Luke Kelly
About the artist
Luke Kelly, (17 November 1940 - 30 January 1984) was an Irish singer and folk musician from Dublin, Ireland, most famous as a member of the band The Dubliners. Kelly was one of the best-known figures of the Irish folk music movement of the 1960s and 1970s. A Dubliner from the north inner city, he attended O'Connell's Schools before emigrating to Britain in 1958. There he first became involved in the growing international folk music scene in which Ewan MacColl was a central figure, as well as joining the Communist Party of Great Britain.
Top songs
- Raglan Road
- Scorn Not His Simplicity
- The Wild Rover
- The Town I Loved So Well
- Whiskey In The Jar
- Dirty Old Town
- The Rare Auld Times
- Song For Ireland
- Dublin In The Rare Auld Times
- The Auld Triangle
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- Joe Hill
- God Save Ireland
- The Black Velvet Band
- The Sun Is Burning
- Free The People
- Thank You For The Days
- Hand Me Down Me Bible
- The Rocky Road To Dublin
- The Night Visiting Song
- Home Boys Home
- Schooldays Over
- The Holy Ground
- A Nation Once Again
- Monto
- The Peat Bog Soldiers
- Wrap The Green Flag Around Me
- The Molly Maguires
- Alabama '58
- Kelly the Boy From Killane
- Black Velvet Band
- The Hot Asphalt
- High Germany
- Farewell To Carlingford
- Springhill Mining Disaster
- Hand Me Down My Bible
- The Gartan Mother's Lullaby
- The Rising Of The Moon
- The Old Triangle
- For What Died The Sons Of Roisin
- The Button Pusher
- A Gentleman Soldier
- The Lifeboat Mona
- Dainty Davey
- On Raglan Road
- School Days Over
- Thirty Foot Trailer
- Banks Of Sweet Primroses
- The rare old times
- The West's Awake
- The Springhill Mining Disaster
- A Parcel Of Rogues
- The Unquiet Grave
- Bunclody
- Wild Rover
- Maids When You're Young Never Wed An Old Man
- Freedom Come All Ye
- Paddy On The Railway
- Dublin In The Rare Oul Times
- The Jail of Cluain Meala
- The Monto
- Muirsheen Durkin
- The Thirty Foot Trailer
- The Blantyre Explosion
- The Lag's Song
- Come to the bower
- Song Of The Iron Road
- A Song For Ireland
- Tramps And Hawkers
- A Nation Once Again - Chorus Finale
- The Wild Rover - Live
- The Gentleman Soldier
- Montreux Monto
- Muirshin Durkin
- Peggy Gordon
- Parcel Of Rogues
- The Springhill Mine Disaster
- Peat Bog Soldiers
- Notting Hill
- Lifeboat Mona
- The Foggy Dew
- Night Visiting Song
- The Travelling People
- For What Died The Sons Of Róisín
- The Shoals Of Herring
- The Galway Races
- The Black Velvet Band - Live
- The Rising of the Moon - Live
- Go To Sea No More
- Molly Maguires
- The Auld Triangle - Live
- Town I Loved So Well
- Kelly The Boy From Kilane
- For What Died The Sons Of Roisin?
- The Maid Of The Sweet Brown Knowe
- The Dundee Weaver
- One Wrong Step
- Raglan Road (Bonus Track)
- Maids When You're Young, Never Wed An Old Man
- The Net Hauling Song
- I'm A Rover
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