The Troubles (album) explained
The Troubles is the seventeenth album by Irish folk and rebel band The Wolfe Tones.[1] [2] The album's title and songs are related to The Troubles in Northern Ireland.[3]
The album contains some well-known Irish rebel songs:
Track listing
- Disc One
- This is the Day
- The Patriot Game
- The Song of Partition
- Children of Fear
- Sunday Bloody Sunday
- Plastic Bullets
- The Men Behind the Wire
- Lough Sheelin Eviction
- Go Home, British Soldiers
- Danny Boy
- Star of the County Down
- In Belfast
- Up the Border
- The Green Glens of Antrim
- The Old Orange Flute
- The Old Brigade (Dance Medley)
- Disc Two
- Lament for the Lost
- We Shall Overcome
- You'll Never Beat the Irish, Part 3
- Tyrone
- Must Ireland Divided Be
- Song of Liberty
- The Orange and the Green
- Long Kesh
- The Sash My Father Wore
- Fermanagh Love Song
- Hills of Glenswilly
- Joe McDonnell
- County of Armagh
- Guildford Four
- Billy Reid
- Up the Rebels (Dance Mix)
References
- Web site: Wolfe Tones - The Troubles . 2024-02-08 . Celtic Collections.
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- Web site: PRESS RELEASES . 2024-02-08 . wolfetonesofficial . en . The events that inspired the songs are described in a humorous and light-hearted way along with the rigors of touring, the split with Derek, near-death misses, and the troubles, weaving in dialogue from the characters they met along the way..
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