The Village Greened: The Clancy Brothers, Irish Music and the Greenwich Village Folk Revival

Join us for a special presentation incorporating a mixture of lecture and song performances telling the story of  three young Irishmen - Paddy, Tom and Liam Clancy  -who emigrated to the United States in the 1950's. Christopher Shannon, Associate Professor and Chair of the History Department at Christendom College will share how these three poor struggling actors went from drinking and singing old Irish songs for their own amusement to appearing on the Ed Sullivan Show and performing at Carnegie Hall. The three were instrumental in starting the revival of traditional Irish music in the bohemian literacy circles of New York's Greenwich Village during the 1950's and 1960's, eventually producing the likes of the Chieftans and Riverdance.