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The Wolfe Tones The Wolfe Tones are an Irish rebel music band that incorporate Irish traditional music in their songs. Formed in 1963, they take their name from Theobald Wolfe Tone, one of the leaders of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, with the double meaning of ...

, an Irish

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group from the

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Dublin Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of th ...

, consists of sixteen

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, three

extended plays An extended play record, usually referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album or LP record.

, three

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and ten

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. The Wolfe Tones released their first album with

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in 1965 and released their most recent studio album with

Shanachie Records Shanachie Records is an American, New Jersey-based record label, founded in 1975 by Richard Nevins and Dan Collins. The label is named for the Gaelic word ''seanchaí'' (anglicised as shanachie), an Irish storyteller. It was previously distribu ...

in 2004. In the interim, the band has also released albums with Dolphin Records, Triskel Records and MCA. During over fifty years of producing music, the Wolfe Tones have enjoyed substantial success in Ireland and the United States, where they continue to tour annually. Their most famous song is "

A Nation Once Again "A Nation Once Again" is a song written in the early to mid-1840s by Thomas Osborne Davis (1814–1845). Davis was a founder of Young Ireland, an Irish movement whose aim was for Ireland to gain independence from Britain. Davis believed that song ...

", which was voted the number one song of all time by a 2002

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World Service vote. The Wolfe Tones are also well known for " Celtic Symphony", a 1987 musical tribute to the centennial of

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, and " Joe McDonnell", a song that chronicled the

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. In early 2020 their single

Come Out, Ye Black and Tans ''Come Out, Ye Black and Tans'' is an Irish rebel music, Irish rebel song referring to the Black and Tans, or "special reserve constables" (mainly former World War I army soldiers), recruited in Great Britain and sent to Ireland from 1920, to re ...

regained prominence in the Official Charts of Ireland and the UK, due to political controversy surrounding a planned commemoration of the

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Albums

Studio albums

Live albums

Compilation albums

Extended plays

Singles

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Ireland ! Peak Chart Position
Scotland , - , 1965 , Side A:

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 1 ...

Side B: Down the Mines , — , — , - , 1966 , Side A: The Man from Mullingar
Side B: Down by the Liffey Side , — , — , - , 1967 , Side A: This Town is Not Our Own
Side B: Come to the Bower , — , — , - , 1967 , Side A:

Banks of the Ohio "Banks of the Ohio", also known as "Down on the Banks of the Ohio" and "I'll Never Be Yours", is a 19th-century murder ballad, written by unknown authors. The lyrics tell of "Willie" who invites his young lover for a walk during which she rejects hi ...

Side B: The Gay Galtee Mountains , — , — , - , 1967 , Side A: James Connolly
Side B: Hairy Eggs and Bacon , 15 , — , - , 1969 , Side A:

God Save Ireland "God Save Ireland" is an Irish rebel song celebrating the Manchester Martyrs, three Fenians executed in 1867. It served as an unofficial Irish national anthem for Irish nationalism, Irish nationalists from the 1870s to the 1920s. Composition On 18 ...

Side B: Uncle Nobby's Steamboat , — , — , - , 1970 , Side A: Slievenamon
Side B: Seven Old Ladies , 14 , — , - , 1970 , Side A:

Big Strong Man "My Brother Sylvest'" also known as "Big Strong Man", is an American song, but often performed by English folk singers and Irish bands. History My Brudda Sylvest' was written in 1908, words by Jesse Lasky and Sam Stern, music by Fred Fisher. T ...

Side B: The Four Seasons , — , — , - , 1971 , Side A: Fiddlers Green
Side B: Kevin Barry , — , — , - , 1972 , Side A: The Snowy-Breasted Pearl
Side B: Big Strong Man , 7 , — , - , 1972 , Side A: On the One Road
Side B: Long Kesh , 20 , — , - , 1972 , Side A: Highland Paddy
Side B: Give Me Your Hand , 19 , — , - , 1973 , Side A: Ireland Over All
Side B: Gloria or Glorieh , — , — , - , 1973 , Side A:

The Helicopter Song "Up and Away (The Helicopter Song)" was a number one single in the Republic of Ireland for the Irish traditional folk band the Wolfe Tones. Background Originally written by Sean McGinley from Castlefin, County Donegal, the song tells the story of ...

Side B:

The Broad Black Brimmer "The Broad Black Brimmer" is an Irish Republican folk song written by Art McMillen. The song narrates the story of a boy whose father died before he was born, fighting in the Irish Republican Army (IRA). The narrator is asked by his mother to try ...

, 1 , — , - , 1974 , Michael Gaghan , 18 , — , - , 1975 , Side A: Rock on Rockall
Side B: Deportees , 17 , — , - , 1978 , Side A:

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Side B: Vale of Avoca , — , — , - , 1979 , Side A: Farewell to Dublin
Side B: Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore , — , — , - , 1979 , Side A: Padriac Pearse
Side B: Ta Na La , 4 , — , - , 1979 , Fourteen Men , 19 , — , - , 1980 , Side A: The Lough Sheelin Eviction
Side B: Si Beag, Si Mor , — , — , - , 1980 , Side A: Ms. Fogarty's Christmas Cake
Side B: The Wren , — , — , - , 1981 , Side A: Streets of New York
Side B: The Connaught Rangers , 1 , — , - , 1982 , Side A:

Admiral William Brown "Admiral William Brown" is a song written and first performed by the Wolfe Tones in 1982, the year of the Falklands War between Argentina and the United Kingdom. The song recounts the biography of Irish-Argentine admiral William Brown (1777–185 ...

Side B: Cait Ni Dhuibhir , 4 , — , - , 1983 , Farewell to Dublin , 11 , — , - , 1983 , Side A: Irish Eyes
Side B: Joe McDonnell , 3 , — , - , 1983 , Side A: Merman
Side B: The Piper that Played Before Moses , 21 , — , - , 1983 , Side A: Janey Mac, I'm Nearly Forty
Side B: The Flower of Scotland , 16 , — , - , 1984 , Side A: Song for Liberty
Side B: Slainte Don A Baird , 2 , — , - , 1985 , Side A: My Heart is in Ireland
Side B: Michael Collins , — , — , - , 1985 , Side A: My Heart is in Ireland
Side B: Toor A Loo , 2 , — , - , 1986 , Side A: Dreams of Home
Side B: Far Away in Australia , 6 , — , - , 1986 , Side A: Remember Me at Christmas
Side B: Uncle Nobby's Steamboat , 7 , — , - , 1987 , Side A: Flight of the Earls
Side B: St. Patrick's Day , 1 , — , - , 1988 , Flow Liffey Water , 6 , — , - , 1989 , Celtic Symphony , 14 , — , - , 1990 , Ireland's World Cup Symphony , 12 , — , - , 2002 , You'll Never Beat the Irish , 19 , — , - , 2003 ,

, 15 , — , - , 2020 ,

, — , 1Official Scottish Singles Sales Chart Top 100
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References

Discographies of Irish artists