The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem -Freedom's Sons

"The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem took part in the 50th Anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising and recorded Freedom’s Sons for Columbia Records live at a concert in Dublin. The cover of this album, was shot by David Rubinson in O’Connell St., Dublin with the tricolour flying from the GPO behind them, as they sported their Aran Sweaters which have become an iconic symbol of the group. The most famous Irish ballad singers in the world, the phenomenal success of The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem gave the Irish at home and abroad a new pride in their heritage when they burst upon the international folk scene in Greenwich Village in New York City in 1963. They took the folk songs they had grown up with in Keady, Co Armagh and Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary respectively, and with their theatrical training, injected new life into the old songs performing some of them to faster rhythms to the accompaniment of guitar, banjo, tin whistle and harmonica. They wore bainín Aran Sweaters when performing in concerts and on TV and brought Irish culture and style to a whole new audience worldwide. The songs of The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem have become part of the fabric of Irish society. Submitted by Joan Clancy, widow of Tom Clancy "