The Definitive Collection

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". 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.

1: The Fields of Athenry
2: The Wild Rover
3: Black Velvet Band
4: Will You Go Lassie Go
5: Carrickfergus
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
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
17: Dirty Old Town
18: Song for Ireland
19: James Connolly
20: Galtee Mountain Boy
21: Peggy Gordon
22: The Rare Old Times
23: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
24: Schooldays Over
25: The Old Triangle
26: A Nation Once Again
27: Scorn Not His Simplicity
28: Sweet Thames, Flow Softly
29: A Rainy Night in Soho
30: Come Back Paddy Reilly
31: Raglan Road
32: The Fields of Athenry

Number of Discs: 2

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