michaelkeogh,2 months ago
me and my brothers lived in carrick on suir and often went camping to bareys which is right beside the clancys house. we often went to their house and they all were the nicest people you could ever meet. they would bring us into their house and give us minerals and fruit from their orchard im sorry to this day that i dident get a photograph of the family with myself in it .their mother was so nice to us and so were the lads themselves. its such a pity that their all gone what a family what a brilliant group of musicans the potery will tell the rest
will miss you all
michael keogh from marion avenue in carrick on suir
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michaelhoare, 3 months ago
Liam Clancy
greatest ballad ireland ever had ,Seen Liam sing back in the 70s ive been trying to sing his songs ever since ,I hope liam is up their somewhere with his brothers ,
and Tommy Makem may god rest their souls I bet heven is a happier place with liam tommy singing with the angels god bless liam clancy . – Mike from limerick

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sangwoojeon, 4 months ago
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I like the folk songs of the world, especially songs from Irish, Scottish give me good feeling
to share . I like to enjoy singing with my guitar.
And I am preparing a recording with some folksong from the world,
could you recommend some beautiful songs to me ?
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B. Keating, 9 months ago
is it possible to still get their albums? I am interested in the one done in Carnegie Hall. I have 3 albums and have had them since the 60’s and I still enjoy listening to them. Have any of them been put on cd’s?

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Marne, 9 months ago in reply to B. Keating
The Carnegie Hall album has recently been reissued as a CD. I read one posting on Liam Clancy’s message board, where delivery from Amazon took two weeks. You may have to spend some time searching around on Google.

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russellcuff, 10 months ago
To those of you who have not heard of The High Kings, I think you are in for a tremendous treat. Bobby Clancy’s son Finbarr and Finbarr Furey’s son Martin are part of the group. Their concert in Dublin is available on DVD and their CD is available at their website http://www.thehighkings.com. They offer a fitting tribute to those that have gone before. A long and happy career to The High Kings!

Russell Cuff, Salt Lake City, Utah (USA)

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Alan White, 7 months ago in reply to russellcuff

I grew up in Sheffield, England in the ’60’s. There was plenty of opportunity to switch between the ’swinging sixties’ pop and folk scenes, but groups such as the Clancy’s made a refreshing change and influenced the traditional english ‘folk clubs’. I was recently (17th July) working in Ireland and happened to be in New Ross, County Wexford where the High Kings were performing at a free open air concert at the ‘JFK Dunbrody Festival’ – the memories all came flooding back.

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Bill Goodwin, Wyomissing PA, 11 months ago

I first saw the group perform at Brooklyn College in the early 1960’s–knocked my socks off as I had never that type of Irish folk music growing up Brooklyn, NY. Now I always a travel with a few tapes or CD’s in the glove box . Even took a few with me when we cruised the River Shannon out of Portumna and played the hell out of them all the way to the top of Lock Nern and back . As what appeared to be the only American boat in the water, I particularly enjoyed blasting both the Clancy Bros and Johnny Cash for the German boaters who seemed to outnumber everyone.

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Jeffrey Lyon, 1 year ago

Can someone please give me some assistance. I recall a ballad they did and an unable to locate it, or recall its name. It was of a woman who ‘came from the sea’ when her husband was lost at sea she wen to save him only to be lost forever back to the sea, from whence she came. I want to share it with my sons. Thank you

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Patrick, 1 year ago in reply to Jeffrey Lyon

“Peter Kagan and the Wind”. Search YouTube.com for a live performance. Enjoy!

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Paul McClintock, 1 year ago

I met Tommy Makem while we were both hospitalized in Dover, N.H. in 1956. We were young hellions and raced wheelchairs back and forth in the ward. Things WERE a lot different then!
The hospital staff didn’t have a chance! Along with Tommy and me, there was another young fella named Raymond Hourihan.
Tommy had injured a hand in a meat grinding machine while at work but apparently healed quite well.
Tommy stated at the time that his dream, along with the lads that he sang with (The Clancy Brothers!) was to appear on the Ed Sullivan Show.
Imagine the cheering that went on in our Irish household when that dream was finally achieved!

An unforgetable memory,

Paul McClintock

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Becca, 1 year ago

I listened to the Clancy Brothers greatest hits. My favorite song is Johnny McADOO

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Marne
1 year ago
Ramblinghouse holds no brief for Claddagh Records in Dublin, but they are most likely to have the Carnegie album, if available. Google will bring you there.

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Ron, 1 year ago

Back in 1965 my late friend and fellow doctor from Scotland John Angus Smith and I were lonely migrants in Melbourne. He possessed one LP the famous Carnegie Hall concert .Over a few jars and a dram or two we would meet every weekend and play this single record.We knew very word and joke and tune by the ned of the year there!
Wher can I buy a CD of that concert? It would bring back memories of youth to an ould man!!

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shamrock23, 1 year ago

Hi there,

There is a song by the Makem Sons and some of the lyrics go as follows:

And he never came home and he never came home and his conscience wont leave him alone….

Does anyone know the title of the song?

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Arkansas Red, 1 year ago
What is meant by the line in the song The Cobbler, “…I’ve served me time at old camp”? Is it prison/jail or the army?
Thanks-
Arkansas Red
USA

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Marne, 1 year ago

At Ramblinghouse, we think it is an army camp. If you could repair soldiers’ boots to their satisfaction, you were a good cobbler.

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-Goodnight Liam.