Clancy, whose friend Bob Dylan called him “the best ballad singer I ever heard,” died Friday in County Cork. He was 74 and had been suffering for years from pulmonary fibrosis that finally ...

The man that Bob Dylan famously – and accurately - called "the best ballad singer I'd ever heard in my whole life," was the youngest member of the most influential group in the history of modern ...

THE MOUNTAIN OF THE WOMEN: MEMOIRS OF AN IRISH TROUBADOUR By Liam Clancy Doubleday, $24.95, 294 pages, illus. REVIEWED BY WILLIAM F. GAVIN I was wary when I received my review copy of Liam Clancy ...