The Wolfe Tones, an Irish rebel music band, incorporate elements of Irish traditional music in their songs. They take their name from the Irish rebel and patriot Theobald Wolfe Tone, one of the leaders of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, with the double entendre of a wolf tone - a spurious sound that can affect instruments of the violin family.
Formation and early years
The origins of the group date back to August 1963, where three neighbouring children from the Dublin suburb of Inchicore, brothers Brian and Derek Warfield and Noel Nagle had been musical friends. They were later joined by Tommy Byrne whom they met when playing at an open air festival (a Fleadh Cheoil) in Elphin, County Roscommon in 1964.This subsequently led to the three friends playing at Fleadh Cheoil and music festivals around Ireland.
"The Split"
In 1989, a contract was signed by band leader, Derek Warfield, signing rights to an American distributor. The contents of this contract were apparently misrepresented to the other members of the band, resulting in a clause that prevented them from recording. Unable to reverse this agreement, they continued to tour albeit without any new material.
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ALBUMS
- The Anthology of Irish Song released: 2008
- The Troubles released: 2005
- Rebels and Heroes released: 2004
- The Wolfe Tones - Greatest Hits released: 2003
- Up the Rebels released: 2002
- 25th Anniversary released: 2001
- The Wolfe Tones Greatest Hits released: 2000
- Across the Broad Atlantic released: 1993
- Let the People Sing released: 1991
- Rifles of the I.R.A. released: 1969
- Till Ireland a Nation released:
- Teddy Bear's Head released:
- Millenium Celebration Album released:
- The Very Best of the Wolfe Tones Live released:
- As Gaeilge released:
- You'll Never Beat the Irish released:
- Wolfe Tones released:
- Live Alive Oh released:
- Belt of the Celts released:
- Irish to the Core released:
- Sing Out for Ireland released:
- A Sense of Freedom released:
- Spirit of the Nation released:
The Anthology of Irish Song
Released 2008- My Heart Is in Ireland
- Rifles of the IRA
- Paddys Night Out
- Ta Na La
- The Merman
- The Snowy Breasted Pearl
- The Wearing of the Green
- Uncle Nobby's Steamboat
- Man From Mullingar
- Flight of the Earls
- Toor a Loo
- Song of Liberty
- A Soldier's Life
- The Butcher's Apron
- Flow Liffey Waters
- The Mullingar Fleadh
- My Green Valleys
- Janey Mac I'm Nearly 40
- The Fighting 69th
- Admiral William Brown
- Rock on Rockall
The Troubles
Released 2005- This Is the Day
- The Patriot Game
- The Song of Partition
- Children of Fear
- Sunday Bloody Sunday
- Plastic Bullets
- The Men Behind the Wire
- The Lough Sheelin Eviction
- Go on Home British Soldiers
- Danny Boy (The Derry Air)
- Star of the County Down
- In Belfast
- Up the Border
- The Green Glens of Antrim
- The Old Orange Flute
- The Old Brigade Dance Medley: The Old Brigade / On the One Road / The Broad Black Brimmer / Celtic Symphony
Rebels and Heroes
Released 2004- A Nation Once Again
- Never Beat the Irish (Part 1 Live)
- Bodenstown Churchyard
- Bold Robert Emmet
- The Protestant Men
- Women of Ireland
- Boys of the Old Brigade
- The Rebel
- Kevin Barry
- Gra Mo Croi
- United Men
- Only Our Rivers Run Free
- The Devil Is Dead
- Teddy Bears Head
- Hyland Paddy
- The Don't Play Our Songs on Radio
The Wolfe Tones - Greatest Hits
Released 2003- My Heart Is In Ireland
- Streets Of New York
- Dreams Of Home
- Only Our Rivers Run Free
- Quare Things In Dublin
- Padraic Pearse
- On The One Road
- God Save Ireland
- Irish Eyes
- Song Of Liberty
- Uncle Nobby's Steamboat
- Spancil Hill
- Paddle Your Canoe
- Some Say the Devil Is Dead
- Let the People Sing
- A Nation Once Again
25th Anniversary
Released 2001- Celtic Symphony
- The Merry Ploughboy
- Women of Ireland
- Rock on Rockall
- The Foggy Dew
- James Connolly
- The Man From Mullingar
- Flow Liffey Waters
- First of May
- The Piper That Played Before Moses
- Janie Mac I'm Nearly Forty
- Give Me Your Hand
- The Boy's of the Old Brigade
- Dingle Bay
- The Big Strong Man
- Monsignor Horan
The Wolfe Tones Greatest Hits
Released 2000- My Heart Is in Ireland
- Streets of New York
- Dreams of Home
- Only Our Rivers Run Free
- Quare Things in Dublin
- Padraic Pearse
- On the One Road
- God Save Ireland
- Irish Eyes
- Song of Liberty
- Uncle Nobby's Steamboat
- Spancil Hill
- Paddle Your Canoe
- Some Say the Devil Is Dead
- Let the People Sing
- A Nation Once Again
Till Ireland a Nation
- Highland Paddy
- Travelling Doctor's Shop
- My Green Valleys
- The Boys of the Old Brigade
- Children of Fear
- The Boys of Fair Hill
- Bodenstown Churchyard
- The Grandfather
- The Blackbird of Sweet Avondale
- The Broad Black Brimmer
- Laugh and the World Laughs With You
- A Soldier's Life
- Give Me Your Hand
- Must Ireland Divided Be
- Ireland Over All
Millenium Celebration Album
- Celtic Symphony
- Newgrange
- Lough Sheelin Eviction
- Padraig Pearse
- The Broad Black Brimmer
- Oro Se do Bheatha Abhaile
- A Soldier's Return
- The Connaught Rangers
- Michael Collins
- Women of Ireland
- Come Out Ye Black & Tans
- On the One Road
- Sean South of Garryowen
- The Streets of New York
- The Shores of Botany Bay
- Toor a Loo
A Sense of Freedom
- Merman
- Sergeant William Bailey
- Farewell to Dublin
- Admiral William Brown
- Catalpa
- Irish Eyes
- Flower of Scotland
- Michael Collins
- Slainte Don a Baird (Health to the Bards) / Cailin O Chois tSiuire Me / Planxty McGuire
- Galtee Mountain Boy
- The Piper That Played Before Moses
- Let the People Sing
- Joe McDonnell
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Bodenstown Churchyard
by: Wolfe TonesIn Bodenstown churchyard there is a green grave,
And wildly around it the winter winds rave;
Small shelter I ween are the ruined walls there
When the storm sweeps down on the plains of Kildare.
Once I lay on that sod it lies over Wolfe Tone
And thought how he perished in prison alone,
His friends unavenged and his country unfreed
"Oh, bitter," I said, "is the patriots meed.
"For in him the heart of a woman combined
With heroic spirit and a governing mind
A martyr for Ireland, his grave has no stone
His name sheldom named, and his virtues unknown."
I was woke from my dream by the voices and tread
Of a band who came into the home of the dead;
They carried no corpse, and they carried no stone,
And they stopped when they came to the grave of Wolfe Tone.
There were students and peasants, the wise and the brave,
And an old man who knew him from cradle to grave,
And children who thought me hard-hearted, for they
On that sanctified sod were forbidden to play.
But the old man, who saw I was mourning there, said:
"We come, sir, to weep where young Wolfe Tone is laid,
And we're going to raise him a monument, too
A plain one, yet fit for the loyal and true."
My heart overflowed, and I clasped his old hand,
And I blessed him, and blessed every one of his band:
"Sweet, sweet tis to find that such faith can remain
In the cause and the man so long vanquished and slain."
In Bodenstown churchyard there is a green grave,
And freely around it let winter winds rave
Far better they suit him the ruin and gloom
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