13. Pat Clancy
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Before leaving Connemara last week, Sean McKiernan kindly presented me with a recording of three songs and part of a fourth, performed by Patrick (Pat) Clancy (son of Gilbert Clancy and Ellen Killeen* and brother of Willie Clancy). Sean recorded these 4 tracks on a visit to the Clancy home in Leagard North, Milltown Malbay on the 6th of May 1992. Present in the house that day with Sean were Pat Clancy and his sister Bridget (Baby).
My sincere thanks to Sean McKiernan and to Isa Woulfe (grandniece of Willie Clancy) for permission to share this recording. *Ellen Killeen was born on Feb 4th, 1890, to Thomas Killeen (a farmer) and Bridget Coghlin at Ardnacullia South townland (now spelt locally as Ardnaculla), south-east of Ennistymon. Ellen was a concertina player and singer, and she married Gilbert Clancy in Ennis Cathedral on Dec. 1st, 1911. Gilbert, who played flute and concertina and was a nice singer, was the son of John Clancy and Molly O’Dea, who married in 1847. Molly, the daughter of Gilbert O’Dea and Catherine Lillis, was a wonderful concertina player and a very good friend of the blind piper Garrett Barry, who often spent weeks at a time in the Clancy home in Illaunbaun, as he was very fond of the family.
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Pat Clancy (right) with his mother Ellen (nee Killeen) and sister Nell. (The young boy, Gilbert, is the son of Pat's brother James)
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