The Troubles (album)

The Troubles
Studio album by The Wolfe Tones
Released	2004
Genre	Irish folk
Label	Celtic Collections
The Wolfe Tones chronology
You'll Never Beat the Irish (2001) The Troubles (2004) Child of Destiny (2011)

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:

• The Patriot Game - A song originally written by Dominic Behan about Fergal O'Hanlon and a tragic incident that occurred during an attack on an RUC barracks near Brookeborough, County Fermanagh, on the 1st January 1957 during the IRA's Border Campaign.[4] He died alongside Sean South during the attack.[5]
• Sunday Bloody Sunday - a cover of the John Lennon song with a some additions.[6] It is about Bloody Sunday 1972, where 13 unarmed civil rights demonstrators were killed (with another dying later from injuries) by British paratroopers in Derry.[7]
• The Men Behind the Wire - A song originally written by Barleycorn that details the pre-dawn raids during internment in Northern Ireland during the troubles.[8][9]
• Long Kesh (also known as 'the H-Block Song') - A song originally written by Francie Brolly that details the introduction of internment without trial in Northern Ireland in 1971 and the brutality faced by prisoners imprisoned in The Maze (also known as Long Kesh).[10][11]
• Joe McDonnell - A song about the life of the well-known Provisional IRA member who died during the 1981 Hunger Strike in Long Kesh.[12][13]

Track listing

Disc One

1. This is the Day
2. The Patriot Game
3. The Song of Partition
4. Children of Fear
5. Sunday Bloody Sunday
6. Plastic Bullets
7. The Men Behind the Wire
8. Lough Sheelin Eviction
9. Go Home, British Soldiers
10. Danny Boy
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 My Father Wore
10. Fermanagh Love Song
11. Hills of Glenswilly
12. Joe McDonnell
13. County of Armagh
14. Guildford Four
15. Billy Reid
16. Up the Rebels (Dance Mix)

References

1. "Wolfe Tones - The Troubles". Celtic Collections. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
2. "DISCOGRAPHY | wolfetonesoffical". wolfetonesofficial. Retrieved 8 February 2024. 2004 The Troubles Celtic Collections Ltd
3. "PRESS RELEASES". wolfetonesofficial. Retrieved 8 February 2024. 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.
4. Wilentz, Sean (2010). Bob Dylan in America. Doubleday. p. 70. ISBN 9780385529884.
5. "Edentubber Martyrs 50th Anniversary". edentubber50th.com. Archived from the original on 15 November 2009. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
6. Blaney, J (2007). Lennon and McCartney: together alone : a critical discography of their solo work. Jawbone Press. pp. 65, 68. ISBN 9781906002022.
7. O'Toole, Fintan (22 January 2022). "Fintan O'Toole: Bloody Sunday, the 10-minute massacre that lasted decades". The Irish Times. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
8. "A History of Ireland in Song". A History of Ireland in Song. Archived from the original on 24 March 2013. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
9. "Introduction of internment 50 years ago ended the 'unionist state'". The Irish News. 9 August 2021. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
10. "Tributes to Francie Brolly ahead of funeral". The Irish News. 8 February 2020. Retrieved 8 February 2024. The father-of-five was renowned for his songwriting and his love of the Irish language. Interned in 1972, Mr Brolly later wrote The H-Block Song.
11. Bennett, Ronan (21 October 2008). "Life and death in Long Kesh". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
12. "The Ballad of Joe McDonnell By Brian Warfield". Irish folk songs. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
13. Beresford, David (1987). Ten Dead Men: Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike. ISBN 9780586065334.