Warren Zevon was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame recently. He was a fine songwriter and wrote of what he knew.

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. Mr. Clancy ...

Maya Angelou is being remembered today as a celebrated poet, novelist and actress. But to audiences in Chicago in 1960, she was also a calypso singer who appeared at a legendary club with the Irish ...

The 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 ...

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Mary Clancy‘s e-mail said a rainbow arced over the graveyard as her brother-in-law Liam Clancy was buried in Ring, County Waterford, Ireland, a fortnight ago. Makes sense. For the Clancys were a crock ...

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, his manager said. He was ...

As Liam Clancy remembers it, being asked to perform on The Ed Sullivan Show did not seem like a big deal. “We just did not understand the significance,” he told Irish America in a recent interview, ...

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. By The ...

The Irish balladeer was the last of the Clancy Brothers troupe whose feisty, boozy songs of old Ireland spearheaded a 1960s folk revival worldwide. Irish balladeer Liam Clancy, last of the Clancy ...