The Clancy Brothers with Tommy Makem & Robbie o-connell is a biography about the Clancy Brothers. It takes readers on an 80-year journey from their upbringing in mid-20th century Ireland to when they went on to great fame and fortune.

The Clancy Brothers were born into a musical family of nine children in Carrick-on-Suir, Tipperary. The brothers were Paddy, Tom, Bobby, and Liam. The Clancy Brothers were well-established by the time Bob Dylan arrived in New York in the 1960s.

Tommy Makem moved to New York City after crushing his hand in a mill accident. At Tommy's urging, Paddy Clancy agreed to record an album of Irish rebel songs, The Rising of the Moon. This was the first album to feature Paddy, Tom, Liam Clancy, and Tommy Makem.

Tommy Makem died on August 1, 2007, at the age of 74, after an extended fight with lung cancer. Two years later, Liam Clancy died of pulmonary fibrosis, the same ailment that had taken his brother Bobby. He died on December 4, 2009 at the age of 74 in a hospital in Cork, Ireland.