In the early 1960s. following an appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show and a number of soldout concerts at Carnegie Hall. the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem were perhaps the best known Irishmen in all the world. At the Newport Folk Festival. in 1961. he and Joan Baez were chosen as the two most promising newcomers on the American folk scene. In 1984. Tommy joined the ranks of millions of Irish immigrants who came before him and was naturalized as a U.S. citizen in Concord. New Hampshire. He has received countless awards. among them the Gold Medal from the Eire Society in Boston and Stonehill Colleges prestigious Genesis Award.
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