The Clancy Brothers were an influential Irish folk group, which initially developed as a part of the American folk music revival. Most popular in the 1960s, they were famed for their trademark Aran Jumpers and are widely credited with popularising Irish traditional music in the United States and revitalising it in Ireland, paving the way for an Irish folk boom with groups like The Dubliners and The Wolfe Tones.
The Clancy Brothers, Patrick "Paddy" Clancy, Tom Clancy, and Liam Clancy, are best known for their work with Tommy Makem, recording almost two dozen albums together as The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. Makem left in 1969, the first of many changes in the group's membership. The most notable subsequent member to join was the fourth Clancy brother, Bobby Clancy. The group continued in various formations until Paddy Clancy's death in 1998.
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem significantly influenced the young Bob Dylan and other emerging artists, including Christy Moore and Paul Brady. The group was famous for its often lively arrangements of old Irish ballads, rebel and drinking songs, sea shanties, and other traditional music.
Podcasts:
The Clancy Brothers
ALBUMS
- The Best Of released: 1997
- Older but No Wiser released: 1995
- Tunes 'n' Tales of Ireland released: 1988
- Greatest Hits released: 1986
- Live! released: 1982
- Save the Land released: 1972
- Show Me the Way released: 1972
- Welcome to Our House released: 1970
- Flowers in the Valley released: 1970
- Christmas released: 1969
Greatest Hits
Released 1986- The Maid of Fife-E-O
- Jug of Punch
- Gallant Forty-Twa
- Whistling Gypsy
- The Leaving of Liverpool
- The Real Old Mountain Dew
- The Nightingale
- Roddy McCorley
- The Castle of Dromore
- Father's Grave
- Johnny McEldoo
- The Irish Rover
- Old Woman From Wexford
- Bonnie Charlie
- Jolly Tinker
- Haul Away Joe
- The Shoals of Herring
- The Mermaid
- Kelly, the Boy From Killanne
- Rosin the Bow
- Whiskey Is the Life of Man
- MacPherson's Lament
- Whiskey, You're the Devil
- Holy Ground
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Biddy Mulligan The Pride Of The Coombe
by: Clancy BrothersBiddy Mulligan, The Pride of the Coombe
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You may travel from Clare to the county Kildare
From Francis Street back to the Coombe;
But where would you see a fine widow like me?
Biddy Mulligan the pride of the Coombe, me boys,
Biddy Mulligan the pride of the Coombe.
I'm a buxom fine widow, I live in a spot
In Dublin, they call it the Coombe.
Me shops and me stalls are laid out on the street,
And me palace consists of one room.
I sell apples and oranges, nuts and sweet peas,
Bananas and sugar stick sweet.
On a Saturday night I sell second-hand clothes,
From the floor of me stall in the street.
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I sell fish on a Friday, spread out on a board;
The finest you'll find in the sea.
But the best is my herrings, fine Dublin Bay herrings,
There's herrings for dinner and tea.
I have a son, Mick, he's great on the flute,
He plays in the Longford Street band;
It would do your heart good for to see him march out
On a Sunday for Dollymount Strand.
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In the park, on a Sunday, I make quite a dash;
The neighbors look on in surprise.
With my Aberdeen shawlie thrown over my head,
I dazzle the sight of their eyes.
At Patrick Street corner, for sixty-four years,
I've stood, and no one can deny
That while I stood there, nobody could dare
To say black was the white of my eye.
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