More of the Hard Stuff is an album by 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...

, originally released in 1967. The line-up consists of 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...

, Luke Kelly, Barney McKenna, Ciaran Bourke and John Sheahan. True to its title, five of the songs concern hard drinking. Three of the songs were written by Brendan Behan. The album reached number 8 in the album charts in 1967, and stayed in the charts for 23 weeks.

Side One

1. Muirsheen Durkin  (Trad)
2. Poor Old Dicey Reilly (Behan)
3. A Nation Once Again
   A Nation Once Again
   "A Nation Once Again" is a song, written in the early to mid-1840s by Thomas Osborne Davis . Davis was a founder of an Irish movement whose aim was the independence of Ireland....
   
     (Davis)
4. Whiskey in the Jar
   Whiskey in the Jar
   "Whiskey in the Jar" is a famous Irish traditional song, set in the southern mountains of Ireland, with specific mention of counties Cork and Kerry, as well as Fenit, a village in county Kerry. It is about a Rapparee , who is betrayed by his wife or lover, and is one of the most widely performed...
   
     (Trad)
5. The Old 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...
   
     (Behan)
6. A Pub with No Beer  (Parsons)
7. Kelly, the Boy from Killan" (Trad)

Side Two

1. The Croppy Boy (Trad)
2. Sullivan's John (*) (Trad/ Dunne)
3. Come and Join the British Army
   Join the British Army
   At the beginning of the First World War John Redmond appealed to Irish Volunteers to join the British army. As this song shows, not everyone was enthusiast about this idea and a conflict was inevitable...
   
   (Trad)
4. (The Bonny) Shoals of Herring (MacColl)
5. Mormon Braes (Trad)
6. Drink It Up Men (Meek)
7. Maloney Wants a Drink (Behan)

(*) With spoken introduction.