Tommy Makem and the Clancy Brothers

**Joe Gondek** · 6th April 10, 09:34 PM

Great music
and easy to sing along with
Jug of punch and willy Mc Bride are favorites
parting glass is timeless

**thatcelticband** · 7th April 10, 01:20 AM

One of the Clancys sons plays/sings in a group called the High Kings. Super group!

**Sir William** · 7th April 10, 03:25 AM

Originally Posted by O'Callaghan

I believe that Tommy Makem actually wrote Four Green Fields, ....Once you realise that the 'fields' are actually Leinster, Munster, Connaught and Ulster it gets interesting, but political, of course.

He did and it is. He said in an interview that he composed it while riding on the New York subway.

Traditional or contemporary is no matter to me...I still like the song.

**macwilkin** · 7th April 10, 03:54 AM

I love their versions of Johnston's Motor Car & The Auld Orange Flute.

T.

**The Kilted Reverend** · 7th April 10, 04:52 AM

Originally Posted by thatcelticband

One of the Clancys sons plays/sings in a group called the High Kings. Super group!

Yes his name is Finnbar and they are a super group. He started playing with his dad and uncles. I love the HK version of The Parting Glass.

Rev.

**Strider** · 7th April 10, 07:37 AM

High Kings is probably my favorite modern group with this genera of music. They do a excellent version of the parting glass

**dfmacliam** · 7th April 10, 04:46 PM

I have always liked "the parting glass", but I have half of my Irish tunes on my iPhone are Clancy Brothers.. their songs are timeless..

**AFS1970** · 7th April 10, 11:10 PM

I grew up listening to their records (yes actual vinyl) and later got the chance to see them in concert but after they were joined by Robbie O'Connell.

Last December, after Liam died, having been the last of the original Brothers, I got together with a group of fiends and went down to the White Horse Saloon in NYC for a toast or three. That is the bar they hung out in and was mentioned in the liner notes for Older but no Wiser.

**Strider** · 8th April 10, 10:34 AM

Reading all these replies really makes me wish more that they were still playing.

**Jimmy** · 8th April 10, 01:35 PM

The last time I saw Tommy Makem was a good number of years ago in Cumbernauld Theatre near Glasgow, he sang Four Green Fields which he also wrote.
I spoke to him after the show and he said that he must add an extra verse to the song as the Peace Agreement had been successful, unfortunately he never added that verse. A true great as were the Clancy Brothers.