The Rising of the Moon (album, with The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem)

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"The Rising of the Moon" is a landmark 1959 Irish folk album by The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem that helped popularize traditional Irish rebel and folk songs internationally.

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instanceOf Irish folk album
music album
studio album
artist The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem
linked to: The Clancy Brothers
associatedWithMovement Irish folk revival
basedOn traditional Irish ballads
chronologyPosition early album by The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem
countryOfOrigin Ireland
coverArtFeatures The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem
linked to: The Clancy Brothers
distributionRegion Ireland
United Kingdom
United States
format LP record
genre Irish folk music
folk music
rebel songs
hasTrack Boolavogue
Eamonn an Chnoic
Kelly the Boy from Killane
Roddy McCorley
The Boys of Wexford
The Croppy Boy
The Croppy Boy (variant)
linked to: The Croppy Boy

The Foggy Dew
The Men of the West
linked to: Men of the West

The Minstrel Boy
The Ould Orange Flute
The Rising of the Moon
The Rising of the Moon (rebel song)
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
hasType concept album
influenced international perception of Irish rebel music
subsequent Irish folk recordings
language English
notableWorkOf The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem
linked to: The Clancy Brothers
performer The Clancy Brothers
Tommy Makem
producer Liam Clancy
publisher Tradition Records
recordingPeriod 1950s
recordLabel Tradition Records
releaseDate 1959
significance helped popularize Irish folk music internationally
helped popularize Irish rebel songs internationally
landmark album in Irish folk revival
theme Irish history
Irish nationalism
Irish rebellion
traditional Irish songs
titleTrack The Rising of the Moon (song)

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Liam Clancy notableWork The Rising of the Moon (album, with The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem)