RIP Liam Clancy, Irish singer, 74

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Irish balladeer Liam Clancy, 74, last of the Clancy Brothers troupe whose feisty, boozy songs of old Ireland struck a sentimental chord worldwide, died Friday in a Cork hospital.  With his brothers, he inspired the rise of U.S. folk music. Bob Dylan called him 'the best ballad singer I'd ever heard in my life.'
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-liam-clancy5-2009dec05,0,5203954.story