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78:(15 July 1930 – 27 March 1969) was an Irish ballad and country singer and recording artist, popular in Ireland and abroad in the 1950s and 1960s. He was singing and recording ballads before the "Ballad Boom" arrived in Ireland and recorded over 20 albums. He died at the age of 38.
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In 1968, he was diagnosed with a kidney ailment which required a transplant. He died the following year, leaving a wife and four young children.
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In the late 1950s, he signed for Irish-American recording company Avoca
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Brady was the uncle of Anne Byrne, a folk-singer who came to prominence in the 1960s with The Abbey Tavern musicians in
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in 1950. He went on to become a regular on shows such as
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