At Home with The Dubliners
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At Home with the Dubliners was the first album that The Dubliners
The Dubliners
The Dubliners are an Irish folk band founded in 1962.-Formation and history:The Dubliners, initially known as "The Ronnie Drew Ballad Group", formed in 1962 and made a name for themselves playing regularly in O'Donoghue's Pub in Dublin...

 made with producer Bill Martin & Phil Coulter. Their contract with Major Minor
Major Minor Records
Major Minor Records was a record label started by Phil Solomon in 1966. It had a distribution deal with Decca Records. Artists on the label included The Dubliners and Johnny Nash. Ultimately the label was bought by EMI....

 had ended at this point and they signed with EMI-Columbia. Some rare pressings feature the tracks "Bold Princess Royal" and "The Beggarman". The former can only be heard on YouTube
YouTube
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, while the latter is available on the box set Best of the Original Dubliners.

The album cover is of The Dubliners sitting in front of the fireplace of the back room (known as the Tap Room) of The Wren's Nest Public House, Strawberry Beds, Chapelizod, Dublin 20, Ireland.

Track listing

Side One:
  1. "God Save Ireland
    God Save Ireland
    "God Save Ireland" is an Irish rebel song. It served as an unofficial Irish national anthem for Irish nationalists from the 1870s to the 1910s. During the Parnellite split it was the anthem of the anti-Parnellite Irish National Federation....

    "
  2. "Sam Hall
    Sam Hall (song)
    “Sam Hall” is an old English folk song about a bitterly unrepentant criminal condemned to death . Prior to the mid 19th century it was called “Jack Hall”, after an infamous English thief, who was hanged in 1707 at Tyburn...

    "
  3. "Scholar/Teetaller"
  4. "Dainty Davy"
  5. "High Germany"
  6. "Humpty Dumpty
    The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly
    The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly is a poem in book one of James Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake , where the protagonist H.C.E. has been brought low by a rumor which begins to spread across Dublin, apparently concerning a sexual trespass involving two girls in Phoenix Park; however details of HCE's...

    "


Side Two:
  1. "Molly Maguires"
  2. "Cuanla"
  3. "Lowlands of Holland"
  4. "Ragtime Annie"
  5. "Greenland Whale Fishery"
  6. "Saxon Shilling"
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