It is with great sadness I post the news of the death of Ronnie Drew.
“In a brief statement, his family confirmed he passed away at St Vincent's Private Hospital in Dublin at 1400 BST on Saturday.”

Source: RTE News

More on Ronnie’s career…

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I have divided www.theBalladeers.com; it was getting too big and very hard to manage. In the future, there will be, Ireland at www.theBalladeers.com and Scotland at www.theBalladeersScotland.com. I am still working on updating, editing, re-designing…what have you… “Ireland”, but have mostly finished “Scotland”. Except for the lyrics pages, which still can be found at www.theBalladeers.com, until I get them posted here.

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Website contributions and sources—include: Shonagh McGinn, Nigel Denver, Gordon Menzies (Gaberlunzie), Bill Smith (Corrie Folk Trio), Jim McLean, Jane Palmer, Ewan McVicar, "The Guinness Who's Who of Folk Music", Allan Taylor's "Alex Campbell Tribute Concert" and Susanne Kalweit's article on Iain MacKintosh. You may also want to check out Henry Kochlin's website (with a lot of the material supplied by Susanne), one of the best sources of song lyrics.