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When I was a teenager, most of my musical tastes were different from those of my parents, but there was one act we all loved. That was Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy.

LIAM CLANCY first decided on Ring, Co Waterford, in 1963. It was over the Comeragh Mountains from Carrick-on-Suir, where he had grown up.

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CORK-BORN singer John Spillane recently released his new album, The Man Who Came In From The Dark. He also presents Spillane an Fanaí (Spillane The Wanderer), every Tuesday on TG4 at 10pm.

A new book recalls the musical institution on Cork’s Union Quay. Don O’Mahony finds out what made the venue special

Bob Dylan was 70 this week. He has had many guises in 50 years as a musician — from folkie to protest singer to prophet and preacher — but he is always relevant, says Carl Dixon

ALL God’s creatures have a place in the choir. So sang the late Liam Clancy and Tommy Makem.

An unemployed Swords mechanic who was caught moving drugs twice within two weeks in order to clear his drug debt has been sentenced to eight years with the last two years suspended.

TWO of Ireland’s leading pop and folk music stars who lost their lives last year have been honoured by their peers at the annual Irish Meteor awards gala.

I WISH to congratulate you on a beautifully written editorial on Liam Clancy (‘Fine man you were’, December 5). It brought out his importance to Ireland, and the Clancy Brothers to us all, in the 1960s.

Folk legend Liam Clancy was now reunited with his brothers and bandmates after a passionate life that was lived to the full, his funeral service heard today.

Music fans are expected to line the streets today to bid farewell to folk legend Liam Clancy.

IT is not easy to convey to those who did not live through those years the impact the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem had on Irish culture.

LEGENDARY folk singer Liam Clancy, once described by Bob Dylan as the “greatest ballad singer” he ever heard, died yesterday at the age of 74.

Folk legend Liam Clancy has died today, aged 74, his manager said.

This is an excellent documentary on the life of Clancy, the surviving member of Irish group the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Mackem, who emerges as a terrific character with a colourful history.

“I suppose he was my brother in many ways.”

IT WAS in 1967, as the beginnings of the Troubles were brewing in the North that Tommy Makem penned his trademark song Four Green Fields.

The acclaimed folk musician Tommy Makem has died in the United States at the age of 74.

Donegal defender Karl Lacey has been confirmed as one of a large number of players asked to attend the first trial match for the Ireland International Rules panel this weekend.

Nineteen people were arrested for public order offences as thousands gathered in south Tipperary for the annual Fleadh Cheoil music festival.