Tracklist

Air fa la la lo (In Concert) LYRICS
Alabama '58 (Revolution) LYRICS
All for me Grog(Ciarán) ()
All for me Grog(Ciarán) (Live)
All for me Grog(Ronnie) (on Major Minor single MM 521)
All for me Grog (40 Years) Digitally remastered.
And the Band played Waltzing Matilda (Together Again) LYRICS
Avondale (A Parcel of Rogues) LYRICS
Back in Durham Gaol (Further Along)
Ballad of Ronnie's Mare (Plain and Simple) LYRICS
Ballad of St. Anne's Reel (25 Years Celebration) LYRICS
Banks of the Roses (The Dubliners and Luke Kelly) LYRICS
Banks of the Roses (21 Years On)
Banks of the Roses (Alive-Alive-O)
Banks of the Sweet Primroses (15 Years On) LYRICS
Bantry Girls Lament (21 Years On)
Bantry Girls Lament (30 Years A-Greying) LYRICS
Barley and Grape Rag (30 Years A-Greying) LYRICS
Beggarman (Now) LYRICS
Biddy Mulligan (Revolution) LYRICS
Black Velvet Band (A Drop of the Hard Stuff) LYRICS
Black Velvet Band (Live at the Albert Hall)
Black Velvet Band (Live)
Black Velvet Band (Alive-Alive-O)
Blantyre Explosion (A Parcel of Rogues) LYRICS
Bold Princess Royal (single, Columbia DB 8671) LYRICS
Bombo Lane (Dublin) LYRICS
Bonny Boy (Revolution) LYRICS
Boots of Spanish Leather (30 Years A-Greying) LYRICS
Boulavogue (A Parcel of Rogues) LYRICS
Building up and tearing England down (Prodigal Sons) LYRICS
Building up and tearing England down (Live in Carre)
Bunclody (15 Years On) LYRICS
Button Pusher (Revolution) LYRICS
Button Pusher (21 Years On)
Call and the Answer (30 Years A-Greying) LYRICS
Captains and the Kings (Revolution) LYRICS
Carrickfergus (Now) LYRICS
Carrickfergus (40 Years) LYRICS
Cavan Girl (Further Along)
Champion at keeping them rolling (Double Dubliners) LYRICS
Cill Chais (25 Years Celebration) LYRICS
Clavalitos (25 Years Celebration) LYRICS
Cod Liver Oil (25 Years Celebration) LYRICS
Come and join the British Army (More of the Hard Stuff) LYRICS
Comical Genius (Hometown) LYRICS
Comical Genius (on Major Minor single MM 608)
Coming of the Road (Further Along)
Crack was Ninety in the Isle of Man (Further Along)
Croppy Boy (More of the Hard Stuff) LYRICS
Cunla (At Home with) LYRICS
Cunla (25 Years Celebration)
Dainty Davy (At Home with) LYRICS
Dancing at Whitsun (40 Years) LYRICS
Danny Farrell (Together Again) LYRICS
Darby O'Leary (At it Again) LYRICS
Death of the Bear (30 Years A-Greying) LYRICS
Deportees (30 Years A-Greying) LYRICS
Dicey Reilly (More of the Hard Stuff) LYRICS
Dicey Reilly (Live in Carre)
Dicey Reilly (Dublin)
Dirty old Town (Drinkin' and Courtin') LYRICS
Dirty old Town (Live)
Dirty old Town (Live in Carre)
Dirty old Town (Further Along)
Dirty old Town (Alive-Alive-O)
Don't get married Girls (25 Years Celebration) LYRICS
Don't give up 'til it's over (40 Years) LYRICS
Donegal Danny (Plain and Simple) LYRICS
Down by the Glenside (15 Years On) LYRICS
Drink it up Men (More of the Hard Stuff) LYRICS
Dublin Fusiliers (Finnegan Wakes) LYRICS
Dublin Jack of all Trades (Dublin)
Dubliners (25 Years Celebration) LYRICS
Dundee Weaver (At it Again) LYRICS
Easy and slow (In Concert) LYRICS
Eileen Og (30 Years A-Greying) LYRICS
False Hearted Lover (A Parcel of Rogues) LYRICS
Farewell to Carlingford (Now) LYRICS
Fiddler's Green (Plain and Simple) LYRICS
Fields of Athenry (Alive-Alive-O)
Finnegan's Wake (Finnegan Wakes) LYRICS
Finnegan's Wake (Live)
Finnegan's Wake (21 Years On)
Finnegan's Wake (Dublin)
Foggy Dew (on Transatlantic single SP 9)
Foggy Dew (A Parcel of Rogues) LYRICS
Foggy Dew (Alive-Alive-O) LYRICS
For what died the Sons of Roisin (Revolution) LYRICS
For what died the Sons of Roisin (Hometown)
Four Green Fields (Live in Montreux) LYRICS
Free the People (Double Dubliners) LYRICS
Freedom come all ye (Revolution) LYRICS
Further Along (Further Along)
Galway Races (A Drop of the Hard Stuff) LYRICS
Galway Races (Live in Carre)
Galway Shawl (30 Years A-Greying) LYRICS
Gartan Mother's Lullaby (Double Dubliners) LYRICS
Gentleman Soldier (Drinkin' and Courtin') LYRICS
Gentleman Soldier (Double Dubliners) LYRICS
Glendalough Saint (Finnegan Wakes) LYRICS
Go to Sea no more (At it Again) LYRICS
God save Ireland (At Home with) LYRICS
Grace (40 Years) LYRICS
Greenland Whale Fisheries (Transatlantic SP3)
Greenland Whale Fisheries (At Home with) LYRICS
Hand me down me Bible (Hometown) LYRICS
Hand me down me Petticoat (Drinkin' and Courtin') LYRICS
Herring (Drinkin' and Courtin') LYRICS
High Germany (At Home with) LYRICS
Holy Ground (The Dubliners and Luke Kelly) LYRICS
Holy Ground (Live)
Home Boys Home (The Dubliners and Luke Kelly) LYRICS
Home Boys Home (Live)
Hot Asphalt (Finnegan Wakes) LYRICS
Humpty Dumpty (At Home with) LYRICS
I'll tell me Ma (The Dubliners and Luke Kelly) LYRICS
I'll tell me Ma (30 Years A-Greying)
I'm a Man you don't meet every Day (30 Years A-Greying) LYRICS
I'm a Rover (Folk Festival)
I'm a Rover (A Drop of the Hard Stuff) LYRICS
I'm asking you Sergeant where's mine (30 Years A-Greying) LYRICS
If ever you go to Dublin Town (Further Along)
I know my Love (Drinkin' and Courtin') LYRICS
I loved the Ground she walked upon (25 Years Celebration) LYRICS
Inniskillen Dragoons (At it Again) LYRICS
Irish Navy (At it Again) LYRICS
Irish Rover (25 Years Celebration) LYRICS
Irish Rover (40 Years) Same version as above
I wish I were back in Liverpool (At it Again) LYRICS
I wish I were back in Liverpool (Live at the Albert Hall)
Jack's Heroes LYRICS
Jail of Cluan Meala (Plain and Simple) LYRICS
Jar of Porter (The Dubliners and Luke Kelly) LYRICS
Joe Hill (Revolution) LYRICS
Johnny Doyle (Dublin)
Johnny McGory (Together Again) LYRICS
Johnson's Motorcar (Plain and Simple) LYRICS
Kelly the Boy from Killane (More of the Hard Stuff) LYRICS
Kelly the Boy from Killane (Live in Montreux)
Kelly the Boy from Killane (Alive-Alive-O)
Kerry Recruit (In Concert) LYRICS
Kerry Recruit (40 Years). Same version as above. Digitally remastered.
Killieburn Brae (A Parcel of Rogues) LYRICS
Lag Song (Together Again) LYRICS
Lark in the Morning (Now) LYRICS
Lark in the Morning (Live in Montreux)
Last of the Great Whales (25 Years Celebration) LYRICS
Last Thing on my Mind (40 Years) LYRICS
Leaving Nancy (25 Years Celebration) LYRICS
Leaving of Liverpool (In Concert) LYRICS
Leaving of Liverpool (Live at the Albert Hall)
Lifeboat Mona (Now) LYRICS
Limerick Rake (A Drop of the Hard Stuff) LYRICS
Liverpool Lou (30 Years A-Greying) LYRICS
Lock up your Daughters (A Drop of the Dubliners)
Lord of the Dance (Now) LYRICS
Lord of the Dance (40 Years)
Louse House of Kilkenny (Double Dubliners) LYRICS
Love is pleasing (The Dubliners and Luke Kelly) LYRICS
Love is pleasing (25 Years Celebration)
Lowlands of Holland (At Home with) LYRICS
Luke-A Tribute (25 Years Celebration) LYRICS
Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe (Drinkin' and Courtin') LYRICS
Maids when you're young never wed an old Man (Drinkin' and Courtin') LYRICS
Maids when you're young never wed an old Man (Live at the Albert Hall)
Maloney wants a Drink (More of the Hard Stuff) LYRICS
Manchester Rambler (30 Years A-Greying) LYRICS
Manchester Rambler (Alive-Alive-O)
Many young Men of twenty (At it Again) LYRICS
Master McGrath (More of the Dubliners) LYRICS
Matt Hyland (Now) LYRICS
McAlpine's Fusiliers (Finnegan Wakes) LYRICS
McAlpine's Fusiliers (Live at the Albert Hall)
McAlpine's Fusiliers (Live)
McCafferty (A Drop of the Hard Stuff) LYRICS
Mero (Together Again) LYRICS
Molly Bawn (At it Again) LYRICS
Molly Maguires (At Home with) LYRICS
Molly Maguires (Hometown)
Molly Malone (15 Years On) LYRICS
Molly Malone (25 Years Celebration)
Molly Malone (Alive-Alive-O)
Monto (Finnegan Wakes) LYRICS
Monto (Live at the Albert Hall)
Monto (Hometown)
Montreux Monto (Live in Montreux)
Monto (Dublin)
Mormon Braes (More of the Hard Stuff) LYRICS
Mountain Dew (The Dubliners in Person)
Mountain Dew (25 Years Celebration) LYRICS
Mrs. McGrath (In Person) LYRICS
Mrs. McGrath (Drinkin' and Courtin') LYRICS
Muirsheen Durking (More of the Hard Stuff) LYRICS
My little Son (Drinkin' and Courtin') LYRICS
Nancy Whiskey (At it Again) LYRICS
Nation once again (More of the Hard Stuff) LYRICS
Navvy Boots (Live at the Albert Hall) LYRICS
Nelson's Farewell (Finnegan Wakes) LYRICS
Net Hauling Song (At it Again) LYRICS
Newry Highway Man (Prodigal Sons) LYRICS
Nightingale (The Dubliners and Luke Kelly) LYRICS
Night Visiting Song (Double Dubliners) LYRICS
Nora (30 Years A-Greying) LYRICS
Now I'm easy (Prodigal Sons) LYRICS
Now I'm easy (25 Years Celebration)
O'Connel's Steam Engine (25 Years Celebration) LYRICS
Off to Dublin in the green (TRA single SP8)?
Off to Dublin in the green (Live at the Albert Hall) LYRICS
Ojos Negros (Revolution) LYRICS
Old alarm Clock (A Drop of the Hard Stuff) LYRICS
Old Man (Together Again) LYRICS
Old orange Flute (In Concert) LYRICS
Old Triangle (More of the Hard Stuff) LYRICS
Old Triangle (Now) LYRICS
Old Triangle (Live in Carre)
Old Triangle (Dublin)
Old Triangle (30 Years A-Greying)
Oro se do Bheatha 'Bhaila (25 Years Celebration) Parcel of Rogues (A Parcel of Rogues) arting Glass (Drinkin' and Courtin')
Parting Glass (Together Again)
Patriot Game (In Concert) Peat Bog Soldiers (Revolution) Peggy Gordon (Drinkin' and Courtin')
Peggy Gordon (Live at the Albert Hall)
Peggy Lettermore (Folk Festival)
Peggy Lettermore (In Concert)
Phil the Fluter's Ball (30 Years A-Greying) Ploughboy Lads (15 Years On) Pool Song (30 Years A-Greying)
Poor Paddy on the Railway (A Drop of the Hard Stuff)
Preab san ol (The Dubliners and Luke Kelly)
Preab san ol (40 Years) Same version as above. Digitally remastered.
Protect and Survive (25 Years Celebration)
Pub with no Beer (More of the Hard Stuff)
Quare Bungle Rye (Drinkin' and Courtin')
Raglan Road (Single 1972)
Raglan Road (Hometown, the whole song on Luke's Legacy)
Raglan Road (Dublin)
Ragland Road (40 Years) (same version as Luke's Legacy)
Ragman's Ball (The Dubliners and Luke Kelly)
Ragman's Ball (Dublin)
Rambling Rover (25 Years Celebration)
Rare oul Times (Together Again) Rare oul Times (Dublin)
Ratcliffe Highway (Ireland's No1 Folk Group; The Dubliners)
Rattling Roving Willie (Drinkin' and Courtin')
Rebel (Double Dubliners)
Rebellion (Plain and Simple) Red Roses for me (25 Years Celebration)
Rising of the Moon (A Drop of the Hard Stuff)
Rocky Road to Dublin (The Dubliners and Luke Kelly) Roddy McCorley (In Concert)
Roddy McCorley (Anthology - under the title Sea Shanty)
Rose of Allendale (25 Years Celbration)
Rose (30 Years A-Greying)
Rose
Salford Town (Ireland's No1 Folk Group; The Dubliners)
Sally Wheatly (25 Years Celebration)
Salonika (25 Years Celebration)
Sam Hall (At Home with) Sands of Sudan (30 Years A-Greying)
Saxon Shilling (At Home with)
School Days over (Revolution)
Scorn not his Simplicity (Revolution)
Scorn not his Simplicity (40 Years)
Se fath mo Bhuartha (Revolution)
Sea around us (Finnegan Wakes) Sea Shanty (Anthology - same as Roddy McCorley)
Second World Song (Prodigal Sons)
Seven deadly Sins (At it Again)
Seven drunken Nights (A Drop of the Hard Stuff)
Seven drunken Nights (Live at the Albert Hall)
Seven drunken Nights (Live)
Seven drunken Nights (Live in Carre)
Seven drunken Nights (21 Years On)
Seven drunken Nights (Dublin)
Seven drunken Nights (40 Years) Same version as Dublin.
Sez She (Dublin)
Shoals of Herring (More of the Hard Stuff) Sick Note (Live in Carre - same version on 25 Years Celebration)
Sick Note (Alive-Alive-O)
Skibbereen (Plain and Simple) Smith of Bristol (Double Dubliners) Song for Ireland (Luke's Legacy)
Song for Ireland (Prodigal Sons)
Song for Ireland (Live in Carre)
Song for Ireland (Further Along)
Song of the Iron Road (Together Again) South Australia (Alive-Alive-O)
Spancil Hill (15 Years On)
Spanish Lady (A Parcel of Rogues) Spanish Lady (Dublin)
Springhill Disaster (Double Dubliners) Step it out Mary (Further Along)
Step it out Mary (Alive-Alive-O)
Stone outside Dan Murphy's Door (30 Years A-Greying)
Sullivan John (More of the Hard Stuff)
Sun is burning (Double Dubliners)
Sweet Thames flow softly (30 Years A-Greying) Ta an coileach Ag Fogairt an Lae (Further Along)
Take it down from the Mast (Hometown)
Thirty Foot Trailer (A Parcel of Rogues)
Three lovely Lassies from Kimmage (Hometown)
Three lovely Lassies from Kimmage (21 Years On)
Three lovely Lassies from Kimmage (Dublin)
Three Score and ten (25 Years Celebration)
Tibby Dunbar (At it Again)
Town I loved so well (Plain and Simple)
Town I loved so well (Live in Montreux)
Town I loved so well (Alive-Alive-O)
Town I loved so well (40 Years) Same version as Plain and Simple. Digitally remastered.
Tramps and Hawkers (The Dubliners and Luke Kelly)
Travelling People (A Drop of the Hard Stuff)
Twang Man (In Concert)
Unquiet Grave (Now) Viva la quinte Brigada (40 Years)
Walking in the Dew (More of the Dubliners)
Waterford Boys (Prodigal Sons)
Waterford Boys (Live in Carre)
Weila Waila (A Drop of the Hard Stuff)
Weila Waila (Live at the Albert Hall)
Weila Waila (Live)
Weila Waila (Dublin)
What will we tell the Children (30 Years A-Greying)
When Margaret was eleven (Prodigal Sons)
When the Boys come rolling Home (40 Years)
Whiskey in the Jar (More of the Hard Stuff)
Whiskey in the Jar (Live at the Albert Hall)
Whiskey in the Jar (Live)
Whiskey in the Jar (Live in Carre)
Whiskey in the Jar (30 Years A-Greying)
Whiskey in the Jar (Alive-Alive-O)
Whiskey on a Sunday (Live at the Albert Hall)
Wild Rover (The Dubliners and Luke Kelly) Wild Rover (Live)
Wild Rover (Live in Carre)
Wild Rover (Alive-Alive-O)
Will the Circle be unbroken (30 Years A-Greying)
Will you come to the Bower (Finnegan Wakes)
Willie Gannon (The Dubliners in Person)
Woman from Wexford (In Concert)
Working Man (Further Along)
Zoological Gardens (A Drop of the Hard Stuff)
Zoological Gardens (Dublin)
Total 329

History

The Dubliners, now one of the most legendary bands in the world, started off in O'Donoghue's pub in Dublin in 1962 under the name of "the Ronnie Drew Folk Group". Then they were four, Ronnie Drew (vocals and guitar), Luke Kelly (vocals and 5-string banjo), Barney McKenna (tenor banjo, mandolin, melodeon and vocals) and Ciarán Bourke (vocals, guitar, tin whistle and harmonica). In 1963, they played at the Edinburgh festival where they met the head of Transatlantic Records, Nathan Joseph, for whom they started recording. In 1964, Luke Kelly left, and Bobby Lynch (vocals and guitar) and John Sheahan (fiddle, tin whistle, mandolin, concertina, guitar and vocals) were added. When Luke Kelly returned and Bobby Lynch left in 1965, we have what is considered as the original Dubliners, five individualists, five men whose talents were mixed together in a superb blend and just wanted to play and have a good craic. If they only knew what was awaiting them!
In 1967 their major breakthrough came as a result of a coincidence. Their song, "Seven Drunken Nights" which was recorded in one take, was snapped up by a pirate radio station which started playing it along with the Beatles, the Mamas and the Papas, the Who, Kinks and Jimi Hendrix. Suddenly, The Dubliners was a major band, playing all over the world, getting into the charts, and receiving gold discs. Not what you expected from a bunch of hairy people who "looked like they'd just been dragged out of a seedy bar via a hedge(backwards) and dropped on London from a very great height".(Colin Irwin in the reissue of "Live at the Albert Hall") The seventies started like the sixties ended; wild touring, drinking, playing. They started doing regular tours, and they were still recording, of course. Then, in 1974, Ciarán Bourke collapsed on stage with a brain haemmorrage, which eventually led to his death. He first, though, recovered remarkably , and was back on stage with The Dubliners, but collapsed again. At the same time, Ronnie decided to take a break, and Jim McCann took his and Ciaráns place in the group.
In 1979, Ronnie decided to make a comeback as a member of the group, although he probably never really left it. In the five years, he had recorded two solo albums, and The Dubliners three albums. With Ronnie returning, Jim left, and The Dubs were almost back where they started. Then Luke Kelly became ill, he collapsed on stage with a brain tumour, for which he received surgery several times. He too, made remarkable recoveries, and went on touring with the Dubliners, at the same time continuing his wild and unhealthy lifestyle. Seán Cannon, a long time friend, stepped in for Luke, when he couldn't be on stage. Seáns appearence wasn't that well received by the audiences at the beginning, but he has later turned out to be an important addition to The Dubliners, and their repertoir. In 1984, Luke Kelly died, but The Dubliners, now with Seán Cannon as a member, decided to keep on.
1987 turned out to be one of the best - and busiest - years for the Dubliners. Their long time friend, and guest musician, Eamonn Campbell, brought the group together with the Pogues on the hit single the Irish Rover. This single took the Dubliners back to the charts, and also gave them a completely new audience; people who weren't even born when The Dubliners started off. And with Dublin celebrating its milennium in 1988, The Dubliners also received more attention than for years. Eamonn Campbell joined them on regular basis, a move which has turned out to be one of the most important in their history. In 1988 Ciarán Bourke died, after years of pain and difficulties. He always was, and still is very much remembered by The Dubliners, just like Luke Kelly is.
The eighties finished off with rumours that The Dubliners were to retire, probably something that's always been following the group. However, they didn't, and celebrated their 30th anniversary in 1992, with a double cd and extensive tour. The nineties have later brought a tour video from the German tour 1995, and the "shock" news that Ronnie Drew was leaving. He left in December 1995, after releasing a superb album, "Dirty Rotten Shame" a few months earlier.
Now, even the most optimistic Dubliners fans thought it was the end, but the remaindours decided to convince Paddy Reilly to join them, and they continued their busy touring and recording schedule. This move has also turned out to be excellent. Paddy, not very well known in Europe, had never been touring there, so he too enjoyed the experience, as well as being part of a band. He still, though, does tours in the USA in the winter and summermonths.
As we reach the start of a new milennium, we might as well prepare ourself for the Dubliners 5th decenninum, and although we know that they won't go on very much longer, and that they nolonger are the best band in the world, they are still a very high class act. People probably don't recognize what The Dubliners have meant to the world of music. By the way, not only the world of music, but the world as a whole. They have first of all paved the way for dozens of bands from Ireland and Scotland, like the Chieftains, the Pogues, U2, Ossian, the Fureys and so on. The number of artists that list The Dubliners as one of their major influences and idols, is endless. They have brought folk music to millions of people all over the world, people who never would have been interested at all. That isn't only because of the folk music, the instrumentals alone, it's because of The Dubliners, their astonishing voices, their undescribable instrumentals, the wild life style and drinking, late sessions, their enormous beards, their extensive touring, their charisma and characters. It was, and still is to a certain extent, a blend the world will never see again.
The Dubliners have brought Ireland to the world in a way that no emigration has, they have brought the world to Ireland, and they have brought people all over the world closer together. Whenever it ends, the world will never be the same again.
The Dubliners 1962-1999
Ronnie Drew Born Sept.16th 1934 1962-1974 & 1979-1995
Luke Kelly Born Nov.17th 1940 Died Jan 30th 1984 1962-1964 & 1965-1984
Barney McKenna Born Dec 16th 1939 1962-
Ciarán Bourke Born Feb 18th 1935 Died May 10th 1988 1962-1974
John Sheahan Born May 19th 1939 1964-
Bobby Lynch Born May 18th 1935 Died Oct 2nd 1982 1964-1965
Jim McCann Born Oct 26th 1944 1974-1979
Seán Cannon Born Nov 29th 1940 1982-Eamonn Campbell Born Nov 29th 1946 1987-
Paddy Reilly Born Oct 18th 1939 1996-