The Wolfe Tones discography

Wolfe Tones discography

The Wolfe Tones performing in Bayshore, New York, on March 13, 2010. From left to right: Brian Warfield, Noel Nagle and Tommy Byrne
Studio albums 16
Live albums 3
Compilation albums 10
EPs 3
Singles 34

The discography of the Wolfe Tones, an Irish folk and rebel group from the suburbs of Dublin, consists of sixteen studio albums, three extended plays, three live albums and ten compilation albums. The Wolfe Tones released their first album with Fontana Records in 1965 and released their most recent studio album with Shanachie Records in 2004. In the interim, the band has also released albums with Dolphin Records, Triskel Records and MCA.

During their nearly fifty years of producing music, the Wolfe Tones have enjoyed substantial success in Ireland and the United States, where they continue to tour annually. Their most famous song is "A Nation Once Again," which was voted the number one song of all time by a 2002 BBC World Service vote.[1] The Wolfe Tones are also well known for "Celtic Symphony," a 1987 musical tribute to the centennial of Celtic Football Club, and "Joe McDonnell," a song that chronicled the 1981 Hunger Strike in Northern Ireland.

Albums

Studio albums

Year Album Details Track Listing Peak Chart Position
Ireland
1965 The Foggy Dew
Format: LP
Label: Fontana Records (TL5244)
1. The Singing Game
2. Down in the Mines
3. Dicey Reilly
4. Galway Races
5. Louse House in Kilkenny
6. The Diamond
7. The Zoological Gardens
8. The Foggy Dew (Rev. C. O'Neill)
9. The Peeler and the Goat (D. Ryan)
10. The Sash
11. Limerick Rake
12. Dry Land Sailors
13. Follow Me Up to Carlow (P. McCall)
14. The Hills of Glenswilly
15. The Boys of Wexford (P. McCall/A. Darley)
16. Roisin Dubh
1966 Up the Rebels
Format: LP
Label: Fontana Records (TL5338)
1. The Man from Mullingar
2. Tri Colored Ribbon
3. The Dying Rebel
4. Finding Moses
5. Banna Strand
6. Banks of the Ohio (R. Patterson)
7. Down by the Liffey Side
8. The Valley of Knockanure (B. MacMahon)
9. Blow Ye Winds
10. The Black Ribbon Band
11. The Old Maid
12. Goodbye Mrs. Durkin
13. Song of the Backwoods
1968 The Rights Of Man
Format: LP
Label: Fontana Records (TL5462)
1. The Rights of Man
2. Raynard the Fox
3. Long Black Veil (D. Dill/M. Wilkin)
4. Up the Border
5. A Rover
6. Ode to Biddy McGee
7. Wrap the Green Flag Around Me
8. Enniskillen Fusilier
9. Treat Me Daughter Kindly
10. Four Strong Winds (I. Tyson)
11. The Banks of the Sweet Smirla Side
12. Lagan Love
1969 Rifles of the I.R.A.
Format: LP
Label: Dolphin Records (DOL1002)
1. Slievenamon
2. Erin Go Braugh
3. God Save Ireland (T. Sullivan)
4. The Sun is Burning (Ian Campbell)
5. Big Strong Man
6. In Garran na Bhile
7. Four Seasons
8. Rifles of the I.R.A.
9. Skibbereen (P. Carpenter)
10. Sweet Carnlough Bay
11. Ships in Full Sail
12. Sean Tracy (Tipperary So Far Away)
13. Holy Ground
14. Uncle Nobby's Steamboat
1972 Let The People Sing
Format: LP
Label: Dolphin Records (DOL1004)
1. The Snowy-Breasted Pearl
2. Sean South of Garryowen
3. Twice Daily
4. James Connolly
5. Don't Stop Me Now
6. Taim in Arrears
7. Come Out Ye Black and Tans (D. Behan)
8. On the One Road
9. The Men Behind the Wire (P. McGuigan)
10. For Ireland, I'd Not Tell Her Name
11. Paddy Lie Back
12. First of May (B, R & M Gibb)
13. Long Kesh
14. A Nation Once Again (T. Davis)
1974 'Till Ireland a Nation
Format: LP
Label: Dolphin Records (DOL1006)
1. Highland Paddy
2. Traveling Doctor's Shop
3. My Green Valleys
4. The Boys of the Old Brigade
5. Children of Fear
6. The Boys of Fair Hill
7. The Bodenstown Churchyard (T. Davis)
8. The Grandfather
9. The Blackbird of Sweet Avondale
10. Broad Black Brimmer
11. Laugh and the World Laughs with You
12. A Soldier's Life
13. Give Me Your Hand (R. O Cathain)
14. Must Ireland Divided Be
15. Ireland Over All
1976 Irish to the Core
Format: LP
Label: Triskel Records (TRL1001)
1. Botany Bay (P. Stephens/W. Yardley/F. Pascal)
2. The Water is Wide
3. The Irish Brigade
4. Graine Mhaoil
5. Whelan's Frolics
6. The Night Before Larry was Stretched (W. Maher)
7. Fiddler's Green (J. Connolly)
8. The Vale of Avoca
9. The Limerick Races
10. The Jackets Green
11. The Cook in the Kitchen and the Rambling Pitchfork
12. Kevin Barry
13. Rock on Rockall
1976 Across the Broad Atlantic
Format: LP
Label: Triskel Records (TRL1002)
1. The Rambling Irishman
2. Paddy on the Railway
3. The Great Hunger
4. Many Young Men of Twenty
5. Sweet Tralee
6. Shores of America
7. A Dream of Liberty (S. McCarthy)
8. Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore
9. Goodbye Mick
10. Spancil Hill (M. Considine)
11. The Fighting 69th
12. The Boston Burglar
13. Farewell to Dublin
1978 Belt of the Celts
Format: LP
Label: Triskel Records (TRL1003)
1. Misty Foggy Dew
2. Quare Things in Dublin
3. The Fairy Hills
4. Connaught Rangers
5. Bold Robert Emmet
6. The Hare in the Heather
7. Ta Na La
8. Some Say the Devil is Dead
9. General Munroe
10. Hurlers March
11. The West's Asleep
12. The Boys of Barr na Sraide
13. The Rose of Mooncoin
14. Rory O'Moore
1980 As Gaeilge
Format: LP
Label: Triskel Records (TRL1004)
1. Caoine Cill Cáis
2. Sí Finn
3. Amhrán Na Breac
4. Thugamar Féin An Samhradh Linn
5. Brabazons
6. Cáit Ní Dhuibhir
7. Cuan Bhantraí
8. Rosc Catha Na Mumhan
9. I Ngarán na Bhfile
10. Éamonn an Cnoic
11. Siún Ní Dhuibhir
12. Tá na Lá
13. Reels
14. An Dórd Feinne
1981 Spirit of the Nation
Format: LP
Label: Triskel Records (TRL1006)
1. Dingle Bay
2. No Irish Need Apply
3. Down by the Glenside
4. Bold Fenian Men
5. Paddle Your Own Canoe
6. Padriac Pearse
7. The Lough Sheelin Eviction
8. Song of the Celts
9. Butterfly
10. Protestant Men
11. Only Our Rivers Run Free
12. St. Patrick was a Gentleman
13. Ireland Unfree
14. Carolan's Concerto
15. Streets of New York (Liam Reilly)
1983 A Sense of Freedom
Format: LP
Label: Triskel Records (TRL1012)
1. Merman
2. Sgt. William Bailey
3. Farewell to Dublin
4. Adm. William Brown
5. Catalpa
6. Irish Eyes
7. Flower of Scotland
8. Michael Collins
9. Slainte Dana no Baird/Cailin O Chois tSiuire Me/Planxty McGuire
10. Galtee Mountain Boy
11. The Piper that Played Before Moses
12. Let the People Sing
13. Joe McDonnell
1985 Profile
Format: LP
Label: MCA (WTLP1)
1. My Heart is in Ireland
2. Wearing of the Green
3. Mullingar Feadh
4. Plastic Bullets
5. Macushla Mavoureen
6. Song of Liberty
7. Women of Ireland
8. Butcher's Apron
9. Little Jimmy Murphy
10. The Sailor St. Brendan
11. Toor a Loo Tooralay
12. Far Away in Australia
1987 Sing Out for Ireland
Format: LP
Label: Triskel Records (TRL1015)
1. Flight of Earls
2. Croppy Boy
3. The Impartial Police Force
4. Janey Mac, I'm Nearly Forty
5. Carolan's Favorite
6. The Guilford Four
7. Annabell
8. St. Patrick's Day
9. Radio Toor-I-La-Ay
10. Paddy's Night Out
11. Great Fenian Ram
12. Bonny Mary of Argyle
13. Kiss the Old Mother, Hug the Old Man
14. A Soldier's Song
1989 25th Anniversary
Format: CD
Label: Shanachie Records {SHA52024}
CD One

1. Celtic Symphony
2. Merry Ploughboy
3. Women of Ireland
4. Rock on Rockall
5. The Foggy Dew
6. James Connolly
7. The Man From Mullingar
8. Flow Liffy Waters
9. First of May
10. The Piper That Played Before Moses
11. The Big Strong Man
12. Janie I'm Nearly Forty
13. Give Me Your Hand
14. The Boys of the Old Brigade
15. Dingle Bay
16. Monsignor Horan

CD Two

1. Boston Rose
2. The Zoological Gardens
3. The Broad Black Brimmer
4. Newgrange (Bru Na Boinne)
5. Treat Me Daughter Kindly
6. Come Out Ye Black and Tans
7. Slieve Na Mban
8. Far Away in Australia
9. Goodbye
10. Helicopter Song
11. Oro Se Do Bhatha Abhaile
12. The Merman
13. The Teddy Bears Head
14. Banna Stand
15. Many Young Men of Twenty
16. The Wests' Awake

2001 You'll Never Beat the Irish
Format: CD
Label: Celtic Collections (TRCD015)
1. You'll Never Beat the Irish, Part 1
2. The Crossing
3. The Rebel
4. In Belfast
5. Chicago
6. We are the Irish
7. United Men
8. Ireland My Ireland
9. Halloween
10. Grace
11. The Hot Asphalt
12. Thank God for America
13. Celtic Dreams
14. You'll Never Beat the Irish, Part 2
2004 The Troubles
Format: CD
Label: Celtic Collections (TRCD020)
Disc One:
1. This is the Day
2. The Patriot Game (D. Behan)
3. The Song of Partition
4. Children of Fear
5. Sunday Bloody Sunday (J. Lennon)
6. Plastic Bullets
7. The Men Behind the Wire
8. Lough Sheelin Eviction
9. Go Home, British Soldiers
10. Danny Boy (F. Weatherly)
11. Star of the County Down
12. In Belfast
13. Up the Border
14. The Green Glens of Antrim
15. The Old Orange Flute
16. The Old Brigade (Dance Medley)

Disc Two:
1. Lament for the Lost
2. We Shall Overcome
3. You'll Never Beat the Irish, Part 3
4. Tyrone
5. Must Ireland Divided Be
6. Song of Liberty
7. The Orange and the Green
8. Long Kesh
9. The Sash Me Father Wore
10. Fermanagh Love Song
11. Hills of Glenswilly
12. Joe McDonnell
13. County of Armagh
14. Gildford Four
15. Billy Reid
16. Up the Rebels (Dance Mix)

41
2012 Child of Destiny
Format: CD
Label: Dolphin Records (B0069CLPVQ)
1. Child Of Destiny
2. Swing A Banker
3. The Cliffs Of Moher
4. Hibernia
5. Uncle Nobby's Streamboat
6. Siobhan
7. Anne Devlin
8. Moonbeams
9. The Celtic People
10. My Green Valleys
11. John O'Brien
12. Champions Of Champions
13. The Merman
14. The First Of May
15. Big Brother
16. Who Fears To Speak Of '98
17. Admiral William Brown

Live albums

Year Album Details Peak Chart Position
Ireland
1980 Live Alive-Oh!
Format: LP
Label: Triskel Records (1005(2))
2002 The Very Best of the Wolfe Tones Live
Format: CD
Label: Celtic Collections (CCCD300)
20
2004 40th Anniversary Live
Format: CD
Label: Celtic Collections (CCDVD040)

Compilation albums

Year Album Details Peak Chart Position
Ireland
1971 The Teddy Bear's Head
Format: LP
Label: Dolphin Records(DOLM5005)
1984 20 Golden Irish Ballads
Format: Cassette
Label: Dolphin (DOCX9007)
2000 Millennium Celebration
Format: CD
Label: Celtic Collections (TRCD2000)
2003 Rebels & Heroes
Format: CD
Label: Celtic Collections (CCCD635)
7
2006 Celtic Symphony
Format: CD
Label: Celtic Collections (CCCD023)
2006 1916: The Easter Rising
Format: CD
Label: Celtic Collections (CCCD1916)
2006 The Platinum Collection
Format: CD
Label: EMI
35
2008 The Anthology of Irish Song
Format: CD
Label: Celtic Collections (CCCD050)
20

Extended plays

Year Album Details Track Listing Peak Chart Position
Ireland
1967 The Teddy Bear's Head
Format: EP
Label: Fontana Records (TE17491)
1. The Teddy Bear's Head
2. Deportees
3. The Merry Ploughboy
4. I Still Miss Someone
1988 I Love the Wolfe Tones
Format: EP
Label: Triskel Records (TREP1)
1. Flow Liffey Waters
2. Flight of the Earls
3. Newgrange
4. My Heart is in Ireland
1988 Christmas with the Wolfe Tones
Format: EP
Label: Triskel Records (TREP2)
1. Remember Me at Christmas
2. A Song of Liberty
3. Mrs. Fogarty's Christmas Cake
4. The Wren

Singles

Year Title Peak Chart Position
Ireland[2]
1965 Side A: Spanish Lady
Side B: Down the Mines
1966 Side A: The Man from Mullingar
Side B: Down by the Liffey Side
1967 Side A: This Town is Not Our Own
Side B: Come to the Bower
1967 Side A: The Banks of the Ohio
Side B: The Gay Galtee Mountains
1967 Side A: James Connolly
Side B: Hairy Eggs and Bacon
15
1969 Side A: God Save Ireland
Side B: Uncle Nobby's Steamboat
1970 Side A: Slievenamon
Side B: Seven Old Ladies
14
1970 Side A: Big Strong Man
Side B: The Four Seasons
1971 Side A: Fiddlers Green
Side B: Kevin Barry
1972 Side A: The Snowy-Breasted Pearl
Side B: Big Strong Man
7
1972 Side A: On the One Road
Side B: Long Kesh
20
1972 Side A: Highland Paddy
Side B: Give Me Your Hand
19
1973 Side A: Ireland Over All
Side B: Gloria or Glorieh
1973 Side A: The Helicopter Song
Side B: Broad Black Brimmer
1
1974 Michael Gaghan 18
1975 Side A: Rock on Rockall
Side B: Deportees
17
1978 Side A: Botany Bay
Side B: Vale of Avoca
1979 Side A: Farewell to Dublin
Side B: Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore
1979 Side A: Padriac Pearse
Side B: Ta Na La
4
1979 Fourteen Men 19
1980 Side A: The Lough Sheelin Eviction
Side B: Si Beag, Si Mor
1980 Side A: Ms. Fogarty's Christmas Cake
Side B: The Wren
1981 Side A: Streets of New York
Side B: The Connaught Rangers
1
1982 Side A: Admiral William Brown
Side B: Cait Ni Dhuibhir
4
1983 Farewell to Dublin 11
1983 Side A: Irish Eyes
Side B: Joe McDonnell
3
1983 Side A: Merman
Side B: The Piper that Played Before Moses
21
1983 Side A: Janey Mac, I'm Nearly Forty
Side B: The Flower of Scotland
16
1984 Side A: Song for Liberty
Side B: Slainte Don A Baird
2
1985 Side A: My Heart is in Ireland
Side B: Michael Collins
1985 Side A: My Heart is in Ireland
Side B: Toor A Loo
2
1986 Side A: Dreams of Home
Side B: Far Away in Australia
6
1986 Side A: Remember Me at Christmas
Side B: Uncle Nobby's Steamboat
7
1987 Side A: Flight of the Earls
Side B: St. Patrick's Day
1
1988 Flow Liffey Water 6
1989 Celtic Symphony 14
1990 Ireland's World Cup Symphony 12
2002 You'll Never Beat the Irish 19
2003 A Nation Once Again 15

References

  1. BBC.co.uk
  2. Irishcharts.ie Archived 2009-06-03 at WebCite
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/19/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.