish. In response, he sent his autobiography to me with this inscription: “For De...
Dec 7, 2009 · He died in hospital this afternoon, surrounded by his wife Kim and two of his children, daughters Siobhan and Fiona. Mr Clancy had been ill for some time and was admitted to Bon Secours Hospital...
Dec 5, 2009 · Irish balladeer Liam Clancy, last of the Clancy Brothers troupe whose feisty, boozy songs of old Ireland struck a sentimental chord worldwide, died Friday in a Cork hospital, his manager said.
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Dec 4, 2009 · Liam Clancy, the famed "last man standing" from the Clancy Brothers and Tommie Makem, died in Ireland today. Clancy, who had been ill for some time, died in hospital in Cork. The youngest of 11...
