Finnegan's Wake-Clancy Brothers & Robbie O'Connell

Tom's classic intro included. With brothers Paddy, Bobby, nephew Robbie O'Connell, Maine PBS special, November 11, 1988

For more information check out the first full length biography on the group, "The Clancy Brothers: The Men Behind the Sweaters" at clancybrothersbook.com and amazon.com

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[JCDenton04]

This was filmed before I was born and I still love it

[emre poyraz]

I do not know how many bottles of alcohol I have consumed listening to these guys! I am afraid I will become an alcoholic because of Clancy brothers! (AND the beautiful Irish folk songs)

[Ma La]

His description of an Irish wake is the standard by which all other descriptions must be judged.

Now when the gentleman starts reciting James Joyce, don't panic. You need to either be dead drunk or possess an IQ of about 500 to make sense of James Joyce. If you can, just sit back and watch and listen to that most lovely Irish brogue, its sound and cadence. It has been said that the Irish brogue is second in sweetness only to the sound of angels singing, so just watch and listen.

[ZenobiaPalmyrene]

Historically accurate too. I've been to more than a few wakes

at people's homes in rural Ireland (I'm over 70 years old)

In USA, there's a Southern rural custom of "Sitting up with the dead"

Most of the people in the mountains of the Carolinas, Georgia & in

both Virginia states came from Scotland & Ireland -- Highlanders,

Scots-Irish & Irish

(Fighting Natives on the frontier was preferable to starving

in one's native land; after being dispossessed of one's

farms during the land clearances)

[ballrub]

Robert William Haley. RIP. My father......he filled my childhood w/this

[Arkansas Red]

God bless the Clancy brothers and Tommy Makem. What a bunch of great entertainers. God bless Wilma Wade, librarian at Central High School in 1961 who turned me on to Tommy, the Clancys and Celtic music.

[Cal263208]

Wow.....Tom was a great storyteller......wish I could have met him.....all of them for that matter.

[Cypher451]

*Dulcimer

[Cypher451]

Meet a guy by the name of legendary big Gerry in Reno. He was selling a bunch of cds featuring his hammered sulcimer. One of the cds was a live performance with many of these songs. I must admit, I generally listen to thrash metal and punk, but I absolutely love these tunes!!!

[pccbassbone]

You know they're of Irish descent, right?

[craftybollocks]

it was the sudden stop at the end ,my friend,its not the fall,its the landing that hurts

[J Joyce]

Learn to spell so you don't disgrace our people.