the Dublin City Ramblers
A Nation Once Again
1972—Hawk HALP 104 LP
Side One
The Men Behind The Wire
Carolan's Concerto
The Foggy Dew
The Old Triangle
Beggarman
God Save Ireland
Side Two
A Nation Once Again
Take It Down
Eamon An Cnoic
The Orange and the Green
The Waxies Dargle
The Bold Fenian Men
Credits
Patsy Watchorn
Sean McGuinness
Mick Crotty
Kevin Geraghty
Recorded at Trend Studios
Produced by John D'Ardis
Sleeve Notes
Hello, we're the Dublin City Ramblers. Individually we are Patsy Watchorn, Scan McGuinness, Kevin Gerahty and Mike Crotty. We first got together simply because we all had a love of Irish ballads and loved to play around the Dublin sessions. We've been lucky enough to become popular in the many famous ballad houses in Dublin city and that's probably why we were asked to record this LP. Patsy and Sean have both been with the "Quarefellas" who have disbanded, Kevin has until a short time ago played with the Weavers and Mike has been with so many groups and backed so many singers that lack of space (and his very bad memory) prevents mentioning them.
We hope you will enjoy the selection of songs we have included on this album and hope you can get along to see us sometime. When deciding what to include, our first thoughts were that they should be songs that you could sing along with and enjoy which is what we always do when we get together.
We have also borne in mind the fact that we are Irish and should respect the ideals and aims of great Irishmen who were and still are prepared to suffer and die so that Ireland may be.
Alternate releases
A Nation Once Again: 1975—Dolphin DOLM 5030 LP
A Nation Once Again: 1980—HARP (Pickwick) HPE 610 LP