Joe was a wonderful human being. I met him via a transatlantic link in about 1980 and subsequently at the Library of Congress where he knew everybody (including occasional visitors from Ireland), everything and, most importantly for a librarian, where everything was. I greatly enjoyed his singing which had a great range of themes and relative seriousness. I think, since it was his time to go, he's well out of America at present, but those of us who knew and revered him will miss his wit and humanity; a man worth remembering.