The Troubles

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 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 - 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.

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