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{{short description|Irish folk singer (1935–2009)}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
|name           = Liam Clancy
|background     = solo_singer
|image            =Odetta & Liam.jpg
|image_upright = 1.2
|caption       = Liam Clancy (right) with singer [[Odetta]] in 2006
|birth_name     = William Clancy
|birth_date           = {{birth date|df=yes|1935|09|02}}
|birth_place        = [[Carrick-on-Suir]], [[County Tipperary]], Ireland
|death_date           = {{death date and age|df=yes|2009|12|4|1935|09|02}}
|death_place =[[Cork (city)|Cork]], Ireland 
|genre          = [[Folk music|Folk]], [[Traditional Irish music|traditional Irish]]
|occupation     = Singer, musician, actor
|instrument     = Vocals, guitar, [[concertina]]
|years_active   = 1955–2009
|associated_acts= [[The Clancy Brothers]], [[Makem and Clancy]]
|website            = {{url|liamclancy.com}}
}} 
'''Liam Clancy''' ({{langx|ga|Liam Mac Fhlannchadha}}; 2 September 1935 – 4 December 2009) was an Irish [[Folk music|folk singer]] from [[Carrick-on-Suir]], [[County Tipperary]]. He was the youngest member of the influential folk group [[the Clancy Brothers]], regarded as Ireland's first pop stars.<ref name="World mourns passing of an inspirational folk legend">{{cite news|author=Grainne Cunningham and Louise Hogan|url=http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/news-gossip/world-mourns-passing-of-an-inspirational-folk-legend-1965176.html|title=World mourns passing of an inspirational folk legend|date=5 December 2009|newspaper=[[Irish Independent]]|access-date=5 December 2009}}</ref> They achieved global sales of millions and appeared in sold-out concerts at such prominent venues as [[Carnegie Hall]] and the [[Royal Albert Hall]].<ref name="Last survivor of legendary Clancy Brothers with special voice for a ballad">{{cite news |date=5 December 2009 |title=Last survivor of legendary Clancy Brothers with special voice for a ballad |newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] |url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/obituaries/2009/1205/1224260145986.html?via=rel |url-status=dead |access-date=5 December 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101118033417/http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/obituaries/2009/1205/1224260145986.html?via=rel |archive-date=18 November 2010 |quote=The group, described by Gay Byrne as the "most famous four Irishmen in the world", recorded 55 albums which sold in their millions around the world.}}{{subscription required}}</ref><ref name="RTÉ News: Liam Clancy dies aged 74"/>

Liam was generally considered to be the group's most powerful vocalist.<ref name="Last Clancy brother relished being emotionally trapped by a song"/> [[Bob Dylan]] regarded him as the greatest ballad singer ever.<ref name="World mourns passing of an inspirational folk legend"/><ref name="RTÉ News: Liam Clancy dies aged 74"/><ref name="IT: Singer Liam Clancy dies aged 74"/><ref name="Irish folk legend Liam Clancy dies aged 74">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.nme.com/news/bob-dylan/48741|title=Irish folk legend Liam Clancy dies aged 74|date=5 December 2009|magazine=[[NME]]|access-date=5 December 2009}}</ref> In 1976, as part of the duo [[Makem and Clancy]], he had a number one hit in Ireland with the anti-war song "[[And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda]]" (written by Scots-Australian [[Eric Bogle]]).<ref>{{cite journal|last=Irwin|first=Colin|title=Folk: When Irish eyes are glaring...|journal=Melody Maker|date=29 October 1977|volume=52|issue=44|pages=64}}</ref> Upon his death ''[[The Irish Times]]'' said his legacy was secured.<ref name="Clancy's legacy secured">{{cite news|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/1208/1224260292823.html|title=Clancy's legacy secured|date=8 December 2009|newspaper=[[The Irish Times]]|access-date=12 December 2009|quote=Clancy's journey from Carrick-on-Suir to the place he called "the island for people escaped from repressed backgrounds", Greenwich village in New York, and into the limelight of that watershed appearance on the Ed Sullivan television show in the 1960s is indeed a remarkable story. Finding himself in the vanguard of the folk revival – on both sides of the Atlantic – was the epitome of good fortune.}}</ref>

==Early life==
He was born at [[Carrick-on-Suir]], [[County Tipperary]], Ireland on 2 September 1935,<ref name="Liam Clancy Obituary"/> the ninth and youngest surviving child (two died in childhood)<ref name="Last survivor of legendary Clancy Brothers with special voice for a ballad" /> of Robert Joseph Clancy and Joanna McGrath. As a child, he was known as William or Willie, named after his mother's hero [[Willie Doyle]]. He later acquired the nickname 'Liam' from [[Cyril Cusack]] as 'William' was "too English".<ref name="Liam Clancy Obituary">{{cite web |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/music-obituaries/6744601/Liam-Clancy.html|title= Liam Clancy Obituary|date= 6 December 2009|publisher= The Telegraph Online|access-date=4 February 2012}}</ref><ref>Mountain of the Women: Memoir of an Irish Troubadour, page 8</ref> The Clancys were a republican family with Liam's uncle Peter McGrath serving under [[Dan Breen]] in a [[flying column]] during the [[Irish War of Independence]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Clancy |first1=Liam |title=The Mountain of the Women: Memoirs of an Irish Troubadour |date=2002 |pages=14-5}}</ref> He displayed an artistic disposition at an early age, while growing up in [[Carrick-on-Suir]].  The first song he learned was "[[The Croppy Boy]]".<ref name="Last Clancy brother relished being emotionally trapped by a song">{{cite news|author=Siobhán Long|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/1205/1224260145425.html?via=rel|title=Last Clancy brother relished being emotionally trapped by a song|date=5 December 2009|newspaper=[[The Irish Times]]|access-date=5 December 2009|quote=The youngest of the Clancy brothers, he grew up in Carrick-on-Suir, where he learned the words of his first song, The Croppy Boy. [...] Liam was widely acknowledged as the strongest singer in the group.}}</ref> He received a [[Congregation of Christian Brothers|Christian Brothers]] education before taking a job as an insurance man in Dublin.<ref name="Last survivor of legendary Clancy Brothers with special voice for a ballad"/> Whilst there he also took night classes at the [[National College of Art and Design]].<ref name="Last survivor of legendary Clancy Brothers with special voice for a ballad"/>

Still in his teens, Liam explored writing and painting, though he was particularly drawn to the theatre. In his early performing days, he began to call himself Liam. Before he was twenty years old, Liam had founded the local dramatic society now called "Brewery Lane Theatre and Arts Centre", and had produced, directed, set-directed, and starred in [[John Millington Synge]]'s ''[[The Playboy of the Western World]]''. Liam also performed at the renowned [[Gaiety Theatre, Dublin|Gaiety Theatre]] in Dublin.<ref>{{cite web | title=MP3 Liam Clancy – Irish Troubadour | url=http://www.tradebit.com/filedetail.php/1002371-liam-clancy | access-date=22 September 2009}}</ref> He encountered [[Diane Hamilton|Diane Hamilton Guggenheim]] when she came to his hometown to visit his mother, and set off on a tour of Ireland alongside her.<ref name="Last survivor of legendary Clancy Brothers with special voice for a ballad"/><ref name="RTÉ News: Liam Clancy dies aged 74"/> During her 1955 trip to [[Keady]], Clancy encountered [[Tommy Makem]] for the first time.<ref name="Last survivor of legendary Clancy Brothers with special voice for a ballad"/> He later moved to New York City and referred to Greenwich Village as "the island for people escaped from repressed backgrounds".<ref name="Clancy's legacy secured"/>

==Singing career==
===Clancy Brothers===
Liam Clancy began singing with his brothers, [[Patrick Clancy|Paddy]] and [[Tom Clancy (singer)|Tom Clancy]], at fund-raising events for the [[Cherry Lane Theatre]] and the Guthrie benefits. The Clancy Brothers and [[Tommy Makem]] began recording on Paddy Clancy's [[Tradition Records]] label in the late 1950s. Liam Clancy played guitar in addition to singing and also recorded several solo albums. They recorded their seminal ''[[The Rising of the Moon (album)|The Rising of the Moon]]'' album in 1959, giving live performances in the American cities [[Boston]], Chicago and New York.<ref name="Last survivor of legendary Clancy Brothers with special voice for a ballad"/> A record-breaking sixteen-minute-long performance<ref name="Liam Clancy Obituary"/> on American TV's ''[[The Ed Sullivan Show]]'' on 17 March 1961 launched the group into stardom.<ref name="Last survivor of legendary Clancy Brothers with special voice for a ballad"/><ref name="RTÉ News: Liam Clancy dies aged 74"/> They were supposed to only play two songs but the main act cancelled at short notice.<ref name="Irish folk singer Liam Clancy dies">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8396536.stm|title=Irish folk singer Liam Clancy dies|date=4 December 2009|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=5 December 2009}}</ref> There were international tours, which included performances at [[Carnegie Hall]] (a sell-out in 1962)<ref name="Irish folk singer Liam Clancy dies"/> and the [[Royal Albert Hall]].<ref name="RTÉ News: Liam Clancy dies aged 74"/> Their trademark attire was [[Aran sweater|Aran geansaí]]—these were sent across the water by Mrs. Clancy for her sons to wear against the unforgiving American climate.<ref name="RTÉ News: Liam Clancy dies aged 74"/> The quartet recorded numerous albums for [[Columbia Records]] and enjoyed great success during the 1960s folk revival. Liam was a close friend of [[Bob Dylan]] when they both were going out with two sisters in New York. Dylan described Liam as "the best ballad singer I’d ever heard in my life".<ref>{{cite web |title=Bob Dylan is massively influenced by Ireland’s folk singers The Clancy Brothers |url=https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/bob-dylan-clancy-brothers|website=Irish Central.com |access-date=20 March 2025}}</ref> He performed live for United States President [[John F. Kennedy]].<ref name="bittern">''The Yellow Bittern: The Life and Times of Liam Clancy''</ref>

In 1964, thirty per cent of all albums sold in Ireland were Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem records.<ref>{{cite news |title = Folk music great Paddy Clancy dies aged 76|newspaper = Independent|location = Ireland|date = 12 November 1998|url = http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/folk-music-great-paddy-clancy-dies-aged-76-26168084.html|access-date = 18 April 2014}}</ref> Although better known for their full-length albums, the Clancy Brothers' single, "[[The Leaving of Liverpool]]" (from the album, ''[[The First Hurrah!]]''), which featured Liam in the lead, reached the number six spot on the Irish charts in 1964.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Hits of the World: Eire|magazine=Billboard|date=21 March 1964|volume=76|issue=12|page=32}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|title=Hits of the World: Eire|magazine=Billboard|date=4 April 1964|volume=76|issue=14|page=30}}</ref> Liam played the guitar in almost all the recordings of the Clancy Brothers, and he took lead vocals in many songs, including "[[The Wild Rover]]", "[[The Shoals of Herring]]", "Port Lairge", "[[The Juice of the Barley]]", "[[The Patriot Game]]", "[[The Gallant Forty Twa]]", "The Jolly Tinker", "The Nightingale", "[[Peggy Gordon]]", "Old Maid in the Garrett", and "[[The Parting Glass]]", which closed every Clancy Brothers concert.

Liam Clancy was the last surviving member of the original Clancy Brothers. Tom Clancy died on 7 November 1990, Patrick Clancy died on 11 November 1998, and Tommy Makem died on 1 August 2007. Bobby Clancy, who had joined the group in 1969, died on 6 September 2002. Liam said of his status as the last of the brothers: "There was always a pecking order, especially when you're working with family. But they all died off, and I got to the top of the pecking order, with nobody looking over my shoulder. There's a great sense of freedom about that".<ref name="Last survivor of legendary Clancy Brothers with special voice for a ballad"/>

===Solo career===
After The Clancy Brothers split up, Liam had a solo career in Canada,<ref name="RTÉ News: Liam Clancy dies aged 74"/> where he made several television performances on the [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]]'s national television variety program, ''[[The Irish Rovers]] Show'' from [[Vancouver]], British Columbia.<ref name="Last survivor of legendary Clancy Brothers with special voice for a ballad"/> He had a hit with "[[The Dutchman]]" at this time, and he presented his own television show in [[Calgary]], also appearing on the CBC concert series ''Summer Evening'' in 1976.<ref name="Irish balladeer Liam Clancy dies at 74">{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/irish-balladeer-liam-clancy-dies-at-74-1.863222|title=Irish balladeer Liam Clancy dies at 74|date=5 December 2009|publisher=[[CBC News]]|access-date=5 December 2009}}</ref> In 1975<!-- 4 -->, he was booked to play a festival in [[Cleveland]], Ohio, US, where Tommy Makem was also playing.<ref name="Last survivor of legendary Clancy Brothers with special voice for a ballad"/> The two played a set together and formed the group [[Makem and Clancy]], performing in numerous concerts and recording several albums together until 1988.<ref name="Last survivor of legendary Clancy Brothers with special voice for a ballad"/> The original Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem line-up also got back together in the 1980s for a reunion tour and album.<ref name="Last survivor of legendary Clancy Brothers with special voice for a ballad"/><ref name="RTÉ News: Liam Clancy dies aged 74"/> After the death of Tom Clancy in 1990, Liam sang with Paddy and Bobby Clancy and nephew Robbie O'Connell as part of The Clancy Brothers and Robbie O'Connell.<ref name="Last survivor of legendary Clancy Brothers with special voice for a ballad"/> He also performed alongside his Fayreweather Band and the [[Phil Coulter]] Orchestra.<ref name="Last survivor of legendary Clancy Brothers with special voice for a ballad"/> With Coulter, Clancy had a top four hit single in 1989, "Home from the Sea".<ref>{{cite web|title=Search the Charts |url=http://www.irishcharts.ie/search/placement |website=The Irish Charts |access-date=15 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090602061251/http://www.irishcharts.ie/search/placement |archive-date= 2 June 2009 }}</ref>

In later life, Liam maintained a solo career accompanied by musicians Paul Grant and Kevin Evans, whilst also engaging in other pursuits. He lived in [[Ring, County Waterford]] at this stage.<ref name="RTÉ News: Liam Clancy dies aged 74"/> His home in Waterford was designed by the celebrity architect Duncan Stewart and featured solar panels which were innovative at the time. He subsequently converted his large garage into a recording studio.<ref name="Last survivor of legendary Clancy Brothers with special voice for a ballad"/><ref>"Our House" produced by [[RTÉ]], final episode of series 1, first broadcast on 8 December 1995 and presented by Duncan Stewart.</ref>

He received an honorary doctorate from the [[University of Limerick]] in 2001.<ref>{{cite web |title=Liam Clancy |date=19 February 2021 |url=https://www.ul.ie/ceremonies/liam-clancy |publisher=University of Limerick}}</ref>

In 2001, Liam Clancy published a memoir titled ''The Mountain of the Women''. He also was in ''[[No Direction Home]]'', the 2005 Bob Dylan documentary directed by [[Martin Scorsese]].<ref name="Last survivor of legendary Clancy Brothers with special voice for a ballad"/>

In 2006, Clancy was profiled in a two-hour documentary titled ''The Legend of Liam Clancy'', produced by Anna Rodgers and John Murray with Crossing the Line Films, and screened on the Irish channel RTÉ.<!-- Which one? There are many... RTÉ One... RTÉ Two... etc. --> In February 2007, this documentary won the award for best series at the [[Irish Film and Television Awards]] in Dublin. In 2008 Liam performed in a filmed concert titled ''[[Liam Clancy and Friends: Live at The Bitter End]]'' which featured the last filmed performance of his friend Odetta, as well as songs from Tom Paxton, Shane MacGowan, Gemma Hayes, [[Eric Bibb]], and Fionn Regan as well as members of Danú.

The same director [[Alan Gilsenan]] went on to direct a full-length biography of Liam Clancy, ''[[The Yellow Bittern: The Life and Times of Liam Clancy]]''.<ref name="IT: Singer Liam Clancy dies aged 74"/> This was released at the 2009 [[Dublin Film Festival]] and went on to have a theatrical and DVD release in Ireland the UK. The film includes appearances by [[Pete Seeger]], [[Jean Ritchie]], [[Bob Dylan]], [[Odetta]], and many others<ref name="bittern"/> as well as much unseen archive such as The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem at Newport Festival. ''[[The Irish Times]]'' praised the film and director Gilsenan who it said had "tracked down an impressive number of secondary sources, and his use of other performers' music is often inspired".<ref name="The Yellow Bittern: The life and times of Liam Clancy">{{cite news|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/theticket/articles/2009/0911/1224254249420.html|title=The Yellow Bittern: The life and times of Liam Clancy|date=11 September 2009|newspaper=[[The Irish Times]]|access-date=12 December 2009|quote=TO BE 74 years old is no longer to be ancient. Yet Liam Clancy, sole remaining member of The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, does seem a little like a figure from the Pleistocene era. [...] Gilsenan has tracked down an impressive number of secondary sources, and his use of other performers' music is often inspired. It is, however, Liam Clancy's resonant voice&nbsp;– speaking, singing, laughing&nbsp;– and his remarkable gift for structuring a good story that allows the documentary to soar. ''The Yellow Bittern'' doesn't quite manage to make the Clancys hip, but it establishes the last upright member as a serious figure with a remarkable tale to tell. We owe it to him to listen.}}</ref>

His final album ''[[The Wheels of Life]]'' was released in 2009. It included duets with [[Mary Black]] and [[Gemma Hayes]] as well as songs by [[Tom Paxton]] and [[Donovan]].<ref name="Last survivor of legendary Clancy Brothers with special voice for a ballad"/>

Liam was an ardent proponent of political views and often outspoken on matters of social injustice until his death.<ref name="One extraordinary storyteller with a real passion for life">{{cite news|author=John Boland|url=http://www.independent.ie/national-news/one-extraordinary-storyteller-with-a-real-passion-for-life-1965144.html|title=One extraordinary storyteller with a real passion for life|date=5 December 2009|newspaper=[[Irish Independent]]|access-date=5 December 2009}}</ref> He criticised both Gulf Wars and the grim, harsh economic climate which gripped Ireland during his last months.<ref name="Last Clancy brother relished being emotionally trapped by a song"/>

Clancy told ''[[The Irish Times]]'' in September 2009 that he was on his "last legs".<ref name="Last of the Clancy brothers dies">{{cite news|author=Ronan McGreevey|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/1205/breaking22.html?via=mr|title=Last of the Clancy brothers dies|date=5 December 2009|newspaper=[[The Irish Times]]|access-date=5 December 2009}}</ref> He had already given his final performance, at the [[National Concert Hall]] the previous May, during which he recited the [[Dylan Thomas]] poem "[[And death shall have no dominion]]".<ref name="Last of the Clancy brothers dies"/> He was unable to perform a full-length show on the closing night of a two-night sold-out run but put in a 40-minute appearance nonetheless.<ref name="Tributes paid to Liam Clancy">{{cite news|url=http://www.rte.ie/arts/2009/1204/clancyl.html|title=Tributes paid to Liam Clancy|date=4 December 2009|publisher=[[RTÉ]]|access-date=4 December 2009}}</ref> His manager described it as "...a very profound moment. He expressed his fear of dying, but he did it with great dignity".<ref name="Last of the Clancy brothers dies"/>

==Death==
Liam Clancy died from [[pulmonary fibrosis]] on 4 December 2009, in Bon Secours Hospital in Cork, Ireland. His brother Bobby died of the same disease seven years previously.<ref name="IT: Singer Liam Clancy dies aged 74"/> He was buried in the new cemetery in [[An Rinn]], County Waterford, where he spent the last years of his life, owning a successful recording studio. He was survived by his wife, Kim, and their four children: Eben, Siobhán, Fiona and Donal, as well as three previous children: Sean, Andrew and Anya.<ref name="RTÉ News: Liam Clancy dies aged 74">{{cite news|url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/1204/clancyl.html|title=Liam Clancy dies aged 74|date=4 December 2009|publisher=[[RTÉ News and Current Affairs]]|access-date=4 December 2009}}</ref><ref name="IT: Singer Liam Clancy dies aged 74">{{cite news|author=Ronan McGreevey|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/1204/breaking77.htm|title=Singer Liam Clancy dies aged 74|date=4 December 2009|newspaper=[[The Irish Times]]|access-date=4 December 2009}}</ref>

His son Eben was in the process of coming over from the United Kingdom and he had a last telephone chat with his son Donal who was in the middle of a tour of California.<ref name="Tributes paid to Liam Clancy"/> The other three sat beside him as he died.<ref name="RTÉ News: Liam Clancy dies aged 74"/> Liam had intended to give another interview at the time but succumbed to the disease.<ref name="Tributes paid to Liam Clancy"/>

The leader of [[Fine Gael]], [[Enda Kenny]], mourned the loss of a "brilliant musician".<ref name="IT: Singer Liam Clancy dies aged 74"/> [[Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media|Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism]] [[Martin Cullen]] said, "Liam Clancy was a nationally and internationally renowned folk singer and was an example of an absolutely dedicated artistic craftsman. This generous and life-giving person enriched all of our lives with memorable songs and was part of the fabric of Ireland's proud traditional music culture".<ref name="Folk singer Liam Clancy dies, aged 74">{{cite news|author=Conall O Fátharta|url=http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/folk-singer-liam-clancy-dies-aged-74-107231.html|title=Folk singer Liam Clancy dies, aged 74|date=5 December 2009|newspaper=[[Irish Examiner]]|access-date=5 December 2009}}</ref> Alan Gilsenan described the death as the "end of an era".<ref name="IT: Singer Liam Clancy dies aged 74"/><ref name="Liam Clancy's death echoes on Boston's Irish music scene">{{cite news|author=Emma Rose Johnson|url=http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/12/on_bostons_iris.html|title=Liam Clancy's death echoes on Boston's Irish music scene|date=5 December 2009|newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]]|access-date=5 December 2009}}</ref>

Radio disc jockeys in New York paid tribute to the man who, according to the ''[[Daily News (New York)|New York Daily News]]'', "played a major role in defining how Americans heard Irish popular music over the last half century", with one DJ saying The Clancy Brothers had "broke down a wall that was long overdue".<ref name="Eire-waves hum with tributes to Irish-music ambassador Liam Clancy">{{cite news|author=David Hinckley|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2009/12/08/2009-12-08_eirewaves_hum_with_clancy_kudos.html|title=Éire-waves hum with tributes to Irish-music ambassador Liam Clancy|date=8 December 2009|newspaper=[[Daily News (New York)|New York Daily News]]|access-date=18 December 2009}}</ref> [[Christy Moore]], on a [http://www.rte.ie/tv/latelate/20091204.html prescheduled appearance] on ''[[The Late Late Show (Ireland)|The Late Late Show]]'' aired live on the night of Liam's death, said, "I would have been listening to [[Radio Luxembourg (English)|Radio Luxembourg]] and [[Rock and roll|rock 'n' roll]] as a young fellow and then I got to hear of the Clancy brothers, when I was 16 I came to Dublin to hear them in a concert. It was about 1962, I think it was the [[Olympia Theatre, Dublin|Olympia]], it was the most exciting concert I had ever attended. It was Irish, it was rock 'n' roll, it was funky and it was even sexy".<ref name="Music world mourns Liam Clancy">{{cite news|author=Michael Lavery|url=http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/around-town/music-world-mourns-liam-clancy-1965420.html|title=Music world mourns Liam Clancy|date=5 December 2009|newspaper=[[Evening Herald]]|access-date=5 December 2009}}</ref><ref name="Late Late Show guests announced ">{{cite news|url=http://www.rte.ie/arts/2009/1204/thelatelateshow.html|title=Late Late Show guests announced|date=4 December 2009|publisher=[[RTÉ]]|access-date=4 December 2009}}</ref>

Clancy's mid-day funeral at St. Mary's Church, [[Dungarvan]], on 7 December was attended by hundreds of mourners, including both the Aides de Camp of the [[Taoiseach]] and [[President of Ireland]], Minister Cullen and various musicians and artists.<ref name="Hundreds attend Clancy funeral">{{cite news|url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/1207/clancyl.html|title=Hundreds attend Clancy funeral|date=7 December 2009|publisher=[[RTÉ News and Current Affairs]]|access-date=7 December 2009}}</ref> He was later buried in An Rinn.<ref name="Hundreds attend Clancy funeral"/>

== Discography ==
=== Solo recordings ===
*1965 – ''Liam Clancy'' – Vanguard LP/CD
''*re-released with bonus tracks as 'Irish Troubadour' on Vanguard CD''
*1974 – ''[[Farewell to Tarwathie (album)|Farewell to Tarwathie]]'' – Plainsong LP
''*on Shanachie CD as "The Dutchman"''
*2005 – ''Favourites''
*2007 – ''Yes Those Were The Days'':  ''The Essential Liam Clancy''  [[Dolphin Records (Ireland)|Dolphin Records]]
*2008 – ''The Wheels of Life'', Dolphin Records

=== Guest recordings ===
*1955 – ''[[The Lark in the Morning (album)|The Lark in the Morning]]'' – Tradition LP/Rykodisc CD
*1956 – ''The Countess Cathleen'' – Tradition LP
*1989 – ''Phil Coulter: Words and Music'' – Shanachie CD
*1992 – ''Phil Coulter: A Touch of Tranquility'' – Shanachie CD
*1994 – ''[[Joanie Madden]]: Whistle on the Wind'' – Green Linnet CD
*1999 – ''Cherish the Ladies: [[At Home (Cherish the Ladies album)|At Home]]'' – RCA CD
*2000 – ''[[The Girls Won't Leave the Boys Alone]]'' – Windham Hill CD
*2002 – ''Danú: All Things Considered'' – Shanachie CD

===Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem===
'''Tradition Records'''
*''[[The Rising of the Moon (album)|The Rising of the Moon]]'' (or ''Irish Songs of Rebellion'') (1956, 1959 second version)
*''[[Come Fill Your Glass with Us]]'' (or ''Irish Songs of Drinking and [[Wiktionary:Blackguard|Blackguard]]ing'') (1959)
*''[[The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem (album)|The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem]]'' (self-titled) – (1961)
'''Columbia Records'''
*''[[A Spontaneous Performance Recording]]'' (1961)
*''[[Hearty and Hellish!|Hearty and Hellish! A Live Nightclub Performance]]'' (1962)
*''[[The Boys Won't Leave the Girls Alone]]'' (1962; plus several subsequent re-releases, including on [[Shanachie Records]])
*''[[In Person at Carnegie Hall]]'' (1963) – also on Columbia CD
*''[[The First Hurrah!]]'' (1964)
*''[[Recorded Live in Ireland]]'' (1965)
*''[[Isn't It Grand Boys]]'' (1966)
*''Freedom's Sons'' (1966)
*''In Concert'' (1967) – also on Columbia CD
*''The Irish Uprising'' (1967)
*''Home, Boys, Home'' (1968)
*''Sing of the Sea'' (1968)
*''The Bold Fenian Men'' (1969)
*''Reunion'' (1984) – Released on Blackbird LP/Shanachie CD
*''Luck of the Irish'' (1992) – Columbia/Sony compilation. Contains 1 new song ("Wars of Germany") and 3 new performances of previously released songs: ("Home Boys Home", "The Old Orange Flute" and "[[They're Moving Father's Grave to Build a Sewer]]")
*''[[The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration]] (Bob Dylan)'' (1992)
*''Irish Drinking Songs'' (1993) – contains unreleased material from the Carnegie Hall album
*''[[Ain't It Grand Boys|Ain't It Grand: A Collection of Unissued Gems]]'' (1995) – unreleased material from the 1960s era

===The Clancy Brothers (Liam, Tom, Pat, Bobby)===
*''Christmas'' – Columbia LP/CD (1969)
*''Flowers in the Valley'' – Columbia LP (1970)
'''Audio Fidelity Records'''
*''Welcome to Our House'' (1970)

=== Lou Killen, Paddy, Liam, Tom Clancy ===
'''Audio Fidelity Records'''
*''Show Me The Way'' (1972)
*''Save the Land!'' (1972)
*''Live on St. Patrick's Day'' (1973)
'''Vanguard Records'''
*''[[The Clancy Brothers' Greatest Hits]]'' (1973) – Vanguard LP/CD
''*This was reissued as 'Best of the Vanguard Years' with bonus material from the 1982 Live! album with Bobby Clancy and Robbie O'Connell.''

===Liam Clancy and Tommy Makem===
'''Blackbird and Shanachie Records'''
*''Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy'' (1976)
*''The Makem & Clancy Concert'' (1977)
*''Two for the Early Dew'' (1978)
*''The Makem and Clancy Collection'' (1980) – contains previously released material and singles
*''Live at the National Concert Hall'' (1983)
*''We've Come A Long Way'' (1986)

===Bob Dylan===
*''[[The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration]] (Pat, Liam & Bobby Clancy sing "When The Ship Comes In" with Tommy Makem and Robbie O'Connell)''

===The Clancy Brothers (Tom, Pat, Bobby) and Robbie O'Connell===
*''Mini CD (3&nbsp;inch disc)''

===The Clancy Brothers (Liam, Pat, Bobby) and Robbie O'Connell===
*''[[Older But No Wiser]]'' – Vanguard (1995)

===Clancy, Evans, and Doherty===
*1996 – ''Shine on Brighter'' – Popular CD

===Clancy, O'Connell & Clancy===
'''Helvic Records'''
*''Clancy, O'Connell & Clancy'' – (1997)
*''The Wild And Wasteful Ocean'' – (1998)

== Filmography ==
*1984 – ''The Story of the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem'' – Shanachie
*1984 – ''Reunion Concert: Belfast'' – Shanachie
*circa 1985 – ''Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest (1965)'' – Central Sun / Shanachie (reissue)
*1997 – ''Farewell to Ireland'' – Pinnacle Vision
*2007 – ''Yes...Those Were the Days: Liam Clancy – Live at the Olympia, Dublin'' – unknown distributor
''*originally released in 1992 as "In Close Up: Volumes 1 and 2"'' from a concert recorded in 1989
*2007 – ''The Best of 'Hootenanny''' – Shout!
*2009 – ''The Yellow Bittern: The life and times of Liam Clancy''

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://liamclancy.com/ Official site]
* [http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/obituaries/2009/1205/1224260145986.html?via=rel Obituary] at ''[[The Irish Times]]''
*[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/music-obituaries/6744601/Liam-Clancy.html Obituary] in ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]''
* [http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1212/1224260566807.html Troubadour who didn't do justice to his talent- Saturday, 12 December 2009], ''[[The Irish Times]]''
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120724215104/http://www.clancybrothersfestival.org/clancys.php Clancy Brother's Festival]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100304003655/http://clancybrothersandtommymakem.com/wel.htm The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110202111815/http://liamclancymovie.com/ The Yellow Bittern – The life and times of Liam Clancy (Documentary)]
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