The Troubles is the seventeenth album by Irish folk and rebel band The Wolfe Tones. The album's title and songs are related to The Troubles in Northern Ireland.
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. He died alongside Sean South during the attack. Sunday Bloody Sunday - a cover of the John Lennon song with some additions. 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. 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. 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). Joe McDonnell - A song about the life of the well-known Provisional IRA member who died during the 1981 Hunger Strike in Long Kesh.
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 on 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)
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