Willie Clancy
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Willie Clancy was born on 24 December 1918 near Milltown Malbay, County Clare, into a musical family. Influenced by his parents and local piper Garret Barry, he began playing the whistle at age 5 and later the flute. He discovered the uilleann pipes in 1936 after hearing Johnny Doran and acquired his own set in 1938. Influenced by masters like Leo Rowsome and Séamus Ennis, Clancy won the Oireachtas competition in 1947. He moved to London to work as a carpenter but returned to Clare in 1957, where he made key recordings for Gael Linn. Clancy died in 1973, the same year the Willie Clancy Summer School was founded in his honour, becoming a major institution in Irish traditional music. His life and legacy were later celebrated in the 2009 TG4 documentary Cérbh � Willie Clancy.
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- Banish Misfortune
- Air: An Buachaill Caol Dubh
- Reels: The West Wind, Seán Reid's Fancy
- Kitty Gone a Milking
- Fraher's Jig
- Will You Come Down to Limerick?
- The Bold Trainer O
- An Phis Fhliuch
- The Rocks of Bawn
- Rakish Paddy
- The Old Bush
- Jenny's Welcome to Charlie
- Garrett Barry's Mazurka
- Jenny Picking Cockles/My Love is In America
- Dark Is the Colour of My True Love's Hair
- The Rolling Wave
- Munster Buttermilk by Willie Clancy
- Chief O'Neill's Favourite
- Seán à Duibhir a' Ghleanna
- BÃmÃs Ag Ãl (Jig)
- Loch Na gCaor (Air)
- The Bright Lady
- Casadh an Tsúgáin
- Harvest Home
