This surprising portrait of Liam Clancy, the last surviving member of The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem, and the man that Bob Dylan called “just the best ballad singer I’d ever heard in my whole life,” is an intimate, confessional and highly cinematic work which charts the Clancys’ rise to fame from small-town beginnings in Tipperary to their Aran-jumpered 1960s hey-day in Greenwich Village where they played for JFK and out-sold the Beatles – but behind the scenes all was not well….

Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn

Screening as part of the Alan Gilsenan Retrospective