The Troubles (album)

The Troubles is the seventeenth album by Irish folk and rebel band The Wolfe Tones.^[1][2] The album's title and songs are related to The Troubles in Northern Ireland.^[3]

Released2004

GenreIrish folk

LabelCeltic Collections

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The Troubles
Studio album by The Wolfe Tones
Released	2004
Genre	Irish folk
Label	Celtic Collections
The Wolfe Tones chronology
You'll Never Beat the Irish (2001) The Troubles (2004) Child of Destiny (2011)

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The album contains some well-known Irish rebel songs:

• The Patriot Game - A song originally written by Dominic Behan about Fergal O'Hanlon and a tragic incident that occurred during an attack on an RUC barracks near Brookeborough, County Fermanagh, on the 1st January 1957 during the IRA's Border Campaign.^[4] He died alongside Sean South during the attack.^[5]
• Sunday Bloody Sunday - a cover of the John Lennon song with some additions.^[6] It is about Bloody Sunday 1972, where 13 unarmed civil rights demonstrators were killed (with another dying later from injuries) by British paratroopers in Derry.^[7]
• The Men Behind the Wire - A song originally written by Barleycorn that details the pre-dawn raids during internment in Northern Ireland during the troubles.^[8][9]
• Long Kesh (also known as 'the H-Block Song') - A song originally written by Francie Brolly that details the introduction of internment without trial in Northern Ireland in 1971 and the brutality faced by prisoners imprisoned in The Maze (also known as Long Kesh).^[10][11]
• Joe McDonnell - A song about the life of the well-known Provisional IRA member who died during the 1981 Hunger Strike in Long Kesh.^[12][13]