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Sat 04 Apr 2007Sailing beyond the sunsetOn The Town:The singer Liam Clancy, quoting a poem by Tennyson, called on older people to be "strong in will/ to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield". "That's what we are about in this organisation for the next month," he said, rallying all who had gathered in the Abbey Theatre for his launch of the Bealtaine Festival, which celebrates creativity in older age.With a flourish, Clancy recited the lines which celebrate the great hero Ulysses, who resolves in old age to go on one final voyage: "And tho' we are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are," he declared passionately. "My purpose holds/ to sail beyond the sunset, and the baths/ of all the western stars, until I die."