And now that song has gone everywhere.” The Wolfe Tones’ late-career surge comes as Sinn Féin, once the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, is “now the biggest political party in ...
founded The Wolfe Tones with his brother Derek, Noel Nagle, and Liam Courtney in 1963. They rode the Irish ballad boom of the Sixties, singing rebel songs and sad tales of the Irish diaspora.
AFTER 60 years performing with the Wolfe Tones, no one would blame 78-year-old ... The only part I felt bad about was the song, Thank God for America. Sang by the Irish immigrants as they reached ...