Miltown Malbay
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Miltown Malbay was a nondescript Irish town until the world discovered Irish music, and places like Miltown and Doolin became stops on the cultural circuit. Miltown's fame rests on a number of local musicians, singers and dancers who performed with a distinctive style, the best known of whom was Willie Clancy (not to be confused with a 'ballad group' of the nineteen sixties of the same name). There is a yearly Irish music festival called the Willie Clancy Week (early July) dedicated to this particularily renowned performer - he could play pipes, the whistle, sing and tell stories, sadly he is dead but his legacy is happily still living. He was only the best known of a number of local performers who gave the area it's present renown.
