From yesterday's WASHINGTON POST: Paddy Clancy, 76, who sang with the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, the influential Irish folk group of the 1950s and 1960s, died of cancer Nov. 11 at his home in the County Waterford town of Carrick on Suir in southeast Ireland.

The brothers and their friend Makem formed the group at the beginning of the folk music boom in New York in 1959. They performed with such people as Judy Collins and Pete Seeger.

Brother Bobby Clancy also occasionally sang with the group, which made more than 50 records. Paddy Clancy went out on his own after nine years. The group reunited in 1993 for a concert honoring Bob Dylan.