Guardian Music — Last surviving member of the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, the Irish folk group who found success in the US'The best ballad singer I ever heard in my life" was Bob Dyl... more info
The Independent — Irish folk singer Liam Clancy, who is credited with popularising his country's traditional music in the United States in the 1960s, died Friday aged 74, Ireland's RTE st... more info
The Irish balladeer was the last of the Clancy Brothers troupe whose feisty, boozy songs of old Ireland spearheaded a 1960s folk revival worldwide. more info