The Clancy Brothers
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The Clancy Brothers were an Irish folk music singing group, most popular in the 1960s, who are often credited with popularizing Irish traditional music in the United States. The brothers were Patrick Clancy, Tom, Bobby Clancy and Liam Clancy.
The Early Years
Oldest brother Paddy was born March 7, 1922. Tom followed on October 29, 1924, Bobby on May 14, 1927 and youngest brother Liam Clancy was born September 2, 1935.
After serving in World War II, oldest brothers Paddy and Tom emigrated from England to Toronto in 1947 on the S.S. Marine Flasher, along with 400 returning G.I. brides. The only men onboard were Paddy, Tom, their friend Pa Casey and a few sailors. Once in Toronto Paddy and Tom worked various odd jobs before coming to the United States two years later, through the sponsorship of two aunts. Residing for a time in Cleveland, Ohio, the two brothers began to dabble in acting. They decided to move to Hollywood. They didn't get too far, as their car broke down soon after the trip began. They decided to move to New York City instead.
Arriving in Greenwich Village, New York City in 1951, the acting bug really hit. Tom and Paddy both established themselves as successful Broadway actors, appearing in televised performances of their plays. The two brothers established their own production company, Trio Productions. It was here that the singing career began. To help raise money for the company, Paddy and Tom organized 'Midnight Special' concerts every Saturday night. Here they would sing some of the old Irish songs that they knew from their childhood. At this time, younger brother Bobby Clancy, among his many travels of Europe, immigrated in New York City for a time, joining his brothers in Greenwich Village. This was the little-known, first 'unofficial' lineup of a singing group of Clancy brothers.
In 1955, Bobby returned home to Carrick-on-Suir to take over father Robert J. Clancy's insurance business, freeing youngest brother Liam Clancy to immigrate to New York City to pursue his dream of acting. Liam arrived in New York in Januray 1956.
A month earlier, Tommy Makem immigrated to the United States from his hometown of Keady, County Armagh in Northern Ireland. Tommy Makem, born November 4, 1932, had met Liam Clancy months before they both immigrated. Diane Hamilton, friend of Paddy Clancy in New York, followed in the footsteps of her mentor, ]]Jean Ritchie]], came to Ireland in search of rare Irish songs. Knowing Paddy Clancy, her first stop was at the Clancy household, where she recorded several members of the family, including the Clancys' mother, sister Peg and Joan, and nineteen-year-old Liam Clancy. Hamilton asked Liam and recently returned Bobby Clancy to join her on a trek through Ireland to located and record source singers.
One of those source singers was Sarah Makem who had been recorded by Jean Ritchie in 1952 on a similar search of Irish song. Her son Tommy Makem, then twenty-two, and the young Liam Clancy instantly became friends. Said Liam, "Our interests were so smiliar: girls, theater and music. He had told me he was going to America to try his luck at acting. We agreed to keep in touch." Tommy was recorded for the first time by Hamilton in that autumn of 1955, including "The Cobbler."
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem: Early Recordings
In March 1956, Tommy Makem was out of work; he had landed himself in Dover, New Hampshire, where many of his family members had immigrated to, working in the mills. A two-ton iron printing press fell on Tommy's hand, crushing it. His hand in a sling, and knowing the Clancy brothers down in New York, he decided that the time time was right to record a record. He told this to Paddy Clancy, who had founded a record company, Tradition Records, to release Diane Hamilton's recorded material through. Paddy agreed and brought in brothers Tom and Liam, as well as Tommy Makem, to record an album of Irish rebel songs, The Rising of the Moon
Little thought was given to continuing as a singing group. They all were busy establishing theatrical careers for themselves, the real reason they were all there. But the album was a local success and requests were often demanded for the brothers and Tommy makem to sing some of their songs at parties and informal pub settings. Bit by bit, that's how the singing career began. Slowly, the singing gigs began to outweigh the acting gigs and by 1959, serious thought was given to a new album. Three years of knowing each other, instead of two months as had been the case in March 1956 with the original album's recording, paid off. Liam had developed some guitar skills, Tommy's hand had healed enough he was again able to play tim whistle and bag pipes, and the times spent singing together had improved their style together. No longer were they the rough, mostly unaccompanied group of actors singing a couple Irish songs for an album to jumpstart a record label; they were becoming a professional singing group.
The release of their second album, this one of Irish drinking songs called Come Fill Your Glass with Us sealed their fate. The album was a success, and the gigs grew along the pub circuit in New York, Chicago and into Boston. It was at their first official gig after Come Fill Your Glass With Us that the group finally found a name for themselves. The owner begged the guys for a name to put on the marquee, but they had none. Unable to agree on a name (which included suggestions like The Beggermen, the Tinkers and even The Chieftains) the club owner decided for them, simply posting [The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem.] The name stuck. The guys deciced to try this singing thing fulltime for six months, just singing, no theater work. If singing turned successful, they'd stick with it; if not, then back to acting. The Clancy brothers and Tommy Makem proved successful afterall and in early 1961, they attracted the attention of scouts from [The Ed Sullivan Show.]
The Sweaters
Just before landing a spot on Ed Sullivan, by chance the Clancys' mother sent four white Irish-knit Aran sweaters so that tey wouldn't catch their cold in the winters of North America. Their manager Marty Erlichman desperately seeking a way to "package" his clients found exactly what he was looking for when he saw the three brothers and Tommy Makem wearing the sweaters. The sweaters became the Clancy brothers and Tommy Makem's trademark.
The Big Time
On March 12, 1961, the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem performed for 14 groundbreaking minutes in front of a televised audience of 80 million people on The Ed Sullivan Show. The telelvised performance instantly attracted the attention of John Hammond of Columbia Records. The guys were offered a five year contract with an advance of $100,000, a huge sum in 1961. For their first album with Columbia, the now nationwide stars in the Clancy brothers and Tommy Makem enlisted Pete Seeger as backup banjo player for the live album A Spontaneous Performance Recording It included songs that would soon become classics, such as "Brennan on the Moor," "Jug of Punch," "Reilly's Daughter," "Finnegan's Wake," "Haul Away Joe," "Roddy McCorley," "Portlairge" and "Moonshiner." The album was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1961.
By the end of 1961, they had released two more albums, one final one with Tradition Records, and another with Columbia, Hearty and Hellish: A Live Nightclub Performance, and they were playing Carnegie Hall. Additonally, they were making appearances on every major radio and television talkshow in America.
International Stars
1962 proved to be an even better year. Ciaran MacMathuna, a popular radio personality in Ireland, was visiting America when he heard of this new Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem group. He collected the few albums they had out at the time, brought them back home to Ireland and played them on his radio show. The broadcasts skyrocketed the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem to fame in Ireland, where they were still unknown. Nobody had ever sung these Irish songs with such gusto. In Ireland, songs like "Roddy McCorley," "Kevin Barry" and "Brennan on the Moor" were slow, despressing songs full of melancholy. But the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem had completely transformed those songs (the disgruntled purists in Ireland said "commercialized") and made them FUN. For generations the songs had been a reminder of the troubles in Ireland and therefore they weren't anything anybody sang proudly. The Clancy Brothers changed all that, and the transformed songs reinvigorated Ireland's pride in her music. The Clancy Brothers and Tommmy Makem were brought over for a sold-out tour of Ireland in late 1962. Popularity in England and other parts of Europe soon followed, as well as Australia and Canada. By 1963, appearing on every major talkshow in America, Canada, England, Australia and Ireland, as well as their own TV specials, the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem were "the most famous four Irishmen in the world" as said by Ireland's Late Late Show host, Gay Byrne, in a retrospective interview in 1984. In 1964, one third of all the albums sold in Ireland were Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem records.
The 1960s continued to be a successful decade with the release of approximately two albums per year, all which sold millions of copies. They continued to peak with television appearances in front of President John F. Kennedy, Dinner With the President in 1963.
Their popularity is the result of several factors. There was already an American folk revival beginning in the United States, and men such as Ewan MacColl popularizing old songs on the other side of the Atlantic. But it was the Clancys' boisterous performances that set them apart, taking placid classics such as "Brennan on the Moor" and giving them a boost of energy and spirit (not that they took this approach with all their songs; they would still sing the true mournful ballads with due reverence).
But by the late 1960s, rock music had taken full swing, and the ballad and folk boom was waning. To keep the Clancys at the top, Teo Macero began producing their records for Columbia. Macero introduced many new instrumentations to the Clancys music, the best of which was Louis Killen coming in to play concertina on backup, especially on their 1968 album of sea songs, Sing of the Sea. But their last three albums for Columbia Record in 1969 and 1970 are considered by many to be overproduced, with a multitude of string instruments and synthesizers added the the simpler traditional Clancy mix of guitar, banjo, tin whistle and harmonica.
Changes Among the Clancy Brothers
Other changes in 1969 included the amicable departure of Tommy Makem from the group to pursue a solo career. Giving them a year's notice, Tommy left in April 1969 to take the world by storm with such recent compositons as Four Green Fields, debuted on 1968's Clancy Brothers album, Home Boys Home.
The "other brother" Bobby Clancy filled Tommy Makem's vacancy. Also, two of the Furey Brothers joined the now-four Clancy Brothers at this time. Not missing a beat the six-piece band recorded two new albums in the summer of 1969, Clancy Brothers Christmas, released later that year, and Flowers in the Valley, released in 1970. The latter was their final album for Columbia Records.
Later that year, the Furey Brothers left the lineup and for a short time, it was just the four brothers, Paddy, Tom, Bobby and Liam Clancy. This lineup recorded only one together, 1970's Welcome to Our House under their new label, Audio Fidelity Records. But that same year, Liam and Bobby got into an argument which resulted in Bobby quitting the group.
In 1971, the trio brought in the man who had introduced concertina to the music mix, bearded Louis Killen. They recorded two studio albums under the Audio Fidelity labelSave the Land and Show Me the Way. Their next, and final album for Audio Fidelity was a live album, Live on St. Patrick's Day in 1973.
But the early 1970s, the boys were growing tired of touring and singing as a group. After one more album with Vanguard Records Clancy Brothers and Lou Killen's Greatest Hits as well as a TV special for Brockton televison in 1974 (in which Bobby Clancy made a surprise special guest appearance with the group) the group disbanded. Tom Clancy had gradually gone back to acting in th early 1970s and it finally paid off; He had a featrued role in a major motion picture. Production coinsided with a tour of Australia; Tom chose the film role and the group dissolved afterwards.
Breakup and Reunion
The dissolution permitted Paddy Clancy to devote his full attention to the dairy farm he had bought with his wife in 1963, while Tom flourished in Hollywood, regularly appearing in movies, TV films and TV shows such as Little House on the Prairie, The Incredible Hulk, Charlie's Angels and Starsky and Hutch. Liam Clancy, suffering financial setbacks in taxes, filed for bankruptcy and moved his family to his in-laws in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The only one to continue singing, Liam's brother-in-law helped him get some concert gigs to get him back on his feet. Liam was introduced to The Dutchman at this time, which became a hit. The gigs caught the attention of a TV producer and Liam was signed for thirteen episodes of his own music and talk show. The show was a hit and LIma was signed for thirteen more. On the final episode, old friend Tommy Makem was a guest. This hit episode led to the two of them being signed together for a further collection of episodes.
Makem and Clancy
On Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy's final episode, their guest Archie Fisher wanted to produce an album for the reunited duo. A gig together at the Cleveland Irish Festival in July 1975, where they reportedly received a five minute standing ovation, sealed the deal. Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy recorded a self titled debut album together for release in 1976. A last minute addition in "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" helped the album soar, as well as ending Liam's financial troubles. The duo called themselves Makem & Clancy.
Makem & Clancy followed up their debut studio album with a live album recorded at the Gaiety Theater in Dublin in July of 1977, the double LP The Makem & Clancy Concert. They continued taking Ireland, England, Australia, Canada and America by storm with several television specials and successful follow-up albums.
Clancy Brothers and Robbie O'Connell
Meanwhile, after several years break, Paddy, Tom and Bobby Clancy reunited to pick up where they left off as a singing group, but on a part-time basis. Paddy was busy raising his children and working his farm, Tom was at the peak of his acting game in Hollywood, and Bobby ran the family insurance business as well as maintaing his own successful solo career. As a group they did attempt to recruit youngest brother Liam, but he wouldn't have it. He didn't want to be the younger brother anymore. Though all had been an equal factor in the original Clancy Brothers lineups, older brothers Paddy and Tom, thirteen and eleven years Liam's senior respectively, could never quite accept Liam was his own man, and not "the little brother," even when they were all well into their adult years. It was one of the reaosns why Liam and Tommy Makem, closer to age in Liam, had grown as close as they had. So with Liam declining the offer to join the brothers, much to Tom's chagrin, the three Clancy brothers recruited their nephew, their sister's son, Robbie O'Connell The lineup, debuting in 1977, became the Clancy Brothers with Robbie O'Connell. Playing two to three months a year, only in America, the Clancy Brothers and Robbie O'Connell continued where they left off in America, still packing Carnegie Hall. Reviews cited Robbie as a fresh addition to the group with his original compositons, the future of the group.
In 1982, the Clancy Brothers with Robbie O'Connell recorded a live album of mostly new material, Clancy Brothers with Robbie O'Connell Live 1982. Nine years after their previous album Clancy Brothers and Lou Killen's Greatest Hits the new album was a fresh offering from a reinvigorated group.
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem Reunion Reunion
In 1984, Makem & Clancy's manager Maurice Cassidy, now of Riverdance fame, brough the original foursome together with prospects of a documentary of the original lineup to be followe by a concert at the Lincoln Center in New York City. Paddy and Tom Clancy took some time out from the Clancy Brothers and Robbie O'Connell, and joined forces with Makem & Clancy. Paddy, Tom, Liam Clancy and Tommy Makem were reunited and production on the documentary commenced after a 90 minute debut on Ireland's Late Late Show on April 28, 1984. Travelling to Keady, Tommy Makem's hometown, Carrick-on-Suir, the Clancys hometown, then New York City in Greenwich Village, a dress rehearsal concert Tommy Makem's Irish Pavilion and finally the big night on May 20, 1984 at the Lincoln Center for the recorded concert, the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem had returned! The Lincoln Center show had sold out within a week, all 3,000 seats, the rowdy audience providing a great participation on the album, released as Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem Reunion. A Reunion Tour of Ireland, England the United States followed in late 1984 and the fall of 1985.
Makem and Clancy Breakup
Makem & Clancy returned to recording studio in 1986 to produce their final album, We've Come a Long Way. Not wishing to overstay their welcome, or let their material begin to go stale, the duo amicably broke up after 13 magical years. Both men resumed the solo careers they had begun before reuniting back in 1975.
Tunes and Tales
The Clancy Brothers (Paddy, Tom and Bobby) with Robbie O'Connell recorded a new live album at St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, Tunes and Tales of Ireland. Even Bobby Clancy called this album "crap," and Paddy referred to it as "not out best effort." Reason being the recoridng technology used, DAT, which records exactly what it hears, no adjustments can be made in the final mixing - if someone has a louder voice (like Tom) or sings close to the mike (like Bobby) then they will overpower the softer voices of Paddy and Robbie, which they did. Bobby's banjo also overpowers Robbie's guitar in this album. Since it was impossible for the album to be remixed because of the DAT technology, the album is uneven in sound. Regardless, the album is valuable, for it is Tom Clancy's final record.
Death of Tom Clancy
In May 1990, Tom Clancy was diagnosed with stomach cancer. When Tom went into surgery to save his life later in the summer, brother Liam stepped in in Tom's place and joined his brothers and nephew on their tour in August. The surgery proved unsuccessful, and Tom Clancy passed away at the age of 66. Tom left behind four daughters, one from his first marriage and three with his second, the youngest daughter only two years old.
Clancy Brothers and Robbie O'Connell of the 1990s
With the death of Tom, Liam stepped in full time with his brothers. This lineup experienceds a more active time than the previous decade, with appearances on Regis and Kathie Lee in 1991, 1993 and 1995, an appearance on a 30th Anniversary Bob Dylan concert in 1992, seen by 200 million people worldwide, and the formation of Irish Festival Cruises in 1991, an annual cruise of the Caribbean. The guys also brought their own tour groups to Ireland, which Robbie O'Connell continues to do to this day.
The Bob Dylan Concert inspired the recording of the first studio album by the Clancy Brothers in over 20 years, since 1973's Greatest Hits. Older But No Wiser, introducing 12 new songs, with the exception of When the Ship Comes In, was released in late 1995. It was the first and only album to feature the lineup of Paddy, Bobby, Liam Clancy and Robbie O'Connell.
The Irish Festival Cruises had led to fincancial disputes between the group, Paddy and Liam especially. Liam decided to leave the group. Robbie O'Connell, now with the group for nineteen years, was ready for a change as well. The two departed the Clancy Brothers together and formed their own duo, simply Liam Clancy and Robbie O'Connell. Before splitting, the Clancy brothers and Robbie O'Connell gave a Farewell Tour of both Ireland and America in February and March 1996. The Irish tour in February was filmed near the Clancys' hometown, televised and later released to video and DVD as The Clancy Brothers and Robbie O'Connell: Farewell to Ireland. On both the album Older But No Wiser and the concert video Farewell to Ireland, two sons of two of the Clancy Brothers made their debut. Donal Clancy, Liam's youngest son played backup on the studio album while Bobby's son Finbarr Clancy played backup on the Farewell video. Bobby was beginning to ail at this time and Finbarr was brought on, in part, to aid his father for this concert video. Finbarr did not join them for the American tour.
Clancy Brothers and Eddie Dillon, and Clancy, O'Connell and Clancy
After the breakup Paddy and Bobby continued touring as the Clancy Brothers, with Bobby's son Finbarr Clancy becoming an offcial member of the group. The trio added longtime friend of Bobby's daughter Aoife, Eddie Dillon, to the group for a thirteen city engagement in early 1997. The quartet was known as the Clancy Brothers and Eddie Dillon Eddie Dillon, a Boston based musician, is the only American ever to perform with the Clancy Brothers.
Liam Clancy and Robbie O'Connell toured for a while as a duo, but very soon added Liam's son Donal Clancy to the mix, forming the trio Clancy, O'Connell & Clancy. The trio released two albums, a self- titled debut album in 1997 and an album of sea songs in 1998, The Wild and Wasteful Ocean. Robbie O'Connell regards the self-titled CLancy, O'Connell and Clancy album as his most favorite work. In 1999, with Liam in Ireland, Robbie in Massachusetts and Donal in New York, the trio decided to call it quits as a full time group. They did say they would occasionally regroup for concerts, which they have, seldom as it is. Officially, Liam Clancy and Robbie O'Connell perform as solo musicians now.
Death of Paddy Clancy
The other group members, as far back as 1996 when Liam and Robbie were still in the mix, had noticed aging Paddy Clancy's unusual mood swings. In the spring of 1998 the cause was finally detected - Paddy had a brain tumor as well as lung cancer. He wasn't told of the lung cancer so as not to discourage him when he went for a brain operation. The brain tumor was removed succcessfully, but lung cancer was terminal. Paddy was told of the other ailment which he accepted "with great bravery and courage," said his wife Mary Clancy. Paddy Clancy passed away in the morning hours of November 11, 1998. Two weeks before he died, knowing Paddy didn't have long, Bobby called Liam and Paddy together to reconcile their differences - Paddy and Liam had been at odds for two years since the breakup over the Irish Cruises. But the two brothers did reconcile and the three brothers sang together that night at an informal session at their local pub. Liam, Robbie and Donal took time out of their November tour of the US to go to attend Paddy's funeral. Old partner Tommy Makem also attended.
Reunion and Death of Bobby Clancy
Bobby, Finbarr and Eddie Dillon resumed touring as a trio, The Clancys and Eddie Dillon. The trio recorded a live album in October 1998, [[Clancy Sing-a-Long Songs] and one in March 2001 during Bobby's last tour. In 1999 Bobby had been diagnoed with pulminary fibrosis a lung ailment. During his last years Bobby was unable to stand and perform at the same time because he would quickly run out of breath, so the trio would perform a sitdown concert. Bobby becaome more frail in his last two years, often becoming confused and forgetful during the concerts. Finbarr and Eddie regularly covered for him, but Bobby pressed on, continuing to do what he loved doing most.
In 2000, the Milwaukee Irish Festival had its 20th anniversary and in celebration, they had the entire performing Clancy Family sing together on one stage. This once in lifetime lineup included Robbie O'Connell, Donal, Liam, Bobby, Finbarr, Aoife Clancy and Eddie Dillon. These festival sets, August 18, 19 and 20, 2000 were the last times the Clancy Brothers (Bobby and Liam) appeared onstage together.
By March 2002, Bobby's pulminary fibrosis had advanced so that he was unable to perform, necessitating in Finbarr and Eddie performing as a duo for the short March 2002 short tour. He made one final appearance on an American CBS TV spot promoting Liam's Feburary 2002 autobiography, The Mountain of the Women: Memoirs of an Irish Troubadour. On September 6, 2002, Bobby Clancy passed away at the age of seventy-five. He was survived by three daughters, one song, his wife Moira and several grandchildren.
The 21st Century and the Next Generation
The last surviving member of the Clancy Brothers, Liam Clancy, continues to tour solo, as well as write. In 2002, through Doubleday, Liam published the first part of his memoirs, Mountain of the Women: Memoirs of an Irish Troubadour. Liam enjoyed a bit of a resurgence on TV spots promoting the memoirs on American TV and Irish TV. Taking some time off from touring, Liam came back in full force in 2005 with his tour "Seventy Years On." Liam turned 70 in September 2005 and sang with an Irish Legends act at the Gaiety Theater in Dublin in August 2005, with Ronnie Drew and Paddy Reilly.
In March 2006, fifty years after the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem recorded their debut album, The Rising of the Moon in March 1956, the first full-length biography on the Ckancy Brothers was written and published by Conor Murray. The book, titled The Clancy Brothers with Tommy Makem & Robbie O'Connell: The Men Behind the Sweaters chronicles the Clancy Brothers from the birth of Paddy Clancy in 1922 to early 2006. The book and the author have been featured on radio and television. More information can be found at www.clancybrothersbook.com. Simultaneously a two hour documentary on Liam Clancy was aired on Irish television, The Legend of Liam Clancy, as was a new TV concert special from Tommy Makem and his sons, the five-piece Irish folk song group The Makem & Spain Brothers.
Currently, Liam Clancy, now 71, continues to tour only Ireland. His only US concert date is the annual Irish Music Cruises which meets every January. So far, the Cruise has trvalled to the Caribbean and Hawaii. The fourth annual cruise in early 2008 is scheduled to go to the Mexican Riviera. Liam Clancy, Robbie O'Connell (now 56), Donal Clancy, Finbarr and Aoife Clancy and the Makem and Spain Brothers are the featured entertainment. More information on the cruise can be found at www.irishmusiccruises.com Robbie and Liam's websites are www.robbieoconnell.com and www.liamclancy.com
Currently, Tommy Makem, now 74, is battling lung cancer, but still going strong touring as a solo and with the Makem & Spain Brothers. The BBC is in the process of filming concert and interview footage for a documentary on Tommy Makem to be aired sometime in 2007 or 2008. The Makems' website is www.makem.com
[edit] Partial discography
[edit] With Tommy Makem
- The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem - (self titled - Tradition Records TLP 1042)
- The Rising of the Moon (or Irish Songs of Rebellion)
- Come Fill Your Glass with Us (or Irish Songs of Drinking and Blackguarding)
- The Lark In The Morning - Various Artists including debut of Liam Clancy and Tommy Makem - 1954
- A Spontaneous Performance Recording
- Hearty and Hellish! A Live Nightclub Performance
- The Boys Won't Leave the Girls Alone
- Sing of the Sea
- In Person at Carnegie Hall
- The First Hurrah!
- Recorded LIVE in Ireland
- Isn't It Grand, Boys
- Freedom's Sons
- The Bold Fenian Men
- Home, Boys, Home
- In Concert
- Reunion
- Ain't It Grand Boys - A Collection Of Unissued Gems
- At Home With The Clancy Brothers And Tommy Makem And Their Families
- Irish Folk Airs
- Irish Drinking Songs - Columbia/Sony compilation CD 1993
- Irish Drinking Songs - Tradition LP
- The Rising Of The Moon
- Luck Of The Irish - Columbia/Sony compilation. Contains 1 new song (Wars Of Germany) and 3 new performences of previously released songs: (Home Boys Home, The Old Orange Flute and They're Moving Fatther's Grave To Build A Sewer)
[edit] With Lou Killen
- Show Me the Way
- The Best of the Vanguard Years(The entire Greatest Hits album with 4 live Clancy Bros/O'Connell cuts)
- The Clancy Brothers' Greatest Hits
- Live On St. Patrick's Day
- Save The Land
[edit] The Clancy Brothers (Liam, Tom, Pat, Bobby)
- Welcome To Our House
- Flowers In The Valley
- Christmas
[edit] Liam Clancy and Tommy Makem
- The Makem and Clancy Collection
- Two for the Early Dew
- Tommy Makem & Liam Clancy
- We've Come A Long Way
- Live At The National Concert Hall
- The Makem & Clancy Concert
[edit] Bob Dylan
- The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration (Pat, Liam & Bobby Clancy sing "When The Ship Comes In" with Tommy Makem and Robbie O'Connell)
[edit] The Clancy Brothers (Tom, Pat, Bobby) and Robbie O'Connell
- Mini CD (3 inch disc)
- The Clancy Brothers Live! with Robbie O'Connell
- Tunes 'n' Tales Of Ireland
[edit] The Clancy Brothers (Liam, Pat,Bobby) and Robbie O'Connell
- Older But No Wiser
[edit] Clancy, O'Connell & Clancy
- Clancy, O'Connell & Clancy
- The Wild And Wasteful Ocean
[edit] Tommy Makem
- Ancient Pulsing - Poetry With Music
- The Bard Of Armagh
- An Evening With Tommy Makem
- Ever The Winds
- Farewell To Nova Scotia
- In The Dark Green Wood - Columbia Records
- In The Dark Green Woods - Polydor Records
- Live At The Irish Pavillion
- Lonesome Waters
- Love Is Lord Of All
- Recorded Live - A Roomful Of Song
- Rolling Home
- Songbag
- Songs Of Tommy Makem
- The Song Tradition
- Tommy Makem Sings Tommy Makem
- Tommy Makem And Friends In Concert
[edit] Liam Clancy
- The Mountain Of The Women : Memoirs Of An Irish Troubadour - audiobook
- The Dutchman
- Irish Troubadour
- Liam Clancy's Favourites
[edit] Bobby Clancy
- Good Times When.....When Bobby Clancy Sings
- Irish Folk Festival Live 1974 (Bobby appears on 4 songs)
- Make Me A Cup
- The Quiet Land
[edit] Robbie O'Connell
- Close To The Bone
- Humorous Songs - Live
- Love Of The Land
- Recollections
[edit] Clancy, Evans & Doherty
- Shine On Brighter (featuring Liam Clancy)
[edit] Peg and Bobby Clancy
- Songs From Ireland
[edit] Video Footage
- The Story Of The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem
- The Clancy Brothers And Tommy Makem Reunion Concert At The Ulster Hall Belfast
- Liam Clancy - In Close Up Vol. 1
- Liam Clancy - In Close Up Vol. 2
- The Clancy Brothers & Robbie O'Connell - Farewell To Ireland
