Liam, youngest of the brothers has a charming personality with the gift of the gab  and tastes that run to good music, good company and good porter. Liam had formal dramatic training at the National College of Arts in Dublin. His interest in folk music  was always evident, but, once commissioned by his brother in the States to collect "Ethnic" Irish songs for Pat's recording company, Liam took to the green hills with tape recorder and a newley-awakened relish for Irish Folksong. 

It was on one of these forays that Liam chanced to meet up with Tommy Makem. The two hit it off immediatley and became fast friends. Coming with Makem to the United States in 1956, Liam's professional acting career was launched at the Poet's Theatre in Camebridge Massachusetts.

He then appeared in New York in the play adaption of Frank O'Connor's "Guests of the Nation" . Other major stage credits iinclude Brendan Behan's "The Quare Fellow", and the Broadway production of "Little Moon of Alban", with Julie Harris. Liam first began singing as a folk  duo with Tommy Makem in Greenwich Village coffee houses, pairing his guitar with Tommy's Banjo.

Of the four Liam was perhaps best cast as a singer of love songs. His introduction to some of their songs can hold an audience spell bound and give the listener a new meaning as to the interpretation of the song.  

Liam now the only surviving menber of the four and indeed the group with the recent sad passing of Tommy Makem, is looking forward to the first annual Clancy Music Festival not just because its the hometown honouring the boys but what it will do for the town itself and for folk music carrying forward to the next generations.