The Troubles is the seventeenth album by Irish folk and rebel band The Wolfe Tones. The album's title and songs are related to The Troubles in Northern Ireland.
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. He died alongside Sean South during the attack.
Sunday Bloody Sunday - a cover of the John Lennon song with some additions. 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.
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.
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).
Joe McDonnell - A song about the life of the well-known Provisional IRA member who died during the 1981 Hunger Strike in Long Kesh.
Track listing
Disc One
This is the Day
The Patriot Game
The Song of Partition
Children of Fear
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Plastic Bullets
The Men Behind the Wire
Lough Sheelin Eviction
Go on home, British soldiers
Danny Boy
Star of the County Down
In Belfast
Up the Border
The Green Glens of Antrim
The Old Orange Flute
The Old Brigade (Dance Medley)
Disc Two
Lament for the Lost
We Shall Overcome
You'll Never Beat the Irish, Part 3
Tyrone
Must Ireland Divided Be
Song of Liberty
The Orange and the Green
Long Kesh
The Sash My Father Wore
Fermanagh Love Song
Hills of Glenswilly
Joe McDonnell
County of Armagh
Guildford Four
Billy Reid
Up the Rebels (Dance Mix)