The family has been called "one of the most important musical clans in Ireland".
The siblings perform together as a quintet in Dublin from the 1970s to the present day, and in 1977, Mary continued to play solo and with the groups General Humbert[2] and De Dannan.
They reunited in 2004 for a third album, which also features their mother, Patty, singing on one tune.
Shay and Michael moved to California in the early 1990s and continue to have successful musical careers performing as The Black Brothers.
Mary's son Danny O'Reilly is the lead singer of The Coronas and her daughter Róisín O is a singer-songwriter, while Frances' daughter Aoife Scott was a finalist in the Liet International song contest for minority languages in 2011,[3] and her son Eoghan Scott is also a solo artist and producer.