Irish singer, songwriter and storyteller Tommy Makem, who teamed with the Clancy Brothers to become stars during the folk music boom, has died of cancer. He was 74.

DUBLIN — Irish balladeer Liam Clancy, last of the Clancy Brothers troupe whose sentimental songs of old Ireland spearheaded a 1960s folk revival worldwide, has died in a Cork hospital ...

And then there was one. The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem outsold the Beatles in their 1960s heyday while popularizing traditional Irish music in the United States. Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger said ...

The Dubliners, Tommy Makem and Liam O'Flynn were among the artists who ventured behind the barricades after being invited to the enclave by the Bogside Relief Fund after the Battle of the Bogside.