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Actress Fionnula Flanagan to be honored at Ireland’s first official Fourth of July celebration (IrishCentral)

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 04:12:20 PDT

By: PATRICK COUNIHAN

American based Irish actress Fionnula Flanagan and the late Liam Clancy are to he honored at Ireland’s first official Fourth of July festival. They will be inaugurated into the Irish America Hall of Fame.

Assimilating differently, Irish Americans re-discover Gaelic Ireland (IrishCentral)

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 05:25:14 PDT

President O'Bama said it best when he said "is féidir linn," "yes we can," at a Saint Patrick's Day reception last year in the White House More and more these days, Irish Gaelic is returning to Irish American life at functions and in art, as perceptions of what makes something Irish shift towards more detail and care In multi-cultural America, the old Irish American assimilation model is giving way and making it possible for Irish Americans to rediscover what they were once told to give-up in the past Irish Americans have battled on behalf of "The Others" (themselves foremost) in American history for a hundred years, giving-up their language and culture as payment for acceptance READ MORE

Liam Clancy is gone, but not forgotten (IrishCentral)

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 04:15:08 PST

Published Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 2:30 PMThe weather was gray and damp, but only a little liquid sunshine fell on the day that a prince of folk music was being laid to rest on the first Monday of December As the assembled family and friends sang “The Parting Glass” and “Wild Mountain Thyme” --staples of the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem in happier times when closing out so many wonderful concerts -- the remains of Liam Clancy were being hoisted into his grave in An Rinn, the Waterford Gaeltacht where he made his home until his passing last Friday, December , the age of 74 from pulmonary fibrosis The sky brightened and a rainbow arched over the Bay at Dungarvan seemingly as far as his native Tipperary One of the Clancy women turned to Shakespeare for inspiration, not unlike the famed foursome would in concert and remarked, “When beggars die there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes” from Julius Caesar READ MORE

Liam Clancy: Catching up with a legend (IrishCentral)

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 03:45:16 PST

Published Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 6:19 PMToward the end of a bleak year for international bankers and Irish balladeers, I'm sitting in the cottage on a November evening listening to RTE playing the late and great Ronnie Drew Both the presenter and myself and probably thousands of other listeners are misty-eyed as the gravel voice counterpoints the almost saccharine sweet tones of Eleanor Shanley in a duet version of "I've Got a Couple More Years On You Baby, That's All" Infinitely poignant And then an ad break comes, and one of the CD's being advertised is the latest from Liam Clancy called The Broad Majestic Shannon, and one of the sound- snippets is as compulsive to the ear as "Couple of Years" because it is the surviving Clancy singing "Mondocino" with Mary Black READ MORE

Distraught fans of Liam Clancy flock to leave notes on the singer's website (IrishCentral)

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:50:18 PST

By: FRIEDA KLOTZ

A parting glass for Liam Clancy (IrishCentral)

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:51:48 PST

By: NIALL O'DOWD

Poignant last interview with Liam Clancy in Irish America magazine (IrishCentral)

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:57:07 PST

By: TOM DEIGNAN

Liam, last of Clancy Brothers, dies in Ireland (IrishCentral)

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:34:40 PST

By: DONAL THORNTON

Clancy Brothers' Liam - the last man standing (IrishCentral)

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 03:22:30 PDT

By: PAUL KEATING