Friday, December 04, 2009

Liam Clancy, R. I. P.

The Associated Press: Irish folk pioneer Liam Clancy dies in Cork at 74: "Irish balladeer Liam Clancy, last of the Clancy Brothers troupe whose feisty, boozy songs of old Ireland struck a sentimental chord worldwide, died Friday in a Cork hospital. He was 74.

Clancy died in his hospital bed flanked by his wife Kim and daughters Siobhan and Fiona, his manager and family said. He suffered for years against incurable pulmonary fibrosis, the same lung-destroying disease that claimed one of his older singing brothers, Bobby, in 2002."

1 comment:

Todd Mason said...

Alas...we just lost Makem a few months back, didn't we.