Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem & Tommy Drennan & The Monarchs - Irish Revolutionary Songs

The first 12 songs on this 1959 compilation are performed by Tommy Drennan & The Monarchs from Limerick, who were one of the biggest showbands of that era. Tommy Drennan along with the likes of Brendan Bowyer and Dickie Rock enjoyed celebrity status in the ballrooms of Ireland and mainland Britain. The rest of this fine collection is performed by the legendary Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem who need no introduction. It's an expertly performed album and a piece of Irish social history covering mainly the 1798 Rebellion.

Here's a quick extract from Seamus Heaney’s  poem “Requiem for the Croppies” one of my favourites covering the 1798 Irish rebellion..

Until… on Vinegar Hill… the final conclave.

Terraced thousands died, shaking scythes at cannon.

The hillside blushed, soaked in our broken wave.

They buried us without shroud or coffin

And in August… the barley grew up out of our grave.

Seamus Heaney

1. Boulavogue

2. Kevin Barry

3. Holy Ground

4. The Patriot Game

5. A Nation Once Again

6. Soldier's Song

7. Tri-Colored Ribbon

8. Boys from County Cork

9. Roisin Dubh

10. Ireland's 32

11. Irish Soldier Boy

12. Rebels of Our Land

13. O Donnell Aboo

14. The Croppy Boy

15. The Rising of the Moon

16. The Foggy Dew

17. The Minstrel Boy

18. The Wind That Shakes the Barley

19. Tipperary Far Away

20. Kelly the Boy from Killane

21. Kevin Barry

22. Whack Fol the Diddle

23. The Men of the West

24. Eamonn an Chniuic

25. Nell Flaherty's Drake

26. Boulavogue

link to the free album

Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem & Tommy Drennan & The Monarchs - Irish Revolutionary Songs