The Dubliners

Irish Group singing mainly traditional Irish songs.

(The main members are/have been: Luke Kelly (vocals, banjo), Ronnie Drew (vocals, guitar), Barney McKenna (banjo), Ciaran Bourke (vocals, guitar, tin whistle), Eamonn Campbell, Sean Cannon, Paddy Reilly, John Sheahan (fiddle), Bobby Lynch, Jim McCann)
Luke Kelly (1940 - 1984) recorded solo, and wrote songs.
Ronnie Drew has also recorded with Eleanor Shanley and as a soloist.

Albums.

Title.	year.	Label.	number.
The Dubliners With Luke Kelly	1964
[Reissue]	2003	Castle
Irish Folk Night	1964	Decca
Mainly Barney [EP]	1966	Transatlantic
Finnegan Wakes	1966	Transatlantic	TRA 139
[Reissue]		Hallmark	CHM 695
[Reissue] (CD)	2003	Castle	CMRCD787
The Definitive Transatlantic Collection	1966
A Drop Of The Hard Stuff	1967	Major Minor	MMLP 3
[Reissued as "Seven Drunken Nights"]		EMI/Encore	ONCR 510
[Reissued as "Seven Drunken Nights"]	1972	EMI/Starline	SRS 5059
More of the Hard Stuff	1967	Major Minor	MMLP 5
[Reissued]	1967	EMI/Starline	SRS 5155
Drinkin' and Courtin'	1968	Major Minor	MMLP 14
[Reissued as "Whiskey On A Sunday"]
At It Again	1968	EMI Starline
[Reissued as "Seven Deadly Sins"]	1968	EMI	1 C 148-52067
[Reissued as "Seven Deadly Sins"]	1968	EMI/Starline	SRS 5101
At Home With The Dubliners	1969	EMI Columbia
[Reissue]	1989	ARC	EUCD 1093
Whiskey On A Sunday	1969?	EMI
Revolution	1970	EMI Columbia
The Patriot Game	1971	Hallmark
I Know My Love	1971	EMI	STAL 1015
Hometown	1972	EMI Columbia
Town I Loved So Well	1973
[Reissue]	?	Polydor	2384 119
Plain and Simple	1973	Polydor
Now	1975	Polydor
Parcel O Rogues	1976	Polydor	2383 387
[Reissue]	1976	Ram Records	RMLP 1021
[Reissue]	1989	ARC	EUCD 1051
15 Years On	1977	Polydor
Together Again	1979	Polydor
[Reissue]	1979	Chyme	CHLP 1012
Prodigal Sons	1983	Polydor	POLD 5079
25th Anniversary Celebration	1987	Stylus/Essential
[Reissue]	1996	Essential	ESSCD 422
The Dubliners	1988	EMI	CC 227
The Dubliners	1990	EMI	CDP 790 996 2
30 Years A-Greying	1992	RTE/Essential
[Reissue]	1996	Essential	ESSCD 423
Irish Rebel Ballads	1995	Chyme	CHCD1055
Alive Alive-O	1997	Baycourt
Special Collection (2 CDs)	1999	ARC	EUCD 1533
Further Along	1999	Transatlantic
[Reissue]	2003	Celtic Collections
Free The People	2001	A World Of Music

Multi-volume Albums.

Title	Year.	Label.	number.
Seven Drunken Nights/ Seven Deadly Sins (2 LPs)	1967	EMI	1 C-148-52066/67

Compilations.

Title.	year.	Label.	number.
Best of the Dubliners	1967	Transatlantic	TRA 158
The Complete Transatlantic Collection	1968	Transatlantic
Drinking and Wenching	1969	Music for Pleasure	MFP 50245
Revolution	1970	EMI/Columbia	SCX 6423
I Knew My Love	1971	EMI/Talisman	STAL 1015
Double Dubliners	1972	EMI/Columbia	C 062-93-678
[Reissued]	1972	EMI/Columbia	SCX 6513
Hometown	1972	EMI/Columbia	SCX 6492
Alive and Well	1972	Ram Records	RMLP 5001
Plain and Simple	1973	Ram Records	RMLP 5002
The Very Best of	1975	EMI EMC	3091
Live	1974	Ram Records	RMLP 1006
[Reissued as "A Night Out With The Dubliners"]	1999	Camden
Dubliners Now	1975	Ram Records	RMLP 1012
Ronnie Drew	1976	Ram Records	RMLP 1076
Fifteen Years On (2 LPs)	1977	Ram Records	RMLP 1025
Two Originals Vol. 1 (2 LPs)	1978	Ram Records	RMDB 1027
20 Original Greatest Hits	?	Ram Records	RMLP 1028
Together Again	1979	Ram Records	RMLP 1030
Greatest Hits	1980	EMI/Note	NTS 197
The Dubliners 25 Years Celebration	1987	Stylus	SMR 731
Songs From Ireland - Greatest Hits	1990	Paradiso Records	SOW 90108
Original Dubliners 1966 - 1969 (2 CDs)	1993	EMI	0777 7 89065 2 0
Irish Pub Songs (1 CD)	1995	Outlet
[Reissue] (1 CD)	1997	Chyme	CD PUB 027
Whiskey in the Jar (3 CDs)	1996	Disky	SA872862
The Essential Collection	1997	Music For Pleasure
The Wild Rover	1998	Double Classics	31011
The Dubliners Collection	1999	Camden
Dubliners with Luke Kelly (2 CDs)	1999	Arc
Millennium Collection (2 CDs)	1999	Digimode	20.4018-MI
Anthology	2000	Line
Irish Pub Songs (2 CDs)	2001	Arc	EUCD 1642
Spirit of the Irish	2003	Sanctuary	TVSAN 003
The Best of the Dubliners (3 CD box)	2003
Whiskey in the Jar (only 1 CD)	2003	Music
40 Years	2002	Pinor
[Reissued as "40 Years of the Dubliners (Their Greatest Hits)"]	2004	ZYX
Best of [Disky]	2005
Best of [Curb]	2005
Best of the Dubliners [Prism Platinum]	2005
Spirit of the Irish - The Ultimate Collection	2005	Sanctuary	TVSAN003
36 Irish Favourites	2005	Prism Leisure	7120
Originals	2005
Greatest Hits [Delta]	2005
Foggy Dew	2005	XTRA
Wild Rover [Direct Source]	2005
Too Late to Stop Now: The Very Best of the Dubliners (2 CDs)	2006	DMG TV	DMGTV 031
The Very Best of	2009	Universal Classics

Live Albums.

Title.	year.	Label.	number.
The Dubliners In Concert	1965	Transatlantic
Live At The Albert Hall	1969	Major Minor
[Reissued]		EMI/Emidisc	048-51860
[Reissued]	1975	EMI/Emidisc	1 A-048-51860
[Reissued]	1975	EMI/Starline	SRS 5101
[Reissued]	1975	EMI/Starline	SRS 5194
Live At Montreux	1977	Intercord
Live In Carre, Amsterdam	1985	Polydor
Dubliners Live	2004
In Concert	2005

Collaborations.

Clancy Brothers and The Dubliners	year.	Label.	number.
Irish Drinking Songs	1993

Anthologies - Archie Fisher, The Corries et al.

Various Artists	year.	Label.	number.
The Hoot'nanny Show Vol 1	1963	Waverley
The Hoot'nanny Show Vol 2	1964	Waverley

DVDs.

Title	year.	Label.
Forty Years - Live From The Gaiety	2003
Live: Legends In Concert	2004
Come West Along the Road - Irish Tradition Music(*)	2007
On the Road - Live In Germany	2007
World Icons (2 CDs and 2 DVDs)	2010

(* Archive footage from RTE. One Track only - I Must Away Now)

Best studio albums(*).

Title.	year.
A Drop of The Hard Stuff (Seven Drunken Nights)	1967
At It Again (Seven Deadly Sins)	1968
More of the Hard Stuff	1967
Drinkin� and Courtin�	1968
Too Late to Stop Now (2 CDs) (compilation)	2006

(*)Based on critical opinion.

Singles.

Title.	year.	Label.	Number
Wild Rover/ Rocky Road To Dublin	1964	Transatlantic	TRA SP 1
Roisin Dubh/ Greenland Whale Fisheries	1965	Transatlantic	TRA SP 3
Surrounded By Water/ Off To Dublin in the Green	1966	Transatlantic	TRA SP 8
Nelson's Farewell/ The Foggy Dew	1966	Transatlantic	TRA SP 9
Seven Drunken Nights/ Paddy On The Railway	1967	Major Minor	MM 506
All For Me Grog/ I Know My Love	1967	Major Minor	MM 521
Black Velvet Band/ Maloney Wants A Drink	1967	Major Minor	MM 530
Maids, When You're Young ../ Quare Bungle	1967	Major Minor	MM 551
Dirty Old Town/ Peggy Gordon	1968	Major Minor	MM 552
The Irish Navy/ Seven Deadly Sins	1968	Major Minor	MM 572
Maids, When You're Young/ Dirty Old Town	1968	Sonet	T 7719 S
Navy Boots/ The Comical Genius	1969	Major Minor	MM 608
Molly Maguires/ Bold Princess Royal	1970	Columbia	DB 8671
Joe Hill/ The Louse House Of Kilkenny	1970	Columbia	DB 8722

Singles - Pogues and Dubliners.

Title.	year.	Label.	Number
The Irish Rover/ The Rare old Mountain Dew	1987	Stiff	BUY 258
Jack's Heroes/Whiskey in the Jar	1990	Pogue Mahone	YZ 500

Singles - Dubliners with Hothouse Flowers.

Title.	year.	Label.
The Rose	1991

Hit Albums.

Title.	year.	Highest position.
A Drop of the Hard Stuff	1967	5
Best of the Dubliners	1967	25
More of the Dark Stuff	1967	8
Drinkin' and Courtin'	1968	31
The Dubliners 25 Years Celebration	1987	43
Spirit of the Irish	2003	19
Too Late To Stop Now - The Very Best of	2006	54

Hit singles.

Title.	year.	Highest position.
Seven Drunken Nights	1967	7
Black Velvet Band	1967	15
Maids, When You're Young Never Wed and Old Man	1967	43
The Irish Rover (*)	1987	8
Jack's Heroes/ Whiskey in the Jar (*)	1990	63

(*) Credited to "The Pogues and the Dubliners".

Popular downloads.

Title.
Whiskey In The Jar
Seven Drunken Nights
Dirty Old Town
The Wild Rover
The Rocky Road To Dublin
Finnegan's Wake
Black Velvet Band

A Drop of the Hard Stuff Released in 1967. Reissued as "Seven Drunken Nights". Line-up unknown, but probably Ronnie Drew, Luke Kelly, Barney McKenna and Ciaran Bourke. Running time: about 43 minutes 7 seconds.

Title.	Author.	time
1. Seven Drunken Nights	Trad	3m 43s
2. The Galway Races	Trad	3m 17s
3. The Old Alarm Clock	Trad	1m 56s
4. Colonel Fraser & O'Rourke's Reel (instr)	Trad	2m 36s
5. The Rising of the Moon	Trad	2m 36s
6. McCafferty	Trad	2m 26s
7. I'm a Rover	Trad	4m 49s
8. Weila Waile	Trad	3m 25s
9. The Travelling People	Trad	3m 50s
10. Limerick Rake	Trad	3m 10s
11. Zoological Gardens	Trad	2m 9s
12. The Fairmoye Lasses and Sporting Paddy (instr)	Trad	1m 55s
13. Black Velvet Band	Trad	4m 26s
14. Poor Paddy on the Railway	Trad	2m 49s

More of the Hard Stuff Released in 1967. Line-up unknown, but probably Ronnie Drew, Luke Kelly, Barney McKenna and Ciaran Bourke.

Title.	Author.
1. Muirsheen Durkin'	Trad
2. Poor Old Dicey Reilly	Behan
3. A Nation Once Again	Davis
4. Whiskey in the Jar	Trad
5. The Old Triangle	Behan
6. A Pub with no Beer	Parsons
7. Kelly, the Boy from Killan	Trad
8. Croppy Boy	Trad
9. Sullivan's John (*)	Trad/ Dunne
10. Come and Join the British Army	Trad
11. (The Bonny) Shoals of Herring	MacColl
12. Mormon Braes	Trad
13. Drink it up men	Meek
14. Maloney wants a drink	Behan

(*) With spoken introduction.

Drinkin' and Courtin' Released in 1968. Re-issued as "Whiskey On A Sunday". Line-up unknown, but probably Ronnie Drew, Luke Kelly, Barney McKenna and Ciaran Bourke.

Title.	Author.
1. Dirty Old Town	MaColl
2. Quare Bungle Rye	Trad
3. Peggy Gordon	Trad
4. Rattling Roaring Willie	Trad
5. Carolan's Concerto (instr)	Trad
6. The Herring	?Trad
7. The Parting Glass	Trad
8. Maids When You're Young Never Wed an Old Man.	Trad
9. Gentleman Soldier	Trad
10. Hand me down me petticoat	?Trad
11. Flop Eared Mule (Donkey Reel) (instr)	Trad
12. I know my Love	?Trad
13. Mrs McGrath (*)	Trad
14. Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe	Trad
15. My little son	?Trad

(*) Spoken introduction mentions Ciaran Bourke.

At It Again Released in 1968. Reissued as "Seven Deadly Sins". Line-up unknown, but probably Ronnie Drew, Luke Kelly, Barney McKenna and Ciaran Bourke.

Title.	Author.
1. Seven Deadly Sins	McLean
2. Net Hauling Song	Ewan MacColl
3. Nancy Whiskey	Collected by MacColl
4. Many Young Men of Twenty	Keane
5. Instrumental Medley: Paddy's Gone to France; Skylark	Trad
6. Molly Bawn	Trad
7. The Dundee Weaver	Collected by Jeffrey
8. The Irish Navy	Drew-Kelley
9. Tibby Dunbar	Burns arr McLean
10. The Inniskillen Dragoons	Trad
11. Instrumental Medley: The Piper's Chair; Bill Hart's Jig; The Knights of St. Patrick	Trad
12. I Wish I Were Back in Liverpool	Kelly-Rosselson
13. Darby O'Leary	Trad
14. Go to sea no more	Collected by Halliday

Live at the Albert Hall Released in 1969. Line-up unknown, but probably Ronnie Drew, Luke Kelly, Barney McKenna and Ciaran Bourke.

Title.	Author.
1. Black Velvet Band	T
2. McAlpines Fusiliers	T
3. Flop Eared Mule (Donkey Reel) (instr)	Trad
4. Peggy Gordon	T
5. Weila Weala	T
6. Monto	T
7. Cork Hornpipe	Trad
8. Leaving of Liverpool	T
9. Dublin in the Green	T
10. Whiskey on a Sunday	T
11. I wish I was back in Liverpool	Kelly-Rosselson
12. Navvy Boots	Trad
13. Whiskey in the Jar	T
14. Maids When You're Young Never Wed an Old Man	Trad
15. Seven Drunken Nights	Trad

Songs From Ireland - Greatest Hits Running time 48 minutes 07 seconds. Released in 2002. Various live recordings. no dates or line-ups given, but probably Ronnie Drew, Luke Kelly, Barney McKenna and Ciaran Bourke.

Title.	Author.
1. The Wild Rover	Trad
2. The Leaving of Liverpool	Traditional
3. I'll Tell My Ma	Traditional
4. Will you Come To The Bower	Traditional
5. Easy And Slow	Bourke/ Drew/ McKenna/ Linch
6. Home Boys Home	Traditional
7. The Rocky Road To Dublin	Traditional
8. The Old Orange Flute	Traditional
9. Nelson's Farewell (*)	Dolan
10. The Mason's Apron (instr)	Traditional
11. Off To Dublin in the Green	Traditional
12. Peggy Lettermore (in Gaelic)	Traditional
13. The Glendalough Saint	Traditional
14. Roisin Dubh (instr)	Traditional
15. The Twang Man	Bourke/ Drew/ McKenna/ Linch
16. Boulavogue	Traditional

(* prefixed by a spoken poem by Louis McNiece)

Original Dubliners 1966 - 1969 CD1 Running time 76 minutes 34 seconds. CD2 Running time 74 minutes 36 seconds. Released in 1993. On CD1 tracks 1 to 14 are the complete tracks from "A Drop of The Hard Stuff" (1967), tracks 15 to 26 are all but two of the tracks from "At It Again" (1968). On CD2 tracks 1 and 2 are the missing tracks from "A Drop of the Hard Stuff". All of the tracks of "More of the Hard Stuff" are present. Ten tracks from "Drinkin' and Courtin'" are present. No line-ups given, but probably Ronnie Drew, Luke Kelly, Barney McKenna and Ciaran Bourke.

CD1

Title.	Author.
1. Seven Drunken Nights	Trad
2. The Galway Races	Trad
3. The Old Alarm Clock	Trad
4. Colonel Fraser & O'Rourke's Reel	Trad
5. The Rising of the Moon	Trad
6. McCafferty	Trad
7. I'm a Rover	Trad
8. Weila Waile	Trad
9. The Travelling People	Trad
10. Limerick Rake	Trad
11. Zoological Gardens	Trad
12. The Fairmoye Lasses and Sporting Paddy	Trad
13. Black Velvet Band	Trad
14. Poor Paddy on the Railway	Trad
15. Seven Deadly Sins	McLean
16. Net Hauling Song	Ewan MacColl
17. Nancy Whiskey	Collected by MacColl
18. Many Young Men of Twenty	Keane
19. Instrumental Medley: Paddy's Gone to France; Skylark	Trad
20. Molly Bawn	Trad
21. The Dundee Weaver	Collected by Jeffrey
22. The Irish Navy	Drew-Kelley
23. Tibby Dunbar	Burns arr McLean
24. The Inniskillen Dragoons	Trad
25. I Wish I Were Back in Liverpool	Kelly-Rosselson
26. Go to sea no more	Collected by Halliday

CD2

Title.	Author.
1. Instrumental Medley: The Piper's chair/ Bill Hart's Jig/ The Nights of St Patrick	Trad
2. Darby O'Leary	Trad
3. All For Me Grog	Trad
4. Cork Hornpipe (instr)	Trad
5. Peggy Gordon	Trad
6. Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe	Trad
7. Quare Bungle Rye	Trad
8. Flop Eared Mule (Donkey Reel)	Trad
9. Pool Old Dicey Riley	Behan
10. Whiskey on a Sunday	Glynn Hughes
11. Gentleman Soldier	Trad
12. Navvy Boots	Trad
13. Maids When You're Young Never Wed an Old Man	Trad
14. Rattling Roaring Willie	Trad
15. Mrs McGrath	Trad
16. Carolan Concerto (instr)	Trad
17. The Partin' Glass	Trad
18. Muirsheen Durkin	Trad
19. A Nation Once More	Davis arr Behan
20. Whiskey in the Jar	Trad
21. The Old Triangle	Behan
22. A Pub With No Beer	Parsons
23. Kelly, the Boy From Killan	Trad
24. Croppy Boy	Trad
25. Sullivan John	Trad/ Dunne
26. Come and Join the British Army	Trad
27. (The Bonny) Shoals of Herring	MacColl
28. Mormon Braes	Trad
29. Drink it Up Men	Meek
30. Maloney Wants a Drink	Behan

Last updated on 11/02/2011