Release Date: 28th October 2022

This career spanning, remastered 2CD set features many of Paddy Reilly's most loved hits including "The Fields of Athenry", "Dirty Old Town", "Black Velvet Band" as well as live favourites such as "The Rocky Road to Dublin" and "Carrickfergus".

TRACKLIST

DISC ONE

1. The Fields of Athenry

2. The Wild Rover

3. Black Velvet Band (w/ The Dubliners)

4. Will You Go Lassie Go

5. Carrickfergus - Live

6. Come Out You Black And Tans

7. Farewell to Nova Scotia

8. The Town I Loved So Well

9. The Flight of the Earls

10. The Rocky Road to Dublin - Live

11. Deportees

12. The Rose of Allendale

13. The Crack Was Ninety In the Isle of Man

14. My Lovely Rose of Clare

15. Spancil Hill

16. Limerick, You're A Lady

DISC TWO

1. Dirty Old Town

2. Song for Ireland (w/ Jim McCann)

3. James Connolly

4. Galtee Mountain Boy

5. Peggy Gordon

6. The Rare Old Times (w/ The Dublin City Ramblers)

7. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

8. Schooldays Over

9. The Old Triangle - Live

10. A Nation Once Again

11. Scorn Not His Simplicity

12. Sweet Thames, Flow Softly

13. A Rainy Night In Soho

14. Come Back Paddy Reilly - Live

15. Raglan Road

16. The Fields of Athenry - Live

Widely considered to be among Ireland's greatest folk and ballad singers, Paddy Reilly began his career in Dublin of the 1960s amidst the explosion of folk pioneers arising at the time. During his early solo days Paddy gained widespread popularity with his emotion filled songs of patriotism and story-telling of the working man, including early successes such as "Come Out You Black and Tans" and "James Connolly". Later Paddy would storm the charts with one of the most successful songs of all-time in Ireland and one that is sung across the world as an Irish anthem of the masses. The Fields of Athenry, written by celebrated composer Pete St. John, spent 73 weeks on the Irish charts following the release of Paddy's version in 1983. The song catapulted Paddy to iconic status, and he would go on to become a loved member of folk group The Dubliners ("The Wild Rover" collaboration is included here) and have many other hits including "The Rare Old Times" also written by Pete St. John and included here as a duet with The Dublin City Ramblers.