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15 Years On (DEU)

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  • Fifteen Years On
    • 1977 - Intercord INT 180.032 LP [x2] (DEU)
  • Side One
    1. The Wild Rover
    2. Ploughboy Lads
    3. The Three Sea Captains (Trad. Arr. Coulter & Dubliners)
    4. Bunclody
    5. Seven Drunken Nights
    6. The Belfast Hornpipe, Tim Maloney
  • Side Two
    1. Black Velvet Band (MacColl, Seeger)
    2. Carrickfergus
    3. Reels: Last Night's Fun & The Congress Reel
    4. The Banks of the Sweet Primroses
    5. Weile Waile
    6. Four Green Fields (Tommy Makem)
  • Record Two — Side Three
    1. The Town I Loved So Well (Phil Coulter)
    2. Salamanca
    3. Spancil Hill
    4. McAlpine's Fusiliers (Domnic Behan)
    5. Boulavouge
    6. The Old Triangle (Brendan Behan)
  • Record Two — Side Four
    1. Spanish Lady
    2. O'Carolan's Devotion
    3. Thirty Foot Trailer (Ewan MacColl)
    4. Down by the Glenside (Peader Kearney)
    5. Fiddlers Green (John Connolly)
    6. Molly Malone
  • The Dubliners
    • Ronnie Drew, Luke Kelly, Barney McKenna, Ciarán Bourke, John Sheahan & Jim McCann
  • Credits
    • Produced by Earl Gill
    • Recorded at: Lombard Sound, Dublin
    • Air Studios, London
    • Polydor Studios, London
    • Sleeve Design: Pauly-Helmut Zrocke & Charles H. Hoellering
    • Photographs: Noel Person
  • Track Souces:

Sleeve Notes

About fifteen years ago, there was Ronnie Drew, Ciaron Bourke, Luke Kelly and Barney McKenna out of work and sitting all day in a smoky back-room of Paddy O'Donoghue's in Merrion Row in Dublin.

O'Donoghue's at that time was a mecca for folk singers and instrumentalists so it's not surprising that the original Dubliners first met there.

The four lads formed a group known initially as the Ronnie Drew Group and it was Luke who whilst reading the James Joyce novel of the same name, suggested that the group should be named THE DUBLINERS. Meanwhile they had been joined by the fiddle player John Sheahan.

After appearing at the 1963 Edinburgh Festival, the group started to perform regularly in various editions of the B.B.C. television show "Hootananny". They made their first album and the English Folk Scene had never seen or heard anything like them. Clubs, Concerts and Festivals were packed to capacity.

In 1968 their record "Seven Drunken Nights" topped the English Hit Parade. The Dubliners' popularity started to spread throughout Europe.

In 1971 they toured for the first time through Germany, Scandinavia, Holland and Belgium. Then followed several tours to North America.

In 1974 Ciaron Bourke suffered a brain haemorrhage and the group are still awaiting his return. In the same year Ronnie Drew decided to leave the group and follow a solo career. With two major disasters in the one year the future of the Dubliners looked dim, but then along came Jim.

Jim McCann had been recognised as Irland's leading solo folk singer for several years, but it was through the rock musical "Jesus Christ Superstar" that Jim joined the group.

Luke Kelly had in March 1973 played King Herod whilst Jim played St. Peter in the Dublin production of this musical. The two singers struck up a friendship and when the crisis in the Dubliners came, Jim was asked to join.

Over the last three years the "Rebirth" of the Dubliners has been phenomenal. Their first tour of Australia in 1976 was a sellout. The 1977 tour was even bigger and better with New Zealand added to the itinerary.

Their European tour extended through Germany, Austria, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, France, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland.

This year THE DUBLINERS are celebrating their fifteenth birthday and it seems as 1977 is going to be their greatest year up to now.