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	Liam Clancy - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Liam Clancy (born 2 September, 1935) is an Irish folk singer.
		As of 2005, Liam Clancy is the last surviving member of the original Clancy Brothers, though Tommy Makem survives as well.
		Liam Clancy played guitar, in addition to singing tenor, and recorded several solo albums.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Liam_Clancy (201 words)

	Liam Clancy, Irish Troubadour
		Clancy delivers a grand version of Ewan McColl's "Dirty Old Town" and "I'm a Freeborn Man," as well as the trade song of "The Weavers" (where he is joined by unnamed singers for the chorus).
		Clancy has always been involved in theatre and television, and both his choice of songs and his delivery reflect this.
		This album was originally released several years after the Clancy Brothers' triumphant appearance on the Ed Sullivan show, and just prior to a long-running collaboration with Tommy Makem.
	www.greenmanreview.com /liam.html (558 words)

	CNN.com - Liam Clancy's fortunate life - March 14, 2002
		Clancy remembers their mother Angela -- "She used to baby-sit for my family in Brooklyn Heights" -- and was pleased that Frank gained such fame for "Angela's Ashes." But he left the book on the shelf when it came out, he says.
		Two characters in Clancy's book are the brothers Frank and Malachy McCourt, who have had success with their own stories of Irish boyhoods and New York days.
		A 66, Clancy is undergoing a bit of a resurgence in his later years.
	cnn.com /2002/SHOWBIZ/Music/03/14/liam.clancy/index.html (909 words)

	Traditional Scottish, Irish and World music artists, groups and musicians using the tradmusic.com traditional music artists directory.
		Liam is the youngest of the Clancy Brothers.
		Liam joined her on the trip to Keady, Co. Armagh, where they met the singer Sarah Makem and her son, Tommy.
		Liam began singing with his brothers at fund-raising events for the Cherry Lane Theatre and the Guthrie benefits.
	www.tradmusic.com /artistinfo.asp?artistID=46 (402 words)

	The Clancy Brothers
		By chance Liam Clancy was staying in the Dublin home of Peggy Jordan who was organising musicians for the venue, so he became one of the first performers at those early sessions at the Abbey Tavern which marked the start of the Irish ballad boom.
		Liam Clancy forged a deep friendship with Luke Kelly of the Dubliners, often swapping songs.
		Back home in Ireland, Liam Clancy accompanied the American folk music collector Diane Hamilton in late 1955 on a trip around Ireland recording songs and tunes in their natural settings - kitchens and parlours.
	www.iol.ie /~ronolan/clancys.html (1677 words)

	Media Notice
		Liam Clancy has been delighting audiences around the world as a performer for over half a century, since his debut as “The Playboy of the Western World” in J.M. Singe’ classic in his home town of Carrick on Suir.
		The legendry Liam Clancy will visit Belltable on Saturday May 14th as part of a 14 venue national tour of “An Evening of Storytelling, Poetry and Song”.
		A born showman and teller of yarns, Liam recounts some of the highs and lows of his many voyages, mixing in classic songs from his extensive repertoire and a few choice poems that sparkle with wit and a canny observation of the changing times.
	www.limerickcorp.ie /applications/general/MediaNotice.aspx?ID=853 (246 words)

	Gallery Bookshop - Tony Miksak's Words On Books
		Liam Clancy is not a professional writer -- this is his first published book -- but he must have one heck of an excellent editor, because his story reads absorbingly well.
		The Clancy Brothers and their friends already were singing in pubs after shows and carousing everywhere before they discovered, as Liam relates, there was more money in singing than in acting.
		Liam Clancy grew up impoverished in southern Ireland and came to America in the 1950's, following his two brothers into an acting career in New York.
	www.gallerybooks.com /bkm/wob020322.html (881 words)

	Pat Clancy
		Liam Clancy and Tommy Makem, met in Ireland while working with Diane Hamilton who came to Ireland to collect traditional songs, both emigrated to the United States in 1955.
		The Clancys, Tom, Pat and Liam were born in Carrick-on-Suir, County Tiperrary, Ireland to a family of nine, all of whom were musically inclined.
		The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem were the seminal Irish Ballad group and their influence has been central to the folk revival, in both Irish and American contexts, and the huge revival of interest in and performance of traditional Irish music throughout the world.
	users2.ev1.net /~smyth/linernotes/personel/ClancyPat.htm (844 words)

	OFFOFFOFF dance review FIRST WEEKENDS, OCTOBER 1999 by Liam Clancy, Shannon Hummel, Sharon Mansur with Liam Clancy, Fernando Maneca, Tony Silva, Shannon Hummel, Vaness Adato, Pele Bauch, Donna Costello, Sharon Mansur
		Clancy is a kind of dancer's Spalding Gray and his loosely-structured monologues that punctuate the choreographed vignettes were the heart of the piece.
		Clancy's monologues, which he has said he patterned on Gray's unscripted, outline style of storytelling, are so engaging in no way minimizes his considerable talent as a dancer and choreographer.
		Clancy's piece, "The Cadence Callers," is based on his own painful coming-of-age experiences in the U.S. Navy, depicted to alternately hilarious and thought-provoking effect.
	www.offoffoff.com /dance/1999/gowanus.php3 (929 words)

	Booklist: Clancy, Liam. The Mountain of the Women.
		For Clancy shows that women have been a force to reckon with—to be loved, feared, desired, honored, and esteemed—in his life, beginning with his mother, at whose knee he learned many of the songs that later made him famous.
		As Clancy tells it, his early life was a bit like Fionn’s, with heiresses in pursuit of his virtue, which, once vanquished, left him free to thoroughly enjoy the ’60s.
		This is an endearing and lively memoir—“Excess,” Clancy admits, is “one of the little failings of my life”—that fans of Irish music, in particular, should adore.
	archive.ala.org /booklist/v98/ja1/21clancy.html (184 words)

	Liam Clancy - Events in County Kildare, Ireland
		Best known for his years with the legendary Clancy Brothers, and Tommy Makem, Liam Clancy has been delighting audiences around the world as a performer for over half a century, since his debut as ‘The Playboy of the Western World’ in J.M. Synge’s classic in his home town of Carrick on Suir.
		As a singer Liam is regarded as one of the finest interpreters of a ballad in any tradition and his ability to infuse his songs with a sense of drama is unsurpassed.
		In ‘An evening of Poetry, Storytelling and Song’, Liam recounts some of the highs and lows of his many voyages, mixing in classic songs from his extensive repertoire, humour and a few choice poems that sparkle with wit and a canny observation of the changing times.
	kildare.ie /events/typedetails.asp?EvID=1630 (138 words)

	Rykodisc Catalog Artist
		The Clancy residence, a limestone and mortar, slate roofed house in Carrick-on-Sur, Tipperary, was the birthplace of brothers Tom and Paddy in 1923, and later, in 1936, to Liam.
		He has been a cook, a welder, and a warrant officer in the R.A.F. Liam appeared at the Poet's Theater in Cambridge, MA, on various television dramatic shows, and collected folk-songs in the highlands of Scotland and the Southeastern United States.
		Pat Clancy founded and was president of Tradition records.
	www.rykodisc.com /Catalog/CatalogArtist_01.asp?Action=Get&Artist_ID=223 (248 words)

	Interviews 02
		LIAM CLANCY: Probably the most important person in the formation of the group was an American woman called Diane Hamilton.
		LIAM CLANCY: I only met him once, when we did a benefit concert for him, and it was pathetic; the arms were going everywhere, and the head.
		PAT CLANCY: Who was out there was Judy Collins, who was with Mimi after he'd died, and two days later she came back, and we went for a drink on McDougal Street, and she was high.
	www.bobdylanroots.com /inter02.html (2755 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2001028450
		Liam Clancy’s lively memoir captures their wild adventures on the road to fame and fortune, and brings to life a man who never lets himself off the hook for his sins, and happily views his success as a blessing.
		In an irresistible tale of a life lived fully, if not always wisely, Liam Clancy, of the legendary Irish group the Clancy Brothers, describes his eventful journey from a small town in Ireland in the 1930s into the heart of the New York music scene in the 1950s and ’60s.
		Guggenheim fell for young Liam and swept him along on her travels through the British Isles, the American Appalachians, and finally Greenwich Village, the undisputed Mecca for aspiring artists of every ilk in the late 1950s.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/random0414/2001028450.html (495 words)

	Makem Discussion
		Liam Clancy and Kevin Evans have been working on a bunch of projects, releasing old recordings from the Liam Clancy Studio vaults.
		Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy seem to be the only ones who have the power to allow that.
		I remember Liam had mentioned he was thinking about asking Tommy if they could release the old New Hampshire PBS series they worked on together in 1977.
	www.makem.com /wwwboard/read.php?f=1&i=96&t=93 (2582 words)

	Liam Clancy, The Mountain of the Women
		Clancy himself also has a Web site.) Liam and The Clancy Brothers were responsible for making Irish Folk Music and Aran sweaters a fad in America during the 1960's, and they also introduced guitar accompaniment to Irish folk music.
		Clancy, who says he was initially attracted to acting because he loved taking on a persona more interesting than his own, doesn't seem to have much familiarity with his subject.
		Liam began his career as a kept man, and the chapters describing his relationship with his patroness, the complex, tormented millionaire folklorist Diane Hamilton/Guggenheim have a power and immediacy that make the rest of the book seem stale.
	www.greenmanreview.com /mountain.of.the.women.html (821 words)

	The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem
		Liam and Tommy Makem both pursued solo careers until they reunited in 1975 and remained together for more than a decade as the very successful duo, Makem and Clancy.
		Liam returned to the group during the end of Tom’s illness and remained after his death.
		Evidently the reason Liam left was that Tom got an acting job and refused to go on a scheduled tour of Australia.
	www.theballadeers.com /CBTM_02.htm (416 words)

	FolkWorld Article: Clancies
		Liam Clancy admits he was in danger of becoming both an icon and an institution.
		At sixty two Liam is now of an age to sit back and enjoy the fruits of a lifetime's work, yet this year he has been busier than ever.
		Liam also appears on a new release, Who Fears to Speak, a lavish orchestral commemoration of the 1798 rising (from the team that brought us last years Irish smash hit, Faith of Our Fathers).
	www.folkworld.de /2/clancy.html (1489 words)

	RollingStone.com: The Clancy Brothers : Liam Clancy Looks Back : News
		As for the former, Clancy ringleader Liam Clancy has gone a step further than allowing his musical legacy to speak for him.
		RollingStone.com: The Clancy Brothers : Liam Clancy Looks Back : News
		Like Clancy's stage work (he was an actor as well as a singer), his memoir snakes its way from setting to setting -- Ireland to Appalachia to New York City -- and the supporting cast is vast: Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Robert Redford, Lenny Bruce and numerous others.
	www.rollingstone.com /news/story/_/id/5933808 (1524 words)

	The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem
		One of her first stops was the Clancy family home, in County Tipperary, where she met Liam Clancy.
		As she continued her journey to the north, Liam joined her and they arrived in the town of Keady, County Armagh, where Liam met Tommy Makem.
		All were aspiring actors, Pat being the least serious, while Tom, Liam and Tommy enjoyed a measure on success on the stage and television.
	www.theballadeers.com /CBTM_01.htm (475 words)

	John McLaughlin The Folk Life Conversation with Liam Clancy
		The background for this skilful, professional structuring of an evening’s entertainment is described by Liam Clancy in the interview which follows, obtained at the end of their evening’s performance at The Main Point, Bryn Mawr’s long-established folk music showcase.
		Liam: -- and at that minute the pipes were ready, and away he went – and at that point, no matter what the tune was, the audience was bound to love it.
		Liam: Well, he was singing this, head back, eyes closed, and you could hear a pin drop – and this was a big, rowdy pub, usually.
	www.thedigitalfolklife.org /clancy.html (1920 words)

	Amazon.com: Irish Troubadour: Music
		Liam Clancy is at his best on this CD where his style is that of a ballad singer.
		This collection of tracks by Liam Clancy, however, is more reflective than rowdy; if the Clancy clan made music for drinkin' and rebellin', Liam on his own indulged a more sensitive side.
		Liam, who Bob Dylan once dubbed "the best ballad singer I ever heard" is in fine form throughout, essaying the likes of "I'm a Freeborn Man," "Blackwater Side," and "Dirty Old Town" with his pure tenor and minimal instrumental accompaniment.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000I0FQ?v=glance (771 words)

	Liam Clancy, Irish Troubadour
		Clancy performs solo for much of the release so it's different from the harmony-driven albums featuring the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem.
		Clancy ably tackles this challenging song, assisted by Luke Kelly on this a cappella rendition.
		As difficult as it is to single out individual cuts on an album chock full of nuggets, Clancy's inspiring and affecting rendition of "Foggy Dew" is passionate enough to cause even the most deep-seated pacifist to answer a call to arms.
	www.rambles.net /clancy_troub.html (317 words)

	Patrick Clancy Page in Fuller Up, The Dead Musician Directory
		Clancy was born in Carrick, in rural Tipperary, where he and his brothers soaked up traditional
		Clancy brothers and their friend Makem formed their group.
		Patrick Clancy returned to live in Carrick in 1964, and bought a dairy farm.
	elvispelvis.com /patrickclancy.htm (929 words)

	CBS News Liam Clancy: Irish Troubadour March 18, 2002 11:41:25
		Liam Clancy left Ireland in 1956 for New York's Greenwich Village, where his two older brothers were already living.
		Singing songs of Irish rebellion and songs from Irish pubs, brothers Liam, Paddy, and Tom Clancy, along with their friend Tommy Makem, filled concert halls across the country for decades.
		In the hospital, he thought of a line from writer nico kaz-an-tsakis, who wrote zorba the greek: "When a man dies, that particular vision of life which is his and his alone dies with him.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2002/03/15/sunday/main503867.shtml (700 words)

	Liam Clancy / An Irish folk vagabond lives to tell the tale
		In his new autobiography, "The Mountain of the Women," group chief Liam Clancy, 66, recounts his early years in the United States, his colorful romantic liaisons and adventures with fellow Irish folkie Tommy Makem.
		And inside the church I found a gravestone that had my name on it, Liam Clancy -- a man who died almost exactly 200 years before I was born.
		The Clancy Brothers were to Carrick-on-Suir, Ireland, what the Beatles were to Liverpool, England.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/03/10/PK147779.DTL&type=printable (773 words)

	Buy LIAM CLANCY from Aarons books uk
		Liam Clancy's autobiography is, according to Ireland's Sunday World, 'uproarious and wistful, charming and irreverent'.
	www.aarons-books.co.uk /cat/CVF/liam-clancy-0753507803.htm (86 words)

	Irish Books - Autobiography/Memoir - The Mountain of the Women: Memoirs of an Irish Troubador - Liam Clancy
		Liam’s lively memoir captures their wild adventures on the road to fame and fortune, and brings to life a man who never lets himself off the hook for his sins, and happily views his success as a blessing.
		Liam set his sights on acting, but on the side he played and sang in pubs with his brothers and countryman Tommy Makem.
		Infatuated with the charming and handsome young Irishman, she swept Clancy along on her travels through Ireland and the U. K., the Appalachians, and finally Greenwich Village, the mecca for aspiring artists of every ilk in the late 1950s.
	www.irishongrand.com /detail/412 (340 words)

	www.openear.ie - Liam Clancy Studios
		The later Clancy Brothers albums have been recorded here.
		It is the perfect working environment for musicians because of the peaceful country side, the magnificent scenery, the local pub with nightly sessions, the friendly accommodation and, of course the studio itself.
	www.openear.ie /production/recording/clancy.html (182 words)

	Liam Clancy, The Mountain of the Women: Memoirs of an Irish Troubadour
		From a small town in the south east of Ireland to the dizzy heights of the folk boom, Liam Clancy tells a story with humour and sadness that enthralls.
		I have long been a fan of Liam Clancy in his many musical combinations: as a solo artist, with his brothers, with Tommy Makem and in Clancy, O'Connell & Clancy.
		Liam Clancy, The Mountain of the Women: Memoirs of an Irish Troubadour
	www.rambles.net /clancy_troub02.html (675 words)

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