15 Years On is an album from the band The Dubliners

The Dubliners

The Dubliners are an Irish folk band founded in 1962.-Formation and history:The Dubliners, initially known as "The Ronnie Drew Ballad Group", formed in 1962 and made a name for themselves playing regularly in O'Donoghue's Pub in Dublin...

. This album was created to celebrate the band's 15 year anniversary from the day they started music together. The album was released on the CHYME label in 1977. The album features 24 tracks on two records (nine of which were previously unreleased). In spite of having only nine previously unreleased tracks, it is still regarded as an original album.

Special Track Features

The group's line-up consisted of Barney McKenna

Barney McKenna

Bernard Noël "Barney" McKenna or Banjo Barney as he is known amongst his fellow musicians, is an Irish musician who plays the tenor banjo, mandolin, and melodeon. He is most renowned as a banjo player...

, Luke Kelly

Luke Kelly

Luke Kelly was an Irish singer and folk musician from Dublin, Ireland, notable as a founding member of the band The Dubliners.-Early life:...

, John Sheahan

John Sheahan

John Sheahan is a notable Irish violinist, folk musician, composer and member of the folk band The Dubliners. Sheahan was born in Dublin and lives in Mulhuddart, County Dublin, though his family are natives of Glin, County Limerick...

 and Jim McCann. (Ronnie Drew

Ronnie Drew

Joseph Ronald "Ronnie" Drew was an Irish singer and folk musician who achieved international fame during a fifty-year career recording with The Dubliners. He was born in Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin...

 and Ciarán Bourke

Ciaran Bourke

Ciarán Bourke was an Irish musician and one of the original founding members of the Irish folk band The Dubliners.-Early life:...

 feature on a number of the previously available tracks).

Disc One

Side one:

1. "The Wild Rover
   The Wild Rover
   The Wild Rover is a popular folk song whose origins are contested.According to Professor T. M. Devine in his book The Scottish Nation 1700 - 2000 the song was written as a temperance song. The song is found printed in a book, The American Songster, printed in the USA by W.A...
   
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2. "Ploughboy Lads"
3. "The Three Sea Captains"
4. "Bunclody
   Bunclody
   Bunclody is a small town located on the River Slaney, on the border between counties Wexford and Carlow, Ireland. The R746 regional road intersects the N80 in the centre of the town. It is a picturesque town near the foot of Mount Leinster. Most of the town is situated in County Wexford...
   
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5. "Seven Drunken Nights
   Seven Drunken Nights
   "Seven Drunken Nights" is a humorous folk Irish song, most famously performed by The Dubliners and others. The Dubliners version reached number 7 in the UK charts in 1967, thanks to its diffusion on Radio Caroline, though it was banned from the national broadcasting station...
   
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6. "The Belfast Hornpipe/Tim Maloney"

Side two:

1. "Black Velvet Band
   The Black Velvet Band
   "The Black Velvet Band" is a traditional English and Irish folk song describing transportation to Australia, a common punishment in 19th century Britain and Ireland. The song tells the story of a tradesman who meets a young woman who has stolen an item and passed it on to him...
   
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2. "Carrickfergus
   Carrickfergus
   Carrickfergus , known locally and colloquially as "Carrick", is a large town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is located on the north shore of Belfast Lough, from Belfast. The town had a population of 27,201 at the 2001 Census and takes its name from Fergus Mór mac Eirc, the 6th century king...
   
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3. "Reels: Last Night's Fun & The Congress Reel"
4. "The Banks of the Sweet Primroses"
5. "Weile Waile"
6. "Four Green Fields
   Four Green Fields
   Four Green Fields is a 1967 folk song by Irish musician Tommy Makem, described in the New York Times as a "hallowed Irish leave-us-alone-with-our-beauty ballad." Of Makem's many compositions, it has become the most familiar, and is part of the common repertoire of Irish folk musicians.-Content and...
   
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Disc Two

Side one:

1. "The Town I Loved So Well
   The Town I Loved So Well
   "The Town I Loved So Well" is a song written by Phil Coulter about his childhood in Derry, Northern Ireland. The first three verses are about the simple lifestyle he grew up with in Derry, while the final two deal with the Troubles, and lament how his placid hometown had become a major military...
   
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2. "Salamanca"
3. "Spancil Hill"
4. "McAlpine's Fusiliers"
5. "Boulavogue
   Boolavogue (song)
   "Boolavogue" is a famous Irish ballad commemorating the Irish Rebellion of 1798. It was composed by Patrick Joseph McCall in 1898, for the centenary of the Rebellion issued Irish Noíníns ....
   
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6. "The Auld Triangle
   The Auld Triangle
   "The Auld Triangle" is a song written by Dominic Behan for his brother Brendan Behan and is featured in Brendan's play The Quare Fellow. It is used to introduce the play, a story about the occurrences in a prison the day a convict is set to be executed...
   
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Side two:

1. "Spanish Lady
   Spanish Lady
   "Spanish Lady" is a traditional Irish folk song, also found in England. The Bodleian Library has several broadsides of an English ballad with this name, one dating from the 17th century. Fragmentary or related versions from the US date from 1883. It is #543 in the Roud Folk Song Index...
   
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2. "O'Carolan's Devotion"
3. "Thirty Foot Trailer"
4. "Down by the Glenside"
5. "Fiddlers Green"
6. "Molly Malone
   Molly Malone
   "Molly Malone" is a popular song, set in Dublin, Ireland, which has become the unofficial anthem of Dublin City....
   
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External links

• Patsy Watchorn (Dubliners Homepage)
• discography
• History and Discographies at theBalladeers