Nobody sums up Irish music better than The Dubliners, a ballad group formed at
O'Donoghue's pub in Dublin in the early 1960s who maintained their international
popularity across five decades, despite the loss of various key members along
the way. Their big break came in 1965 when their risqué single Seven Drunken
Nights was played constantly on the pirate station Radio Caroline and became an
unlikely hit all over Europe - despite the record being banned in Ireland. They
had a further hit with another traditional singalong Black Velvet Band and their
lusty choruses, good-time appr...