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The Dubliners formed in 1962 and made a name for themselves playing regularly in O'Donoghue's Pub in Dublin. Initially known as "The Ronnie Drew Group",
the founding members were Ronnie Drew, Luke Kelly, Ciaran Bourke and Barney McKenna. The change of name came about due to Drew's unhappiness with the name,
coinciding with the fact that Kelly was reading Dubliners by James Joyce at the time.

Drew spent some time in Spain in his younger years where he learned to play Flamenco guitar, and he accompanied his songs on a Spanish guitar. His gravelly
voice has been compared to a cement mixer and the sound of coke being crushed under a door; it is instantly recognizable. Drew left the band in 1974 to spend
more time with his family, to be replaced by Jim McCann. He returned to the Dubliners five years later, but left the group again in 1995. Ronnie Drew died at
St Vincent's Private Hospital in Dublin on 16 August 2008 after a long illness. Paddy Reilly took Drew's place in 1995. Some of his most significant contributions
to the band are the hit single "Seven Drunken Nights", his rendition of "Finnegan's Wake", and "McAlpine's Fusiliers".

Luke Kelly was more of a balladeer than Drew, and he played chords on the five-string banjo. Kelly sang many defining versions of traditional songs like
"The Black Velvet Band", "Whiskey in the Jar", "Home Boys Home"; but also Phil Coulter's "The Town I Loved So Well", Ewan MacColl's "Dirty Old Town" and
"Raglan Road", written by the famous Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh. Kavanagh met Kelly in a pub, and asked him to sing the song.

In 1980, Luke Kelly was diagnosed with a brain tumour and the band took on a replacement in 1982, Sean Cannon. Sometimes Kelly was too ill to sing, though
he was sometimes able to join the band for a few songs, occasionally collapsing on stage. He continued to tour with the band until 2 months before his death.
One of the last concerts he took part in was recorded and released: Live in Carré (Amsterdam, Netherlands), released in 1983. In November 2004, the Dublin city
council voted unanimously to erect a bronze statue of Luke Kelly. Kelly is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin.

Ciar?n Bourke was a singer, but he also played the guitar, tin whistle and harmonica. He sang many songs in Irish ("Peggy Lettermore"; "Preab san ol"). In 1974
disaster struck for Ciar?n Bourke: he collapsed on stage after suffering a brain haemorrhage. A second haemorrhage left him paralysed on his left side. Bourke
died in 1988. The band did not officially replace him until his death.

Barney McKenna is a renowned tenor banjo and mandolin player. In the Dubliners' stage shows he sings sea shanties and love songs to minimal instrumental accompaniment.
He is also well known amongst fans as a great teller of tall stories and jokes.

John Sheahan and Bobby Lynch joined the band in 1964. They had been playing during the interval at concerts, and usually stayed on for the second half of the show. When
Luke Kelly moved to England in 1964, Lynch was taken on as his temporary replacement. According to Sheahan, he was never (and still has not been) ever officially asked
to join the band. Sheahan is the only member to have had a musical education
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Tracklisting:


1 Farewell To Carlingford
Written-By - Tommy Makem
2 Finnigan's Wake
3 Whiskey In The Jar
4 Free The People
Written-By - Bill Martin , Phil Coulter
5 The Rebel
6 Dirty Old Town
Written-By - Ewan McColl
7 Molly Maguires
Written-By - Bill Martin , Phil Coulter
8 Champion At Keeping Them Rolling
9 The Town I Loved So Well
Written-By - Phil Coulter
10 Donegal Danny
Written-By - Bill Martin , Phil Coulter
11 Sam Hall
12 Springhill Disaster
Written-By - Ewan McColl , Seegar
13 The Night Visiting Song
14 Fiddlers Green
Written-By - John Connolly (3)
15 Farewell To Ireland
16 Lord Of The Dance
Written-By - Sydney Carter
17 The Three Sea Captains
18 Gentleman Soldier
19 Seven Drunken Nights
20 Louse House In Kilkenny
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Format : MPEG Audio
File size : 6.93 MiB
Duration : 3mn 1s
Overall bit rate : 320 Kbps
Album : 20 Original Greatest Hits
Track name : Farewell To Carlingford
Track name/Position : 1
Performer : The Dubliners

Audio
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Duration : 3mn 1s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 320 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Resolution : 16 bits
Stream size : 6.93 MiB (100%)
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