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Obituary received positive reviews. [8] [9] It received 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 6 reviews. [10] In The Irish Times, Ed Power praised Siobhán Cullen's and Danielle Galligan's performances, but said "it’s a shame the script isn’t funnier. Obituary is a dark comedy that often forgets the laughs." [11]
With the Clancy Brothers he was listed among the top 100 Irish-Americans of the 20th century in 1999. [11] A bridge over the Cochecho River on Washington Street in Makem's long-time home of Dover, New Hampshire, was named the Tommy and Mary Makem Memorial Bridge in 2010. [20] In 2015 a new Tommy Makem Arts Centre was opened in his home town of ...
Liam Clancy (Irish: Liam Mac Fhlannchadha; 2 September 1935 – 4 December 2009) was an Irish folk singer from Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary.He was the youngest member of the influential folk group the Clancy Brothers, regarded as Ireland's first pop stars. [1]
7 December – the funeral of Liam Clancy, the last of The Clancy Brothers, was attended by hundreds of mourners, including the aides-de-camp of the Taoiseach and the President, the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, Martin Cullen, and various musicians and artists. [138]
Bobby Clancy was born in Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary, Ireland to Robert J. Clancy and Johanna McGrath.He was the twin brother of Joan Clancy. Clancy left home in the late 1940s to join the Royal Air Force (RAF) where he travelled all over Europe, including Greece and Egypt where he learned many folk songs.
Sometimes the prewritten obituary's subject outlives its author. One example is The New York Times' obituary of Taylor, written by the newspaper's theater critic Mel Gussow, who died in 2005. [7] The 2023 obituary of Henry Kissinger featured reporting by Michael T. Kaufman, who died almost 14 years earlier in 2010. [8]
Martin Joseph Clancy, Sr. (August 2, 1890 – July 26, 1970) was an American businessman and politician. He was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1933 to 1935 and a member of the Wisconsin State Senate from 1935 to 1939. Born in Racine, Wisconsin, Clancy graduated from Racine High School in 1908. He worked in construction on the ...
Makem and Clancy was an Irish folk duo popular in the 1970s and 1980s. The group consisted of Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy, who had originally achieved fame as a part of the trailblazing folk group The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem in the 1960s.