Word: makem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...repertory and insolence, The Dubliners resemble superficially the long-arrived Irish-American group, The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, but the Clancys have slipped in Irish esteem because of what some observers feel is an increasing slickness. Whatever the sensitive ear may find wrong with The Dubliners' current style, it has nothing to do with slickness or lack of authenticity. When the group raises the roof in praise of drinking, for example, the lads are working from personal experience: they are lip-smacking veterans of the informal hooleys and singsongs at Paddy O'Donoghue's in Merrion...
...struggle that W. B. Yeats said had "a terrible beauty." The beauty is here reborn in the narration of Charles Kuralt, in the memories of the rebellion's survivors, and in the ballads of the time and the place, sung by the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem...
...CLANCY BROTHERS AND TOMMY MAKEM (Columbia) in live performance at Carnegie Hall. Lively, cheerful and as Irish as the moon over Galway...
...high in quality as the pine-paneling or the interior decorating. Undoubtedly it is the most professional of Boston's coffee-houses. It has the highest cover charge--$2.00 on weekends and $1.50 on week nights. Often it gets outstanding acts like the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, but all too often the acts are slick folkum and just plain don't swing...
Hearty and Hellish! (the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem; Columbia). The Irish revolutionaries who now campaign on the nightclub circuit bring their characteristic gusto to the folk favorites of the pubs-love songs, drinking songs, and a few broad digs at Mother England...