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Alan Gilsenan
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Producers: John Murray, Anna Rodgers
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DocumentaryMusic
Completed shortly before he died, this feature-length film about folk singer Liam Clancy presents a revealing and surprising portrait of the man whom Bob Dylan called “just the best ballad singer I’d ever heard in my whole life.” This intimate, confessional, and highly cinematic film charts the remarkable rise to fame of The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, from their small-town beginnings in Co. Tipperary to the folk heyday of Greenwich Village in the 1960s, where they absorbed black musical influences, played for John F. Kennedy, and outsold the Beatles. The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem would go on to influence a host of popular artists from Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger to The Pogues, and would become a powerful, iconic presence on the Irish cultural map.
Notes by Sunniva O'Flynn.
108 minutes, Ireland/United States, 2009, Colour
28 YEARS LATER 15:50
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: AGAINST THE ODDS (PROGRAMME TWO) 12:50
ARMAND 13:20, 18:10
BEAT THE LOTTO 18:00
FROM HILDE, WITH LOVE 13:00
HEARTS OF DARKNESS: A FILMMAKER’S APOCALYPSE 4K RE-RELEASE 15:40
HOT MILK 20:50
NINE QUEENS 25TH ANNIVERSARY 20:40
RAN (40TH ANNIVERSARY) 20:00
THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND 16:00
THE BIGGER PICTURE: THE ROARING TWENTIES 18.20
THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME 13:45
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